Sentences with phrase «mere shadows»

But many of these local county courthouse libraries are mere shadows of their former selves, with only a minimal print collection, not always access to centrally - subscribed digital resources such as Lexis / Quicklaw, Westlaw or Hein, and staffed by a librarian only part - time if at all.

Gary found old photographs of glaciers from the 1800's and early 1900's and then traveled to those places and photographed what they looked like now — mere shadows of themselves.

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

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

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

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.

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).

It is sometimes thought that a man can become free also in those spheres that differ from this sublime «I», and which are governed by such powers as nature, the state and so forth, and that he can do this by giving up opposition and regarding them as indifferent; that he becomes free by detaching himself from them be - cause he realizes that they are mere shadows and quite unimportant.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

(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.

He criticized low admissions standards; curriculums that «lack coherence and connections to the work that's actually done in the field»; clinical programs devoted to mere shadowing of practitioners, whether they are successful or not; «watered - down» dissertations with little connection to practice; and a pervasive race among teachers to acquire credit for leadership courses, and thus boost their salaries, without any interest in actually assuming positions of greater authority.

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.

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.

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.

Series such as Banjo Kazooie, Spyro the Dragon and Crash Bandicoot have either died out completely or live on as a mere shadow of their former selves.

Untitled (soot on glass)(1990) stands away from the wall as if there should be something other than a mere shadow behind it, perhaps a metaphor for all history.

The Win10 Start menu is a mere shadow of the Win7 panoply.

Not exact matches

Yet that metaphor of the mirror is too Platonic, because God's epiphany in the world is not through mere surface shadows, but is in the coming to be, development, and passing away to make room for novelty of primary natural units, each of which truly exists and acts in its own right and according to its own nature and structure for its time, and interacts with other units in a process of mutual actualization and eventual replacement.

If our words are nothing but kitsch, mere pleasantries, we miss the shadows, the ugliness — and didn't Luther teach us that God is hidden not in the glorious, shiny glitz, but in the darkness?

But mind is the substance, and mere behavior, in the sense of spatio - temporal change, is the shadow, the skeletal outline only, the causal geometry, of nature.

This shaping goes on at a level that is invisible to us and we must exit our caves, as it were, to realize that what we see in our technology as a mere means is shadows on a cave wall one step removed from the invisible reality that exists outside the cave.

It takes a thicket of ball screens to pry Holiday's mark loose, all of which buys mere seconds — often in the shadow of Anthony Davis's help.

The mere fact that his shadow hovers over the land riles evil workers to no end.

Physicist Brian Greene explains how properties at the black hole's surface — its event horizon — suggest the unsettling theory that our world is a mere representation of another universe, a shadow of the realm where real events take place.

«I» was not mere light and shadow, «I» was... what?

The surreal, dream - like world of Little Nightmares, with its grotesque inhabitants and disturbing set pieces painted in deep shadows and distorted lightning, is too similar to those fantastic movies to be a mere coincidence.

The village of Mkuze is a mere 18 km's from the entrance gate to the Mkuze Reserve, in the shadow of the Ubombo Mountain...

Artyom now has a handy indicator on his wrist which lets him know when he's hidden from sight and when he's not, making sneaking through the shadows feel considerably smoother as you pass by guards mere inches away, unscrew lightbulbs and create distractions.

There's a palpable sense of dread when playing as a thug because you know that out there in the shadows somewhere Batman is waiting for you, creating a tense atmosphere as you shuffle around the map trying to get on with things while keeping a wary eye out for the merest hint of a cape.

The mere fact that something might be lurking in the shadows, and that something is a woeful alien gives you chills.