Sentence examples for shadowy spaces from inspiring English sources

His music is suffused with melancholy foreboding and shadowy spaces, counting down to what might be an elegy or a cataclysm.

That's why it is so rewarding when Bounville, Greenwell, Walter and Sahib take us into these shadowy spaces, where so many gay connections have happened (and still happen).

The set married royal sumptuousness to genocidal mania, littering the palace with taxidermy, glum military portraits, abandoned toys, and deep, shadowy spaces.

That the tragedies of our own age happen in suburban semis, or on Travellers' sites, does not make them any less cathartic – and Ryan's choice of narrator, a character both deeply flawed and painfully guilty, shows him working in the great tradition of tragic fiction, his lonely adulteress coming to grief in the same shadowy spaces as Emma Bovary or Anna Karenina.

In Istanbul's Süleymaniye Mosque, built by the genius architect Sinan for Suleiman the Magnificent, in the sixteenth century, I was struck by how a tier of scores of lamps dropped from the immense and shadowy spaces above, as if curious about the goings on along the carpeted floor.

Barry craned his neck, looking around the shadowy space.

It's uncharacteristically dark: no light-filled rooms, just undefined, shadowy space and a mood of uneasy suspense.

The small, yet white and bright and unavoidably shocking Origin looks across a shadowy space at the huge, dark, funeral scene, with its enigmatic rural faces gathered around the black void of a grave.

At present, the public can get only a distant glimpse of the spectacular and shadowy space through the stone arches 70ft up at the top of the walls above the high altar.

The intimate relationship between the atmospheric demonstrations and displays — which took visitors back to the 19th century, when the building served as the site of amputations — and the cramped, shadowy space helped history and art to coalesce in an unforgettable way.

Rubio released a video in which he explained that this is a "civilizational" fight rather than a "geopolitical" one, while sitting in a leather armchair in a shadowy space, as though the place for counterterrorism is and always will be an English gentlemen's club.