Sentence examples similar to shadowy words from inspiring English sources

It is MI5 with hobnailed boots on, and has the word "shadowy" as an almost permanent prefix.

Shadowy and inscrutable are words associated with the pudgy little man in a grey suit, whose one colourful characteristic was that he kept a parrot, albeit a grey one.Papa de Gaulle's childrenThe German occupation had destroyed trust between Frenchmen, and in post-war France loyalty was especially valued.

And shadowy is a nice word for what goes on in this industry, where short-term loans with interest rates of 500 percent or even higher are all too common.

Indeed, Middlemarch looms above the mid-Victorian literary landscape like a cathedral of words in whose shadowy vastness its readers can find every kind of addictive discomfort, a sequence of raw truths: the loneliness of the disappointed failure, Dr Lydgate; the frustrations of his discontented wife; the humiliation of a good woman, Dorothea; the corrosive bitterness of Casaubon, and so on.

The ancient Hebrew word for the shadowy underworld where the dead go, Sheol, was Christianized as "Hell," even though there is no such concept in the Hebrew Bible.

In other words, the image of shadowy enforcers making children eat broccoli was always a delusion.

Since "Mulholland Drive" was released in 2001, Lynch seems to have turned his focus almost entirely away from shadowy underworlds and toward spreading the word about Transcendental Meditation.

"Of course I wasn't a member of the 'angkar,"' he said, using the word applied to the shadowy Khmer Rouge leadership, and then, looking out from behind his sheaf of papers, "but I imagine that with a country to run, that its members had other things to do than to check if people were having sex".

Outfit7 is a well-known apps company, not a shadowy network of child-catchers, in other words: I've interviewed the firm in March 2011 , March 2012and June 2013 tracking the rise of its apps.

In Adams's setting of the words, the melody moves along in shadowy, groping fashion, the notes drawn generally from the whole-tone scale.

Once upon a time every journalist's favourite word when talking about Al Qaeda was "shadowy".