In the final round there was none of the usual shadowboxing.

A couple minutes after the decision, Kid Bascomb climbed over the ropes and did a little shadowboxing.

"But the shadowboxing in which figures from the French Revolution operate as means to bash the opposition continues today."

Behind this shadowboxing is the fact that the post-Watergate public financing of presidential elections has not kept pace with inflation.

The term shadowboxing is also used in psychology, referring to the process of overcoming a negative self-image which, for example, prevents one from achieving success.

First, the market for smartphones is beginning to saturate, so we're about to get real competition in the marketplace and not just fanboy rhetorical shadowboxing.

Ms. Fallaci writes with a muscular eloquence when giving us the squalor, yearning and shadowboxing of the soldiers' existence.

Ogo, caught in the quagmire of stupidity, lies and perpetual shadowboxing, begins to suffer attacks of nausea and emptiness that bring him close to a sort of existential self-annihilation.

But the recent political shadowboxing seems to reflect long-running feuds between state and city officials over the financing for various projects, as well as a couple of new disputes related to the West Side.

Fighters may want to do some shadowboxing of their own after their daily routines are over, either inside a boxing gym's ring, or wherever they please to at home without having to look directly at a mirror.

Salvador's Carnaval offers a variation not found in Rio: you can check out regional culinary specialties like moqueca, a spicy seafood stew, and watch capoeira dancers in the streets, also particular to the region, who engage one another in a sort of graceful shadowboxing.