Verb
(literally) To live in the shadow cast by a structure.
(idiomatic) To be overshadowed one's entire life, especially by a relative or predecessor.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgIt's a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind. Carlos Ruiz Zafón
One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it. Elizabeth Bowen
The bombs held in current nuclear arsenals are seventy times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. If we don't begin opposing the drift towards more and more of them, we will live in the shadow of the mushroom cloud for the rest of our lives - and millions may die there. Johann Hari
I've spent the first part of my life in the shadow of my family. I'm not going to live in the shadow of my husband. Martha Wainwright
The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger. George W. Bush
It is possible, in the interests of a false religion (such as Nationalism or Fascism) to avert one's eyes from the plain fact of human brotherhood; but the fact stubbornly remains, and we ignore it at our peril. We are all in the same boat, and we live in the shadow of a common doom. Gerald Bullett