Sentence examples for shadow about from inspiring English sources

(Austin Pendleton has written an ingenious play, "Orson's Shadow," about the "Rhinoceros" fiasco).

Noel Gallager wrote the Oasis song Cast No Shadow about him and Chris Martin introduced him at Live 8 as "the best singer in the world" while the music mags nicknamed him "Mad Richard" after he claimed he could fly.

When the lamps are turned on, the base of each fixture casts a dense black shadow, about sixteen feet in diameter, onto the grass and pavement directly below it, as though the purpose of the lamp were to shed darkness rather than light.

He was a big reader, who, in high school, loved F. Scott Fitzgerald's short stories, notably "The Captured Shadow," about the efforts of a romantic fifteen-year-old, Basil Lee, to stage his own play at his prep school (as the hero of "Rushmore" later would).

Mr. Lelyveld, who holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Harvard and a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1986 for the book "Move Your Shadow," about the ordeals of apartheid.

A bill, which I was to publish on the day that the pact was agreed, was postponed until a young Scottish trade union official called George Robertson (subsequently defence secretary and secretary general of Nato) had located David Steel and enabled me to assure him that, had I known the pact was imminent, I would have consulted my Liberal shadow about its contents.

But there are shadows about, a governor's threat of investigations, rebellion by Young Turks, the creaks and groans of power shifting away.

On a Windows 8 tablet with the faster Atom Z2760 [email protected] GHz, four threads, 1366 × 768 pixels and PowerVR SGX 545, the frame rate ranges from 8 15 fps (12 30 fps without shadows, about 6× as fast as others).

NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which continues to orbit Saturn, captured this picture in 2006 as it floated in the planet's shadow for about 12 hours.

The Shadow has about as long a feature list as you can find on a phone.

The shadow floats about and inexorably draws itself closer and closer to my body until I manage to shut my eyes.