Sentence examples for often shadowy from inspiring English sources

The motivation for destroying an artist's work is often shadowy, and always riven with questions of ownership.

"Vollmond," designed by Peter Pabst, takes place in an austere and often shadowy landscape dominated by a giant slab of rock.

Junkets, the often shadowy middlemen who have helped fuel Macau's spectacular casino growth by acting as an informal banking channel, are feeling the pain.

Amid all this confusing variety, however, there is pressure toward order internally, from the arraignment of vice and appeal to virtue, and externally, from the often shadowy dramatic situation that frames the poem.

Made between 1998 and 2002, American Night juxtaposes these over-exposed images with over-rich, colour-saturated shots of sturdy homes in affluent suburbs, and often shadowy shots of black people on America's streets.

A16 NEW YORK/REGION B1-8 New York Police Prepare For Convention Anarchists The New York Police Department is bracing for the actions of the loosely aligned and often shadowy group of protesters blamed for inciting violence at the World Trade Organization meeting in 1999.

It was his most candid acknowledgment of the often-shadowy talks between American diplomats and the Taliban.

Until the moment of charge, there are only shadowy and often vague suspicions.

With their ghoulish twists, mistaken identities and blood-soaked props, Jacobean tragedies are often called shadowy.

Their war is often a shadowy battle of wits, as they try to find and defuse devices planted weeks, even months, earlier.

Sophisticated cyber-criminals are stealing sensitive government information every day, Mr Blair explained, and state agencies often find shadowy presences on their networks—"the hallmark of an unknown adversary intending to do far more than merely demonstrate skill or mock a vulnerability".