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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

"These are individuals whose careers so far have been hitched to soccer. So thinking about how they navigate the variability of a kind of shadowy ecosystem of the digital media economy is curious."

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

A man representing Schlesinger, dressed in white slacks, polished loafers and a dark pinkish-red blazer stands at the edge of the pool, near its shadowy edges, staring down at the swimmer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

It didn’t have black wings, a whip made out of stars, and a shadowy chariot pulled by vampire horses.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

Had he had the shadowiest suspicion of my plans, of the true inwardness of the Croffut-Dominick movement, he would as readily have offered me his own head.

From The Plum Tree by E. M. Ashe

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 Richard Le Gallienne

Lennox remains for us the shadowiest of personalities, but his disappearance, implying abandonment of the woman he had compromised, tells against him.

From Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties by Edmund B. d'Auvergne

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 Edith Birkhead