Its best-loved song, "Animal" — the crowd-pleasing finale on Tuesday — begins, "There was a time when my world was filled with darkness, darkness, darkness," and doesn't find much comfort from there.
The streets filled with darkness in Dubliners are filled with promise in Ulysses.
I was filled with darkness, self-loathing and a horrible jealousy.
I made a series of drawings to do with my dreams; dreams that were filled with darkness and fear.
The stage is sometimes lit by lantern glimmers but often filled with darkness, penetrated by swirls of smoke.
On a day filled with darkness and frustration for many businesses, disaster recovery companies are some of the only ones having a good day.
It's a great foil to How It Is, his huge steel chamber filled with darkness, that's currently at the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern.
At the main exhibit, called "Candy Canyon," a cinemascopic installation by Mike Anderson and the sonic duo Javelin, she scurried through a realistic-looking cabin and cavern, and past cactuses while a soundtrack of trippy cowboy music filled the darkness.
Camping tentless alone in Scotland, she wakes to find a stag standing just behind the crown of her head: "His antlers filled the darkness over me; it was like looking at the sky through leaded panes".
"Where is the jar of night?" Alice wonders, and it appears in the hands of a younger Alice (WindRose Morris), an actual bottle filled with darkness and twinkling points of starlight.
Pregnant Franny, whose child can assert the human race's survival; the forgiving and ailing Glen; deaf-mute Nick; mentally challenged Tom Cullen, who will save Stu Redman Larry Underwoodd, who starts the novel dreaming of Flagg, and is filled with darkness, but somehow finds the light.
