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In his desire to portray Adrian’s immersion in parasocial worlds filled with shadowy, destructive figures, McElwee’s own perspective was equally one-sided.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026

At times, the record has the shadowy atmosphere of a Daniel Lanois production.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

The drama is thought to be an homage to the film noir style - a hallmark in Hollywood during the 1940s and 1950s, with its shadowy looks and gritty plots.

From BBC ● May 27, 2026

With street lights off, residents walked home through shadowy neighbourhoods while cinemas that usually buzz with late screenings stayed dark.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

Natalie stood in the shadowy doorway and waved them in.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Shadowy organizations lurk in the shadows of other shadowier organizations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2025

If that weren’t enough, I was just introduced to an even shadowier cabal of villains who are controlling the people who control the colonies.

From The Verge ● Jul. 26, 2022

Angleton had, in effect, weaponized this strategy of interpretation—convinced that any apparently straightforward reference in the world in fact meant something shadowier than it seemed to.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 26, 2019

Toward the end of the book, we find out where the narrator has been imprisoned, who the shadowy Commandant is, and why everyone is afraid of an even shadowier character known as the Commissar.

From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2015

The anarchist and critic Félix Fénéon, one of the shadowiest mavericks of turn-of-the-century France, was sometimes described by his artist friends as a Yankee—a term intended to give him a dangerous gloss of American exoticism.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 3, 2014

The characters are rather dim and indistinct, the shadowiest of all being Emma, who has no personality at all, and is a mere complement to the immaculate Edmund's happiness.

From The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance by Birkhead, Edith

I trust I do not seem even in the shadowiest way to comment unfavourably.

From The Head of the House of Coombe by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

The higher objects of Government were, if at all, outlined in the shadowiest form in his imagination.

From Ginx's Baby: his birth and other misfortunes; a satire by Jenkins, Edward

And it is not quite accurate to say that it had no memory for him, for he brought with him one of that very miller's daughter, though, indeed, it was of the shadowiest silver.

From The Book-Bills of Narcissus An Account Rendered by Richard Le Gallienne by Le Gallienne, Richard