blackness

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“This was a period in English culture before blackness acquired its fatal association with slavery,” he writes, identifying a “certain strain of indifference to color” in the thinking of the time.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2025

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

From Salon • Dec. 16, 2024

By the end, Sakamoto appears to be playing in inky blackness, with one light standing in for the moon shining over his left shoulder.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2024

He made a great leap, the force of the wind making Pinmei swallow her scream, and they all plunged into the blackness of the water.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin