Sentence examples for terrible darkness from inspiring English sources

But before the dawn came for Everton there was terrible darkness.

They discussed writing, and Blythe enjoyed her droll humour although he felt "a terrible darkness" in her preoccupation with psychopaths.

"The great mystery of this story," Philbrick writes, "is how America emerged from the terrible darkness of King Philip's War to become the United States".

Pity the people in Najaf and Basra; it is of Israel they think, Mackay would have us believe of a people who have endured a terrible darkness.

Thanks to Hoggart, Arbuthnot was suddenly, very briefly and gloriously, relevant to me before he, too, flew off back into the terrible darkness whence he came.

The Habsburg capital is on the cusp of modernity, its cosmopolitan mix of nationalities, and the dangerous new notions propagated by Sigmund Freud are evocatively pictured.There are hints too of the terrible darkness yet to come.

Obsession becomes melancholia, then psychosis, and this literal Underground Man must now tell his story in awe of the terrible sublime, in darkness and in blood.

Was his equatorial empire, the setting for Conrad's Heart of Darkness and the terrible Kurtz with the human heads dangling round his garden, the scene of a largely forgotten holocaust?

"A Marker to Measure Drift" isn't constructed to go deep into the heart of darkness, the wellsprings of the terrible killing in West Africa.

"We've gone through some very terrible water, and could literally see the darkness in it, debris floating around in it, bugs.

There is no getting round it: there is a darkness in Eliot, but one with a terrible, hypnotic power.