Sentence examples for violent shadow from inspiring English sources

Neighbouring Algeria casts its dark violent shadow over this small country.

Largely because of its proximity to Russia and its distance from the central government, Suifenhe developed an energetic and violent shadow economy.

Like Venezuela, their countries were liberated by the mercurial "Washington of South America" – a man of stunning ability, relentless ambition and a volatile personality that cast as many dark, violent shadows as it produced blinding flashes of brilliance.

The On Leong tong dominated Mott Street and was allied with the violent Ghost Shadows.

This has been especially true in the pro-life movement, which has long been trying to escape the shadow of violent fundamentalists.

They tend to see themselves as living in the shadow of violent crime, retreating behind high walls, electric fences and steel doors.

He is as convincing as a policeman in He Kills Coppers as he is a violent killer in The Shadow Line, the TV series which seemingly put him on everybody's radar.

Londoners have lived in the shadow of violent attack perhaps more than most of the world's great cities in the past 60 years.

There is Wyndham Lewis in the bristling composition and William Blake in the dark satanic mills, but also a kind of hectic cinema in the long shadows and violent geometry.

Calling 2666 a novel about a deranged killer is like describing Moby-Dick as a fishing story, but the shadows of violent men committing meaningless and terrible crimes stalk every page.

" 'We've been chosen to look after this little girl,' she seemed to be telling him, 'so we might as well get on with it.' " Sue has had her shadows: a violent impulse to kill their baby, a near suicidal car smashup.