The great beeches were shadowy giants in the whirling snow.
Those string players, joined by Mr. Kalish, ended the program with a vivid account of Beethoven's Piano Trio in D ("Ghost"), its surpassingly eerie Largo a colossal, shadowy gas giant around which two satellites called Allegro and Presto briskly orbited.
The most impressive instance is "Petit's Mobil Station, Cherry Hill," a nocturnal picture in which the giant, shadowy water tower looms like a recently landed flying saucer over the clean, theatrically lighted plaza of a 70's-era gas station.
Otherwise known as the Forest of Great Fear, Mirkwood is a giant, dark, shadowy expanse of dense woodlands filled with menacingly angular trees and inhabited by giant malevolent spiders.
"Vollmond," designed by Peter Pabst, takes place in an austere and often shadowy landscape dominated by a giant slab of rock.
In "The Retrospective," that giant is more shadowy, rumbling from a greater distance, apprehended in legends and half-forgotten narratives.
Looking out of the window at the dead of night, she is astonished to see a giant loping through the shadowy city streets.
The story centers on Shinji, a teenage boy who is recruited by the shadowy organization NERV to pilot a giant bio-machine called an Evangelion in combat against monstrous beings known as Angels.
But that hasn't stopped some people from framing his comments as part of a giant conspiracy by a shadowy group of elites to enslave the world through a fake alien attack.
Eric is drawn as a tiny, shadowy figure living in a world of giants.
