It also has a sinister overtone, suggesting a dark rain, burdened with soot, streaking downward.
The whiplash drumbeat and haunting, sub-bass shadows of Heart and Soul; the almost classical serenity of the piano-led, funereal The Eternal; the awesome Decades, Curtis gazing sorrowfully at human suffering and warfare's "doors of hell's darker chambers", burdened by insights and events far beyond his years and his voice almost ghostly, a one-time punk with a new, Frank Sinatra-like croon.
Stolen Love Behaviour by John Stammers 120pp, Picador, £8.99 John Stammers's impressive second collection, Stolen Love Behaviour, focuses, like its predecessor, on love poetry, but this time the mood is darker, more burdened; here, as the title implies, we enter the realm of subversive affairs, hidden desires.
It's been the dark man's burden in this majority-non-white nation to desire a Westernized concept of beauty, and post-colonial activism has not been able to change this.
She puts her treatment in the CJS down to a "mixture of misogyny and racism"—the so-called angry black woman trope an ongoing issue that burdens dark-skinned women.
She puts her treatment in the CJS down to a "mixture of misogyny and racism" – the so-called "angry black woman" trope an ongoing issue that burdens dark-skinned women.
In a letter from NCC president Mike Brown, he lamented that "over-supply of dark meat is a burden to producers/processors," and pleaded for a federal buy-up.
The novel is characteristic of the modernist fascination with polarities light and dark, good and evil the burden of history on the present, and the splintering of personal identity.
Older, "darker," sadder, with the burden of years of responsibility for hundreds of people -- an empire -- on his shoulders.
