blackness
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To enter the painting, we must either scale the long, arching slopes of Rembrandt’s broad torso or, by a leap of faith, dive into the inky blackness of his midsection.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
"What struck me wasn't necessarily just Earth, it was all the blackness around it. Earth was just this lifeboat hanging undisturbingly in the universe," said Koch.
From Barron's ● Apr. 11, 2026
Seeing our planet surrounded by the blackness of space "truly emphasised how alike we are, how the same thing keeps every single person on planet Earth alive," Koch said from space.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026
“You turn off the lights and they just tumble into the blackness of space,” he told me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025
The glass ceiling and boarded-up walls ended, and whatever lay ahead was covered in silence and blackness.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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