Sentence examples for poor shadow from inspiring English sources

Is the film a poor shadow of the book?

Now Mr. Zadran's men are left at their roadblocks between the two towns, a poor shadow of their previous presence.

British drama is a poor shadow of its American counterpart, where original, intelligent output from HBO's "Six Feet Under" to Fox's "24 is thriving.The BBC itself remains apparently untroubled by any of this.

Here's a comparison of the postwar boom with the deregulation alleged boom, using real average family income from the Census and real average income for the top 1 percent from Piketty and Saez: If you're looking at the average, the last generation is a poor shadow of the postwar boom.

Standing with him that evening was none other than Mr. Clinton, no longer a poor shadow of Mr. Reagan in Mr. Obama's rendering but now a president who accumulated a "remarkable record" as he turned around a party that "was a little bit lost".

And its great advantage was that it hardly looked like a tax at all, though it would bring in a lot of money.The cap-and-trade provision expected in the climate legislation that Senators John Kerry, Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham have been working on, which may be unveiled shortly, will be a poor shadow of that once alluring idea.

So Blatter may indeed be right under one particular set of circumstances, but those reflect poorly on FIFA's power to change the world and cast an even poorer shadow on what he sees as his likely legacy, the growth of the sport in new territories.

By utilizing two lighting schemes, the issues related to poor lighting, shadows, and reflectivity from the surface were reduced.

Whitehall sources also said the report highlighted "very poor judgement" by shadow Chancellor Ed Balls who had said Osborne had questions to answer over potential political interference.

A Shinnecock who asked that he not be identified said the psychological impact of growing up poor in the shadow of all those Hamptons mansions had been devastating in a lot of ways to a lot of Shinnecocks.

Sheep have poor depth perception; shadows and dips in the ground may cause sheep to baulk.