Sentence examples for gathering shadows from inspiring English sources

He nodded at a loose group of men who were quietly arriving in the gathering shadows.

Then he detects her: She's over by their table, in the gathering shadows.

The arrival of war is especially well handled, with none of the usual dark forebodings and gathering shadows.

He sympathizes with the "old proud" who saw their "postwar ebullience overwhelmed by the low scud and gathering shadows of an alien, grubby, sadistic devolution of values, taste and performance".

I can't see her in the gathering shadows, but I know exactly when the elderly woman on the third floor of one of the houses opposite mine emerges onto her fire escape to reel in the laundry from the line stretched between her house and the creaky iron laundry tower rising from the back of her yard.

As Mr. Oppenheimer slowly gathers his threads, the characters live out their minidramas in the gathering shadow of overwhelming tragedy.

There is darkness in the corners of these stories, like that gathering shadow – ordinary callousness turning into something more disturbing.

Maidenhair fern, horsetail, Jones reedgrass, and bright buttery columbine play against reddish terra-cotta walls deepening to burgundy as we walked into the gathering shadow of late afternoon.

The fly's compound eyes offer it life in stop-motion, the hand moving towards it a gathering shadow rather than a speeding car.

And on their liquored breath they whispered the coming of an unimaginable force, of a gathering shadow on the eastern horizon, gorging itself on the continent as it pressed steadily this way".

When it was released here, Anthony Lane wrote that "we feel the gathering shadow of the characters' plight, and the darkness is finely leavened by the presence of Michael Lonsdale, who plays Brother Luc, the doctor to the community and the fount of its tolerant humor".