Sentence examples for descent of darkness from inspiring English sources

"Britain stood alone in twilight, awaiting the seemingly inevitable descent of darkness".

Mounted in a filmstrip format, the photographs, taken from a fixed point through the windows of his house, show the progress of the day in terms of light from dawn to the descent of darkness, a majestic process that only a camera could narrate.

Crowds surged forward, like beasts on the grass, with the descent of darkness.

They enacted potent, even dangerous, rites of passage for their youths to become full adults through the facing of death, a descent into the trials of darkness, and the rebirth into a new phase of life.

Indeed, Clark is a nuanced auteur of the adolescent descent into darkness; some of his notable work, a mélange of photography, narrative, and film includes Tulsa (1971), Teenage Lust (1983), and Wassup Rockers (2006).

The film was essentially a burlesque of that central motif of Vietnam in American culture, the "heart of darkness" story: the descent of innocents into savagery, the dissolution of reason in a violent encounter with an incomprehensible alien society.

He now pinpoints that defeat as the start of his descent into darkness.

"Literally, it means 'Used-to-be-better'". Driving on that night into the hours of darkness turned our careering descent to the oilfields of Mesopotamia into an awesome light show.

But the curtain of enigma about the man himself, and his descent into darkness and murder on the night of the killings, remained firmly in place.

He called it the 'Myth of the Night Sea Journey', with the hero undergoing a descent into darkness or temporary death.

He called it the "Myth of the Night Sea Journey," with the hero undergoing a descent into darkness or temporary death.