Sentence examples for wait for the dark from inspiring English sources

"Amazon Glitch Unmasks War of Reviewers" (front page, Feb. 14) portrays the community of literary writers as a nest of immature, insecure vipers who wait for the dark of night to scrawl anonymous graffiti on one another's work.

I don't want to wait for The Dark Knight Rises either.

In this case, waiting for the dark beats waiting for the day.

"Like the monks on Iona," as one of their former parliamentary researchers told me, "illuminating their manuscripts and waiting for the Dark Ages to come to an end".

He has chosen for his later and better-known fiction -- Love and Garbage," "Judge on Trial," "Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light" -- characters whose focus is on the personal but whose strivings are thwarted by the machine of events.

Some fiction in English: 1970 A Ship Named Hope; '85 My Merry Mornings; '86 Love and Garbage; '91 Judge on Trial; '92 My Golden Trades; '94 Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light; '97 The Ultimate Intimacy; '99 Lovers for a Day; 2001 No Saints or Angels; '04 (in Czech) The Premier and the Angel.

She waits for the dark night of the soul that being face to face with solitude is supposed to bring, but it never comes, and the book is similarly oriented towards the light.

I found my spot on his chest below his shoulder, pushed the needle through until it touched the collarbone, "walked" the needle down the bone, then slid it slowly underneath while drawing back on the attached syringe, waiting for the dark red blood to rush back indicating that I had hit my target.

If he waits for the dark side of the bureaucracy to agree that secrecy is a betrayal of the public trust, well we'll be waiting for Godot.

The "I" re-creates them, filling the void they left: I lay in the dark, waiting for the night to end.

Wait for the pupa to turn dark or clear.