At one point, in the shadow of a formidable but antiquated airport terminal, a gang dressed like 1950s greasers started swinging baseball bats at rusty cars.
At one point, in the shadow of the imposing embassy wall, a woman called Bo Chhorvy, from the Boeung Kak community – where 3,000 families have been evicted and their houses torn down to make way for a massive development project – was knocked down by police officials and suffered a cut to her head.
And if these considerations strike you as small and altogether beside the point in the shadow of Recent Historical Events -- that is to say, if you think these kids should be made to sit down and listen carefully to "The Rising"- you have failed to understand not only the sense of possibility and transcendence at the heart of any fresh rock song played and sung by someone sort of like you.
Case in point: "In the Shadow of Greatness" describes the wonderful career of an openly gay Naval officer, Gary Ross.
Were puppet warp points used in the shadow of your finger?
The latest tongue-twisting debate has been reignited in some phonetically correct circles because of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's plan for the $3 billion Willets Point development in the shadow of Citi Field, which opponents complain will make the already congested Van Wyck unbearable.
"It's just ridiculous to see people live like this," Taimur said at one point, "Literally in the shadow of the Kroger headquarters".
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This battered stretch of junkyards and auto repair shops may thrive (or fester, depending on your point of view) in the shadow of Citi Field, but it seems a universe away from that gleaming corporate food court where the Mets occasionally win a baseball game.
In recent years, Mr. Permuth, who is originally from Guatemala and now works at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, photographed the immigrants who toil in a grimy stretch of Willets Point, among the scrapyards in the shadow of Citi Field.
