Sentence examples for dark spiral from inspiring English sources

It robs Russia of a brave, authentic and distinctive voice at a time when the country is locked in a dark spiral of war and propaganda.

If it's a cocktail you want, however, you will have to seek out the unmarked black door to the left of the Beef Club and descend a dark spiral staircase, guided only by flickering tea lights, to the Ballroom.

"One night each week he was allowed to leave his father, his mother, and his younger brother Tom asleep in their small house next door and run here, up the dark spiral stairs to his grandparents' cupola," Mr. Bradbury writes, "and in this sorcerer's tower sleep with thunders and visions, to wake before the crystal jingle of milk bottles and perform his ritual magic.

Get your G.P.S. device out when trying to locate the über-chic subterranean fashion boutique Apartment (Memhardstrasse 8; 49-30-2804-2251; www.apartmentberlin.de), which is reached by descending a dark spiral staircase at the back of an unmarked and empty all-white storefront.

Both scientists and volunteers became locked in a dark spiral, descending.

I wasn't particularly close with my paternal grandfather but the loss was enough to toss me into a pretty dark spiral of unresolved daddy issues.

Lurid tales make headlines and serve up self-fulfilling prophecy about a dark downward spiral of family and community breakdown.

Plumes of dark smoke spiral from the chimney stacks sticking out of the grey dirt around Port Talbot docks.

The shell may also carry one to five dark brown spiral bands, which are sometimes fused with one another.

Shell ground colour ranges from bright yellow to deep brown and superimposed on this a variable pattern of dark brown spiral bands may exist (Lang, 1904; Goodhart, 1987).

These polymorphisms involve the shell ground colour (which ranges from pale yellow to deep brown) and the number and widths of dark brown spiral bands.