Sentences with phrase «pale shadow of»

It remains to be seen if some observers are correct in stating Mr. Dean's aggressive presentation at CREA is a pale shadow of what may come.

January saw the total market capitalization of cryptocurrency rise to $ 830 billion, a feat which since fallen to a pale shadow of itself.

They also cause massive distortions in the criminal justice system, leaving it a pale shadow of this nation's ideals.

[1] It is a pale shadow of the average European national healthcare system, and it is clearly not what can have been meant by «comprehensive sickness insurance».

I've written off and on about research revealing that ocean resources today are a pale shadow of the extraordinary abundance of just a few generations ago, and I touch on this theme again in a Science Times feature this week on new maps of human impacts on the sea.

In considering the impact from Irene and other modern storms, it's important to note remarkable research, published in 2002, that shows through studies of flood - scoured sediment in lake beds in Vermont and other Northeastern states that what seems phenomenally intense today is a pale shadow of what can happen in the region.

Today's RA summer exhibition is a pale shadow of what was then a spectacular social occasion at Somerset House in London, where artistic reputations were made and broken.

Less interesting is the addition of animated cutscenes to career mode, which now seems like a pale shadow of FIFA's story driven mode: The Journey.

HoMM IV was considered a pale shadow of HoMM III (still considered by many to be one of the finest turn - based strategy games of all time).

This feels like the pale shadow of a Ratchet & Clank game, from the gunplay to the RPG progression to the level design to the artwork to the unlockables.

It's a pale shadow of the real thing, of course, but games like Forza give us a chance to see what these cars handle like, to hear the roar of their engine, and to be the one making the tyres squeal in protest.

I have not read Permanent Midnight, but based on what I've read about it, the film is a pale shadow of what is said to be a work that is quite harrowing and even funny.

by Walter Chaw Yôko Kanno's soundtrack for Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (hereafter Cowboy Bebop) is a jubilant a blend of funk, jazz, blues, soul, and punk that soars even though it's a pale shadow of the «bebop» innovated by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, and Bud Powell (and Kenny Clarke and Max Roach) in Minton's Playhouse in the early 1940s.

He showed a brief spark in 2008 with his Spanish installment, «Vicky Cristina Barcelona,» but the aging director is sadly less than a pale shadow of the auteur / performer who enthralled audiences in the «70s, «80s, and even the early «90s with masterful comedies such as «Annie Hall,» «Crimes and Misdemeanors,» and «Husbands and Wives.»

(Brook's 1966 film adaptation of this intensely theatrical play is a pale shadow of the original.)

So it's kind of a miracle the movie is as watchable as it is, even though it's still a pale shadow of Brosnan's inaugural GoldenEye.

Micheal Keaton was a good stand in for Ronnie Cox, but Patrick Garrow was a pale shadow of the gleefully malevolent Kurtwood Smith.

Also hampered, for those that saw it in 48 fps, by the shiny, overlit, hyperreality of Jackson's much - touted high frame rate, «Unexpected Journey» is the best of the «Hobbit» films, but still only a pale shadow of its high - watermark forbear.

The current version, however, is but a pale shadow of Welles» original concept.

The spin of the strongest tornado is a pale shadow of the vortex seen at the heart of matter colliding into a nearly perfect...

From historical accounts it is clear that today's oceans are a pale shadow of their former glory.

There are fears that the result of a merger of the British Antarctic Survey and National Oceanography Centre will be a pale shadow of its predecessors

Zero, of course, he reserved for the temperature of ice mixed with salt, almost as if the physical laws by which men lived their lives were but a pale shadow of that deeper truth: the recipe for a truly kicky margarita.

The Manhattan machine is a pale, pale, pale shadow of what it was in the Tammany era, but the boss losing his home borough is never a pretty sight, even if it is by fewer than 300 votes.

In terms of numbers, unions are a pale shadow of their heyday.

, a PM who can recognise spoof economics when he sees it, and an Opposition (post-New Labour) bold enough to develop radical policies that are not just a pale shadow of the Tory conventional wisdom.

