It's exciting to think of dictionaries in more dramatic terms: as battlegrounds where the fate of the language is decided, or as shadowy enterprises with secret, back-room meetings over what does and does not count as a word.
The distance keeps Mr. Assange safe from the prying eyes of the press, give or take my visit, but it also means that someone who has remained in motion for many years is now fixed in place, left to operate a shadowy global enterprise from a country farm north of London.
Mr Kim chiefly makes his money from a shadowy network of enterprises known as Division 39.
There were alarmed articles about scenes of extreme violence in Kelly's portrayal of The Network, a group of provocateurs and assassins – operating in a shadowy area between the state and private enterprise – who seem to be orchestrating world disorder.
In this view, Mr. Obama and many of his predecessors (including George W. Bush) have deliberately undermined the Constitution and free enterprise for the benefit of a shadowy international network of wealthy elites.
Entire supermarket chains were singled out by a Chelsea-based magazine editor as being staffed by personnel so grumpy and disrespectful that their hiring seemed deliberate, perhaps because the enterprise was owned and operated by shadowy churls who derived vicarious pleasure from their employees' obstreperous misanthropy.
In the last three months, Chinese officials have begun a parallel campaign to curb widespread tax evasion and shadowy business practices that have enriched entrepreneurs who run state-owned enterprises or do complex deals with them.
Ms. Ewald's employment of children adds a certain shadowy intrigue, a hint of moral ambiguity, to what otherwise would seem to be an enterprise of selfless altruism.
Then the Times got wind of the enterprise, and stories followed in Time and Premiere after Sweet Jimmy and his co-conspirators — the equally shadowy Zeke (Silver) Cohen, Baby Gristle, and Dallas Everhard — announced plans to film the Ivy League's first porn movie, called "The StaXXX".
