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  • His triumph was overshadowed by an uneasy sense of foreboding.
  • Then, when cashiered out of the navy after refusing to follow orders which offended his conscience, he is visited by the mysterious benefactor who has shadowed him his entire life, who invites him to join a highly exclusive gentlemen's club, Redking's. REVIEW: Not Less Than Gods and The Women of Nell Gwynne's by Kage Baker
  • About two hours after De Forest made his report, Green came in and reported that according to orders he had "shadowed" De Forest and Mrs. Maroney when they drove into the city. The Expressman and the Detective
  • The balsam impatiens usually grows as a two- or three-stemmed plant to a height of 2 1/2 feet, with white to dark red flowers tucked into the leaf axils, where they tend to be overshadowed by leaves.
  • The map was a cartographer's bird's-eye view, but the icy mountains unfolded white and hazy and shadowed, outlines blurred and overlapping. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
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  • It was a cavern in the side of a mountain, overshadowed with palm trees, at such a distance from the cataract that nothing more was heard than a gentle uniform murmur, such as composes the mind to pensive meditation, especially when it was assisted by the wind whistling among the branches. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
  • One day there came a note from the editor requiring me to write ten pages on this revolting text: "Considerations concerning the alleged subterranean holophotal extemporaneousness of the conchyliaceous superimbrication of the Ornithorhyncus, as foreshadowed by the unintelligibility of its plesiosaurian anisodactylous aspects. Mark Twain`s speeches; with an introduction by William Dean Howells.
  • Caliban hit him then, leaping out of the shadowed recesses under the next terrace up, long arms and longer legs wide and grasping, teeth glinting in earthlight. Ilium
  • He cast his gaze toward the window; the thick curtains shadowed it.
  • It should be clear by now that the ambiguity of form and complexity of content in Seven Pillars are both foreshadowed in its dedicatory poem.
  • Nevertheless, her performance was somewhat overshadowed by the increasingly exhibitionistic shape-throwing of Stephen McAllister, the in-house main-course chef.
  • I don't know much about his kittenhood, but I do know he was fostered for awhile in a farm-like environment ie, outdoors where he shadowed people quite closely but had no other reported behavioral anomalies. Crazy Cat
  • The poor outlook and rumours of price cuts to drive sales of its smartphones overshadowed an improved financial performance after savage cost-cutting over the past year. Times, Sunday Times
  • Circles ringed and shadowed them, but still they twinkled brightly.
  • Dr. Moreau’s on madness, which he read during these months of mental relaxation, drew from him an acknowledgment wherein he foreshadowed his intention of studying anatomy and myology. Balzac
  • Mr Darling foreshadowed the move last night when he said that both national and international regulators needed additional powers to help to restore confidence in the system. Times, Sunday Times
  • The sputtering of the economy over the past 18 months now has been overshadowed by terror and tragedy.
  • Mr Darling foreshadowed the move last night when he said that both national and international regulators needed additional powers to help to restore confidence in the system. Times, Sunday Times
  • As foreshadowed above, many settlers and explorers would buy an annual almanac, containing notes of what was to be expected in the forthcoming year.
  • His heart pounding near to bursting, he streaked across the shadowed streets.
  • Karen has always felt overshadowed by her famous elder sister.
  • It's a tricky place, treated unremarkably, yet nonetheless shadowed by the highest drama. Times, Sunday Times
  • Julian stayed in the shadowed alley for half an hour, until finally the goblins began remounting their dogs and riding off.
  • It wasn't a nice area, as far as Milan goes, being overshadowed by the ugly Pirelli Tower.
  • Those eyes were deep pools of cocoa brown and set over well chiseled cheekbones and a straight aquiline nose that was shadowed by a ghost of a goatee.
  • She said stations should be in the open, near housing, not overshadowed by trees or walls.
  • As he watched a figure of a man shadowed the square and then moved out of sight to reappear again shortly. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
  • Perhaps only in a year filled with movies like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, Stagecoach, Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes, the larkier but somewhat similar Gunga Dun, Ninotchka, of course Gone With The Wind and so many others could The Four Feathers be relatively overshadowed. Michael Giltz: DVDs: 1939 -- Still Hollywood's Greatest Year
  • The earnest performances of Ford and Pitt are finally overshadowed by the cliches of the genre.
