" Future noir films such as Blade Runner, Twelve Monkeys, Dark City, and Children of Men use a protagonist who is "... increasingly dubious, alienated and fragmented ", at once " dark and playful like the characters in Gibson ’ s Neuromancer ", yet still with the "... shadow of Philip Marlowe ..."

Like the novel on which it is based, The Lord of the Rings is the story of an epic struggle against the Dark Lord Sauron of Mordor, the primary villain of the work, who created a Ruling Ring to control the nineteen Rings of Power, and an alliance of heroes who join forces to save the world from falling under his shadow.

* Twilight: Mistress of the Dark – A superheroine with shadow powers.

However, in the anime, after Yugi defeats Marik, a brief montage of all the souls Marik had banished is seen, with the souls escaping the shadow realm, including Dark Bakura, who snickers a mocking " thank you " to Yugi.

Its inhabitants await the day when a certain prophecy will be fulfilled, and the Dark Monk, the shadow god, will emerge and restore Zeelich.

The shadow of the first Dark Lord brought with it a perversion of the original intent of the Gift of Ilúvatar, and brought fear out of hope, and tainted the Gift.

A single Maiden approached a group of Tinkers to pass on a message as she lay dying that The Dark One intended to break the Wheel of Time and make the Eye of the World serve the shadow.

In optics, an Arago spot, Fresnel bright spot, or Poisson spot is a bright point that appears at the center of a circular object's shadow due to Fresnel diffraction.

Sauron finally appears as a gigantic shadow trying to reach out for the armies of men, but is now powerless and is blown away by a wind.

In " the Bridge of Khazad-dûm " in The Fellowship of the Ring, the Balrog appears " like a great shadow, in the middle of which was a dark form, of man-shape maybe, yet greater ".

He appears in Dante's Inferno in the lowest circle of Hell, set apart for traitors: " him who, at one blow, had chest and shadow / shattered by Arthur's hand ;" ( Canto XXXII ).

In W. G. Sebald's novel Vertigo ( 1990 ), a woman appears whom the narrator, travelling through Heidelberg by train in 1987, recognises instantly " without a shadow of a doubt " as Elizabeth when she enters his carriage.

There follows the last shot in the film, a long shot showing the shadow of the hoop whirling and twirling for almost fifteen seconds ; suddenly in the corner of the frame the hoop itself appears, and as the spinning, which can now be seen as the hoop and its shadow, grows slower, both come into the frame so that at the very end we see the hoop spinning and the shadow that it makes.

As a result, the shadow appears bluish.

As a result, the path of an object shadow through the " fog " appears darkened.

Aura appears and advises that Cubia is the shadow of Kite's Bracelet.

There is only one light source and the painted shadow appears to originate from that light source.

Dobson notes that the first two volumes, where Juan G. Puron appears in this role, are practically free of problem articles, although Barnhart identifies the article on “ Dávila, Nepomuceno ” as suspicious, but not fictitious beyond a shadow of a doubt.

The stories of shadow people have been compared to those of the Raven Mocker, a witch from Cherokee Indian mythology who sometimes appears as a shadowy phantom, and the Islamic Jinn.

The drider appears in the Monster Manual for D & D 4th edition ( 2008 ), including the drider fanglord and the drider shadow spinner.

In all incarnations of the turtles except for the 1987 cartoon, Raphael appears to live in the shadow of Leonardo and resents his brother's social position in the group.

He asks her “ What do you want ?” During the questioning a triangle appears on Delenn ’ s forehead and she sees Mr. Morden in shadow.

The shadow may appear in dreams and visions in various forms, and typically ' appears as a person of the same sex as that of the dreamer '.

There are many tales involving Ankou, who appears as a man or skeleton wearing a cloak and wielding a scythe and in some stories he is described as a shadow that looks like a man with an old hat and a scythe, often atop a cart for collecting the dead.

On the walls there are several framed pictures, one of which appears to be of an Indonesian shadow puppet.

The Goliath Corporation is a megalithic company that appears to make many of the goods in this alternate world and also acts as a de facto shadow government, being able to take over important police investigations.

Mania Entertainment's Chris Beveridge described Kaworu's death in the anime as an " extremely powerful moment " due to the fact that after a minute without dialogue, his head's shadow appears touching the water.

Hagoromo appears again before the poem returns to Beardsley, also in the shadow of death, declaring the difficulty of beauty with a phrase from Symons and Sappho / Homer's rosy-fingered dawn woven through the passage.

Because of its hypoallergenic and emollient properties as well as its shine, carnauba wax appears as an ingredient in many cosmetics formulas where it is used to thicken lipstick, eyeliner, mascara, eye shadow, foundation, deodorant, various skin care preparations, sun care preparations, etc.

: As for the Harii, quite apart from their strength, which exceeds that of the other tribes I have just listed, they pander to their innate savagery by skill and timing: with black shields and painted bodies, they choose dark nights to fight, and by means of terror and shadow of a ghostly army they cause panic, since no enemy can bear a sight so unexpected and hellish ; in every battle the eyes are the first to be conquered.

