shadow play

noun

: a drama exhibited by throwing shadows of puppets or actors on a screen

called also shadow show

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Natural light and its emotive shadow play, and honest interior compositions. —

Ad Editors, Architectural Digest, 12 July 2021 There’s a nod to almost every one of the auteur’s past works, from gangster dramas to gothic shadow plays. —

David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2024 What audiences see are silhouettes engaged in a shadow play of entwined hands and arched backs, sensual but not X-rated. —

Rebecca Ritzel, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2024 One episode hopscotches between the 1968 New York City garbage strike, a shadow play of the Ugandan genocide, and a mournful fantasy about the early AIDS crisis—all as background for the story of one marriage’s dissolution. —

Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 7 Sep. 2023 See all Example Sentences for shadow play