For racing enthusiasts, Bernie Ecclestone is a shadowy figure: even his age (somewhere above 65) is unknown.
For viewers, "24" is part sum of all fears, part wish fulfillment in an age of shadowy enemies.
But as a personality, he was a somber, shadowy presence in an age dominated by gaudy, theatrical players.
In this layered, alternately witty and melancholy story, an aging artist sees shadowy apparitions everywhere when he returns to his childhood home in Naples.
Laboratory Earth takes the listener on a journey from the dawn of earth's climate and biological evolution through the era of the dinosaurs, past the Ice Age and into the shadowy environmental future.
They are both skirting that shadowy territory that used to be called middle age, before 40 became the new 30, and are eager and reluctant to admit and follow through on their mutual attraction.
It has blended with another meaning, used as a codeword that bridges from Israel to the wider Jewish world, hinting at the age-old, antisemitic notion of a shadowy, global power, operating behind the scenes.
It is no longer politically correct to refer to the period as the dark ages – but Anglo-Saxon England remains a shadowy place, with contradictory and confusing sources and archaeology.
At my age, what is life but a recitativo oscuro, with its shadowy intimations, musical aphorisms, librettos in a sigh.
ORR oversees a shadowy and breathtakingly cost-inefficient network of shelters around the country, including "tender age" shelters for the youngest children.
For many years real estate has been a shadowy business.