  • When the dainty shadings of taste are over-shadowed by a "lardy" flavor, the _true_ taste of the food itself is lost. The Story of Crisco
  • Stanford's win overshadowed a sterling performance by Jerome Harrison, who rushed 29 times for 218 yards and scored a TD for the Cougars. USATODAY.com - Scores
  • Fields were turned into subdivisions, and the town's small downtown was overshadowed by a sprawling regional mall.
  • In our image, after our likeness I do not scrupulously insist upon the particles B+, (beth,) and K+, (caph [90]) I know not whether there is anything solid in the opinion of some who hold that this is said, because the image of God was only shadowed forth in man till he should arrive at his perfection. Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1
  • His face, which was colourless, deeply grooved, with sculpted lips, was severe and so shadowed it was like dusty ivory. LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
  • The mere sound of his name foreshadowed the dignity with which he would sustain the part, and when the servant announced: The Guermantes Way
  • If I have un petit faible (une faiblette?) for this language (languette?), if certain words are sweetly chouette, and certain sounds sharply shadowed comme une silhouette ... the cause for this might just be that little suffix ette! French Word-A-Day:
  • He had always been overshadowed by his elder sister.
  • Crater - scarred Rhea floats in the distance, peeking out from behind Saturn's partly shadowed rings.
  • It also foreshadowed its end. THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World
  • The highly publicized abortion debate overshadowed the rest of the platform that calls for a smorgasbord of constitutional amendments.
  • In principle, this whole sequence of events, foreseen and foreshadowed from the moment of your birth -- from _this moment_ -- can be avoided. Asimov's Science Fiction
  • Astley's is a kind of semi-ruined pastoral, a bucolic summer-hazed delirium shadowed by mumbling disquiet, in which mechanically-iterated found sounds are put into concert with an oneiric chamber music.
  • While Anita was sociable and well-liked by her peers, Betty was often overshadowed by her cousin and believed to be snobbish as a result of common misperceptions.
  • The Capitals 'win overshadowed Joe Sakic's 1,500th point. USATODAY.com - Hockey - Washington vs. Colorado
  • It also foreshadowed its end. THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World
  • Dollar Bill Jefferson will win comfortably tonight, and luckily this embarrassment will presumably be overshadowed by an Obama win. Your Right Hand Thief
  • At the '96 Olympics, the U.S. women's team so overshadowed the men that the NBA stars almost could slip in and out the back door.
  • Mr. Lindberg, a conservatory-trained pianist, is himself among the soloists, but his efforts are likely to be overshadowed by two of the Philharmonic's percussionists, Christopher Lamb and Daniel Druckman, whose arsenal of noise-making instruments will be augmented by various found objects, including sandpaper, stones and scrap metal. Lindberg Makes His Mark on the N.Y. Philharmonic
  • Ornithorhyncus, as foreshadowed by the unintelligibility of its plesiosaurian anisodactylous aspects. Mark Twain's Speeches
  • The spacecraft's point of view now captures the shadowed side of the comet's nucleus.
  • Already overshadowed by political complexity the elections will also take place against a backdrop of violence.
  • His second and third sons were brought up in Aquitaine, and imbued with its poetical spirit; and the House of Anjou entirely overshadowed that of Capet. A Parallel History of France and England; Consisting of Outlines and Dates
  • But even this sad circumstance was overshadowed for me by political events of the week.
  • JAKARTA, INDONESIA - Long shadowed in the United States by dark rumors that he attended a radical Muslim school while growing up in Indonesia, President Obama faces pressure from some old school pals to finally come clean about the past. Prison Planet.com
  • Though just an anatomical study, it already foreshadowed the sculptor's later efforts to reveal the essence rather than merely copy outward appearances.
  • The achievement of the men's team was overshadowed by the continuing success of the women's team.
  • But the speculation has overshadowed that, and it also has overshadowed the wins and the great plays.