Jackson lost the title in his first defense against Quincy Taylor in August of that year by a sixth-round stoppage in a fight where Jackson looked a shadow of his former self.

Gaidal Cain is a legendary swordsman who wields two weapons, and is one of the many heroes who has been reincarnated throughout the ages to fight the shadow.

His mother's brother was the Count of Soissons, father of the renowned general Prince Eugene of Savoy, in whose military shadow Louis would live and fight, although the cousins would also be allied in service to the Holy Roman Emperor against the French.

References to Errol Flynn's actions in the 1938 film The Adventures of Robin Hood are included as well, such as when Robin enters with a boar on his shoulders, and also during the film's shadow fight, which was a gimmick Flynn often used.

It seems to be an iron rule: guidelines sentencing empowers prosecutors, even where the guidelines ' authors try to fight that tendency ... In short, plea bargains outside the law's shadow depend on prosecutors ' ability to make credible threats of severe post-trial sentences.

As for the Harii, quite apart from their strength, which exceeds that of the other tribes I have just listed, they pander to their innate savagery by skill and timing: with black shields and painted bodies, they choose dark nights to fight, and by means of terror and shadow of a ghostly army they cause panic, since no enemy can bear a sight so unexpected and hellish ; in every battle the eyes are the first to be conquered.

However, they begin to internally fight over other ideas such as having theaters for shadow puppets and a broccoli juice program, and their wildly unpopular plans at a public meeting ( including the banning of all contact sports and Comic Book Guy's plan to limit breeding to every 7 years ) further expose the rifts inside the group.

Hence, it is commonly observed while airborne, with the glory surrounding the airplane's shadow on clouds ( this is often called The Glory of the Pilot ).

Image: IMG 7474 solar glory. JPG | Glory with aircraft shadow in the center.

* In Tasmania, one of the states of Australia, the central Midlands region is in a strong rain shadow and receives only about a fifth as much rainfall as the highlands to the west.

The 2003 season also saw the team debut black alternate jerseys, with a green ( instead of black ) shadow on white numbers, and silver trim.

During the campaign, the DPJ produced an itemized policy manifesto — a first in post-war Japanese elections — and publicized a " shadow cabinet " ( with Naoto Kan as Prime Minister ), which is usually created by political parties during election season in the United Kingdom, for example.

In the sixth episode of the second season of science-fiction television series Fringe, a Russian cosmonaut is at the center of the investigation for seeking and killing for radiation through his shadow entity.

His 1978 season was a shadow of his years of winning the Tour de France.

This started to become a large safety concern for players batting and was finally countered during the 2010 season when it was discovered that there could be a larger shadow to cover both home plate and the pitchers mound by closing only one half of the roof and this tactic continues to be used today.

The viewer ’ s shadow tells the time of day and the season.

The season continued on from the 1998 feature film and focused heavily on FBI federal agents Fox Mulder ( David Duchovny ) and Dana Scully's ( Gillian Anderson ) separation from The X-Files, the assignment of new agents Jeffrey Spender ( Chris Owens ) and Diana Fowley ( Mimi Rogers ) to the division, and the demise of the Syndicate — a " shadow government " group attempting to cover up the existence of extraterrestrials — in the two part episode " Two Fathers " and " One Son ".

Introduced at the beginning of the third season, the Well-Manicured Man is an English member of the Syndicate, a shadow organization within the United States government that exists to hide from the public the fact that aliens are planning to colonize the Earth.

In the following season, Alenichev suffered some animosity from new Porto coach Octávio Machado ( the same happened with compatriot Sergei Ovchinnikov ) and spent most of the first half of the season sidelined, under the shadow of Deco.

She is freed from the shadow realm following Yugi ’ s victory over Marik in their final duel, awakening in season three.

Almunia broke out of Lehmann's shadow in the 2007 – 2008 season when he finally displaced the German.

By the first half of the nineteenth century, Zeila was a shadow of its former self, having been reduced to " a large village surrounded by a low mud wall, with a population that varied according to the season from 1, 000 to 3, 000 people.

McLean decided that his team should mount a challenge for the League championship in 1978 – 79, something of which the club, who had long lived in the shadow of McLean's former employers and rivals Dundee, had never previously proved capable of but after a poor finish in the first season of the new Premier Division, United started to prove that they were serious contenders for domestic honours.

postulated that a standing stone at Gardom's Edge could be a gnomon of a seasonal sundial ( indicating the change of season, as through the winter half of the year its north facing side is in permanent shadow ) possibly dated to during the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age period ( 2500 – 1500 BC ).

They didn't up their first win of the season, 2-1 over Tacoma, until June 21, and although they went on to enjoy subsequent victories-2-0 over Yakima Reds and a comprehensive 5-1 thrashing of Spokane Spiders on the final day of the season-Cascade never looked to be in contention throughout the year, and continued to be a shadow their former selves.