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.
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.
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.
Hints of Twin Shadow's retro-pop, Active Child's warm synth pads and Animal Collective's euphoric psychedelic pop appear, showing growth and experimental bravery.
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.
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.
'I feel Alan Warner gets in the way, that I don't do the books justice,' he confesses, and the hint of surliness that shadows his book-jacket photograph lifts as he speaks.
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.
