Sentence examples for losing a shadow from inspiring English sources

The Tory leader has cleaved to the Blair-inspired dictum that losing a shadow minister (not even a minister), is more personally costly than looking as if you don't actually give a toss about trust in politics.

But the memory of what was lost lingers — a shadow cast by marriage equality's glow.

Compared to the vomitous frat boys from Ladbrokes, Waterhouse and his quaint assurances about giving us what we really wanted linger in the memory like some lost idyll, a shadow of simpler and more innocent times.

Burley's Scotland lost to a shadow Wales team in 2009 and, whilst not at full strength this time around, so much more rests on its outcome.

It's told from the perspective of Amasa Delano as he wanders lost through a shadow world of his own racial prejudices.

I know the British have a patent on the stiff upper lip syndrome but it cannot be easy for a shadow chancellor to lose an election by the narrowest of margins and then have to make a gracious speech.

What Becomes of the Brokenhearted finds Ruffin immersed in a nightmare world, "lost in shadow, searching for light".

Like Hans Christian Andersen and his tale about a man who loses his shadow, only to find that it ran away because it wants to become his master, marry a princess and have him executed.

Then, too, there is the zaniness of his characters' ruminations, like Knipl's poetic inventory of the remains of dinner with friends at the Hylozoic Restaurant: "a piece of brisket lost in the shadow of a dessert plate; a wedge of sour tomato reflected in a pool of cole slaw dressing".

Despite the fact that Jesse has lost his shadow, he and Frankie and I had a genuinely fun time talking about it all because this is how they are.

The familiar imagery reappeared – most strikingly, the naked Lassnig in a wedding veil made from plastic, her face lost in shadow – and yet most poignant of all were the pictures of lovers.