One of my boatbuilding friends perfectly describes this process as "staring into the dark, gaping, bottomless maw of insanity".
During a Nets game, pedestrians strolling along Flatbush Avenue would be able to catch glimpses of anguished fans inside; when the arena was empty, its dark, gaping void could have the haunting effect of the ruins of a Roman coliseum.
For what seemed like hours, Air Force Two taxied down the runway and then sat on the tarmac, the camera focused on the dark, gaping doorway, waiting for someone, anyone, to emerge.
In contrast to the lush, surrounding forest of the Parque de las Cavernas del Río Camuy, the main entrance to the caves is cool, dark and gaping.
O'Connor so loads her brush with pathetic fallacy that her landscape is alive, the scene nearly always hemmed in by lines of watching trees or woods that gape "like a dark open mouth".
The inhabitants, who had not encountered too many black people, marveled, and often gaped, at his dark skin and gloriously kinky hair.
Every dark tabletop seemed to him a gaping black hole that meant to swallow him up and every window filled with white winter light was full of malicious intent.
Lumpish, with stunted pectoral fins that they use for ponderously slow swimming in cold and dark Arctic waters, they have blunt snouts and gaping mouths that give them an unfortunate, dull-witted appearance.
None of the lighting fixtures were functioning so it was pretty dark and the space was filled with tarps and random piles of boards, with lots of gaping holes in the walls where various appliances had been ripped out.
There were gaping holes everywhere in the plastered walls, a few renegade plants curling around the downstairs toilet and the carpets dank and dark with stains--everything had to be torn up.
