Sentence examples for shadowy tone from inspiring English sources

He laid washes of shadowy tone over Segers's precise and intricate terrain, but he kept the lizard near the bottom and the tiny shepherd standing on the left.

1. AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE "When the Heart Emerges Glistening" (Blue Note) An earnest young trumpeter with a bracingly original style — shadowy tone, sure attack, surprising turns of phrase — Mr. Akinmusire puts the focus here on the gleam of his crackerjack quintet.

(Nate Chinen) ★ Ambrose Akinmusire Quintet (Friday through Sunday) An earnest young trumpeter with a bracingly original style — shadowy tone, sure attack, surprising turns of phrase — Ambrose Akinmusire made one of last year's best jazz releases, a smart dispatch from the new postbop frontier.

(Chinen) ★ Ambrose Akinmusire Quintet (Thursday through April 29) An earnest young trumpeter with a bracingly original style — shadowy tone, sure attack, surprising turns of phrase — Ambrose Akinmusire made one of last year's best jazz releases, a smart dispatch from the new postbop frontier.

★ The Ambrose Akinmusire Project (Tuesday through Thursday) An earnest young trumpeter with a bracingly original style — shadowy tone, sure attack, surprising turns of phrase — Ambrose Akinmusire released one of the best jazz albums of 2011, "When the Heart Emerges Glistening" (Blue Note).

The women sang in breathy, shadowy tones.

Both pictures share a cinematographer, Dante Spinotti, who forgoes the high-gloss, primary-color resolution of "Manhunter" for gothic shadowy tones in this case.

The seats are tan, the metalwork burgundy, and with the muted lighting in the domed, narrow house, the atmosphere takes on a shadowy sepia tone that suggests lurking mystery, maybe even danger.

And John Lasiter's artful lighting scheme reproduces the shadowy look of noir movies in the black-and-white sequences and the artificial tones of old hand-tinted postcards in the color scenes.

What does this shadowy legend look like?

Other plays he writes in this period – Othello, All's Well That Ends Well, Timon of Athens – are similarly shadowy and equivocal in tone, perhaps reflecting the tense atmosphere at court following rumbling disputes about the unification of England and Scotland, and the shock discovery of the Gunpowder plot in November 1605.