skill in the shadowy and obscure, by often remarking to his pupils, that ' there was only one man in the world who could fully understand his writings ;

That is something more impalpable by far, into which entered who can tell what tracelesss, shadowy recollections ...

Leaving aside the shadowy kings before Áedán son of Gabrán, the genealogy is certainly flawed insofar as Áed Find, who died c. 778, could not reasonably be the son of Domangart, who was killed c. 673.

Case is saved by Molly Millions, an augmented " street samurai " and mercenary for a shadowy ex-military officer named Armitage, who offers to cure Case in exchange for his services as a hacker.

Named Paolo, this ghola is to be " conditioned " by Khrone's sadistic ghola of Baron Harkonnen to become a twisted version of Paul, who will serve the shadowy needs of Krone's mysterious masters, Daniel and Marty.

After a series of goodbyes, the Hobbits finally return home, only to find the Shire in ruins, its inhabitants oppressed by Lotho Sackville-Baggins ( usually called " The Chief " or " The Boss ") who is in reality controlled by a shadowy figure called " Sharkey ".

* Dr. Isaac Mentnor ( Norman Lloyd ) ( seasons 1 – 2, guest appearances in season 3 ), a scientist with a shadowy past that's tied into the Roswell cover-up, Dr. Mentnor was the man who initially conceived the Backstep project.

In the bowels of the British Museum, Carnacki the ghost-finder is plagued by visions of a shadowy occult order who are attempting to create something called a Moonchild, while on London's dockside the most notorious serial murderer of the previous century has returned to carry on his grisly trade.

Present in Red Mars only as a shadowy figure who blends effortlessly into the Martian background, he is not even identified as anything more than the Coyote until the beginning of Green Mars.

After a while, a shadowy American ( who is never named, but is nicknamed " Tex " by Billy due to his thick Texan accent ) arrives, takes Billy to a police station and translates for Billy for one of the detectives.

Lacking direction, Ben wandered into an alleyway where he encountered a shadowy figure who told him that any action he takes would simply create another universe where he took the opposite action, so he might as well do what felt good.

Mrs Pargeter is a widow with a shadowy past who, with a little help from her dead husband's friends, is able to solve uncanny mysteries.

His character taking on many dark, shadowy human disguises throughout the film was unprecedented in breathing life into the Luke 4: 13 phrase "... he left Him until an opportune time ..." He was one of many stars who were given cameos throughout the film.

" The events of Johannes ' reign are as shadowy as its origins ," writes John Matthews, who then provides a list of the ruler's known actions in a paragraph.

Stories of shadowy troops began to circulate ; Gurkha soldiers who would break into German barracks at night.

There is little official information known about the organization, it appears to be a shadowy brotherhood made up of malevolent wizards who desire to manipulate the Land of the Green Isles and conquer it.

Lost, which deals with the survivors of a plane crash, sees the castaways on the island forced to deal with a monstrous being that appears as a cloud of black smoke, a conspiracy of " Others " who have kidnapped or killed their fellow castaways at various points, a shadowy past of the island itself that they are trying to understand, polar bears, and the fight against these and other elements as they struggle simply to stay alive and get out of the island.

In The Phantom Menace, Gunray was manipulated into blockading and subsequently invading the planet Naboo by the shadowy Darth Sidious, who assured him the Senate would take no action against him.

He took his pseudonym from Tristan l ' Hermite, a shadowy figure of the late Middle Ages who was provost of the marshals of the King's household under Louis XI of France.

He is occasionally given " special " ( secret ) missions by the shadowy figure of Colonel ( initially " Major ") Raymond ( Wing Commander or Air Commodore in later books ), who is already involved with the intelligence side of operations.

Frightened, Suzy then sneaks into another room, where she accidentally awakens a shadowy figure who reveals herself as Helena Markos.

Alan is plotting to become one of a shadowy elite of politicians who control the world's oil supplies.

In Boogiepop's world, the Towa Organization, a shadowy group seeking to control humanity, managed to capture an alien organism who had taken the form of a highly-evolved human.

But can any of these shadowy sidemen truthfully call themselves THE RESIDENTS?

A grief-stricken Mai then receives a phone call from her father ( again, likely the shadowy financier ) to return home, as " the world is about to change for the worse.

