Sentence examples for magnificent shadow from inspiring English sources

This beachy cantina, tucked along Coney Island's neon midway, comprises a tiki-thatched archipelago of snack stands in the magnificent shadow of the Wonder Wheel.

Those who live in its magnificent shadow are in the same uneasy place as the millions of other Americans who traverse bridges daily.

Grand Theft Auto 5 cast a magnificent shadow over every other title released this year, shifting almost 30m copies thanks to its deranged plot, astonishing visuals and stylised hyper-violence.

Dan Halpern, writer and critic Halldor Laxness If literature is a world map on which, in TS Eliot's words, "all time is eternally present", the novels of the Icelander Halldor Laxness are landmarks as significant as the sagas that cast their oppressively magnificent shadow over Icelandic story telling for 800 years.

The market for externally projected globes — e.g., Science on a Sphere, the popular devices installed at around 85 institutional locations — is limited by cost, the fixed nature of the installation and the fact that a viewer who gets too close may find herself contemplating one of the memorable descriptions of the Ottoman ruler Suleiman the Magnificent, "the shadow of God on Earth".

"This light is magnificent — no shadows," he said.

Ignoring that weakness, bidders responded instead to the magnificent light and shadow effect and sent the Mueller soaring to £2.07 million.

In the aftermath, the judge calls her to say goodbye, and Dietrich has one of her finest moments, with no lines to say at all: there is just her magnificent face, half in shadow, suddenly aged and blanched of life, as she sits silently and lets the telephone ring.

In the shadow of magnificent shuttered properties, many owned by foreign oligarchs, dictators, kleptocrats and royals, the protesters waved hastily made banners opposing Hidalgo's plan to transform Baron Haussmann's grand Avenue Foch, a one-time walkway for the wealthy, into a "green corridor" for the masses.

Perhaps it's those long corridors with their anonymous doors, behind which anything could happen or the faded grandeur of a once magnificent lobby with its shadows and its secrets.

A few minutes' walk from the car park, in the shadow of the magnificent Urbis building, my next tip was of mighty historical significance.