Sentences with phrase «like penumbra»

That the doppelgänger is often seen as a shadow is apposite here as each of these figures is attended by a wraith - like penumbra, a reworked and almost erased outline that prevails behind the manifest image.

Not exact matches

Private schools, and charters, don't enjoy the independence from proof of performance that districts, largely, enjoy and once they're out from under the performance penumbra cast by school districts they'll take to performance measurement schemes like a duck to water union resistance or not.

Her grief has some sort of penumbra, like an aura, and I'm caught in it, in some hidden and corresponding sadness in myself.