The plants drooped in the darkened air, the sun-rimmed blinds moved not an inch.
No one should play down the hard, ingenious labor that such a project entails, yet something about it, as Alice sprang through the darkened air and slew the Jabberwocky, felt too easy.
If Metal Gear neutralises its foe with a sleep dart fired from a darkened air vent slit, Platinum Games rides into the mess hall on an armoured stallion wielding a readied bazooka on each shoulder like a vision plucked from a Michael Bay cheese dream.
By law, Parma ham is cured by hanging the prepared haunches on racks for at least 1 year (and, in some cases, 3 years) after the date of first salting, in darkened, air-controlled cellars at a temperature of 15 23°C.
The encouraging announcement of the U.N. cease-fire proposal and the feeling that no matter what follows, including turning down by the Chinese Communists, the U.N. action has cleared the darkening air somewhat.
By Mollie Panter-Downes The New Yorker, January 27 , 1951P. 58 The encouraging announcement of the U.N. cease-fire proposal and the feeling that no matter what follows, including turning down by the Chinese Communists, the U.N. action has cleared the darkening air somewhat.
DuBay said he has seen birds in Beijing darkened by air pollution.
Darken, air; and mood, surrender,.
But the real star of autumn doesn't start shining until dusk, when the nicotianas pick up their drooping heads, open their white throats and pour perfume into the darkening air.
For many years, they burned the remaining rice stubble at the end of the crop season, darkening the air as far away as Sacramento, 75 miles to the southeast.
Surely this was what existence strained to be, and so rarely had the chance: to savor itself fully in the present... the smooth darkening summer air, the scent of thyme crushed underfoot, her hunger, her slaked thirst, the warm stone she could feel through her shirt, the aftertaste of peach, the stickiness on her hand, her tired legs, her sweaty, sunny, dusty fatigue.
