Sentence examples for shadowy way from inspiring English sources

They would also illuminate the shadowy way in which the judicial system prosecuted contract killings, often having to go to great lengths to protect police sources who helped to secure convictions but were themselves closely connected to the criminal underworld.

Risky, too, is Davidson's gentle insistence on an old "shadowy" way of living that was pre‑Reformation and ancient in its sensibilities and practices – an outlook largely at odds with a media that regards the Catholic church as having quite enough of its own shadows.

Indeed, there is a distinct air of a system dying in Germany today, as if the Bonn Republic ended not with the government's move to Berlin last year and the foundation of the so-called "Berlin Republic," but with this scandal, which unmasked an old and shadowy way of doing business.

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Gellman's coverage certainly re-enforces it, starting with the shadowy way Cheney became Bush's VP.

The computer's capacity to mimic human intelligence, in however shadowy a way, suggested that the brain itself could profitably be conceived (analogously or even literally) as a computer or system of computers.

Tea lights flickered through the shadowy room.

Imagining shadowy plots and ways to foil them requires a lot of "filling in the blanks," he said.

Everyone watched as the shadowy figure made its way through a muddy swamp, crawled onto a stone barrier, reached up to grab the tracks and hopped on board.

Fountains and roses flashed by, and then we moved from sunshine into a shadowy foyer that gives way to a chapel-like salon; finally we pulled up at a balcony that opens on sweeping views south down the coast.

And that's lucky because while the series visits Hemingway's birthplace, grave and many of the places that were most significant in between, he remains a shadowy presence along the way.