Sentences with phrase «shadow over the proceedings»

It's no coincidence that Disney World, a Mecca of childhood joy and imagination, casts a long shadow over the proceedings.

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After all, the New Testament itself only directly refers to emperors in a few places, even if they do seem to cast a long shadow over some of its proceedings, albeit from the wings, as in Acts (where, in the final chapters, Nero appears to be something like Godot, often talked about but never putting in an appearance).

The specter of a Yasiel Puig home run, of a Morton collapse in the eighth inning that forced Justin Verlander to come in to pitch in relief, another Clayton Kershaw slip, a base running mistake by the Astros that cost them the game, an outfielder suddenly hallucinating Winnie Pooh and all his friends and therefore missing an easy pop fly, that all hung over the proceedings like a shadow universe.

An indescribable sense of foreboding looms over proceedings, and no matter whether the setting is filled with light or drenched in shadows, we constantly bear witness to a sparse and empty world.