Sentence examples similar to throw a pall over from inspiring English sources

That event threw a pall over Boston's fitful opera scene, which has always struggled to gain traction in a museum-and-symphony-focused cultural landscape.

They had therapy sessions with Tim Thomas, but they responded with the same stiffness and downcast eyes that had, by then, thrown a pall over their family dinners, where their muteness dominated everything and everyone and often drove their older sister, Greta, to tears.

And for other would-be members, the sanctions have cast a pall over the entire union.

It would be wrong to suggest the defections have cast a pall over the conference, however.

The crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, meanwhile, has thrown the country's energy policy into disarray and cast a pall over Japan's recovery.

But today's festivities were surely more jubilant than the ones in 1996, which took place a few hours after the bomb went off in Centennial Park, killing one person and throwing a huge pall over the Games.

The sky was overcast, throwing a melancholic pall over the patriotic spectacle unfolding overhead.

Tibet has cast a pall over preparations to hold the Olympic games in Beijing in August.

Although no children have been harmed, the news has cast a pall over playgrounds.

That cast a pall over the market.

It cast a pall over the proceedings.