"Shadows" continues a trend in recent Teenage Fanclub albums of ruminative, deceptively delicate songs tinged with darkness.
Reaction can only come from what the viewer feels or sees in the painting, from the striations of color and texture, which come to life as the eye moves from web cluster to color mass, discovering depth in flat surfaces, relationships in unconnected lines, muted softness, deep darkness, a delicate weave of lines, dots, swirls, and curves, overlapping into a labyrinth of infinite possibilities.
The blazingly white core, inside which are stepped layers of delicate, starlike motifs, is surrounded by darkness and by a starburst of darkly striated beams.
Luxembourg-based art-tronic project Monophona's music is a compelling combination of a fragile, delicate voices and beats with a seeping darkness running through them.
You get the feeling that this actor is ready to perform delicate surgery on some classically amiable character's heart of darkness.
While the eccentric, erotic Hijikata was known for the "dance of darkness" (Ankoku Butoh), Mr. Ohno, more of a delicate, poetic force, once said in an interview, "I prefer light sustained by darkness".
At the base of each lung there was an infiltrate -- an area of lightness where there should be darkness -- suggesting that something other than air and delicate lung tissue was present.
Any disturbance to our delicate cycles would cause us to plummet and spiral alone in the darkness, through Alice's rabbit hole, missing meals and breaking our routines.
Wielding a camera and a diving light in the darkness, he looked up and saw strange clusters of white, delicate fungi-shaped polyps, like the ghosts of corals, carpeting the ceiling.
The schoolmaster is conducting a delicate courtship of a local young woman, and despite Haneke's reputation for darkness, this plot-strand is gentle, touching and humorous – difficult though that may be to believe.