  • He took us first to see his docks and godowns, resounding with the loud clangors of trade, and then through the grassy Kow-Loon plains, by a wide red road shadowed with banana-trees, to this lordly pavilion set on the crest of many flowering terraces – its pale-yellow outlines cut cameo-like against the burning blue of the equatorial sky. In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
  • He used the Golden Legend, Huon de Meri's allegorical poem of the fight between Jesus and the Antichrist, Peter Comestor's Bible History, Rustebeuf's La Voie de Paradis, Grosseteste's religious allegory of Le Chastel d 'Amour, the paraded learning of Vincent of Beauvais in Speculum Historiale, and other works -- numerous and small signs of booklore, which are completely overshadowed by his illuminating comprehension of the popular side in the politics of his day. Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages
  • Hester is overshadowed by her younger and more attractive sister.
  • Detectives shadowed him on board a transatlantic liner, and during his stay in New York even steamed open his post at his hotel.
  • Some important stories are being overshadowed in the process.
  • During the many relief visits I paid that winter in tenement houses and miserable lodgings, I was constantly shadowed by a certain sense of shame that I should be comfortable in the midst of such distress. Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes
  • Anyway, these seem foreshadowed by some 15c egs i give all are englished, too. Poem of Toyotomi Hideyoshi
  • The middle of the river, shadowed by clouds, must feel so big.
  • “On September 6, the biggest build-up of Russian airpower in NATO airspace saw as many as eight Tu-95s nuclear-capable bombers track their way from the Barents Sea and into the Atlantic… shadowed by 20 NATO fighters,” it said. How the End Begins
  • The constant arguing also overshadowed the other relationships in the house. The Sun
  • Through the early hours of the day the mottled, pearly clouds keep their shape, with delicious open spaces of tempered blue between; by and by the sky's tender fleece is half shadowed, toward noon it melts into loose mists. An Island Garden
  • To my mind it succeeds in evoking the excitement and interest inherent in mathematics but so often overshadowed by complexity and social fear.
  • Grand Central Station in New York is overshadowed by the PanAm building.
  • FRANKFURT -- The European Central Bank's meeting here Thursday in mellow Frankfurt will be overshadowed by the blur of Group of 20 protests and political faceoffs across the Channel. ECB Rate Cut Is Expected at Meeting
  • He birdied thirteen of fourteen holes but these scores were overshadowed by the events on the par three eight.
  • The recent outbreak of violence was foreshadowed by isolated incidents in the city earlier this year.
  • We continued, however, to ride on without pause and even when night fell and overshadowed the desolate wilds which we traversed, we were, as I understood from Mr. Jarvie, still three miles and a bittock distant from the place where we were to spend the night. Rob Roy
  • Sivaism and Vishnuism have overshadowed the older religion like a rank growth of poisonous weeds. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
  • In spite of every advantage of university training, and in the face of her bachelorship of arts, his power of intellect overshadowed hers, and his year or so of self-study and equipment gave him a mastery of the affairs of the world and art and life that she could never hope to possess. Chapter 23
  • The raw rock mountains shadowed in the late sun and to the east the shimmering abscissa of the desert plains under a sky where raincurtains hung dark as soot all along the quadrant. No Country For Old Men
  • The conventual buildings are strung out along a narrow ridge above the water, supported but also overshadowed by solid rock.
  • (Old) Boleslav, where Wenceslaus gained his degree of martyrdom, is a sedate little town near the banks of the Labe (known as Elbe in Germany) dozing among orchards and lush meadows and o'ershadowed by tall elm-trees. From a Terrace in Prague
  • A wide-brimmed hat shadowed her face.
  • The eyes had been shadowed and the lips painted, the corsages had been attached, the flowers admired and the chocolates eaten.
  • Black Nielson overshadowed them, with drowsy, soporific vocals, and unexpected twists and turns within each song.
  • But then one's outlook is always coloured by one's inlook, and an overcast mind sees all things shadowed. Pearl of Pearl Island
  • Karen has always felt overshadowed by her famous elder sister.
  • Most likely, though, it's because he was overshadowed by the opening band.
  • Wherever you go in Western France you follow in the footsteps of history, shadowed by myth and legend, with fable and fairy tale snapping at your heels.
  • She was about to begin to feed on the owls kill when she scented the smell of a felida, finally noticing a shadowed form at the back of the cave.
