Sentence examples for absolute blackness from inspiring English sources
The Faroese weather was so variable that people half a mile away were able to see what I missed and what the eclipse chasers were all after — the sun inked out, a moment's absolute blackness, the corona flaring and the light reëmerging over the uneven surface of the moon in globules, creating the effects known as the diamond ring and Baily's beads.
The Faroese weather was so variable that people half a mile away were able to see what I missed and what the eclipse chasers were all after the sun inked out, a moment's absolute blackness, the corona flaring and the light reëmerging over the uneven surface of the moon in globules, creating the effects known as the diamond ring and Baily's beads.
For a few seconds, until Lyndsey clicked the play button of a tape deck, and the sound of an Agatha Christie audiobook filled the room, we remained motionless and silent, drinking in the absolute black — the blackness of a lone spelunker, miles underground, with her headlight off.
It's certainly not the case that the screen is just completely shutting off its backlights in the darkest zones to deliver absolute but hollow blackness.
"The blackness of my figures is supposed to be unequivocal, absolute and unmediated," Marshall explains.
"Pace gave me absolute carte blanche". It's a funny term to use, given the show she eventually came up with: "Blackness in Abstraction," which assembles a group of monochromatic black works, created from the 1940s through the present, by artists ranging from Robert Irwin to Carrie Mae Weems to Oscar Murillo.
Her blackness was our blackness.
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