It starts with what looks like geometric transformers gliding across a shiny frozen lake, then pans out on a shadowy city that starts manifesting from thin air.
Though some of the daytime clothes seemed clunky, skirts and dresses cut from circles of leather (including a nearly transparent leather) looked fresh, notably a paper-thin dress that wrapped around the body and came printed with shadowy blue cubes, like a Futurist painting.
Public officials and pop culture alike have been quick to recognize the unusual nature of what the British press is calling a "long, thin war," and what Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld called "a much more subtle, nuanced, difficult, shadowy set of problems".
She opened it to a sketch of a shadowy "tax man," who had come to collect from the reed-thin farm boy half his size.
Even still, the American presence is thin enough, and the Afghan and Pakistani governments weak enough, that in large areas the insurgents are both shadowy and the dominant social and military force.
Everything was grey and shadowy.
Those soft shapes, shadowy inside.
Shadowy figures stood on top of them.
