The phrase "ambient darkness" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a surrounding or pervasive darkness, often in a poetic or atmospheric context.
Example: "As the sun set, the ambient darkness enveloped the landscape, creating an eerie yet beautiful scene."
Alternatives: "surrounding gloom" or "pervasive shadow".
Occasionally, Halperin's face, normally neutral as an abacus, registers some of the ambient darkness of these ideas.
The rest will find only Oates's indisputable ability to sustain ambient darkness and ominous unease – as well as a great many italics.
When the younger Woody Allen made death-obsessed films, there was something funny about his sense of ambient darkness at life's high noon; now, even his comedies, at their best, offer a deeply moving shiver of ultimate menace — which, perhaps, some critics still wish they could laugh at, as in the old days.
Accordingly, bats flying in relative ambient darkness (<1 lux) were suddenly exposed to comparatively bright lights as they approached the high contrast fabrics, analogous to turning on a light in the night and becoming momentarily disoriented and blinded.
There was, as Churchwell has it, "an ambient cultural darkness" that allowed older, hard-boiled male stars such as Spencer Tracy, Edward G Robinson, Clark Gable and Bogart to thrive.
The cycle is anchored in part by ambient lighting (darkness causes a person's body to release the hormone melatonin, which induces sleep), and by a person's imposed pattern of regular sleeping and waking times.
Dr. Robert McGrath describes a Thomas Cole (1801 1848) painting titled Distant View of the Slide that Destroyed the Willey Family thus: "... an array of broken stumps and errant rocks, together with a gathering storm, suggest the wildness of the site while evoking an appropriate ambient of darkness and desolation".
Mice were housed at our local animal research facility under conditions of 14 hours light, 10 hours darkness, ambient temperature of 25°C, and relative humidity of 30 60%.
Seven replicates were maintained in all cases with the exception of the summer series where after the penultimate measurement (156 h incubation) 3 replicates were transferred to the alternate condition (from ambient light to darkness or vice versa).
Briefly, we obtained FVB/NJ mice (~8 weeks of age) from Jackson Laboratories (Bar Harbor, ME), and housed them in the Animal Research Facility, Loma Linda University under conditions of 14 h light, 10 h darkness, ambient temperature of 20 °C, and relative humidity of 30 to 60%%.
The fresh soybean leaves were submerged in 50 M DHE in 5 mM DMSO after immersing 12 h in darkness at ambient temperature.
