So much of our desire like their bulky, shadowy walking after midnight, exiled from the wild and destined for a circus with its tawdry gaudiness, its unspoken pathos.
Revealing further details would spoil the 90-minute play, which is not so much a thriller as it is a shadowy psychological comedy.
And despite the party's efforts in recent years to tighten the rules concerning the use of shuanggui, it remains a shadowy procedure that, like so much of China's legal system, is subject to rampant abuse.Bo Xilai, the former party chief of Chongqing, knows a lot about the system.
Parts of the book are atrociously boring -- Lucky is not so much a character as a flickering simulacrum inside a movie, a shadowy projection of light, a filmic will-o'-the-wisp.
But somehow, in spite of its limitations, this film places Freud exactly where he belongs: in a shadowy, irrecoverable past and right here in our midst, the cause, cure and embodiment of so much that continues to plague us.
Angelopoulos does not relate the story of his country so much as linger amid the whispered backstories of its citizens, and we are somehow left to fill in the shadowy gaps.
Plant wasn't trying to shout so much as snake through the songs, darting and diving between the syncopated beats and finding melody lines inside the band's shadowy interplay.
So much love, and so much hate.
