blackness

When the attempted murderer claimed his intended targets stole his job, Superman snarled “The only person responsible for the blackness smothering your soul ... is you.”

“You turn off the lights and they just tumble into the blackness of space,” he told me.

The amnesia conceit allows the film to highlight its artificiality: painted backdrops, stages that recede into blackness, supporting players recast in multiple roles.

She continued up Lake Avenue, then suddenly plunged into blackness.

This white haziness in their lungs, where there should only be the empty blackness of air, is commonly the mark of a tuberculosis infection.