Sentence examples for velvety darkness from inspiring English sources

After dusk, the streets were plunged into a velvety darkness.

Then, in the velvety darkness of the shaft, they murder him, claim that a piece of roof fell on his head and pocket the hush money (officially "compensation") that the panicking boss is happy to hand over.

Armando Orsini, a New York restaurant owner whose good looks and Continental courtliness defined the atmosphere of dolce vita that made Orsini's, on West 56th Street, a favorite hangout in the 1960s of movie stars, society people and diners willing to pay dearly to sit near them in velvety darkness, died on July 13 in Asheville, N.C.

After only a few minutes, the lights of the Lamanai Outpost faded into velvety darkness and the only light was a brilliant shaft from the halogen lamp at the front of the boat.

We haven't been gone more than four hours, but seeing our ship there, so unexpectedly lit up in the velvety darkness, gives me, absurdly, a pang like that of a hunter spotting the campfires of home.

The darkness was velvety, the stars winked large and we were mesmerized.

Writer Charles Taylor states, "Betty and Rita are often framed against darkness so soft and velvety it's like a hovering nimbus, ready to swallow them if they awake from the film's dream.

'Anvil of Darkness', so dark and velvety it appeared to suck in the light.

The light is draining imperceptibly out of the sky; the velvety plum color of the copper beech is drinking up darkness.

The legs are dark brown and have grey velvety hairs.

Velvety botrytis.