One Buddhist monk, Shinzen Young, has described the "dark night" phenomenon as an "irreversible insight into emptiness" and "enlightenment's evil twin".
A new extension, in burnt orange, lifts backstage facilities from what artistic director Jonathan Church has described as the dark ages.
The Royal Court's artistic director Vicky Featherstone has described it as "dark and surreal and shocking and challenging".
The upbeat bombast of the song, and Kamaiyah's silky epigrams — "I've been broke all my life / How does it feel to be rich?" — were idiosyncratic, and quite unlike the music of her contemporaries, which she has described as "hella dark".
In the past, he has described them as "dark but at the same time light".
As Mayer documents in The New Yorker and has described on air, the Dark Money Party which moved in to save Trump is headed by Robert Mercer, a quant fund multi-billionaire and co-owner of Breitbart, and his 40-year-old daughter Rebekah Mercer, with its operations orchestrated by Breitbart managing editor Steve Bannon.
Photograph: Luke MacGregor/Reuters Updated at 8.38pm GMT 7.10pm GMT Christopher Lowson, the Bishop of Lincoln, has described today as "a very dark day for the church".
Recently, the immensely gifted and equally popular British writer Philip Pullman, author of the trilogy His Dark Materials who has described himself as both an agnostic and an atheist, has condemned the Narnia books as religious propaganda.
Practically the only thing that does not interest him about London – which he has described as a "harsh city, a dark city based upon money and upon power, and upon the sacrifice of its citizens in the cause of capitalism" – is the impending mayoral contest between Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone.
