Portrayed by Sophie Scott and Tobias Beer, these musicians seem to materialize and dematerialize out of some shadowy distance beyond the train's windows.
(The scene is the first in which his face can be recognized; an earlier scene shows his character's body lying on the street in the shadowy distance).
The literary scholar Nick Shepley, in "Henry Green: Class, Style, and the Everyday" (Oxford), writes that "the search for an identifiable or classifiable Henry Green retreats into the shadowy distance as the layers accumulate".
"And as the smart ship grew / In stature, grace, and hue, / In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too".
Thomas Hardy's poem, "The Convergence of the Twain", is quoted: "And as the smart ship grew in stature, grace, and hue/In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too".
In the middle distance, a shadowy man drags on a postprandial cigar.
The building looms over the Brandenburg Gate, more a shadowy mass in the distance than a part of the connective tissue of the city.
All her life, Mr. Hosseini writes, Pari has felt "the absence of something, or someone, fundamental to her own existence": sometimes "it was vague, like a message sent across shadowy byways and vast distances, a weak signal on a radio dial, remote, warbled.
In "The Retrospective," that giant is more shadowy, rumbling from a greater distance, apprehended in legends and half-forgotten narratives.
Without the sun's light, the moon looked like a "fairly large, shadowy rock hanging a certain distance over my head".
An even greater distance divides the shadowy father of the early Christian church from the homes and department stores of America and northern Europe, where Santa now occupies centre-stage in the Christmas narrative, edging out the Nativity.This metamorphosis provides the theme for Jeremy Seal's jaunty, readable travelogue-cum-biography.
