But the character of his darkness probably has more to do with New England — Hawthorne's "grave and dark-clad company" — than anything else.
The stones marking common graves are heavy and dark.
Third, a person with a depression diagnosis can function fine, unless the illness becomes grave and the dark mood colors sound judgement or if cognitive capacities are diminished because of the illness.
Mike Deaver, his longtime closest aide and friend, related to me afterward that he pressed an unhappy Reagan into an early retreat from his wood splitting and brush gathering at his small adobe-style ranch house high in the picturesque Santa Ynez Mountains, back to the grave and serious dark-paneled and windowless White House Situation Room -- located in a bunker in the West Wing basement.
"Scarlet Town" invokes a deep well, a dark grave and an iron bell and unmentioned happenings that "did mortify my soul".
It's kind of good vibes, until the scrap metal market nose-dives into a deep, dark grave and leaves Otis and Oscar in gruel-level poverty.
For I'd rather be In a deep dark grave And know that my first soul was saved Than live in this world In a house of gold Than deny my kind And doom my soul I rest on the flight to Brussels, but I do not sleep.
"Throughout this crisis — arguably the most grave, dark and repulsive moment in the life of our young nation — Mbeki has demonstrated that he no longer has the heart to lead," it said.
I noted the dark of the grave and the waning light of the sun; the softness of the bird's feathers and the dark, cold Earth; the tenderness of my children absorbing this searing lesson in life and the hard reality of death.
I have chosen the latter because I so love the lines: "Walk between dark and dark – a shining space / With the grave's narrowness though not its peace".
Manchester-born Boyle began his film career in 1994 with dark comedy Shallow Grave and has gone on to make hits including The Beach, zombie film 28 Days Later, sci fi drama Sunshine and the Oscar winning Slumdog Millionaire.