The use of this term usually carries strong connotations of shadowy corners, back rooms and insidious influence ; a cabal is more evil and selective than, say, a faction, which is simply selfish ; because of this negative connotation, few organizations use the term to refer to themselves or their internal subdivisions.

The survivors also find themselves sharing a recurring dream ( apparently a tachyon transmission sent as a warning from the future year " one-nine-nine-nine ") showing a shadowy figure emerging from the front of the church.

Alternative Press gave the album four-and-a-half out of five stars, commenting that " with new guitarist Jade Puget adding a sense of brooding, thespian eloquence to the disc's shadowy post-hardcore, AFI all but reinvented themselves ," and " With longer, deeper, richer, more complex compositions than they've ever attempted before, Black Sails tackles everything from brooding hardcore ... to shimmering balladry ..." The publication also went as far as to say that Black Sails is " their first epic.

It would be more accurate to say that he assisted the French and Indian inhabitants of that region to remove themselves from the very shadowy political rule of the British.

A group of disaffected Knights of Labor in Indiana calling themselves the Knights of Industry and a shadowy group calling itself the Amalgamated Labor Union took up the charge and announced a conference to be held August 2, 1881 in Terre Haute.

The most interesting of them is, arguably, Assignment: Murder, ( alternate title: Assassins Have Starry Eyes ), in which a mathematician working on the design for a nuclear bomb has to save his kidnapped wife from a group of shadowy villains.

Inside of Yima's realm, the spirits live a shadowy existence, and are dependent on their own descendants which are still living on Earth.

" Observe what happens when sunbeams are admitted into a building and shed light on its shadowy places.

When the prophetic powers of the last of the Pythias failed her, Rassilion, Omega and a shadowy figure known as The Other seized power in the name of science and rationality.

* Painters often worked in the evening to produce effets de soir — the shadowy effects of evening or twilight.

Along the horizon, the setting sun silhouettes the farm with its abundant stacks of grain, in contrast to the large shadowy figures in the foreground.

The government lasted only until 5 December 2007, when Kalvitis resigned due to his continuous and unsuccessful attempts to dismiss Aleksejs Loskutovs, the head of KNAB, the State Anti-Corruption Agency, after Loskutov's had investigated shadowy matters of the PM's party.

The shadowy quality for which the work is renowned came to be called " sfumato " or Leonardo's smoke.

Great masks with gaping jaws and monstrous features in stone or stucco were often located at the entrance to temples, symbolizing a cavern or cave on the flanks of the mountains that allowed access to the depths of Mother Earth and the shadowy roads that lead to the underworld.

A single attempt to colonise Mars ended disastrously, due to the combination of violent conflict between the would-be colonists and a confrontation with the native Martians — a shadowy race spending most of their time swimming under the surface of the Martian dust, and to whom water is a deadly poison.

The origin myth of the kingdom of Alba traced its foundation to the supposed destruction of Pictland by Kenneth MacAlpin, and its kings were chosen from the male line descendants of Kenneth, with the possible exception of the shadowy Eochaid, said to be Kenneth's daughter's son.

Johnson's shadowy, poorly documented life and death at age 27 have given rise to much legend, including the Faustian myth that he sold his soul at a crossroads to achieve success.

This plays itself out over a second plot element, a thriller style story concerning the shadowy ' Big Six ' organization.

More's work, and that of contemporary historian Polydore Vergil, reflects a move from mundane medieval chronicles to a dramatic writing style ; for example, the shadowy King Richard is an outstanding, archetypal tyrant drawn from the pages of Sallust, and should be read as a meditation on power and corruption as well as a history of the reign of Richard III.

Depictions of family life alternated, and intertwined, with the shadowy crime drama that was always the strip's mainstay, such as the kidnapping of Bonnie Braids by fugitive Crewy Lou, or Junior's girlfriend, Model, being accidentally shot and killed by her brother, a wanted murderer of a police officer.

Linguistic and genealogical evidence associates ancestors of the Dál Riata with the prehistoric Iverni and Darini, suggesting kinship with the Ulaid and a number of shadowy kingdoms in distant Munster.

However, a shadowy figure making bonnets can be seen on the ship in the second illustration.

After Maximus, no significant Roman emperor ( ignoring shadowy and short-lived usurpers ) ever went north of Lyons again.

It only converts the anthropologist into a shadowy figure, prone to newsworthy and shallow pronouncements about the cosmic condition of the human race.