Sentence examples for substantial shadow from inspiring English sources

Since his November arrival, Rafael Benitez's very presence on the touchline has cast a substantial shadow for many Chelsea supporters.

Though she has run London's most famous restaurant for the past six years, Clare Smyth has spent quite some time living in a substantial shadow.

In the substantial shadow of a 6-foot-4, 240-pound All-Star, the 21-year-old Wright has never seemed smaller.

Having crossed the Irish Sea from his home city of Dublin to join West Bromwich Albion as a 15-year-old in 1961, Treacy struggled to make a lasting top-flight breakthrough at the Hawthorns, languishing in the substantial shadows cast by Jeff Astle and John Kaye until he was transferred to second-tier Charlton in February 1968.

Tall buildings also cast substantial shadows.

Barry Miles has bravely set about writing the life of someone who was less a human being than a ghoul, a wraith, or – at his most substantial – a shadow.

In this silver-gray film noir world, Ed at first seems as substantial as a shadow or the smoke from his unfiltered cigarettes.

The art critic Sally Yard has noted that in the portrayal of Dyer's flesh, "life seems to visibly drain ... into the substantial character of the shadow beneath him".

Before the game both Capello and Rooney addressed the issue of progress – and whether it was something more substantial than smoke and shadows.

At New York's latitude, explained Michael Kwartler, the president of the Environmental Simulation Center, a New York City nonprofit that creates shadow assessments, buildings cast substantial northerly shadows throughout the day in colder months.

"But there are still, without a shadow of a doubt, substantial gaps in every category, every vital sign.