And this suggests, in turn, that transubstantiation, far from demoting the bread's accidents to a lower, more
shadowlike existence, in fact renders them more fully and truly themselves than ever before.
The standard scan emits a broad beam that passes through the body before landing on film, casting
shadowlike images.
For enslaved women and boys, however, the
shadowlike humanity assigned to them by their masters meant that they had to negotiate complicated sexual encounters with the free in situations that underscored their servile status and lacked legal protection or recourse.
Far from the light of Him Vanish'd
shadowlike Gods & Goddesses, Leaving the terrible Pele alone, till Kapiolani Braving her priesthood Clomb the mountain, Dipt to the crater, Called on the Maker of Earth & of Heaven, and Into the flame-lake Flung the berries And crush'd the Demon Of Hawa-ee-ee.
A unique facet of Shehabi's detached lyricism is that the characters who populate this volume move in delicate gestures,
shadowlike and ephemeral, as in "Requiem for Arrival":
Whereas the female nude highlights the form's curves and outline, the veiled, cloaked bodies are silhouette,
shadowlike forms.
It is partly the lack of this knowledge--the possession of which would establish a ground of sympathy on the part of civilized men--that makes the Indian race so
shadowlike and unreal to our conception" (11:370-71).
The fire threw up figures And symbols meanwhile, racial myths formed and dissolved in it, the phantom rulers of humanity That without being are yet more real than what they are born of, and without shape, shape that which makes them: The nerves and the flesh go by
shadowlike, the limbs and the lives
shadowlike, these shadows remain, these shadows To whom temples, to whom churches, to whom labors and wars, visions and dreams are dedicate.
Shadowlike, evidently not all there, folly sometimes seems to be all we
Luan is keen for the surgery to happen as soon as possible, to rid her of the constant nagging doubts and, hopefully, to draw a line under her cancer experience, an experience which has hung over her
shadowlike all her life, even though she was unaware.