In the green-lit gloom of the plane, Hastings saw soldiers seated on the nylon hammocks reading printouts of his piece unaware the culprit was right next to them, settling in for a snooze after an exhausting day.
Figures loom out of a low-lit, smoke-wreathed gloom: a dancer, a frantic percussionist, a couple of middle-aged men in wheelchairs, and, most intriguingly, a spaceman wandering the streets of Kinshasa.
So it was frustrating and farcical to see as crucial a match as a T20 Blast quarter-final truncated, as the players peered into the (obviously unplayable) gloom from lit up dressing rooms in an eerie throwback to the 1980s and 1990s.
The sky remained clear as the sun vanished, eliciting a "great, awed groan" from the gathered viewers Totality lasted four minutes, turning "this world into another place, an alien landscape.... (lit by) an unearthly twilight gloom".
It's a dark reading in every sense: Miller reproduces the oppressive gloom of gas-lit drawing rooms with a literalness that risks eye-strain.
Nightfall plunges the surrounding colonial-era building into crumbling gloom, but in the generator-lit tents, Ibrahim cheerfully greets colleagues as he gets ready for his shift.
In the evening, even a well-lit cathedral space will take on a touch of gloom, with the awareness of the day's demise enforcing a certain intimacy among the congregants.
By Russell Platt In the evening, even a well-lit cathedral space will take on a touch of gloom, with the awareness of the day's demise enforcing a certain intimacy among the congregants.
Ride two miles down into the gloom, hanging from a wire, and after a torch-lit hike past underground streams and conveyor belts you arrive at a black wall.
Norway boasts the world's longest road tunnel: a 25km (16-mile) tube punctuated by the occasional blue-lit cavern, to give weary drivers the impression that they are emerging from the gloom, if only fleetingly.State-owned firms have also been drafted into the quest to reduce Norway's emissions.
My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.
