A muted, monotonous darkness — like the invisible motion of dark matter around a black hole.
They believed that the world was sharply divided between good and evil, light and darkness; all matter was at its heart dark, but plants contained illuminating "light particles" and were therefore okay to eat, while flesh derived from darkness and was therefore taboo.
Her watercolor and crayon drawings are appropriately sweet and childlike, with lots of white space to open up the darkness; the subject matter is grim, but the artwork is airy and appealing.
Below these lies the darkness of matter, the final absence of being, the absolute limit at which the expansion of the universe from the One through diminishing degrees of reality and increasing degrees of multiplicity comes to an end.
Only as an imaginal reality can it travel "up" toward the luminosity of the spirit or "down" toward the darkness of matter.
In applying my research and interest for the history and traditions of Color Theory, Physics, Alchemy, Heavy Metal, Religion and Mythology I am working toward a comprehensive understanding of the interrelation of Black, Darkness, and Matter".
Where they differ is in the darkness of their subject matter.
Despite the darkness of the subject matter, Mr. Tavernier's beautiful and subtle movie is short on bitterness, perhaps because his homage focuses on his predecessors' gallant defiance.
For all the darkness of her subject matter, Solnit emphasizes the utopian potential of what William James called a "civic temper," the drive not for individual survival but for meaningful community.
In spite of the darkness of the subject matter, the storytelling voice is coy and restrained, and the language is simple, almost childlike, as though Hill means to soften the ceaseless blows.
