Shadow and Thought

Shadow

Shadow noun - Partial darkness due to the obstruction of light rays.

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Thought and shadow are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Thought" instead a noun "Shadow".

Nearby Words: shade, shady, shadowy, shadowed, shadowing

Thought noun - A careful weighing of the reasons for or against something.

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Shadow and thought are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Shadow" instead a noun "Thought".

human	human shadow	human thought
pure	pure shadow	pure thought
normal	normal shadow	normal thought
original	original shadow	original thought
Other adjectives: single, deep, real, collective, great, dangerous, evil, little, passing, mere, last.

Something similar happens in Batman: Gotham Knight, where one of the kids encountered Batman and was left with the impression that he was some kind of robot; another thought he was some sort of shadow-creature; and the last thought he was a literal Bat-Man.

Source: Shrouded in Myth
Mark Waid does it again in the commentary for Week Thirteen, where he discusses the obscured-in-shadow figure in the background of the last panel; he says that he thought he knew who the character was when he wrote the script, but Week Forty-Two showed him that it was a different character entirely.

Source: Lying Creator
This was 1991 after all, and Rabin was often thought of as Yes' guitarist while Howe was stuck in his shadow.

Source: Music / Trevor Rabin

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