• Maybe it was the shadows on his face, but it looked like he was laughing.

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  • The moon is full and the clouds scudding across its surface cast blue shadows on the snow.

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  • In his parable, prisoners are chained in a cave and only perceive the world as shadows on the wall.

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  • Over the summer, he kept returning to the cave to marvel at the dance of the shadows on the walls.

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  • He saw mountains casting shadows on the moon and realised this body was a world, like the Earth, endowed with complicated terrain.

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  • Spots of yellow-white sun trembled in brown tree-shadows on the lake-edge.

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  • Sunlight shines through the paper in the sliding doors, casting latticework shadows on the tatami mat floor in the room where Hiroko Harada arranges the tools of her art: paper, brush, ink and inkstone.

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  • Kauzlarich is an optimist who greets every day in gritty eastern Baghdad with the phrase "all is good, " even as the deaths and crippling injuries suffered by his troops cast shadows on the mantra.

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  • He did some fine, if bleak, landscapes too, but it was the interiors that sold in his lifetime, and he is best remembered for paintings of the sun shining through curtainless window-panes, casting shadows on carpetless floors.

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  • It was "eye floaters, " microscopic grey globs that cast shadows on the retina, that inspired California Institute of Technology professor Changhuei Yang to create a lensless microscope that aims to change the way scientists go about diagnosing diseases and developing new drugs--for a fraction of the cost.

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  • It was "eye floaters, " microscopic grey globs that cast shadows on the retina, that inspired California Institute of Technology professor Changhuei Yang to create a lensless microscope that aims to change the way scientists go about diagnosing diseases and developing new drugs--for a fraction of the cost of a conventional microscope.

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  • Days that we have 60 or 70, we break it down where we have "hero" makeups, which are features, and "midground" makeups, which are paint jobs, where we paint highlights and shadows on their faces to make them look dead, but they're not intended to get too close to the camera.

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  • Bach toured the heavily damaged Mountain Shadows subdivision on Thursday.

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  • Since the ban, the bugs have boomed, emerging from the shadows to prey on the warm bodies of unsuspecting travellers across the world.

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  • "How Does the Grass Grow, " which is built on the Shadows' 1960 instrumental "Apache, " is static, despite a brief interlude in which Mr. Bowie croons romantically.

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  • That would enable physicists to see whether the number of high-energy positrons matches the theory's expectation and thus, appropriately, use shadows to cast light on the existence of dark matter.

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  • If the animals saw their shadows, winter would go on for another six weeks, and they could go back to sleep, according to the tradition.

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  • Bassist Steve Swallow appears along with the famously dynamic drummer Barry Altschul, whose metric looseness shadows of rhythm that land on and around the pulse draws comparison to the Bley drummer who recorded the tune first, Paul Motian.

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  • However, police experts noticed the shadows in Moore's driveway on the CCTV were too long for February.

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  • The journey took an hour and a half, and as we clipped across the choppy waves, pale shadows of land grew ever darker on the horizon.

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  • At such times, the house would close in around her, dark, damp, utterly still, and yet busy with the echoes and memories of those who had gone before, generation upon generation of Lowes, all dark-eyed and stocky and taciturn, watching her from the shadows, listening when she spoke on the phone: listening, watching, judging.

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  • Austria does not use them, on the grounds that the shadows cast by very mountainous terrain sometimes make satellite images inaccurate.

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  • Apart from the Australian cast and some Indonesian military figures, the other leading characters are left largely undeveloped and appear on the page as mere shadows.

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  • It almost makes me wonder if he was set loose on Gotham by the League of Shadows.

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  • He dreamed of footsteps crunching on the driveway gravel, of shadows in the pre-dawn darkness, of a gun-toting police squad bursting through his backdoor at 5 am.

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  • The report calls for special advisers to become more involved in the work of their departments and to emerge from the shadows, with their names and roles published on departmental websites.

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  • This way, the walls not only provide a dramatic backdrop for the gold and silver items on show but also evoke the shadows of a crypt or the inner sanctum of some great cathedral.

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  • That's why the only thing that will work on this is to address what is going on in our borders, what is going on in our workplaces, and what is going on in and out of the shadows.

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  • There's also an engaging image of the rooftop bar at the Ravel Hotel in Long Island City, where, based on the sparse crowd, long shadows and two female servers in little black dresses chatting idly, the evening cocktail hour is just getting going.

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  • Bombay's gangsters have traditionally operated in the shadows, shying away from high-profile assaults on members of the public.

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