Sentences with phrase «pale shadows»

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

, 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Ben Russell's documentary is a thought - provoking snapshot of humanity reduced to a pale shadow by economic discontent.

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

As hard as it tries to capture that blend of domestic comedy and paternal angst that made its predecessor a classic, it is still a pale shadow and a barely passable Steve Martin vehicle.

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.

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

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.

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

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.»

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.

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.

Its predecessor Clover Trail (Intel Atom Z2 series) is a pale shadow compared to Bay Trail in terms of raw grunt and the power is down too.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

The looping spiral charcoal drawings on the wall and plates of desiccated fruit and cheese give a viewer some clues as to what took place there, but are a pale shadow compared to the eerie spectacle of Chopra's performance.

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.

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.

[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».

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

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

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.

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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.

The sun was strong, the sky blue, and the gnarled Sichuan pepper trees cast sharp shadows on the pale dirt.

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.