  • The additional problem being the large windows which are overshadowed by the Gallery and so cast a flat light on the stair making it difficult to distinguish treads from risers.
  • But the landmark could quickly be overshadowed by divisions in the Church over the Bible and sexuality throughout world Anglicanism.
  • Since then, Coco has developed into something nervier and the reggae has been overshadowed by synth-driven rock: comparisons with the Killers would be more apt. I Blame Coco: The Constant – review
  • The constant arguing also overshadowed the other relationships in the house. The Sun
  • My eyes were shadowed with black eyeliner, and a smoky eye shadow.
  • Somewhat to his shame, private concerns overshadowed even the exaltation of the hour. DARE CALL IT TREASON
  • Their messages to Russia should include stronger backing for the democracies of central and eastern Europe—natural allies that have watched apprehensively as their interests are overshadowed by Russia's relations with the U.S., Germany and other influential Western powers. Russian Reality-Check
  • The intricate blind-tooling of the doublure shadowed forth the blind fate which left us in ignorance of our future and our past, or of even what the day itself might bring forth. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue
  • However, this victory for state lawmakers is being overshadowed by persistent stories of voter confusion over which way to vote.
  • Initially 20 professional mimes shadowed pedestrians who didn't follow crossing rules: A pedestrian running across the road would be tracked by a mime who mocked his every move.
  • Whatever the case, it's a sign of our miserabilist times that precisely the time of year when there is the most fun to be had is overshadowed by tales of gloom.
  • If a less than competent diver wanted to go off alone for photo purposes, a divemaster discreetly shadowed him.
  • And as, once he adopted the nobiliary point of view which for him overshadowed everything else, M. de Charlus was capable of the most childish extravagances, he told me, in the same serious tone as if he were speaking of the Marne or of Verdun, that there were most interesting and curious things which should not be excluded by any historian of this war. Time Regained
  • Khalid al-Mansour is also featured in a DVD with a title that foreshadowed the internationalism of the Obama administration: Will the West Rule Forever? Post-American Presidency
  • She tried to imagine what the young woman was feeling - the chiliarch's daughter, once revered in society, now overshadowed by an outsider.
  • The petals from the surrounding cherry blossoms were falling, as the shadow of Tokyo Tower overshadowed us.
  • The poor outlook and rumours of price cuts to drive sales of its smartphones overshadowed an improved financial performance after savage cost-cutting over the past year. Times, Sunday Times
  • The glow touched the roses in the front yard, its silvery incandescence casting light into the shadowed bushes.
  • The performances were somewhat overshadowed by a certain coolness between composer and librettist.
  • There was no denying Ballylinan's superiority as they completely overshadowed an abysmal Rock performance.
  • The incident overshadowed a day of disappointment and frustration for both countries. Times, Sunday Times
  • The shadowed woods were in stark contrast to the brilliant whiteness of the lawn. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
  • The rail chaos which has gripped Britain has overshadowed the forthcoming billion pound franchise for one of the UK's major intercity routes from Scotland to London - the East Coast mainline.
  • As he watched a figure of a man shadowed the square and then moved out of sight to reappear again shortly. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
  • The cardinal principle upon which his attempt rests is the doctrine, already foreshadowed by Iamblichus and others, that in the process of emanation there are always three subordinate stages, or moments, namely the original (mone), emergence from the original (proodos), and return to the original (epistrophe). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
  • This condition is, perhaps, foreshadowed in the encyst - The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays
  • The first was that the adjoining bungalow would not be overshadowed, either practically or figuratively, by the new house.
  • But isn't it a bit of a stretch, even for TIME magazine, to claim this has "overshadowed" the Pope's declaration of the Year for Priests? Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:
  • Even if I add that Fischer has demonstrated the occurrence of haemin in yeast, all this is overshadowed by the fact that, chemically speaking, the pigment of green plants, i.e. chlorophyll, is closely related with the red blood pigment, and even derives, as Fischer has shown, from exactly the same parent substance, as regards the porphyrins. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1930 - Presentation Speech
  • Even events of the most serious nature get overshadowed by the political squabbles that will result as both sides attempt to leverage the issue to their advantage.
