Sentence examples for shadowy reflection from inspiring English sources

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That adversary is a woman named Sarah Corvus (played by Katee Sackhoff of "Battlestar Galacicta"), who has given in to the dark side of having nearly unlimited physical powers, a shadowy reflection of the temptations and dangers that come with Jaime Sommers's new abilities.

It is a shifting and shadowy reflection of the really real.

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A shadowy figure appears behind someone in the reflection of medicine cabinet mirror.

But then you notice the shadowy purple figure seated in the background: a reflection, in the mirror, of Bonnard himself, a sort of omniscient voyeur, watching you watch his wife, whose sewing now looks more like a compulsion than a pastime.

On Monday night she started her first of two sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden singing behind a scrim while casting a larger-than-life silhouette: a perfect reflection of the way she uses veiled tones and shadowy hints to draw listeners closer.

In this retrospective there are several images that are breathtaking: a shadowy tree whose form is echoed uncannily by a cloud hovering overhead like a shadow; the reflection of a glass lampshade that appears to float eerily in an evening sky like a UFO; a frail old man who seems to be waving goodbye from his death bed.

It is indebted to film noir conventions: the femme fatale; protagonist-narration (removed in later versions); dark and shadowy cinematography; and the questionable moral outlook of the hero – in this case, extended to include reflections upon the nature of his own humanity.

In a shadowy, cavernous room, Mary sits with a skull in her lap, gazing to her left at a burning candle and its reflection in a fancily framed mirror on a wooden table.

"So shadowy.

Everything was grey and shadowy.

He is a shadowy figure.

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