It seemed that the rest of America had stayed home, or at the very least, were avoiding the shadowy bars and clubs where I'd been spending all my time.
Brisbane is not a city of darkness in the popular Australian imagination – not, at least, since the Fitzgerald Inquiry banished its more shadowy elements back in the late 1980s.
Since the beginning of the year, according to four American and Middle Eastern officials with knowledge of intelligence reports on the weapons, Qatar has used a shadowy arms network to move at least two shipments of shoulder-fired missiles, one of them a batch of Chinese-made FN-6s, to Syrian rebels who have used them against Mr. Assad's air force.
The report by a house of representatives committee identified the shadowy Nigerian National Petroleum Company, ranked the world's least transparent state oil firm, as the key culprit.
It has acres of shadowy corners to explore and – for the moment at least – Gillian Flynn is the best guide around to this mysterious, dangerous territory.
Now it appears that a shadowy Indonesian tycoon may be making a play for at least the white pepper market.
In fact, these "entrenched politicians" are subject to regular re-election and, far from being "shadowy", are available to their constituents at any time – at least here in Gateshead.
The big money, at least, would be funnelled through the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee, rather than through shadowy Super PACs.
At least one independent newspaper here has published statements purporting to come from the shadowy forces, denying such ties.
He invented characters out of whole cloth, or at least no one could track down the "Southern nationalist" named Ray or the shadowy Louisiana shopkeeper named Sun Pie.
