The phrase 'gloomy shadow' is correct and can be used in written English.
You could use it to describe a feeling of sadness or despair that someone is experiencing, or to describe the atmosphere of a certain place. For example: The grief in his eyes was cast like a gloomy shadow across the room.
Does sickness, with its attendant infirmity, its gloomy shadow over the intellectual, represent feminist defeat?
That hangs uncomfortably over the whole smart-defence idea.The endgame in Afghanistan casts a gloomy shadow, too.
I've always been drawn to city's South Side team, the White Sox, who replaced their dank old Northumberland-style castle with a "new" Comiskey Park, but have never quite done away with the gloomy shadow of the 1919 World Series gambling scandal, or that of the nearby working-class ghetto, where so many of the jobs, like so many Chicago ballgames, have been lost.
For some time they had been inching away from Joy Division's gloomy shadow towards a new sound, influenced by early 80s Italian electronic disco, but this was the moment when everything clicked: a song without a chorus, on which the closest thing to a recognisable hook was the juddering drum machine pattern, which proved commercially unstoppable.
EVERY weekday, starting as early as 7 in the morning and continuing until 7 at night, weary-looking men dressed in threadbare jackets and worn running shoes gather at the corner of Roosevelt Avenue and 73rd Street in Jackson Heights, Queens, under the gloomy shadow of the el.
The further side, which lies towards the upper sea, is exposed to the north, and is enclosed by thick and gloomy shadow.
"There were gloomy shadows beneath her eyes where her mascara had smudged, like charcoal.
"Magic in the Moonlight" is one of Allen's brightly lit latter-day comedies — like "Scoop" and "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger" — that casts long, dark, and gloomy shadows.
Visible in our main photograph, its large, olive-green leaves have made an early appearance, blocking sunlight from the forest floor and impeding the photosynthesis of the wildflowers that now sit in gloomy shadows.
"Magic in the Moonlight" is one of Allen's brightly lit latter-day comedies like "Scoop" and "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger"—that casts long, dark, and gloomy shadows.
The show ends with striking installations of his later works — vast camouflage patterns, monumental Rorschach blots, gloomy "Shadows," sparkling with diamond dust, rusty spatters of urine on copper emulsion, and silk screens of da Vinci's "Last Supper," as well as zesty collaborations with Jean-Michel Basquiat.
