Though they were all made for different installations around the world, the robots have in common a sort of whimsical darkness, born of the contrast between the brutality of their machinery and the innocence of their awkward movements.
A Times editorial published on Nov. 1, 1896, called for "the false and offensive form 'comptroller,' born of ignorance and continued in darkness," to be officially changed to "controller".
Stars are planets are born in darkness surrounded by the light of own their distant brethren.
Hall, born into darkness and privilege, touches on the loss of his mother and the aftermath of his wife's death.
We are born in darkness but are surrounded by the light of our own electric vitality.
— The tone for a Saturday football game under a bright sun was born in the darkness of a Friday night vigil at the epicenter of the Penn State campus.
And Breathed -- well, he did what dads and artists often do best: He retreated to hide in his office, used the heat of the moment to find a spark of inspiration -- and eventually had the basis for a children's book and a big-budget animated movie ("a ray of light born amidst the darkness," he recalls).
"They were born from fucking pain, born from darkness," he says.
We are born in darkness and return to darkness yet through it all we are surrounded by light.
They tell us that America was born out of that darkness, though in its open spaces were also found, after their own compromised fashion, justice, or forgiveness, or love.
