Ms. Larson wants to raise questions about power, wealth and taste, but it's the bleak, shadowy silence of her pictures that's most impressive (Johnson).

"Thorn-" Rena spoke impulsively into the shadowy silence.

Willow began to shout but Nevian held up his hand and in the shadowy silence they heard the snapping and rattle of countless chains breaking, echoing down through the heart of the Rising, making the very bones of the earth tremble.

Even in the shadowy silence of the cabin, I could smell the living things of the land.

The shadowy silence of the room soothed his mind.

He was glad, for then they were immune in a shadowy silence, there was no world, no time.

She reached the open hatchway leading down into the storerooms and descended in shadowy silence, listening for the sounds of the guard who would be on watch below.

Again the shadowy silence fell between them.

The boy was still clamouring aggrievedly as David called, and the clansmen came boiling out of the shadowy silences of the forest to their prince's voice, themselves dark and sylvan and silent as trees.

Cley was left once more in his chambers, in the shadowy silence which was now his greatest pleasure.