Sentence examples for passing shadow from inspiring English sources

(Think of Thornton Wilder's "Our Town," which in its scenic austerity evokes life as we live it as something ephemeral, a passing shadow on eternity).

Were they also beneficiaries of the directors' clandestine pension fund Aside from the changes to BBVA's board and a drop in its share price, the affair may yet throw only a passing shadow over the bank.

It's a brief feeling, a passing shadow, but Britney mines every aspect of it: the donning of emotional armour, the defensive pre-emptive apology, the fear of the impotency of loneliness.

Eventually, we became roommates at Grandma's, but my mother, with her orange-juice-blond afro, was little more than a passing shadow, dropping in for a few days or weeks whenever she needed money for a new high.

In its best known prayer, the Unetaneh Tokef, we are reminded that we are fleeting, that our lives are like the wind that blows, like the flower that fades, as a passing shadow.

Mr. Rauschenberg's paintings, like the music, in a sense became both Rorschachs and backdrops for ambient, random events, like passing shadows.

And in the shadows that flash over him as he makes his way from Arabia to Egypt maybe he comes to see the immensity of the mechanism in which he is caught, the immense fragility of his own flying — composed as it is of these ceaselessly passing shadows carried backward by the very motion that devours them, his motion, his asking.

They exposed the creatures to a beam of directed blue light, as might come from certain bioluminescent predators, as well as to other stimuli such as passing shadows.

Not to be outdone, lesser luminaries of the "Electric Church" passed, shadowed by the ubiquitous entourage of comely young men and women, each attempting to outdo the other in an endless quest for self-importance.

First, we present our main idea and describe the details of the shadow pass in "Shadow pass".

But you only rarely catch the suggestion of danger within Mick, the passing shadows that make others keep their distance.