  • He became a recluse, and his rare film appearances were overshadowed by tales of his eccentric behaviour on set.
  • A policeman in plain clothes shadowed the criminal all day.
  • Though overshadowed by the injuries, at least there was one redeeming point for the Bobcats last Friday: second-string gridders got in some extra playing time.
  • We stopped a few times to photograph some of these views, especially the valley oases overshadowed by the colourful mountains, streaked with amber, brown, copper and deep purple.
  • Ornithorhyncus, as foreshadowed by the unintelligibility of its plesiosaurian anisodactylous aspects. Mark Twain's Speeches
  • The sparkling stars of the night sky were now shadowed by dark clouds of gray, and rain drizzled onto the city's buildings.
  • Sholom Aleichem is known as the Jewish Mark Twain, but Bikel enlarges and ennobles the man in ways that turn the world's greatest Yiddish writer into the living embodiment of Huckleberry Finn -- keenly observing the end of the 19th Century in Europe and Russia, the dawn of Jewish life in America, and the incremental death of Yiddish culture that was foreshadowed in that migration. Thane Rosenbaum: Tevye From Fiddler Back With Bikel
  • Into the gardens, down the long, shadowed walks; Amanda saw no reason to remonstrate. ON A WILD NIGHT
  • The bitterly fought contest was also overshadowed by allegations of voting fraud. Times, Sunday Times
  • In more recent years, Brando's brilliance as an actor was overshadowed by his eccentric reclusion, the turmoil in his family life and financial disputes.
  • But I probably have spoken enough of this element since any real depth is completely overshadowed by the comedy.
  • Körbes, normally luminous on the State Theater stage, here never seemed to come alive, looking wan and passive, and was completely overshadowed by either.
  • The wide brim of his hat shadowed his face.
  • As much as fascism, Nietzsche foreshadowed modernism, existentialism and postmodernism.
  • Shape includes things such as nose size or plumpness of lips, while reflectance includes things such as facial lightness, darkness and color, such as red lips or shadowed eyes. What makes a face appealing to the opposite sex?
  • And there's a kicker at the end, as cleverly foreshadowed by this link…
  • The bathhouse was overshadowed by the enormous, lanky scattered trees.
  • He hailed what he described as warming ties between Turkey and its neighbor Armenia, which have long been shadowed by Turkey's denial that the mass killing of ethnic Armenians in the waning days of the Ottoman Empire constituted genocide. StarTribune.com rss feed
  • St. Christopher, patron saint of travelers, finds himself eternally shadowed by this more mercurial genie. BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES
  • No episode more graphically conveys the pent-up longing of those curiously shadowed and elusive days we lived through between the end of the war and the birth of swinging Britain.
  • Wekiva Springs was one of the nation's top handicap runners in the mid-1990s despite being overshadowed by stablemate and two-time Horse of the Year Cigar.
  • Drawing his sword, the young man turned to face a figure cloaked all in black, his face shadowed by his hood.
  • Put together three unrelated embarrassments on a single day and all the good that has been achieved since 1997 is supposed to be overshadowed and forgotten.
  • The ending, while a wee bit predictable and foreshadowed, is satisfying. Book Review: "The Price" by Alexandra Sokoloff
  • An interesting, if not ridiculous, premise is somehow overshadowed by a moronic script filled with stupid lines.
  • He was in a new city, in a different province, a new school, new friends, and being the 1960s he was shadowed by the stigma of being raised by a single parent.
  • Susan Dzivak—a girl that I'dworshippedwhen I was a boy, a blonde Slovak beauty, my delft-blue-eyed lover for one tick of time, grown up and unclothed in the soft, shadowed light, who whispered to me, "It's time you learned wisdom. All Of My Monsters And Beautiful Women In Dreams
  • The euro has closely shadowed the dollar.
  • But the designer is a little shaken by an accident that has overshadowed her new collection.
  • The film's reception at the time was overshadowed by its extravagant cost (50 times the average French budget), but Les Amants du Pont-Neuf is rhapsodic cinema at any price.
  • The bay was shadowed by magnificent cliffs.
  • The bus pulls into a massive parking lot, shadowed by yet more of the beehive apartment buildings, the surrounding hills actually covered in trees.
