Sentence examples for stygian darkness from inspiring English sources

He talks about shooting in "the disused tube platforms under Charing Cross in stygian darkness".

These days, the Empire Stores, on Water Street between Dock and Main Streets, endures in Stygian darkness behind its iron shutters.

Here I buy hand-rolling tobaccos of a stygian darkness and Samsonian strength unattainable in England – my favourite is the threatening-sounding Schwarzer Krauser No 1.

Even Florence Kelley, the tenacious progressive reformer, concluded, "Keeping the light on is probably the best contribution that we can make where there is now Stygian darkness".

The office under Big Ben where Simon and I have worked for years in Stygian darkness now has a window, two actually.

They believe that the less fortunate peoples of the earth drag out their benighted existence in the Stygian darkness of delusion and error, not having been vouchsafed what has been revealed from on high to their culture alone.

"The whole movie is a social experiment on a global scale, an ambitious, lavish attempt to see if audiences will turn out for a comic-book epic that goes beyond darkness into Stygian bleakness, grim paradox, endless betrayals and pervasive corruption.

The steel that slices the stygian foreground is soaked in wet, dark-red blood.

It seems that all the vile scenes emerging from the stygian gloom in Rosa's painting are materialisations of darkness itself.

Ben Affleck may make a strong fist of his role as the screen's grouchiest Batman but Snyder (who is no Christopher Nolan) mistakes "murkiness" for "darkness", leaving his stodgy antiheroes stomping around in a Stygian quagmire of quasi-religious imagery, superficial set pieces, and – most damagingly – incoherent storytelling.

On this fall night, darkness had reached the block before she had, and ominous shadows played around her. Like Stygian guides, young men flitted in and out of the building with crackheads in tow.