Sentence examples for darker brother from inspiring English sources
/ I am the darker brother".
It was late, of course, and I had some recollection of a Langston Hughes line about being "the darker brother".
That allowed him to bring the darker sister into some of his poems, alongside the darker brother.
("I hear America singing/ The varied carols I hear" was Whitman's call; "I, too, sing America./ I am the darker brother" was Hughes's response).
In one of his most acclaimed poems titled "I, Too," Hughes wrote about why being a "darker brother" should not disqualify him from the basic liberties afforded to white Americans.
Black is defined as the "dark brother," the evil twin — "Banville, you slut".
Themes and preoccupations course from Banville to his dark brother, stripped of some of their elegant attire, but not transformed completely.
Their concert for the Sonic Boom Festival includes music by Partch ("Dark Brother," "Eleven Intrusions"), Mr. Drummond ("Before the Last Laugh," "Precious Metals") and Elizabeth Brown ("Delirium").
The occasionally stilted text can provide further cause for concern: "He shoots the official — but he shoots only his dark brother — and see: he is dead" is an oft-cited example.
After a few years, he thought, Oh God, better write another of those lit-fic novels again, just so they don't forget all about my dark brother, Banville.
But in that case Dean was the dark brother -- a version of Cain -- trying to win his idiot father's love, trying to endure the empty perfection of his brother, Aron.
