Sentence examples for hint of a shadow from inspiring English sources
By Hendrik Hertzberg The great bafflement of next week's midterm congressional elections is that there is even a sliver of a hint of a shadow of a doubt about the outcome.
It's one of the splendors of the Coens' approach to the partnership's breakup that they treat the trauma of the separation with such a light touch, leaving its circumstances a troubling mystery and its enduring anguish the merest hint of a shadow.
"There is a break in the foot traffic, the street appears empty apart from one hint of a shadow walking away from him," says Gilmour, describing capturing the picture.
One may regret a certain predictability in Khachaturian's structures yet be surprised by delicious details: an elegant imitation of Eastern instruments, a hint of jazz, a shadow of sadness amid sunny landscapes, brought by dissonant chords or unexpected turns of melody.
This is the year that the last scintilla of a hint of a vestige of a scrap of a shadow of a hint of guilt is gone.
Enormously tall, dark, with big teeth, high cheekbones and the hint of a five o'clock shadow, Mr. Robbins looks more dangerous than safe and more wolfish than shepherdly; he could pass for a Bond villain.
Strange's friendship with Terry Quinn in "Right as Rain," "Hell to Pay" (2002) and "Soul Circus" (2003) evolves from mutual suspicion toward respect, even love, though always with a hint of the shadow of race.
Reluctant to reflect even the hint of a whisper of a shadow of a rumpus.
A 1936 photograph of Williams by Carl Van Vechten shows a light-skinned and soft-looking man, with a hint of a smile and gentle shadows underneath his eyes.
Any hint of a criminal investigation could cast a shadow over Congressional hearings scheduled for Wednesday.
CORVALLIS, Ore .— With a hint of 5 o'clock shadow and small bags under his eyes, Oregon State Coach Craig Robinson took the basketball court on Wednesday to start a campaign that is nearly as daunting as the one he just helped to complete.
