He gave a shadow of his wry smile.
She went out, where the strange, wide moon gave her a shadow like a ghost.
I must give my reader a shadow of her.
Jason gave me a shadow of his usual grin.
He gave only a shadow of a nod.
He gave her a pale shadow of his smile.
Bolan gave them one, a flitting shadow, firing from the hip.
With it, a headline can be bent or angled, given a shadow and distorted in other ways.
There is a Swedish proverb which observes that worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
The moon gave his body a long shadow that lay across the boards of the platform.