Sentence examples for vast darkness from inspiring English sources

Development has stretched from the Mississippi River into what I remember as a vast darkness.

Against a vast darkness, Odette's humor glimmers heroically, like a fragile vein of gold in heavy stone.

But more recently, companies have begun to plan more affordable "suborbital" flights briefer ventures just to the edge of space's vast darkness.

The last sentence is unforgettable: "In the distance the shimmering pier juts into the vast darkness of the ocean like a burning ship launched into the night".

Often, in the field of physics, that benefit is a measure of understanding of the very small or the very distant: a light shone into the vast darkness of ignorance about how the universe works.

As our eyes (from behind 3-D glasses) adjust to the vast darkness, illuminated by streaks of sunlight refracted through the Earth's atmosphere, we detect movement that is recognizably human and hear familiar voices.

At another, "the soft billows of the clouds were gradually... gathered into a vast, lustrous darkness, like a sable sea".

Miles worked past his acoustic 60s quintet, a group that played as if it were suspended in vast, airless darkness, and soaked in the electric bath of Bitches Brew.

However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light".

At the moment, it is a mixed blessing that Gurgaon remains an island of air-conditioned malls and roaring, round-the-clock office towers, and that behind this brightly lighted boomtown lies a vast nation of darkness and cow-dung-fueled stoves.

Armed with these insights I went back to the piece and now the figure of Phaedra, alone in a vast space of darkness, her story told in a frenetic monologue, a self divided to the point of hallucinations and hysteria, whose only way to "purity" is in death, took on even more fascinating dimensions, with the Beckett/Racine dialogue strikingly relevant.