Sentence examples for thing of darkness from inspiring English sources

"This thing of darkness I / Acknowledge mine," he says.

Such parallels do a disservice to an original and disquieting first novel that transforms the intimacy of a romance into a thing of darkness.

"This thing of darkness" is what Prospero calls Caliban at one point in "The Tempest," but the phrase is used by Mr. Lucas to refer to the future.

The point is that the Creature is human – but Frankenstein, unlike Prospero is, by the very nature of his paternity, unable to say "This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine".

What does Prospero mean when he says of Caliban, at the end of the play, "This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine?" And by the way, who is Caliban's father?

The choice of The Tempest also has interesting resonances for the Paralympics given that Caliban is called a "thing of darkness" by Prospero, while Trunculo calls him a fish.

Porgy, who seems at times like a type of Christ, at times like Adam before and after the Fall, is torn between "doctor Jesus" and his "sometime thing" Princess of Darkness, but it is no contest.

But Also – curdling into a thing of genuine darkness.

The best thing about "Edge of Darkness" in the early going is its atmosphere of hushed, pervasive menace.

Gibson is the best thing about "Edge of Darkness," at once despairing and decisive, although I'm not sure he was wise to agree to the scene where Craven says to a bigwig, "You'd better decide whether you're hanging on the cross or banging in the nails".

Lest you think the whole queen of darkness thing was just a phase, Ms. Mara stepped out yesterday in one of her most austere looks yet.