shadow play
noun
: a drama exhibited by throwing shadows of puppets or actors on a screen
called also shadow show
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Natural light and its emotive shadow play, and honest interior compositions.
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Ad Editors, Architectural Digest, 12 July 2021
There’s a nod to almost every one of the auteur’s past works, from gangster dramas to gothic shadow plays.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2024
What audiences see are silhouettes engaged in a shadow play of entwined hands and arched backs, sensual but not X-rated.
—Rebecca Ritzel, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2024
One episode hopscotches between the 1968 New York City garbage strike, a shadow play of the Ugandan genocide, and a mournful fantasy about the early AIDS crisis—all as background for the story of one marriage’s dissolution.
—Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 7 Sep. 2023
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Ad Editors, Architectural Digest, 12 July 2021
There’s a nod to almost every one of the auteur’s past works, from gangster dramas to gothic shadow plays.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2024
What audiences see are silhouettes engaged in a shadow play of entwined hands and arched backs, sensual but not X-rated.
—Rebecca Ritzel, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2024
One episode hopscotches between the 1968 New York City garbage strike, a shadow play of the Ugandan genocide, and a mournful fantasy about the early AIDS crisis—all as background for the story of one marriage’s dissolution.
—Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 7 Sep. 2023
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“Shadow play.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shadow%20play. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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