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Deep shadows settle into the brickwork on each building, giving every texture a sense of depth missing from the original release, and the flicker from fires makes even lonely alleyways feel alive with action as flames lick and light and shadow dance around dynamically.
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Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Apr. 2025
At a nexus of physics and the imagination, each of these breakthroughs is a kind of shadow dance of the other, in that each inculcates, as a value, the idea that every individual exists within their own space-time continuum.
—William Benton, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2023
The Top 10 was rounded out by singer Angelina Jordan, shadow dance group Silhouettes, dog tricks act Alexa Lauenburger, dance group Boogie Storm and accordionist Hans, who finally made up with Cowell.
—Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2020
On a warm summer afternoon, a light breeze sweeps through the mesh screen on the side of my tent, ruffling the canvas roof and sending maple leaf shadows dancing above my head.
—Terri Colby, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2019
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Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Apr. 2025
At a nexus of physics and the imagination, each of these breakthroughs is a kind of shadow dance of the other, in that each inculcates, as a value, the idea that every individual exists within their own space-time continuum.
—William Benton, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2023
The Top 10 was rounded out by singer Angelina Jordan, shadow dance group Silhouettes, dog tricks act Alexa Lauenburger, dance group Boogie Storm and accordionist Hans, who finally made up with Cowell.
—Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2020
On a warm summer afternoon, a light breeze sweeps through the mesh screen on the side of my tent, ruffling the canvas roof and sending maple leaf shadows dancing above my head.
—Terri Colby, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2019
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“Shadow dance.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shadow%20dance. Accessed 16 Jul. 2025.
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