Sentences with phrase «shadowy world of»

«Inside a barn is a whole universe, with its own time zone and climate and ecosystem, a shadowy world of swirling dust illuminated in tiger stripes by light shining through the cracks between the boards.

There are far too many innocent, naïve consumers out there whose fiduciary and psychological interests need to be protected to be worried about the interests of miscreant (by design or by ignorance of the rules etc.) commissioned sales people who lurk in the shadowy world of deception and feigned ignorance as they build insincere trust relationships (the phoney - baloney professional rapport - builders) waiting to pull the emotional string for that next big commission cheque.

«The shadowy world of IPA finances,» ABC News, February 23, 2012.

All the better to see you withinvites us to delve into this shadowy world of ancient stories through the eyes of a diverse range of artists and art works.This major summer exhibition is presented across all three levels of the museum and is accompanied by a catalogue and public and education programs.

Featuring the work of renowned photographers Bill Brandt, Bob Collins, Brian Griffin, Tish Murtha, Tim Peake, Rut Blees Luxemburg, William Eckersley, Dougie Wallace and Nick Turpin whom will sit alongside lesser - known artists who explore the dreamy, threatening and shadowy world of London after the sun goes down.

A recently published book by Carol Bradley, Saving Gracie: How one dog escaped the shadowy world of American puppy mills, is a captivating assessment of the problems with U.S. puppy mills and a heartfelt account of one dog's journey through rescue and rehabilitation.

Dare to enter Dr. Lee's shadowy world of back alley births and medical torture created by the underbelly of society.

A story about the shadowy world of short - term traders and the largest insider trading investigation in history involving Steven A. Cohen and his hedge fund, SAC Capital.

Is Maria an unreliable narrator, or has she been the subject of an elaborate clandestine project, plunged unwittingly into the shadowy world of covert intrigue?

Geoff Manaugh's mad genius thrill - ride, A Burglar's Guide to the City, is the most fun you'll ever have learning about architecture, city planning and the shadowy world of burglary.

Seventy years later, amid the shadowy world of art dealers who profit off the sins of previous generations, Jack gives a necklace to his granddaughter, Natalie Stein, and charges her with searching for an unknown woman - a woman whose portrait and fate come to haunt Natalie, a woman whose secret may help Natalie to understand the guilt her grandfather will take to his grave and to find a way out of the mess she has made of her own life.

Correspondent Ahmed Rashid brings the shadowy world of the Taliban into sharp focus in this enormously interesting and revealing book.

It would be about the slow convergence of many forces at work in our education system, including the shadowy world of deep pocketed oligarchs who leverage astonishing sums of money into even more astonishing influence regardless of the people's will.

In Michael Clayton, however, what little bluster there is occurs away from the courtroom, in a shadowy world of corporate greed.

In the shadowy world of drone warfare, combat unfolds like a video game — only with real lives at stake.

The opening hour ingeniously draws you into the shadowy world of David Haller (Dan Stevens), a troubled young man haunted by voices and visions.

Two young documentary filmmakers are drawn into a shadowy world of secret societies when the subject of their film simply disappears.

It all becomes part of the shadowy world of corruption and violence and psychopathic criminals.

Agent will take a player across the globe amidst the shadowy world of espionage and assassins in the darkest hours of the late 1970s.

This wicked political drama penetrates modern Washington D.C.'s shadowy world of greed, sex, and corruption.

It's easy to see why the dark and shadowy world of film noir remains an attractive avenue for filmmaking.

We need to look carefully at what this light has uncovered — from the shadowy world of gangs to opportunities for work and training that young people need.

In the shadowy world of the mystery novel, nothing is ever quite what it appears to be, including...

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As in my own world, so in all others, lives were spent in pursuit of shadowy ends that remained ever lust around the corner.

In the sixteenth century astronomy, in the seventeenth century microbiology, in the eighteenth geology and paleontology, in the nineteenth Darwin's biology all grotesquely extended the world - frame and sent churchmen scurrying for cover in ever smaller, shadowy nooks, little gloomy ambiguous caves in the psyche where even now neurology is cruelly harrying them, gouging them out of the multifolded brain like wood lice from under a lumber pile.

My suggestions are born not only of theoretical musing, but also of my nearly fifteen years of practical experience evangelizing nones, atheists, agnostics, and seekers who dwell in the shadowy but fascinating space of the virtual world, our version of Paul's Areopagus.

And after all we had seen with World Vision in Bolivia that week, this statue of Jesus, though beautiful, seemed so still and so removed from the people below, looming over a city where hunger, abuse, poverty, and despair still hide in shadowy corners.