  • The tall tree overshadowed the house
  • But success was overshadowed when he was accused of property fraud the day after his victory. Times, Sunday Times
  • One day there came a note from the editor requiring me to write ten pages -- on this revolting text: "Considerations concerning the alleged subterranean holophotal extemporaneousness of the conchyliaceous superimbrication of the Ornithorhyncus, as foreshadowed by the unintelligibility of its plesiosaurian anisodactylous aspects. Mark Twain's Speeches
  • Although the third man in the contest had been overshadowed by the megadollar donnybrook being waged by the frontrunners, the press had not forgotten him.
  • The public turmoil and the Bakken-Flowers win overshadowed a long-term trend in the sport: The German teams have caught up with and perhaps surpassed the Americans. USATODAY.com - World Championships preview: Women's bobsled
  • Druid leader King Arthur Pendragon presided over the festivities standing amid a ring of flaming torches overshadowed by a pair of giant horns, themselves lit by burning branches.
  • Mr. Cioffi's first essay on Freud, "Freud and the Idea of a Pseudo-Science," attracted little attention when it was published in 1970, partly because it appeared in a philosophy journal and partly because it was overshadowed by another Freud critique that drew a lot of attention that year: Kate Millett's "Sexual Politics," which condemned Freud along with many others for what she called his patriarchal bias against women. NYT > Home Page
  • But one or two questionable editorial decisions overshadowed good work elsewhere in the paper.
  • Phantasia steadied herself and made for the steps that led up to the main entrance, overshadowed by a large, dark canopy.
  • The relatively recent recognition of the Sun as the central star of the Solar System has elevated it to a position of supreme significance in modern astrology that has overshadowed the traditional importance of the Moon.
  • There was just enough dawn light to illuminate the retreating skin of water that shadowed each dead wave. A MEANS TO EVIL
  • Unfortunately, they're overshadowed by the recent trend which seems to derive its architectural aesthetics from Miami Beach drug dealer cribs and superpimp movies. Brownstoner
  • He was an unhappy loser living with his mother, also a pathetic depressive, always overshadowed by his stuntman brother Cisse (Robbie Cleiren). Fantastic Fest – Dirty Mind « Geek Related
  • His recent death overshadowed the family gathering.
  • A laminated floor glinted slightly at the edges, caught light, and a figure moved, shadowed, on the stage, his sabre also catching light.
  • Like his many other paintings of young people, the subject's eyes are moist, and in this case distinctly shadowed.
  • He read it: "Considerations concerning the alleged subterranean holophotal extemporaneousness of the conchyliaceous superimbrication of the Ornithorhyncus, as foreshadowed by the unintelligibility of its plesiosaurian anisodactylous aspects. Mark Twain`s speeches; with an introduction by William Dean Howells.
  • Alone in an immense, perfectly flat valley backing onto Mount Cook National Park, I played fugitive, spending my days stalking the brown trout that floated dead-center in the streams, arrogant and regal, unshadowed by man.
  • Her promising career was overshadowed by the doping scandal, when she was accused of taking a derivative of the steroid nandrolone.
  • The ballet slipper is a danseur's best friend but, in the hearts of ballerinas, it's been overshadowed by the pointe shoe.
  • We could see the shadowed outline of the fabled Mitsio Islands on the pink and orange line of the horizon as we ate.
  • Around me sat color in human flesh—brown that crimsoned readily; dim soft-yellow that escaped description; cream-like duskiness that shadowed to rich tints of autumn leaves. DARKWATER
  • On they went, and it led them straight to a great open dell, covered with the loveliest flowers, bordered with banks of wild strawberries, and all overshadowed by one enormous oak, whose like had never been seen in grove or forest. Granny's Wonderful Chair
  • The bridegroom overshadowed the bride in almost every way: he was the one looking like an oversized Jaffa, decked out in a bright orange suite with a gay, orange floral tie.
  • Some of your ideas were foreshadowed in the 1930s by Ronald Fisher's writings on the distastefulness of some insects.
  • The revolution foreshadowed an entirely new social order.
  • Ever since the fall of the monarchy executive power had nominally been vested in a council of ministers, but each minister was shadowed by a specialist committee of the Convention.
