You look with Anna and her lover Andrei at her sick father and notice a "thread of pulse" that unexpectedly "jumps in his wrist", but see too how his skin is "darkening, growing dusky around mouth and nose".
It was starting to get dusky and gray.
The walls of the show are gray, growing darker and duskier as you proceed, as if the day were winding down, and the whole place were being sucked into the shadows.
Three albums into her career -- her new one and her best, "A Creature I Don't Know" (Ribbon Music/Domino), is to be released Sept. 13 -- it's no longer news that Ms. Marling, now 21, sounds startlingly grown up, with a dusky voice and songs that conjure fables and revelations alongside piercing human insights.
Tourists interested in seeing dusky dolphins grew from 1,393 in 1997 to 1,840 in 2000.
Children grow up fast in western Nepal, a land of mud-walled farming villages and golden paddy fields stretched beneath a low, dusky sky.
Until you've seen three Canadian duskies you grew up with get sucked into a jet engine, don't tell me you know what tragedy is.
In February 2001, a healthy, 42-year-old, female geologist from Canada came to her dermatologist with a slowly growing, 1.5-cm diameter, dusky-red, nontender, plaque-like lesion surrounded by keloidal scar tissue on the posterior aspect of her right upper arm.
Her big, dusky voice sometimes grew unsteady, but she was riveting, moving, fun and a little demented: in other words, just what opera is supposed to be.
Lighted from behind, his small, brushy pastoral landscapes have a remarkable naturalistic luminosity and his surrealistic visions of trees growing from small boats have a dusky, melancholy poetry (Johnson).