In opting for swimming, Kiki chose perhaps the toughest of disciplines: long hours of arm - heavy laps in the practice pool, where the only view is a shadowy blue blur that may be another swimmer or one's own imagination; the greedy slap and gurgle of arms (reach, grab, recover, reach, as the late Matt Mann rationalized it); the ring around the eyeballs, endemic to the competitive swimmer, caused by chlorine, which makes the whole wide world glow with halos on the way home from practice.

This shadowy gathering of world leaders - academics, bankers, company bosses and politicians - has been meeting annually since 1954 for cosy off - the - record chit - chats about the affairs that affect us all.

In the world of fiction, the lobbyist is a shadowy figure; a hired gun manipulating politicians with fat brown envelopes stuffed full of cash.

Most come from a single NASA mission, the Kepler space telescope, which found thousands of worlds by watching for their shadowy «transits» as they periodically flit across the faces of their stars.

And to get the lay of this shadowy publishing landscape, I would have to replicate the experiment across the entire open - access world.

That's the case with Amanda Seyfried's shadowy title character Anon, who is off the grid in a world where you can learn all of someone's information just by looking at them.

Snake's war against a shadowy organization controlling the world, known as the Patriots, uses its near - future technology to ask questions about personal freedom, the role of technology in our society as a tool to aid or even control us, even how media can influence and even trick us (a major role in the post-modern technological shit - show of a tale that is Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, which attempts to tackle the power of information as a memetic tool of control).

In The Home and the World, the director places his multifaceted characters within rich, shadowy compositions — many crucial scenes play out in candlelit interiors — and tells their story with a growing sense of impending doom.

The density of the source material provides ample substance for Corbijn, who constructs a stifling world of shadowy surveillance and intersecting national interests, building on the sense of moral and emotional exhaustion familiar from previous Le Carré adaptations.

Marvel's «Thor: The Dark World» Continues The Big - Screen Adventures Of Thor, The Mighty Avenger, As He Battles To Save Earth And All The Nine Realms From A Shadowy Enemy That Predates The Universe Itself.

Sure, he may not seem like the typical neo-Nazi at first glance but, with the exception of the occasional henchman whose suspicions are instantly rejected, he is welcomed into the shadowy world with surprising ease.

His realm is the dank and shadowy antithesis to the fairy world of light and laughter.

Film Synopsis: Marvel's «Thor: The Dark World» continues the big - screen adventures of Thor, the Mighty Avenger, as he battles to save Earth and all the Nine Realms from a shadowy enemy that predates the universe itself.

Once he begins to delve deeper into the building's sinister history and investigate its shadowy owners and past employees, Brett soon uncovers a malevolent force nestled deep in the bowels of the building that will do anything to be set free into our world.

We had an opportunity to sit down with two of the stars of the Veronica Roth novel adaptation, Maggie Q, who plays shadowy tattoo artist Tori, and Mekhi Phifer, who dons a badass black jacket as Max, the leader of Dauntless, one of five factions that make up the world of Divergent.

On the trail of a missing friend who had been experimenting with mind - altering drugs, a young journalist is drawn into a dangerous world of shadowy government chemical - research programs.

Cinematographer Sean Bobbitt («Shame») emphasizes the sharp redness of blood in an otherwise shadowy world often tinted by yellows and greys, while Javier Navarrete's downbeat orchestral score roots the story in the baroque traditions of the period from which the two lead characters hail.

How Heineman figured out his two vigilante protagonists on either side of the border, and his willingness to plunge with his tiny crew into dangerous situations yielded a remarkable portrait of two complex and charismatic characters (one American, one Mexican) worthy of a Hollywood action movie, and a shadowy underground world we do not usually get to see.

Marvel's «Thor: The Dark World» continues the big - screen adventures of Thor, the Mighty Avenger, as he battles to save Earth and all the Nine Realms from a shadowy enemy that predates the universe itself.

At the end of the film, a shadowy gun - runner played by Bradley Cooper states that he loves his business because of the lack of women, but even that feels like a cheap way to explain away fifty per - cent of the world's population.

Beaten, bruised and betrayed by their friend, the team reunites under the direction of shadowy government agent Mr. Nobody (Kurt Russell) and is forced to work alongside former adversary Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham), who has his own history with the notorious hacker and wants revenge, in order to track down Dom and Cipher and prevent them from starting World War III.

Once he begins to delve deep into the building's sinister history and investigate its shadowy owners and past employees, Brett soon uncovers a malevolent force nestled deep in the bowels of the building in the basement that will do anything to be set free into our world.»

This eventually leads them to the Tarsus Club, a shadowy secret society of some of the world's most rich and powerful.