Sentence examples similar to kind of dusky from inspiring English sources

This, and her ease with vernacular language, puts Ward in fellowship with such forebears as Zora Neale Hurston and William Faulkner Bois Sauvagee, with its watchful children and desiccated vistas, is a kind of duskier Yoknapatawpha.

Mr. Cowie's fourth book, "Dinner After Dark" (Clarkson N. Potter), suggests a kind of brooding, dusky sensuality despite the illogic of its title (Who eats dinner before dark?).

Perhaps what emerges primarily is Hogg's sense of light: her screen is alternately washed with cold, clear daylight, then suddenly plunged into a dusky gloom for another outdoor scene and into a different, disorientating kind of twilight for an interior sequence.

It was a white summer night, a kind of gauze with dusky twilight, no slumber, but a yearning for it.

Some chose to tweak the season with a novel kind of layering that called for dusky-hued sweaters pulled incongruously over summer whites.

Unfortunately, these advances mainly highlight the failed recovery of dusky groupers at large.

Friedrich is an artist of dusky fire, of twilight that sears.

But it seems they are thriving in the age of dusky noonday skies and counterfeit beef.

Louboutin bent over and pulled some weeds from a bed of dusky hellebores.

Nature — soft tufts of dusky foliage, scraps of yellowish sky — attends indifferently.

Nature soft tufts of dusky foliage, scraps of yellowish sky attends indifferently.