The phrase "a general darkness" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an overall sense of obscurity, gloom, or lack of clarity in a situation or environment.
Example: "As the storm approached, a general darkness enveloped the landscape, casting an eerie shadow over the town."
Alternatives: "an overall gloom" or "a pervasive shadow".
(Haul them above that, as Ben Jonson once specified, and a general darkness comes upon the stage – flame sheds light more from the side than from above).
When shell colour is converted to a general darkness score, however, patterns become clearer.
When converted to a general darkness score, a significant tendency in the expected direction exists, namely towards darker shells in shaded habitats (seven significant cases), with a minority (two significant cases) showing the reversed response.
My life is a mixture of lies and counselling, alongside a hearty side serving of thoughts and feelings of despair and just general darkness.
– teen-on-teen murder, abuse and general darkness, Tina lightened things up with some excellent country chic.
(My wife, Lauren, thought ours was the color of "wet sand" and found the general darkness in the room off-putting).
Calasso's stage is set, his hero announced, in just these few words, with their suggestion of perversity clothed in propriety; their strange hint that a museum could be confounded with a house of assignation; the uncomfortable contrast they set up between public and private; the general darkness that lies just their surface.
It develops visceral forms in an uncharacteristically sensual, infolding space, with bright colors signalling from a general collapse into darkness.
Make sure you really listen to your child and hear what it is that's actually scaring him; it could be a general fear of darkness, or it can be a fear of an intruder, for example.
The following is a general guide to the influence of colors on mood: Black: darkness and simplicity.
Since this enhanced transcription in the mutant strain also occurs in darkness with ubi4 and tre41025, these genes seem to be subject to a general repression by ENVOY.
