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Blending Yoruba, Catholic and mystical traditions, their photos feature jet-black subjects that blend into inky backgrounds, their eyes piercing the darkness as they stare at the viewer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Scanning the newspaper, inky fingers and fuzzled minds, scrambling for the calculator and jotting down the codes for Julian Dicks and Juninho.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
At night, the narrow cobbled streets of Old Havana are enveloped in inky black, devoid of power and virtually deserted.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
“We didn’t see it at the time, but item by inky item we were turning him into a New York icon,” wrote former Page Six reporter and editor Susan Mulcahy in a 2016 Politico piece.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
She laid the book on the desktop and stroked the worn cover, her elegant inky fingers tracing the discolored leather.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
Dark to begin with, the 1966 musical grew still inkier with Sam Mendes’ mid-1990s revival.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2018
THE GRAND-DUKE And the inkier the blackness All the clearer do we see To select the whitest pigeon In the dove-cote, and the bluest Blue jay on the shuddering tree!
From Chantecler Play in Four Acts by Edmond Rostand
They swept the heavens over and back, steadied awhile pointing inland, and went out again, leaving an even inkier blackness than before, and setting the watchers blinking and rubbing their dazzled eyes.
From H.M.S. —— by John Graham Bower
And as the road once again shaped for another crater-like ravine, plunged in inkier darkness and shrouded in solemn stillness, thoughts surged rapidly through one's mind.
From Across the Equator A Holiday Trip in Java by Thomas H. Reid
Here and there an inkier blackness moving showed a unit that had begun to find itself again.
From From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War by G. W. (George Warrington) Steevens
Give that information a moment to sink in, to really scrabble its way inside the inkiest crannies of your gray matter.
From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2018
Shooting in 35-millimeter black-and-white film, Mr. Garrel fills the wide screen with a ravishment of tones, from inkiest black to crystalline white and every imaginable gray in between.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2018
His figures — rendered in the inkiest shades of black — command notice and authority.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2017
From the palest blush of pink to the inkiest blue, stone fruit come in a vast array of colors, enriching the beauty – and nutrition – of your dining palette.
From US News ● Jul. 14, 2015
The top of one pinnacle took the shapely, clean-cut form of a rabbit's head, in the inkiest silhouette, while it rested against the moon.
From A Tramp Abroad — Volume 07 by Mark Twain
