Sentence examples for instead of the dark from inspiring English sources

This week, in Africa, Ms. Peng continued to play her part, arriving in Tanzania wearing a white skirt suit instead of the dark trench coat she wore in Moscow, but with that same, or a very similar, sky-blue color peeking out at the top.

Every time I make a tactical move (like when I suggest to my wife this summer that we should see "Iron Man" instead of "The Dark Knight"), I'm counting my experience points, hoping I have enough dexterity and rolling the dice.

In this story, the historian François Furet is the arch enemy, for stridently declaring on the eve of the bicentenary in 1989: "the French Revolution is over!" Furet's heirs are derided for focusing attention on the liberal constitutional aspirations of 1789, instead of the dark days of the Terror, which surely played a part in the founding of our western democracies.

Hence, we have mainstream progressives searching for the keys to change in a well-lit parking lot, instead of the dark and thorny shrubbery.

Only this time, instead of the Dark Lord doing his fun little anagrams — I Am Lord Voldemort, real cute, Tom — it's a murderous ghost calling kids to die by suicide, there's a scary house full of creepy-as-hell dolls, and there's no Fawkes the Phoenix to save him.

You can use dark eye pencil instead of the dark eyeshadow.

This is even more apparent when the background is set to the white day theme instead of the darker night theme.

Instead of disbanding the dark, it leaves an unforgettable recognition of it.

The door policy here is very different: dress down instead of up, the darker the clothes the better, keep your group to a minimum, act like you're not terrified of getting rejected entry, and knowing a little German can help you out tremendously.

After some thought, Hikaru decided to keep the tension instead of surrendering the dark squares with 16.Bxd4 Bxd4.

Instead of removing the dark paneling, we thought it would look more rustic if we painted it.