I'd given up trying to understand, settling into a morose acceptance of the P.S.B.'s and Mary's whims with only shadowy notions about what was actually going on, who was getting paid off (or not), and why my quest for a visa had turned into a farcical nightmare.
The last decade redefined our understanding of what modern warfare is, and our notion of shadowy enemies and inconstant allies.
The Manchurian Candidate idea, popularized in books and countless movies and TV shows, has firmly implanted the notion that shadowy government groups routinely topple foreign governments, assassinate government leaders and brainwash operatives to do dirty deeds.
Human beings seem always to have had some notion of a shadowy double that survives the death of the body.
It has blended with another meaning, used as a codeword that bridges from Israel to the wider Jewish world, hinting at the age-old, antisemitic notion of a shadowy, global power, operating behind the scenes.
And let's not forget the eerie notion of the doppelganger, that inscrutable, shadowy figure threatening to swoop in and take over a life.
And let's not forget the eerie notion of the doppelganger, that inscrutable, shadowy figure threatening to swoop in and take over a life.
Part of the initial appeal was their exoticism, their shadowy history (dating back to the mid-1960s) and the notion that they fashioned half their instruments from scrap metal and street refuse.
To begin to tackle this question, one has to survey the shadowy history of on-screen homosexuality, consider the elusive notion of a gay sensibility and as with all minority-group debates weigh the conflicting ideological positions on difference and assimilation.
It's a notion worthy of the The X Files: a shadowy world of doppelgangers, existing in eerie counterpoint to the one we know.
The notion that these swaps transactions took place in some shadowy, hidden room of finance, where regulators couldn't have possibly known what was going on, is absolutely false.
