Sentences with phrase «shadowy worlds»

As he tracks down the pieces of Lev Nussimbaum's deliberately obscured life, Reiss discovers a series of shadowy worlds — of European pan-Islamists, nihilist assassins, anti-Nazi book smugglers, Baku oil barons, Jewish Orientalists — that have also been forgotten.

It is in this shadowy world that we thrive.

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

The Hugo Young Papers illuminate the bizarre and shadowy world that lies between politics and the media.

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.

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

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

Light Fall's premise lends itself to running free across a shadowy world, but how well does Bishop Games live up to this potential?

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Now Darren's been immersed into a shadowy world inhabited by vampires, werewolves, and strange creatures the likes of which he's never imagined, and his life will be changed forever!

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

Into this shadowy world steps Garrett, THE master thief in a first - person adventure featuring intelligent design that allows players to take full control, with freedom to choose their path through the game's levels and how they approach and overcome each challenge.»

Xbox One owners now have a chance to explore this game's haunting, shadowy world for themselves.

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.

This black world is, of course, not meant to be seen, so Paglen, trained as both an artist and a geographer, deploys an array of tactics - from data analysis and on - the - ground exploration to long - distance photography and astronomy - to map this shadowy world.

Entitled «Der Wald», the German word for the forest, the exhibition evokes a shadowy world in which horrifying acts go unchallenged.

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.

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

KILLING GAMES ~ Wildlife In The Crosshairs, Project Coyote's documentary film exposing this shadowy world, is helping to increase awareness about the horrors of these events, what can be done to stop them, and how organizations and individuals can get involved in our national campaign to end this practice.

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.

«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.

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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.

The real world lies for us in such constructs, not in the shadowy things - in - themselves....

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.

Epidemics followed the Spanish arrival in the New World, but the worst killer may have been a shadowy native — a killer that could still be out there.

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.