Sentence examples for pale shadow from inspiring English sources

His nephew was a pale shadow of him.

(Richard Attenborough's later film was a pale shadow).

But the present council is a pale shadow of past grandeur.

If it is possible to be a pale shadow of Mr Hollande, Mr Ayrault is it.

Mr. Reid's latest version is not even a pale shadow of what is needed.

But it is a pale shadow of what happened with the Bush-era surveillance programs.

Many of them are a pale shadow of what Ebenezer Howard suggested they would be.

Without the musical, theatre wouldn't be a mistake, but it would be a pale shadow.

Bouchard's next season was, as sequels can often be, a pale shadow of the original.

The local chief executives' body, Solace, is a pale shadow of what it once was.

So Adam, it seems, isn't Jarmusch's proxy so much as his pale shadow.