Sentence examples for shadowland from inspiring English sources

I couldn't fight the fatigue any longer and drifted off into a shadowland where fantasy mingled with dream, and I was soon staring down an abomination: myself on D Day, coming undone.

Had they, together, discovered the excitement of a shadowland and kept it alive in the bluster of daring and pretense?

There's a hint, of course, of Charon ferrying the dead to Hades; a glimmer of Varanasi, where corpses wrapped in white muslin are borne through the streets to the cremation ghat, to be burned by the lapping water; and then the disturbing notion that all of Venice is a city of the dead — that Jeff is already a wraith (so skinny!), rotting from within and inhabiting an irresolute shadowland.

The time was fraught with my efforts to let my teens be teens, even as I seemed to be regressing into a shadowland of jitters.

The half-night was shadowland.

She was, until the prosecution proved unwilling or unable to muster any evidence, pursued under the Official Secrets Acts, legislation that has rendered the British state a notorious shadowland for a century.

Five years ago, however, he played a grief-stricken C. S. Lewis in "Shadowlands," and the shell cracked.

While William Nicholson's "Shadowlands," in all its play, movie, and television versions, shows the priggish Lewis finally humanized by sex with an American Jewish matron, it actually reflects the British, rather than the American, view: Lewis as a prig to be saved from priggishness, rather than as a saint who saved others from their sins.

His screen work includes the feature films "The Purple Rose of Cairo," directed by Woody Allen, and "Jane Eyre," directed by Franco Zeffirelli, as well as "Orlando," "Shadowlands," "An Ideal Husband," "Chocolat" and many British television shows.

"Shadowlands," a film about the unlikely romance of the Oxford academic C. S. Lewis and the American Joy Davidson, gave Mr. Hardwicke his most acclaimed film role as Lewis's brother Warnie.

A year earlier, she received her third Academy Award nomination for a poignant and nuanced performance in "Shadowlands," a drama about C. S. Lewis and the poet Joy Gresham that she says was "the most literate script I've ever read..