Sentence examples for acts of darkness from inspiring English sources

Ammon Bundy's attorney, Marcus Mumford, said in his opening statement that "conspiracy… suggest acts of darkness".

Often the novels' action stems from some disturbing incident whose "truth" will never be established - the murder of the child in Francis King's Act of Darkness, of the rape at the centre of Paul Scott's Raj quartet, which itself nods at the incident in the Marabar Caves in A Passage To India.

Some remarkable minds have swept through here, and some acts of great darkness have taken place here, too.

While American officials have insisted that the killings were part of an isolated criminal act under cover of darkness, not a night raid, the distinction is not shared by most Afghans, including Mr. Karzai.

Naked swimmers act quickly under cover of darkness or in permissive pockets of the city: at the gay-friendly patch of Riis beach in the Rockaways or at a marina on City Island where Ivy League sailing teams sometimes bare all.

In 2007 he wrote and directed the dark comedy L'Âge des ténèbres (Days of Darkness); he also acted in the film.

In recent weeks the Balkans' forces of darkness have acted with greater firmness and co- ordination than its would-be rebuilders.

She finds patches of darkness in Act I that hint not just at her character's fatal heart defect, but also at her future reincarnation as a Wili, one of the vengeful spirits of jilted girls who roam the forest at night.

In 1958 she appeared with George C. Scott in Children of Darkness, and she acted with him in the title roles of Antony and Cleopatra the following year.

In 1940 he followed Welles out to Los Angeles to act in his version of "Heart of Darkness," which collapsed before filming could begin.

And despite its heavy-handedness, "The Power of Darkness" brings home how small acts of dishonesty can lead to outright evil.