Examples of shadowy

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He therefore posits a set of shadowy near-duties to discourage it.
His stories concerning his work, his staff and his car were still there, but were assuming a more shadowy substance.
Although formally the responsibility of the sheriff, it was his officials, shadowy figures in the records, who probably played the larger role.
Memory here counts for the psychological patterns and secret constructions by which individual lives are led, either through shadowy impulse or conscious act.
She becomes a shadowy figure who, however, manages to dominate the town authorities.
The self-professed inventor of the neighbourhood unit remains an important, though shadowy and under-documented figure.
A sense of crossing a threshold from the public sphere of middle-class civilization to a more shadowy and less civilized world pervades the report.
In verbal interaction, the written word always remains a pervasive and authorized reference, but a shadowy and distant one.
The efforts with pigeons and parrots bear only shadowy comparison.
The men who operated the blast furnaces and forges have left only shadowy traces in the records.
The bottoms of the leaves were shadowy while the tops glittered iridescently.
The background to his appointment is still somewhat shadowy.
She could feel it now in all its shadowy, furious magnificence.
I do not mean to make heavy weather of unexplored possibilities, but there are two points of interest in this shadowy science.
Many remain shadowy figures, despite historians' best efforts.
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