Sentence examples for vast shadow from inspiring English sources

Recent efforts by Matteo Renzi's government have sought to rein in the country's vast shadow economy and convince both individuals and companies to boost the state coffers.

But in Manhattan's vast shadow, a lush garden of humanity grows, unruly, sometimes painfully, the runners and tendrils of one vine uprooting another.

The Met is a minor empire, a banana republic, with its own court of insiders and a vast shadow government of fault-finding fans.

Nani arrived at virtually the same time as Anderson, and spent two years operating in the vast shadow of Cristiano Ronaldo before starting to flourish once his fellow countryman had left for Real Madrid.

An experiment that tracks subtle motions of subatomic particles called muons has found tantalizing evidence for a vast shadow universe of normally unseen matter existing side by side with ours, scientists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory said yesterday.

I turned to the lighting controls, which reminded me of a map of a planetary system, and my figure, whom I had taken to calling Gus, cast a vast shadow in what looked like an empty room.

Arthur Andersen was supposed to have been looking at the books, but the vast shadows cast by the ideology of deregulation allowed that company to escape effective scrutiny as well.

"I saw the camera seeing most things through Hamlet's eyes," Olivier explained, sounding distinctly like Welles in his early Hollywood days, "wandering, or running, through the empty corridors, piercing the vast shadows of Elsinore's great rooms of state for some joy or the sight of some familiar object".

Structuring a show around the notion of a project doomed to failure has inevitable results, and while the point is made that the performers themselves live in the vast shadows of their own antecedents, Gob Squad's 20 years of post-dramatic innovation in the theatre has seen their own stage tricks so popularised that the presentation is rendered un-unique.

Starved of capital, all but a small fraction of Egyptian business owners mine a vast, unregulated shadow market.

There's no doubting that Harvard, Cambridge, Stanford, Yale and Oxford have affirmed themselves as world class universities but, yet again, they find themselves falling in MIT's vast technological shadow.