Almost bisected by a gully and busily dotted with trees, a neat dark row of them on the horizon, the rectangle is surrounded on three sides by blandly bleak open fields.
The most famous celebration of the power of winter movement in all the world's literature is in the last paragraphs of Gogol's "Dead Souls," where the novelist celebrates Russia itself as a troika racing through the snow: The forest flies on both sides of the road with its dark rows of firs and pines, echoing with the ring of axes and the cawing of crows.
But when it comes to the eye of the beholder, weeds are the same thing as beauty: to a gardener, grass is a weed; a row of lettuce surrounded by dark, grassless soil a thing of beauty.
While there was hopeful, unsubstantiated talk earlier this year that Liu Yandong, a woman, might be named to the seven-seat Politburo Standing Committee, the lineup revealed to the world on Thursday was an unrelieved row of dark suits, drab ties and black hair without a touch of gray.
You are in a large, dark hall facing a row of white, pod-shaped cars lined up in rectangular glass bays.
We stayed in an airy room of dark wood with a row of French doors opening onto a rock-rimmed koi pond.
THE LOCATION The Romeo is impossible to miss — a flashy, glassy facade along a row of gritty, dark buildings facing the Bay of Naples.
I found a row of dark jean jackets, each for $280.
We found Paul in his dressing room, a suite done in velvet-dark hues with a row of suits and shirts along one wall.
In the video, dozens of young men stand in the street in front of a police station as flames engulf a nearby row of vehicles, sending a dark column of smoke into the sky.
