Sentence examples for darkness looms from inspiring English sources

Here, obsession is more to the point than love; darkness looms, threatening to blind the light.

"Hey New York, darkness looms all over you," Jevric sings, against the background of Brooklyn Bridge and the skyscrapers of Manhattan.

The atmosphere is one of drift and routine over which darkness looms, reflecting the small-town setting of much of the book.

Instead, Yager is aiming for grittier territory in Spec Ops: The Line, which forgoes the usual machismo of a game of this type for something far darker; Apocalypse Now – and, by extension, Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness – looms large over the proceedings.

I opened the windows to a dark view, but I knew that in the darkness loomed the Daubenhorn mountain.

In Mr. Schaeffer's version neither the ghosts nor the darkness loom as large.

And I'm having a great time – thanks for asking – mostly bumbling along and shouting too much, but I don't feel the darkness looming.

"And see how many of the frolicking nudes are being watched by menacing satyrs, or have darkness looming in the background".

AM Homes has written of Jackson that her world "is eerie and unforgettable … a place where things are not what they seem; even on a morning that is sunny and clear there is always the threat of darkness looming, of things taking a turn for the worse".

Director Elizabeth Freestone rightly opts for a simplicity of staging: a shadow looms out of the darkness; a patch of light suggests a bedroom door ajar with possibilities.

Darkness constantly looms, adding precision but also an emotional undercurrent and a sense of the vast world beyond painting.