Sentence examples for shadowy lady from inspiring English sources
A vast archive of letters from Florence Nightingale, many intensely personal and revealing about the woman usually seen as the shadowy Lady with the Lamp, is being brought together online and made freely accessible for the first time.
Yet within popular culture, Short -- who frequently told friends she wanted to break into show business -- has emerged as something of an honorary leading lady whose shadowy life and violent death follow the contours of a classic film noir script.
"shadowy lives of cat ladies" "shadowy existence consumed by an uncontrollable connection to cats" These women "struggle with alienation, loss, and loneliness" She (one of the cat ladies) "feels like society has thrown her away" She (another cat lady) is "protecting herself with a wall of cats" "I'm starting to fall apart" The cats "aren't making it any easier for her to find a man".
Naipaul's flirtation with Hindu nationalism is still to come, and the second Lady Naipaul is a shadowy presence so far.
It's perhaps worth noting that Del Rey is an equal-opportunities misanthropist, and all the men in her songs appear to be arseholes, but there's no escaping the fact that her focus is on the ladies: the men are just shadowy supporting characters who largely seem to exist in order to highlight how awful her women are.
Lady Thatcher was for most of the 1990's a shadowy presence in the Conservative Party that she dominated for so many years here, discomfiting party leaders at times by making known her displeasure at their policies.
Feminine culture, Rourke wrote, "rose on the American horizon in a cloud no larger than a lady's book.... Obviously social comedy could not develop when women remained shadowy, serious figures".
Everything was grey and shadowy.
Those soft shapes, shadowy inside.
