Sentence examples for menacing shadow from inspiring English sources

Its ugly head is always there, waiting to rear up and cast a menacing shadow over the beautiful game.

Shrewdly he links Joan Didion's style to the faintly menacing shadow she finds in our contemporary life.

Beyond that, aldrin, like most of this group of insecticides, projects a menacing shadow into the future — the shadow of sterility.

Paule Constable's lighting creates a court of large brightness, pockets of intimacy, outer regions of menacing shadow and a recurring miasmic greyness through which funerals process and the dead occasionally wander.

Around the corner, Dr. Timmermann pointed to the Spanish Riding School stable, explaining that it was on this wall that Harry Lime's menacing shadow moves through the wet Vienna night.

Born into poverty in pre-World War I Berlin, Mr. Mielke joined the Communist youth movement at age 15, and his career epitomized the grimness of Communist rule in East Germany, where assassination, kidnapping, execution, denunciation and intimidation were used to achieve and maintain power under the long, menacing shadow of the Soviet Union.

Payne coolly details some of her more challenging races over the years, laughing dryly at the memory of stinging sea-creatures, floating animal corpses, menacing shadows lurking in the dark waters below as well as the heavy blows and bloodied noses she has absorbed as a routine part of her lonely trade as a long-distance swimmer.

In Graciela Daniele's new choreographed overture, gangland thugs punch Joey (Matthew Risch), amid the towering gray girders of Scott Pask's brutalist elevated train tracks, and send him sprawling, bags in hand, into the El's menacing shadows.

They Lives They Lived Light to Dark: Wright's world of front porches and picket fences turns menacing in "Shadow of a Doubt".

Two bare bulbs mounted before her threw menacing double shadows onto the screen that looked, thanks to her pointy headgear, like giant rabbits walking upright.

In this production, the Sisters, spectres of the subversive, are rewoven into the entire fabric of Macbeth's saga; they ratchet up the atmosphere of menace, shadowing action with the unsaid and the uncontrolled.