When the dusky lighting went black, and a pulsing strobe light began to illuminate the monster closing in, they let out a collective shriek and fled through a portal that, mysteriously, opened onto a tented fairground where a sign announced the date: "6 July 1888".
Following Ms. Rykiel's dictum that "the decor of a sex shop must be as beautiful as the toys," her boutiques, all dusky lighting, are stocked with cashmere robes, teddy bears and vibrators shaped like lipstick tubes, each packaged in its own tiny black silk bag.
Road accidents are frequent in this dusky light.
The afternoon, when I was eleven, the lawns brittle but gold in the dusky light.
Aided by the disguise and the dusky light of the early morning, Smalls gambled that he could pass for the officer once the Planter reached Fort Sumter, which would have to grant the boat permission to leave the harbor.
When your eyes adjust to the dusky light filtering in, you see that you're being observed by other eyes, those of a larger-than-life fifth century Northern Wei Buddha.
The studio, on the upper floor of Tiffany's duplex, was really three or even four stories in total height, the space open to the gables and disappearing into the dusky light cast by stained and other decorative glass.
As impossible as it sounds, Ms. Tipton's contributions in "No Time to Fly" are nearly fragrant, framing the dancing in such a way that Ms. Hay appears at times to be lost in a Maxfield Parrish landscape — if everything were removed but the dusky light.
Once accustomed to the dusky light, you see that the space is basically an old barrel-vaulted storage cellar that's been tidied up to resemble a kind of ersatz Mexico: tile frescos of hot rods and hotties, wallpaper promoting tag-team wrestlers, T-shirts commemorating the 1970 World Cup.
An image of bullet casings shifting in the sand and shots of a military tank creaking through the tall grass like some otherworldly creature, both of which the filmmaker shoots in dusky light, create a sense of menace that never disappears even in the full light of day.
The subdued hues in the dusky light; the quiet, interrupted only by the beautiful clink of ball on ball; and the sheer relaxed slowness of it all is about as far away from the bright, bright Australian sun and its associated, manmade hostility.
