Sentence examples for bitter darkness from inspiring English sources

Stephen Fry brought his towering intelligence and wit to Oscar Wilde, but Everett brings both of those along with his own bruised glamour and a jolt of bitter darkness as though he's possessed.

The Coen brothers' authorial identity as film-makers has always marked out an intriguing spectrum between broad, bright comedy and bitter darkness, and when their creations are pitched at just the right distance between each, the resulting film is a marvel.

We rose in bitter-cold darkness to catch sunrises at the Bright Angel trailhead and Mather Point (which loses color and gains crowds as the day goes on).

They're stories and characters that have been around a while but which have lost none of their bitter and brilliant darkness.

A fire that swept through a Chinatown tenement early Tuesday killed two tenants, injured at least 18 others and forced residents to stumble blindly through clouds of smoke, jump from windows and climb onto fire escapes in the bitter cold and darkness.

PAGE A22 2 KILLED IN CHINATOWN BLAZE Two people were killed by a fire that swept through a Chinatown tenement and forced residents to stumble through clouds of smoke, jump from windows and climb onto fire escapes in the bitter cold and darkness.

It is a bitter cold morning and darkness still shrouds the city, but Sam Goldstein is already prowling the Lower East Side in his yellow taxicab.

Then, towards the end of the last decade, something close to the heart of darkness: the bitter truth that western security agencies had been complicit and even culpable in the ultimate evil of torture – and in freedom's name.

Yet their blues-powered foray into the era's heart of darkness bore bitter fruit indeed: when a young black man was murdered by Hell's Angels (hired as security) at a disastrous free concert at the Altamont Speedway in Livermore, California, during their 1969 American tour, it seemed to many observers that the Stones' own aura of decadence and danger was somehow to blame for the tragedy.

Her baby is due in October, and even as she prepares to raise it in a land of 24-hour winter darkness and bitter Arctic cold, she dreams of field research.

The "nameplate" capacity on this equipment brags of recovery in calm conditions and daylight, not the darkness and bitter storms of the Arctic Ocean.