It starts out in the morning as being dusky as the sun rises, in the middle of the day under direct light they are pure white, and at the end of the day they become dusky again, and at night when there's no ambient light left they become black.
The block was still dusky and muted-the sun was concealed behind the Pan Am Building and its ilk-and the street itself was a dull, dark gray.
In the 1897 oil "Old Ice Pond at Nyack," the 15-year-old Hopper carefully reproduces a garish streak of sun in a dusky sky and the ripples of dimming light it spreads on the pond's snowy shore.
The imagination feeds on the soft, dusky sound of it.
The sky, between rainstorms, was a dusky gray, its clouds backlit by sun.
As I sat on the beach in the evening, watching the sun slide down the dusky sky, a dorsal fin knifed the surface seven metres out: a reef shark scoping the shallows.
Touching down at the landing zone at the end of my 27th and final flight, the sun ripped through the dusky sky and splintered its rays through hazy auburn clouds across the valley.
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Then, as the big red sun sank behind the dusky palms, I slipped off my board and sank into the sea.
And as the sun slowly sank in the dusky sky, dappling the darkening water with paint-by-number pinks and blues, gosh if I didn't feel like I was on a cruise.
The window faced west, out onto a sage-and-wildflower meadow of several acres, and, beyond that, a phalanx of cottonwoods and spruce, and, beyond those, the Tetons, with the sun now sunk behind the dusky silhouette of the Grand.
