Sentence examples for a dark form from inspiring English sources

The fourth, Balanchine's "Sonnambula," alternately suggests a society both old and sophisticated, death and a dark form of transcendence.

Like a number of other herons and egrets, this species is polymorphic, with a dark form, a snow white form, and occasional pied or intermediate birds.

GLOVER'S REEF, Belize — As Alex Tilley powers his 15-foot skiff over the turquoise surface, a dark form slips across the white sand floor below.

The five-hour drive from New York City has dulled my senses, but as my old car noisily announces its presence, I notice a dark form ambling along the road.

What it was could not be seen: it was like a great shadow, in the middle of which was a dark form, of man-shape maybe, yet greater; and a power and terror seemed to be in and to go before it.

It is a dark form, resembling pealei in colour, but darker, especially on tail.

While Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code is essentially based on a group of clerics who stray into a darker form of religiosity.

Now this is a darker form of competitiveness, a competitiveness spawned – think of our own environment here in the academy – spawned by courses that grade strictly on a curve: a type of environment where one succeeds not merely by doing well but by doing better than other people, and especially in addition by preventing other people from doing well.

In his committed mendacity, his nostalgia for the 1930s, and his acceptance of support from a foreign enemy of the United States, a Republican president has closed the door on conservatism and opened the way to a darker form of politics: a new right to replace an old one.

It's a strange and dark form of entertainment, as you first watch the shows.

Mapmaking in Albany is a dark art form designed to make absolutely certain that incumbents in the majority party are safe from electoral competition (a k a democracy).