If you're mentally ill, dark-skinned, and sitting in jail, your vulnerability becomes acute.
So I decided to apply a light touch to my duck dish, having mentally shelved all dark brown sauces and sweet potatoes until autumn.
It is often in the second half of an endurance event that things turn dark, mentally, for participants, who may wonder why they paid money to run thirteen miles in the rain on a Saturday morning while the rest of Brooklyn is sleeping.
I live in a state where the norm is to spend as little as possible on public education while meting out capital punishment to the uneducated, the mentally incompetent and the dark-skinned.
Intrigued, you spend your day searching out tall dark men, mentally filing them under T (as in To be bowled over by).
How else would one mentally sustain a long, dark winter that bore no assurance of survival?
There were moments between plates when the din of the place and the onset of gastric pressure took me to a dark place, mentally.
I felt that his magical dagger shared a few narrative similarities with the trilogy's One Ring, especially in the way it caused Rumpel to change both mentally and physically, the dark power discoloring his skin and twisting his mind, Gollum-style.
Eva and Franco Mattes Dark Content, Episode 4 - A darker place mentally, 2016.
Our last coins spent, we walked home in dark and daybreak, mentally floating above the hard pavement, captured for ever.