  • And then was she overshadowed [1954] by the enhypostatic Wisdom and Power of the most high God, the Son of God Who is of like essence with the Father as of Divine seed, and from her holy and most pure blood He formed flesh animated with the spirit of reason and thought, the first-fruits of our compound nature [1955]: not by procreation but by creation through the NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus
  • One day there came a note from the editor requiring me to write ten pages on this revolting text: "Considerations concerning the alleged subterranean holophotal extemporaneousness of the conchyliaceous superimbrication of the Ornithorhyncus, as foreshadowed by the unintelligibility of its plesiosaurian anisodactylous aspects. Mark Twain`s speeches; with an introduction by William Dean Howells.
  • He was an excellent player, but he was overshadowed by Jordan.
  • His business was overshadowed by fellow Italian designer Gianni Versace who made his name courting Hollywood starlets as clotheshorses for his provocative looks. For Roberto Cavalli,
  • This rip-roaring growth, however, has left other areas of archaeology totally overshadowed.
  • One day there came a note from the editor requiring me to write ten pages -- on this revolting text: "Considerations concerning the alleged subterranean holophotal extemporaneousness of the conchyliaceous superimbrication of the Ornithorhyncus, as foreshadowed by the unintelligibility of its plesiosaurian anisodactylous aspects. Mark Twain's Speeches
  • And yet, he'd just been diagnosed with consumption, an illness that had shadowed him for years prompting doctors to exile him from the harsh Muscovite winters.
  • Under a looming, shadowed, night-blue sky, the lower section of this drawing is demarcated on the left by a line of grungy, graffitied trucks parked behind a fence.
  • I found several stories, admittedly usually overshadowed by the tragic and heroic stories of Australian victims and survivors.
  • It is almost as large-minded and various as its outrageous creator, but will continue to be overshadowed by his legend. Pilgrim to Eros
  • There was no space for dwellers in these shadowed lanes to rush from their houses before our car, when warned by the “choof, choof” of the motor as we rattled over the “agony stones,” that something extraordinary was coming; but mothers shrieked for their offspring, while young girls hailed their friends to the free show; and men, women, and children jostled each other good-naturedly in every window and door as we approached, pouring out in our wake, though seemingly half afraid even then that the dragon might take to charging back upon them. The Car of Destiny
  • Their business was still overshadowed by private arrangements between individuals, and the commissariat was to hold sway in foreign exchange dealings until the 1830s.
  • In Travelling Companions is foreshadowed James’s later skill in the description of ancient landscape and architecture; in At Isella, his habit of rounding out a story from the most flying hint; and in The Sweetheart of Mr. Briseux, at least in patches, his smoothly ironical, dexterously enwinding style. Chapter 8. Henry James
  • He was small-minded enough to think that a subject overshadowed him, _nec pluribus impar_. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864
  • The city had monumental palace buildings constructed on a huge artificial stone terrace overshadowed by a fortified hill. EMPIRES OF THE PLAIN: Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon
  • But this dune isn't likely to be active anymore -- erosive processes have made the slip face on its far left side appear ragged, and the long shadowed cracks running along the dune's southern side away from the sun are probably caused by permafrost slowly deforming the dune. SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Lori Fenton -- Sand Seas of the Solar System
  • It was an anxiety so consuming that it overshadowed what actually happened once the war came.
  • Karen has always felt overshadowed by her famous elder sister.
  • A beginning beard faintly shadowed his chin and lean cheeks.
  • The reforms fade as he speaks of the dark designs of regional foes, while his guileful chief coalition partner, the burly, corruption-shadowed grand vizier, a rival for the political affection of the aristocracy, exploits long-simmering hatreds to push for a broad range of curbs on democratic freedoms. Bradley Burston: In Israel, the revolution has already begun
  • The conventual buildings are strung out along a narrow ridge above the water, supported but also overshadowed by solid rock.
  • The chanting stilled as the leader, face shadowed by a heavily gilded hood, stepped forward and began to intone a ritual in some indecipherable tongue.
  • The bitterly fought contest was also overshadowed by allegations of voting fraud. Times, Sunday Times
  • He was an excellent player, but he was overshadowed by Jordan.

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