The robust and passionate social liberals of the past, from John Stuart Mill to L.T. Hobhouse and David Lloyd George, were well aware of this, but twenty - first century liberalism is a pale shadow of the liberalism of their day.

All of my last paragraph is based on the sad fact that a once great club is a pale shadow of itself, despite it's fanatical and loyal support.

Pre-season training and the increasingly commercial and lucrative tours that clubs like Arsenal go on may be just a pale shadow of the competitive action of the Premier League and the domestic and European cup competitions, but it is still very important for a number of reasons.

Even as a pale shadow of himself, he ran 44.7 and added two meters to the U.S. lead.

«Yet such mercy is a pale shadow of the shocking mercy that propelled Jesus to earth and to the cross.

But the similarity of our existence to God's does not prescind from the «infinite» distance between necessary Creator and contingent creature, our existence being but a pale shadow of His.

He discovers that church buildings are now regarded as museums and the Anglican Church in Britain a pale shadow of its former life, with the recent General Synod held in a back room of the Rose and Crown and Tooting.

At 153 pages, it's a pale shadow of previous budget bills.

If you only have babies to sell, make sure to at least have photos of the adults, and preferably the snakes» actual parents, as the babies tend to be pale shadows of the beauty that a little growth and time will bring.

Too many classic franchises have come back, only to be pale shadows of their former selves with all that made them great ripped out.

And these games weren't to be pale shadows of the series like Other M or Federation Force: they were as Metroid as Metroid gets, with a remake of the second game in the series and a long (long) awaited sequel to Metroid Prime 3.

It wasn't that the people in London were pale shadows of something else — they were just different.

For better or worse, icon packs are still the best option for a consistent app drawer, and Samsung Themes» icon packs are pale shadows of their former selves, being vastly inferior to their Google Play versions.

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Acquiring Big Machine Records would likely bolster the ephemeral app's fledgling music video library, which already includes licks from Shakira, Jack Ü and Cash Cash — all of whom would pale in the sparkly shadow of T - Swizzle, if you ask us.

From afar it had appeared to him, quite small, gliding over the sand, no bigger than the palm of a child's hand — as a pale, fleeting shadow like a wavering flight of quail over the blue sea before sunrise or a cloud of gnats dancing in the sun at evening or a whirlwind of dust at midday sweeping over the plain.

A child of 5, looking for sand crabs and starfish at low water, works his toes into the wet sand and bends over his little black hunting shadow in an attitude that is timeless, and when a full - grown and city - bred man, pale and desk - ridden, takes off his shoes and walks with the child, his shambling gesture repeats, atavistically, that of the child.

Another former Conservative cabinet minister and ex-MP, David Mellor, was even more scathing, describing the Tories under Cameron as «this pale sad shadow of what the Tory party used to be» and warning that it was «ripping itself apart now because of the sense that David Cameron is a prisoner of Nick Clegg and the Lib Dems».

Those problems paled, however, beside the shadow cast over the program by the loss of 14 astronauts in two catastrophic incidents.

But in this video you say you can not base your diet on fruits because they are a «pale shadow» of what they should be.

Think of it as if you're taking inspiration from the bare twigs that brush up against your windows, or the way the leaves play in the shadows of the pale winter light.

Once the initial application was dry, she layered the Prime shade, a pearlescent pale - tone, to the middle of the eyelids and followed with the Smoke shadow atop that, all while making sure to expertly blend the shadows to outer corners to softly diffuse the whole look together.

Neutral shadow, a cat - eye liner application (always black), mascara, a touch of bronzer and blush, tinted BB cream, concealer when needed, and either a pale pink lustre lipstick or bold lip stain, depending on my outfit / mood.

The eight eye shadows in this palette inch seamlessly from pale champagne to rich espresso; half of them are shimmery, the other half matte.

Your neck is in a perpetual shadow, so it tends to be a bit paler than the rest of your face.