Nostalgia's Dusky Glow In one scene Shun takes Umi on a bike ride into town as the sun is setting — one of their first extended moments together.
A pale dusky pink indicated private scenes in the female protagonist's sitting room.
A dusky, bluish tonality suffuses the scene, which is discreetly accented with bits of bold color.
Perhaps what emerges primarily is Hogg's sense of light: her screen is alternately washed with cold, clear daylight, then suddenly plunged into a dusky gloom for another outdoor scene and into a different, disorientating kind of twilight for an interior sequence.
In the show, Walker displayed Gone, An Historical Romance of a Civil War as It Occurred Between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart, a scene of black paper-cutouts of figures showing a violent master-slave romance gone awry.
As I was writing a certain chilling scene yesterday, a scene set in atmospherically dusky woods with trees that look like sculptures, my son came up behind me just as my heroine spots something -- or someone -- standing in front of her.
The mezzo-soprano Olga Borodina dominates every scene she is in as the princess, singing with dusky colorings, supple phrasing and unforced power.
The scenes in which the family wanders down through dusky stillness to the water's edge, or tours a deserted chapel, where Grégoire recounts the history of feuds far older and more blood-soaked than anything in the movie business, flow with a serenity that eludes him as soon as he rejoins the waking world.
Christine Brewer, who is quickly establishing herself as a major dramatic soprano on the international scene, was vocally gleaming as Tove, and the mezzo-soprano Waltraud Meier sang the Wood Dove with dusky tone and sultry allure.
dusky flycatcher (Alseonax adustus).
