dark
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The film is dark, gripping, spiked with horror, but it is deepened by a tragic sense of patterns in repeat, and of both the weight and fragility of family.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
"That's an example of the power of prayer, and through our history, there are so many people that lifted this state up through the power of prayer in very dark times," Colom said.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
Sam, who walks with a cane sometimes, is cool and dark and stylish, in an Anna Wintour mode.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026
They found that their model could reproduce the observed rotation curves without invoking dark matter.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2026
Joey is suddenly wide awake, blinking her dark brown eyes at her new home as the ambulance comes to a stop.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
He doesn’t say, though he reveals himself to have a darker sensibility than his “straight Midwestern manner,” as he calls it, might suggest.
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026
There’s a brief, four-bar transition before he goes into the final section, where his fingers barely brush the keyboard with feathery lightness before he changes the mood completely with darker, heavier, brooding chords.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
"He was sweating, it was like rubbing off, so it was darker underneath and darker on the neck," she told his trial.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
Although permanent daylight saving time would mean brighter winter evenings, it would also mean darker winter mornings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
It was even darker on the water than it had been on the road.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
Bond investors would do well to remember that it’s often darkest before the dawn.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026
Guyana's President Irfaan Ali, who is set to meet with Charles during his visit, told ITV News the king's recognition of the "darkest days" was just the "first step".
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
This is a skillset of someone who is happiest in the darkest corners of government—the swampiest of swamps—a realm of acronyms, white papers, and multihyphenate bureaucracies.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026
The resuscitation of a Dodger brand during what was quite possibly its darkest moment?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
He slipped out of bed and dressed quickly in his darkest clothes, then left the room.
From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz
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