This unusual combination evokes some startled laughter but is mostly rendered in such conventional strokes that, for all the dark daring of its conception, you're not likely to be as scandalized or as horrified as Mr. Kern perhaps hopes.
Ultimately, most physicists in the hunt say they do not care whether their particular conception of dark matter turns out to be right, as long as they eventually get an answer.
The great William Harvey referred to conception as a "dark business," and even leading researchers tended to advance only so far before lapsing into old habits of airy speculation and reliance on classical authorities.
Divided into five candle-lit chapels, the crypt housed under the Church of Our Lady of the Conception is a dark and perverse affair made up of 4,000 dead friars.
While viewing the beautiful screen conception of "The Dark Angel," the play which was launched under the pseudonym of H. B. Trevelyan, one cannot help being stirred by the gentle charm of the love story and also by the echoes of the World War.
Since it is not my intention here to discuss the history of the Cell Theory, I will only deal with those authors whose work was particularly relevant for their conceptions of cell membranes (see dark blue boxes in Figure 2).
But on Thursday a strong cast clearly responded to Mr. Welser-Möst's conception and Christine Mielitz's dark, grungy 2004 production.
These conceptions would soon be replaced by darker images, of airplanes as tools of war.
In reality, the conception of the Middle Ages as the "Dark Ages" began with the Enlightenment.
In other words, if the pattern of light and dark patches on a brindle cow happens to correspond to our conceptions of what a face should look like, we may interpret the coincidence as a visitation from Jesus Christ or Marilyn Monroe.
