Sentence examples for shadowy at best from inspiring English sources
"shadowy at best" is a correct phrase and is commonly used in written English
It implies that something is uncertain, vague, or poorly defined. Example: The details of the government's plan are still shadowy at best, leaving many citizens feeling anxious and confused.
The ability of him and Ms. Roth to combine Ms. Ruskin's lyrics and the emotional expressions of the character Isabella into a single human outcry is remarkable, perhaps for some viewers extraordinary enough to quiet the distraction of always having a musical performer onstage whose role in the play is shadowy at best.
The state of race relations, changing rapidly throughout the 1960s, was one of the most urgent topics of the era, yet white writers have, by and large, neglected the subject, with the result that the black presence in American fiction is shadowy at best.
Her beginnings were extraordinarily harsh: her parents (her father is a shadowy figure at best) were part of a movement called Word of Faith, "a set of teachings that involves claiming and standing by God's promises in the Bible".
By Russell Platt August 12, 2008 Although the soprano Kathleen Battle was a regular recitalist at Carnegie Hall through the nineteen-nineties — in other words, both before and after her infamous 1994 dismissal from the Metropolitan Opera — she has been a shadowy presence, at best, in New York since.
The ever-morbid Edgar Allan Poe, who said that the worst thing was to be buried alive and that "the boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague," was initially buried in 1849 in Baltimore at a grave marked only with the number 80.
As Russell (1956, p. 223) later says, propositions seem to be at best "curious shadowy things" in addition to facts.
At best, we are talking about the ultimate in super-shadowy Hamas-supporting groups that successfully stayed completely off everyone's radar until that time they totally screwed up and donated money to Chuck Hagel, for some reason.
