With each day it becomes clearer that in the wider world we face darkening horizons, and the war between Iran and Iraq is the latest symptom of a deeper malady.
But the lengthy proposal has darkened the horizon for a whole generation of power-brokers, with whom he rubbed shoulders (and a lot more besides) for the past quarter of a century.
On that point, the Vatican is at present immovable.Yet there is one silver lining on the darkening horizon.
But then, presumably, with the threat of cuts on the darkening horizon, no one artistically minded can afford to cock a snook at a source of finances.
The hunt was beginning to take on a mythic aspect, as bystanders traded misinformation and squinted into the darkening horizon, as though attempting to sight the Loch Ness monster, or a rare whale.
Healthcare has become a business, $700 billion was spent to bail out the very people who chose greed over a thriving posterity and the education bubble looms ever on the darkening horizon.
Its currency is unspeakable horror, with hatred and doom darkening every horizon.
In other Western states, high gas prices are battering firefighting budgets, tough economic times are making it harder to recruit volunteers in some rural areas, and the prospect of deep cuts in assistance from the Forest Service is darkening the horizon.
With the Great War fresh in collective memory and the threat of another war darkening the horizon, the inhabitants of a small French town are shaped by the political landscape of their day.
But he was held back, he said, by the thought of the people who would continue after him: "good scientists, good physicians, etc., who give me hope for the future — a hope one needs very much when one's own life is close to the end, and the negativities of life seem to darken the horizon".
Then I am told to put on a Clint Eastwood stare-at-the-darkening-horizon squint.
