Sometimes it's on purpose, because shadowy forces conspire against us.
Among the information to be shared will be who actually ultimately benefits from the shadowy shell companies, special purpose companies and trust arrangements often employed by tax evaders and money launderers.
Stephen Sondheim and his allies were infusing the genre with shadowy new depths and brooding purpose, while "Jesus Christ Superstar" isn't a musical comedy at all but a self-serious pop-operatic passion play.
The person we think is him is often little more than an idol, a shadowy projection of our own views and purposes onto an historical figure who can no longer complain however grotesquely we misrepresent him -- or mangle his message.
It starred John Cassavetes as a shadowy figure who hopes to use the psychic gifts of two high schoolers (Irving and Andrew Stevens) for his own sinister purposes; Kirk Douglas appeared as the father of one of the teenagers.
"If you can't trust your shadowy overlords to keep a secret, what is the purpose, really, of voting in a puppet democracy?" says a slightly frizzy woman on the street with perfect deadpan delivery.
Growing and selling pot for medicinal purposes was legal in Colorado but had a shadowy, seedy image.
In the shadowy landscape of "Henry IV," in which life is truly a battlefield, men mostly keep their deepest purposes to themselves.
Shadowy government activities are the subject of William Allen's nine-panel text paintings examining the history, purpose and mythology around the Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center, a United States government structure near Bluemont, Va.
Sure, many of the shadowy wannabe-Cassius conspirators on the Labour benches do have a candidate: the former home secretary and all-purpose good guy, Alan Johnson.
