Sentence examples for malign shadow from inspiring English sources

This woebegone nation is enduring its 21st straight year of war, unable to escape the malign shadow that geopolitics has cast on its history.

Do you think your music has been maligned by the shadow of this "Mick Hucknall" character?

We have Kim Stanley Robinson on the terrifying shifts of weather: "What had been a blazing plain was now shadowed and malign... the awesome become awful, and all in the few minutes it had taken for a thin cloud to form".

One is Sean Harris, who imbues Solomon Lane, malign mastermind of an international shadow syndicate, with his peerless vileness – the pursed mouth of a man who's been eating too many pickles, and a nasty nasal gurgle, like Gollum with the rheum.

As proved by the tepid response to Osborne's plans of its work and pension spokesman, Liam Byrne, the shadow cabinet is going to have to do better than maligning some of Osborne's plans as a "striver's tax" and thus leaving the "skiver" aspect largely unchallenged (though it slightly pains me to use the term, a "one nation Labour" imperative if ever there was one).

Malign astrological influences?

In Bob's shadow existence, away from her, he commits terrible crimes which he attributes to the presence of another person inside himself: the malign spirit of a dead childhood friend.

"They will malign any candidate.

No malign hysteria there.

"They want to malign Pakistan".

Obsessive love becomes malign stalking.