Isolated against shadowy old-masterish backgrounds, these objects have a sacramental aura.

A gray-haired man in gray clothes came forward into the light from the shadowy background.

I am perfectly happy to be the shadowy background against which your brilliance can show all the more brightly.

Isolated against shadowy old masterish backgrounds, these things have a sacramental aura (Johnson).

No detail of the shadowy background was visible.

Cousin Sophia was there also, sitting with Susan in the shadowy background.

Clo-Clo raised her voice to the shopkeeper in the shadowy background.

In the shadowy background two men play cards on a military drum.

Beneath a huge video screen filled with yet more moving images, musicians and singers shift in the shadowy background.

In the candlelight their faces were like two parchment masks against the shadowy background of the walls.