Sentence examples for only as a shadow from inspiring English sources

She appears in the book only as a shadow.

Now the European Championship starts with Uefa's newly resigned president, Michel Platini, present only as a shadow somewhere in the stands.

(Or is it a husband and wife who pretend to be a priest and a prostitute?) That one ends with what appears to be the penis of the priest (who has been seen only as a shadow behind a curtain) bursting into flame.

I suppose that decorating a Christmas tree stands only as a shadow of the glory we sing about in "Angels We Have Heard on High," but even a shadow of glory deserves my attention.

Clearly, NSL introduces a controllable way to pattern the substrates but the closely packed nanosphere arrays only work as a shadow mask in most cases and high vacuum chambers are required to perform CVD, e-beam evaporation, sputtering, or ALD, which are expensive and slow processes.

But in Awja, Mr. Hussein's legend lives on, though only as a pale shadow of what it was.

The cover-up clothes, undulating across the body, revealing flesh only as a lace-covered shadow from the high neck to the wrist, come from Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli, who worked for nearly 10 years in the shadow of Valentino Garavani before budding and flowering on their own.

So within 90 minutes we were introduced to the concept of "blocking" an individual as one would an ex-Facebook friend, but actually doing so in real life (thanks to everyone in the near future having chosen to implant so-called Z-Eyes, hooked up of course to the net: do keep up); the blockee appears only as a greyed-out shadow and may neither call nor approach.

The man is only seen as a dark shadow on the ground, and is holding what appears to be a horse shoe or, more presumably, blades.

It is especially useful for imaging larger molecules with a complex internal structure, which appear only as a large blob in rotary shadowing.

The N.F.L. is only a shadow of itself.