Sentence examples for blackness of darkness from inspiring English sources

The blackness of darkness still hangeth over it.

For further commentary, let's turn it over to Beth Gibbons: Blackness of darkness forever?

Melville said that he was encouraged by Hawthorne's exploration of "a certain tragic phase of humanity," by his deep broodings and by the "blackness of darkness" in him, to proceed with similar explorations of his own in Moby Dick, which he dedicated to Hawthorne.

Melville goes on, in a passage that has since been used to heighten the echoes between the whale-oil industry of his age and our own desperate thirst for mineral oil: " The rushing Pequod, freighted with savages and laden with fire, and burning a corpse, and plunging in that blackness of darkness, seemed the material counterpart of her monomaniac commander's soul".

Among these ochre tatters and patches are occasional holes that reveal a blackness below, like the darkness beneath the riffled surface of a wheat field.

He called Mr. Mubarak's tenure "30 years of intense darkness — black, black, black, the blackness of a chilly winter night".

But then, as so often happens in climate-change discussions when the talk turns from diagnosis to remedies, the darkness became the blackness of black comedy.

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To represent African Americans as "black," is not a neutral choice, but designed to conjure up the various imaginary associations of blackness and dirt, darkness, or pollution.

We too often think of Iran in terms of darkness, as if through the blackness of the veil.

Clusters of city lights glowing across stretches of darkness remind her of "fireflies seeking a mate against the blackness of night".