Sentence examples for darkness against from inspiring English sources

Picasso, who sketched fights as a boy, said the bull in Guernica represented "brutality and darkness" against the people.

I'll start with blackbirds: Just before I packed up myself, in late September, I looked out the window and hundreds (and I mean hundreds) were settled on the lawn, turning it into a mass of darkness against a gray sky and fallen leaves.

Thomas's poems - obsessed, as he put it, with "deaths and entrances" - are always pitching darkness against light, and here he seems to take particular pleasure in showing us, behind the eyes of the sleepers, "rainbows and tunes and wishes and flight and fall and despairs and the big seas of their dreams".

"We do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over the present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places," he said, reading from Ephesians 6 12-18.

At 5 15 AM on Monday, a small group of people huddle in the darkness against a stiff wind.

It will prove difficult to compare the opening of "Into Darkness" against the launch Abrams' 2009 "Star Trek," because the latter debuted at 7 p.m. on a Thursday.

"In vain" is a narrative of oppositions, setting light against darkness, dissonance against pure intervals, modern tuning against natural resonances.

The art exhibition, "Light Against Darkness," is the result of a three-month workshop run by artists who also provided psychological support for the children.

This was part of an exhibit, called "Light Against Darkness," the result of a three month art workshop that focused on helping children overcome the trauma of war through creative expression.

The room is lighted by electricity and candles, and predawn darkness presses against the windowpanes.

The best effect was after night fell and the darkness pressed against the windows, reflecting the room opaquely, as if in black pond ice.