If you listened to all the grousing, you'd think adopting Halloween into our calendar was akin to treason, a tenebrous blight on the true-blue Aussie identity.
This arresting work is remarkable not only for the dramatic, Caravaggesque effects created by the tenebrous backdrop and raking light illuminating the poignantly depicted features of the tortured saint in his white robes, but also for a profound pathos that transcends mere artistic virtuosity.
The long shape of the main corridor repeated at the top of the building as a glazed gallery called the "hen run", what was tenebrous below now filled with light.
The realities of power transformed him from an advocate of official openness into a despairing critic.Mr Blair's jaded attitude seems not yet to have infected the coalition government, which is planning to let a little more light into the tenebrous corridors of Whitehall.
Sometimes, the harsh glare of reality does not put the tenebrous creations of writers in the best possible light.
The paintwork is no more than a tenebrous gleam, but the interior is creamy with light, sufficient to illuminate the driver's profile, and the solemnity of the two passengers in the rear.
In search of felicity, souls must attempt to detach themselves from their tenebrous bodies and all that is worldly and material and to access the world of immaterial lights.
We were sitting in the mansion's tenebrous library.
It is merely assigned adjectives – "sticky", "tenebrous", "slavering".
In a year which saw new collections from several of the UK's leading poetry lights, Sean O'Brien's November (Picador, £8.99) and David Harsent's Night (Faber, £9.99) are both examples of poets working at the top of their game – and both sufficiently tenebrous to offer perfect fare for a murky winter's evening.
