Sentences with phrase «mere shadow»

The four main characters here aren't mere shadows of the ones from the original film and its sequel.

By the time 12 months pass, they are mere shadows of their former selves.

The death of Christ, therefore, is the point at which history becomes fully real, exhibiting no longer mere shadows, but «the very image of realities (x. i).

If we allow, the social media machines will infiltrate our lives with more stimulation than we can possibly process, and our connections to ourselves and those around us will be left with mere shadows and caricatures of who and what they once were.

But, he added, «the great industrial research institutes such as Bell Labs are now mere shadows of their former glory.»

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales may be predictable, and the good parts of this movie mere shadows of the best parts of the first flick, but dammit if I didn't have fun.

``... henceforth, space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union between the two will preserve an independent reality.»

Little Miss Sunshine feels like a «safe» version of quirky film, whereby the characters» wacky actions are mere shadows of what could have been.

Today's Fortune 500 list is a mere shadow of what it was in 1995.

Yes I realize the AFB and everyone else has a formula to balanced budgets, but with corporate taxes a mere shadow of what the were some 20 years ago, it will take a whole pile of growth or it will tax some major tax reform to keep the books out of the red and push into the black.

Today it's a mere shadow of its former self.

The physical universe is not a mere shadow, it is a drama of billions of actors, some minute, blindly moving atoms, some living plants and moving animals, and some intelligent body - persons enacting an evolutionary history whose scenario still remains open to the future.

I searched for new ways of gaining value, but for the most part, they were mere shadows of the dreams I held before, like a tree that had become a power line pole.

Time is but the moving imitation of eternity.15 Things in time are impermanent because they are mere shadows and copies of the unchanging ideas.

In Islamic pantheism the phenomenal world is reduced to a mere shadow of reality, and God is regarded as the only real Being who is the ultimate ground of all that was, is, and will be.

They emphasize the fact that Christendom within the countries of the west is a mere shadow of its former self.

They seem unable to remember, or to accept, that their freedom of religion also extends to all others — as pure freedom, not as the mere shadow of liberty we call «toleration.»

If I did not know better I would swear Wenger was trying to leave a mere shadow of the great Arsenal teams to his successor.

Instead, the club's hierarchy were forced to hold out hope that he could one day return to full fitness and be something more than a mere shadow of his former self.

Laurent Koscielny is just a mere shadow of his former self of the 2011 - 12 season.

So here I stand a mere shadow of my former self.

Obuah advised the governor to engage his time in solving the myriad of problems he had allegedly foisted on Imo people that had allegedly turned Imo State to a mere shadow of its glorious past.

Republicans say they will not support the CEP in its current incarnation, which Senate President Pro Tem Len Fasano, of North Haven, called «a mere shadow of the original bill,» and one that is «no longer an effective tool in keeping elections clean.»

To turn his suggestion on its head, reality — not its mere shadow — may take place on a distant boundary surface, while everything we witness in the three common spatial dimensions is a projection of that faraway unfolding.

Sheri's death, and the way she died, left her parents — a Montessori teacher and a small - business man — «mere shadows of the people they used to be,» Naveen says.

In other words, the accepted wisdom on pumpkin seeds and acne is a mere shadow of the truth.

While not being a bad tactics game, Jagged Alliance Back in Action is a mere shadow of JA2, with lots of problems ranging from horrible controls, awful character images, removal of almost all tactial - map features and more.

Story, character behavior, quests and minigames are a mere shadow of the studio's former glory.

A mere shadow and parody of his former self, Depp does a lame regurgitation of his Captain Jack Sparrow tics, from the on - cue bewildered expressions to the bumbling, yet charmingly efficient, mannerisms.

Justice League is rushed and ramshackle, modestly entertaining but a mere shadow of the film it could have been.

Apart from Croft herself the other characters are mere shadows of real people.

Its free - form structure is fun and does allow for the characters to show off more than their chiseled physiques, but the movie is still a mere shadow of the original.

«We've become our parents,» he regretfully tells our hero, and the movie itself inadvertently reflects that attitude — a mere shadow of its potential, stuck in a past it doesn't want to acknowledge in any meaningful way and simply going through the present motions.

(Note: the laserdisc incorrectly listed the isolated mono track as a stereo music & sound effects mix; the DVD merely replicates the same mono music stems, though it's still a mere shadow of Mark Isham's marvelous, and still unreleased, music score.)

On the other, it's depressing to find the series becoming a mere shadow of its former self.

Once a noted guru thanks to his successful first book, a cancelled television show, a failed marriage, and now, a second self - financed publication have whittled away the reputed personality to a mere shadow of his former self.

As it wavers between engaging in its anarchy and overextending its welcome, The World's End raises plenty of smiles — but, like the film itself, most are a mere shadow of those already seen.

For many Olds fans, the car was a disappointment, a mere shadow of what the Cutlass used to be.

Travel writer first and photographer second, Trimble aims to capture the moments in travel where you feel small, a mere shadow on the Earth's grand scale.

The older LEGO instalments, although released on the same generation of console, are mere shadows of what The Clone Wars development team have managed to design.

Today, Konami is a mere shadow of their former self.

In any case it's very clear that these remakes are a mere shadow of their former PS2 versions.

Not because your idea isn't good but because your idea is a mere shadow of a finished game and no one can tell if that game will be fun or not.

But some complained that it was a mere shadow of Lara Croft's original adventure.

The shiny new hardware that emerges into the wild might carry high hopes and higher price tags, but it inevitably launches with a games library that's a mere shadow of the consoles it hopes to replace.