Sentence examples for pale reflection from inspiring English sources

British theatre needs Barker at his brilliant best not as a pale reflection of himself.

A pale reflection of the patient stares back from the surface of the glass.

India's billion people have seen only a pale reflection of the astonishing transformation that has affected China's billion-plus.

But that hardly served to make the performance itself more meaningful than a simple — and pale — reflection of reality.

"La colmena," wrote Cela, "is just a slice of life, a pale reflection of daily, bitter, loveable, painful reality.

Its manifesto, though only a pale reflection of Benn's leftwing programme, was dubbed "the longest suicide note in history".

"Hamlet" and "Oedipus Rex" as pale reflections of the nightmare tales of childhood.

Dystopian visions used to present dire warnings of futures to come, now they seem more like pale reflections of reality.

Mobs of winter visitors have lain on the cold floor and gazed up at their pale reflections, basking in the artificial sun and fog.

In the first, contemporary figures are regarded as just pale reflections of the great figures of the past: thus Christopher Hitchens and Martin Amis, say, are pygmies compared with George Orwell and Aldous Huxley.

In either case, it conveniently ignores the fact that the heroes of the past were often undervalued by their contemporaries as mere pale reflections of the "really" great figures of an even more distant past.