Sentence examples for old shadowy from inspiring English sources

But it also has a bipolar disease -- on one side, fresh faces, on the other, the old shadowy schemers".

Risky, too, is Davidson's gentle insistence on an old "shadowy" way of living that was pre‑Reformation and ancient in its sensibilities and practices – an outlook largely at odds with a media that regards the Catholic church as having quite enough of its own shadows.

Indeed, there is a distinct air of a system dying in Germany today, as if the Bonn Republic ended not with the government's move to Berlin last year and the foundation of the so-called "Berlin Republic," but with this scandal, which unmasked an old and shadowy way of doing business.

Yet its older, gothic, shadowy side speaks of evil and madness.

There are shadowy old photographs of her Swedish ancestors.

I have stood in shadowy old courtyards and between gleaming office blocks, weeping as I listen.

He carefully cultivates the image of an outsider, often citing a shadowy "old guard" that refuses to accept him.

It is a world created and maintained by his captor, Old Nick, a shadowy Satan who has made himself God.

A shadowy old woman, Miss Fellowes, retrieves a dead pigeon from the street, and washes it in a strange and disturbing act of piety.

Le Louvre des Antiquaires Right next to the Louvre, this three-floored shopping centre has 250 little rooms haunted by shadowy old men and women among bouquets of candelabra and massive armoires.

A former president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, Charles Kuck, who represents some of Mr. Alcala's old clients, says shadowy lawyers emerge any time Congress considers taking up an overhaul of immigration laws.