Sentence examples for threat of darkness from inspiring English sources

The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster and the Queen's messages also, though less dramatically, pointed to the threat of darkness overwhelming the Middle East and, through terror and the exodus of millions of people, creating misery across continents.

There is nothing here but light and darkness, light being engulfed by darkness on the one hand, and light heroically fighting back against the threat of darkness; and that inclines us towards the opinion that this is a moralising vision of place, and therefore companionable to Blake's vision of London in both his prose and his poetry.

Even in his final volume, In the Clearing, so filled with the stubborn courage of old age, Frost portrays human security as a rather tiny and quite vulnerable opening in a thickly grown forest, a pinpoint of light against which the encroaching trees cast their very real threat of darkness.

AM Homes has written of Jackson that her world "is eerie and unforgettable … a place where things are not what they seem; even on a morning that is sunny and clear there is always the threat of darkness looming, of things taking a turn for the worse".

The low terraces, chipper spirit, endless inventiveness and the always present threat of darkness and violence just out of shot.

Joan Anderman of The Boston Globe also gave it a positive review and said the band "hasn't forsaken its experimental streak, and the group uses it in the service of darkness -- or rather the threat of darkness".

Adapted by Mr. Kushner from "L'Illusion Comique," a mongrel oddity of a work from the 17th-century French playwright Pierre Corneille, this "Illusion" trafficks in a special, baroque brand of magic in which flowers bloom out of nowhere, a half-buried piano plays itself, and spectral circles of seemingly airborne lanterns glow wanly, with the threat of sudden darkness always lurking.

The story so far is a collision of stock genre motifs, pretty much just mumbo-jumbo existing on the periphery of some terrific shooter action – but I'm sure, with the full game, I'll become more invested in the tale of the Traveller and the threat of The Darkness.

Nor is this the primitive, exhilarating mud of Bausch's Rite of Spring but awkward, heavy mud that weighs the dancers down as they move, and which underlines the work's prevailing tone of darkness and threat.

That's precisely why these startups have become so successful so quickly — but that's also why it's imperative they recognize the threat of operating in regulatory darkness.

Japan's Seiji Ebihara shot a 4-under-par 68 yesterday, the best score among the players who finished the suspended first round of the P.G.A. Seniors' Championship in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla .Fifty-two players were unable to complete the round because of darkness after the threat of lightning interrupted play twice for a total of 2 hours 57 minutes.