How to Use shadow play in a Sentence

shadow play

noun

• The shadow play of the concrete sunscreen of 3525 Turtle Creek.
  — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 15 May 2020
• That movie, or some imaginary version of it, is still unfurling as a shadow play in the megaplex of my mind.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Oct. 2021
• Was that whole parade of new-city fantasies just a shadow play, distracting us from the inexorable forces of mediocrity?
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 31 Aug. 2021
• The khachkar would have shimmered as light and shadow played on its lace-like surface, making the deep-carved stone appear as opulent as the woodwork and stucco of great palaces.
  — Peter Brown, The New York Review of Books, 17 Jan. 2019
• Layered knits and easygoing silhouettes heat up among desert sun rays and shadow play.
  — WSJ, 6 Mar. 2022
• Several shows are produced by teens, including the shadow play The Other a production of Yes!
  — Tirdad Derakhshani, Philly.com, 7 Sep. 2017
• Light and shadow plays over them, and both the tax collector and the cleric have one tiny fingertip blazingly struck by light — Donatus’s left thumb, and Eustatius’s left pinkie.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• Projected light creates dynamic shadow play that turns the Marciano’s huge first-floor gallery into an abstract 3-D film.
  — Anita Gates, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2018
• The podcast’s first episode, played in the next room, would be augmented by projections of stars evoking Griffith Observatory; a shadow play; and onscreen images that stopped short of making a movie out of a podcast.
  — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 4 July 2022
• The South African polymath — whose skills include drawing, painting, filmmaking, theater, opera, shadow play, and puppetry — is surely accustomed to grander scale.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Nov. 2020
• For a truly local experience, catch a shadow play (a play in which puppets’ shadows are cast onto a screen), or visit the cricket fighting museum to witness a live bug fight.
  — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 28 Apr. 2017
• Through shadow play in the solo shots of the members, the video offers a visual representation of the track’s ruminative narrative and the Jungian shadow concept, which is a recurring metaphor on the album.
  — Sara Delgado, Teen Vogue, 4 Mar. 2020
• Particularly lovely is the shadow play (by lighting designer Jacob Snodgrass) which turns her solo into a beautiful trio.
  — Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2018
• The visual material is culled from comic strips, street demonstrations, Cuban movie posters and filmed be-ins; the technique encompasses collages, stick figure animations, shadow plays and kaleidoscopic special effects.
  — New York Times, 24 May 2018
• The blessedly functional David Schweizer production uses screens, projections, and shadow play for the bloodiest parts, leaving nothing to the imagination (even a cutoff penis), but maintaining unreal abstraction.
  — David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 15 Sep. 2017

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