Sentence examples for shadowy affair from inspiring English sources

This is a far more shadowy affair, since phages can be used only in extreme cases in which a dying patient's family gives explicit permission for their use.

The court has also begun an inquiry into a scandal known here as Memogate, a shadowy affair with touches of soap-opera drama that has engulfed the political system since November.

Many of the details of this shadowy affair are more or less accurately related in the critic's privately printed volume of lyrics, Livre d'amour (1904), which was, however, not published in the lifetime of either of them.

And that curtain has made the current conflict between Colonel Qaddafi and the rebels trying to unseat him a shadowy affair in which it is often hard to tell just who is playing what role — from the colonel's closest associates to the flag-waving crowds in the street.

The uncovering of the hot shadowy affairs between Love's protagonists is always vicariously erotic in the way of lovers slowly learning new information about each other.

Rowland would also get involved in weapons smuggling, regime change, and a host of shadowy political affairs, including the Iran-Contra scandal.

Public art is a shadowy, nebulous thing.

There have been rumors which have all been "leaked" by "sources"—of "affairs" with shadowy "personal trainers" or "salesmen," and of Karen being subsequently "sacked" as her husband's secretary.

In the Adventure series, for instance, the children are constantly left in peril far from home because Mrs Mannering is clearly having an affair with the shadowy policeman Bill Cunningham and wants them out of the way.

The shadowy presence of Beijing's Liaison Office looms ever larger over Hong Kong's independent affairs.

Across the pond, Americans may not even realize they've already had an on-and-off love affair with manifestations of England's shadowy folklore dreams in iconic films such as Children of the Corn (1984) and The Blair Witch Project (1999).