Sentence examples for shadowy thing from inspiring English sources

A ruthless shadowy thing eternally going in for cruelty, elimination, waste.

As Russell (1956, p. 223) later says, propositions seem to be at best "curious shadowy things" in addition to facts.

There are a lot of shadowy things going on in the industry, but these growth projections suggest that there should be more investment.

These lies make our lives shabby, shadowy things.

That's right, it's the shadiest of shadowy things—a male masturbatory aid.

They see their bodies as dark and shadowy things -- female masturbation is for sex addicts and sluts and barbarians and wackos.

"It was the biggest, darkest, shadowiest thing I'd ever seen in the ocean," he said.

Ingelby Gallery, Edinburgh EH8 until 22 December Still Life with Apples and a Pomegranate (1871-72) by Gustave Courbet This painting is a crabbed, shadowy, gnarled thing that lodges in the mind and never leaves.

Public art is a shadowy, nebulous thing.

I loved the way he ran the place, this shadowy figure doing things completely on his own terms, coming out and telling these deadpan jokes.

Among those things are shadowy beasts with glowing red eyes and an amorous catfish that, in a dreamlike fairy tale within the film, seduces an unhappy princess.