Sentence examples for gloom to light from inspiring English sources

The Oxford English Dictionary defines the word "clarify" as "To free from darkness or gloom; to light up, illumine; to brighten" (in an appearance of the word dating to 1398) and "To make clear (an obscure subject)" (in a coinage from 1823), among other usages.

And then Aguero is gone, off into the evening gloom to light up the lives of 150 fans clutching the hand of the boy who lights up his own.

She felt her way through the gloom to the light switch by the door.

When Paul Collingwood was eighth out at 152 it was up to Broad in the gloom; and the light seemed to fall on him as on a Caravaggio face in the surrounding darkness.

I do try to think about the balance between levity and gloom, or light and dark, when I write.

And secondly on I Try To Talk To You, an elegant, lifting piano jam that somehow punctures an impossible gloom with light.

But through this gloom, the light of hope shines in Gabríela and her determination not to walk away from a hunch that something is very rotten indeed in Reykjavík.

Small wonder they might wish to step away from the gloom, into simple, light escapism, perhaps, or maybe to embrace a new form of drama that is less grandly, self-indulgently despondent, more life-affirming.

Most pertinent are those referred to as "stains" — sensuous, layered washes of primarily brown, sometimes black or blue ink, often evoking a morose nocturnal gloom from which light seems to be pushing its way through.

Into the national gloom, however, light broke.

It had earlier reported that it was close to running out of cash.Amid gloom, glimmers of light.