Sentence examples for close to darkness from inspiring English sources

"We request that the court, without compassion or mercy, apply the maximum penalty for the abominable crimes they have committed … mercy for such [people] will bring the entire society close to darkness," prosecutor Mohamed Barakat told the court on Thursday.

"We request that the court, without compassion or mercy, apply the maximum penalty for the abominable crimes they have committed," Barakat said, adding that mercy for the reporters would "bring the entire society close to darkness".

Handlen appreciated the character development of Shane, writing, "Shane has long been the dark horse of the group, the one most likely to go off the morality reservation, and this reveal works well to bring him that much closer to darkness.

Getting out in morning light, and going to bed in as close to total darkness as possible helps to set and maintain that rhythm.

From the time of colonisation far too many Australian writers have studiously avoided venturing too close to the darkness at the heart of their continent.

Harold and I had the premise that the core of our Beckett play was the void, pure silence, and by deeply mining it, with all its human conflicts and yearnings, we would get close to its darkness and light.

Simon Godwin's modern-dress staging in contemporary Italian cafe society is also constantly inventive, finding, with the cast, ways of making more palatable the sexual duplicity of the men and unquestioning subservience of the women; often by making the men demonic and the women ironic, to create a sexual comedy that sometimes comes close to the darkness of Les Liaisons Dangereuses.

As mentioned above, it is important to sleep in as close to complete darkness as possible.

Because Trinidad is so close to the equator, darkness there comes all at once, at about six-thirty.

Then Rondo signed a one-year deal with the Sacramento Kings as close to an Outer Darkness as the N.B.A. has to offer.

This indicates that the actual current in the polar cap is close to zero in darkness, so that the curl-free and divergence-free (observed) currents balance.