Earlier in the week, British director Ken Loach had accepted a lifetime achievement award at the festival, telling the audience: "I think we do live in darkening times, it is sometimes difficult to remember this...
Some have darkened over time, others have been changed in format, and still others have been cleaned and restored too drastically.
In the West Room, still referred to as Mr. Morgan's Study, the red damask wall covering, darkened by time, city soot and cigar smoke, has been replaced with a copy of the original fabric, which was itself copied from the 15th-century Roman villa of Agostino Chigi, a Renaissance banker and art patron with whom Morgan identified.
During exposure in residential environment (method 1), visual changes could hardly be observed, while exposure of the coupons in laboratory environment (method 2), lead to a visually brownish tarnish layer which gradually darkened over time.
Her peripheral vision darkened; at times, it disappeared completely.
You could say that the movie is colored by subway moods: a grim sort of listlessness and deadpan wit alternating with spasmodic fits of activity and rage; the pallor of flesh seen under humming neon and fluorescent light, a pallor darkened, at times, with blood.
THE "war on terror" has left many blots on America's reputation weapons of mass destruction, Abu Ghraib prison, Guantánamo Bay and one stain continues to darken with time.
This finding while unusual was not surprising as Osage orange is known to darken over time (Cardon 2007; Richards and Tyrl 2005).
However, as the mood of the time darkened, the Stones hit a new stride in 1968 with the epochal single "Jumpin' Jack Flash," which reconnected them to their blues-rock roots, and the album Beggars Banquet.
But when he finishes his stint and the editorial shears take him over, he will emerge as one of the brightest of the prose lighthouses in a time darkened by the pall of government".
