I've never known a holiday to be spoiled, or even darkened, by an argument, by tensions that crackle and erupt in sharp words. |
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The system, power button and LCD backlight provide an eerie glow in a darkened room. |
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He walked out into the alleyway, scraping the knives along a wall and causing sparks to fly from the blade in the darkened alley. |
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He walked out into the alleyway, scraping the knife along a brick wall and causing sparks to fly from the blade in the darkened alley. |
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I went into the darkened drawing room and sat watching the flickering of light on the TV screen. |
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In the darkened room behind this diorama, a wall-sized video projection showed a seascape of lapping waves. |
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A small horizontal slit in the center of the door allowed me to view some of the darkened room beyond. |
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I'm sat in one of those chairs with a little side table to rest your notebook on, arranged in a semicircle in a darkened room. |
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I groan when one of the devices starts beeping or ringing or humming in a darkened theater. |
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In the darkened theatre, I asked myself what became of her, but I found her in the seat behind me, gin-soaked and belching while she dozed. |
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In the darkened operations room below decks, grey overalled officers and sailors watched an approaching blip on their radar screens. |
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The first volley rang out as the sky further darkened by the shafts of thousands of arrows and bolts. |
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The director punches just the right sized holes allowing biting wit to illuminate the darkened text. |
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The room should be one that can be absolutely darkened so that adequate transilluminations can be done. |
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Rigged to slowly rotate in the darkened gallery, the mirrored structure reflected shards of light onto the surrounding walls. |
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Then, all in a moment, her face darkened with a mirthless glare as though there had been no jocularity to begin with. |
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In the darkened capacity of the enormous factory, they worked quickly to pull off the sabotage without tripping the alarms. |
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Stand her in the middle of a darkened Victorian dining room draped with holiday greenery, a Christmas tree twinkling in the corner. |
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The lights had long since gone out, leaving the room darkened enough that he could hide. |
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The atmosphere in this video is darkened yet strangely luminous, the video palette seemingly blued and grayed. |
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A slight, bluish light sprung down upon a darkened figure seated thirty feet from me. |
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As we drove down the darkened motorway, the worst nightmare for a skier happened. |
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Scores of people stood around in the darkened gallery straining to hear every word of the amazing, passionate reading. |
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He introduces him to the criminal underworld and, as partners, they rob and beat men in darkened alleys. |
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Where a giant tree falls, a slash of light is introduced into the previously darkened forest. |
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The night was pitch-black, and the only source of light was from the lightning bolts which flashed through the darkened sky every now and then. |
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Glancing behind me, I saw the ground littered with bodies, the blue uniforms darkened by blood. |
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The quieter ivory-bills retreated to darkened corners of the remaining bottomland, keeping their songs to themselves. |
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These are all natural assumptions of unspiritual men whose minds are darkened to God's word. |
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The television filled with digital snow, casting a pale glow about the darkened room. |
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His darkened eyes looked down at her from her disheveled hair, her untucked shirt, her jeans, and down to her unlaced sneakers. |
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The most celebrated and the most accomplished brought to that darkened chamber their highest knowledge with ever renewed and unwearying effort. |
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Her darkened skin stood in contrast to the soft glow of the dress as she slipped on the impractical shoes and made her way out of the door. |
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In a darkened space, seven urinals lined one wall, each lit by a focused spotlight. |
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There is also a night-time color scheme because the bridge of a ship is in darkened mode. |
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From the brightness of the hallway they climbed the darkened staircase, carefully, as if it was fragile and could break with a heavy step. |
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But as the spirit appeared, during my prayer, I felt surprised to notice its brow darkened and its forehead wrinkled. |
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The Brussels lace is lightly yellowed, slightly darkened with age or body oil. |
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Outside, large frame houses present darkened facades along a sparsely trafficked street. |
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There skin was darkened and their black hair fell down to the middle of their backs. |
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The skies darkened and the heavens opened obliterating any view whatsoever within minutes of us setting off on our travels again! |
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Removal of bark over the canker reveals a sharply defined region of darkened or discolored wood bordered by white, healthy wood. |
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Over the years his bones have darkened to the rich caramels of their earthen tomb. |
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Ominous storm clouds darkened in the U.S. this week, as a faltering equity market and weakening dollar joined a troubled Credit market. |
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The lobes, which are preserved as carbonized remains of round or ovate outline, have a thickened or darkened rim. |
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In 1665 he split a sunbeam into a many-hued spectrum by passing it through a prism in a darkened room. |
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These are housed in an ancient open-air chamber of delicate, honey-coloured pillars, its crumbling walls darkened by the smoke of candles. |
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The sky darkened, and mysterious howls and hoots came from every direction. |
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As my taxi halted at a red light in the darkened, deserted city centre one night, I feared my own story was about to veer towards pessimistic. |
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He'd darkened a bit from his pale and pasty childhood complexion, but not too much. |
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If time allows, catching a short nap in a darkened, quiet room with an ice bag or cold compress on your forehead can work wonders. |
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It is a gangster film with darkened images meant to impart an art-house quality. |
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The flicker of candlelight illuminated the darkened dining room, creating phantasmal shadows dancing upon the walls. |
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Wilhelm lifted his head and fastened his eyes on the darkened house for a long moment, as though etching that sight into his mind forever. |
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I slowly picked my way through the darkened streets until I was at the front door of Jason's hut. |
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Light joints may be darkened by painting the joints with pigments specially selected to produce the required shade. |
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The chest was made of dark wood, probably lighter in earlier days and then darkened by years of cleaning with pine tar. |
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The floor has been darkened and Rotman's figureless photographs are lit from behind. |
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When the powdered something hit the water, a filmy silver light hovered over the rim of the smooth darkened wood of the cup. |
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Without any further hesitation, Amanda spins around towards a darkened corridor nearby, hurrying to the fire door several yards away. |
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The last time we saw Kieren, he was sitting in a darkened room sobbing quietly into his hands. |
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The lights up and down the street fizzled and popped, their sparks the last bit of light on a suddenly darkened street. |
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The world blurred and darkened before him as he had the most irresistible urge to go back to sleep. |
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The PVA solution was deposited in polystyrene molds under the force of gravity in a darkened room. |
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The skies darkened ominously and the light sensitive floodlights in the Hollow switched on to combat the 1.00 p.m. early darkness. |
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He stared out at the darkened folds of the valley and the fading strip of radiance at the other end. |
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I walked up the stairs and glanced back at his darkened form in the garden. |
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It was now almost 3 a.m. on a completely darkened road, and some crazed guy is flailing his arms and yelling at them as they pass. |
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Magnus led him along the darkened wood corridor of the freight, stopping at a door with flickering yellowish light streaming out from beneath it. |
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Letting his wavy brown hair cover his darkened eyes, a shrill, ear-piercing scream filled the hallways. |
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The air was darkened with a whirling, seething mass of powder-like snow which appeared to come up from the ground as well as down from the sky. |
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She watched as her friend walked back down the darkened hallway and pushed open the door to the small powder room. |
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The edges are darkened and distressed as if they were rescued from a box of letters kept in a dark attic. |
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Jeanna opened her eyes to see the sky had darkened to a dark slate, and the wind whipped mercilessly at the houses and plants around her. |
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In August 1999 the skies above Swindon were darkened during a total solar eclipse. |
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Sara's blue eyes darkened as she watched his expression become somewhat haunted. |
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The mood at St James' Park darkened as Newcastle sunk to a 1-defeat to Tottenham. |
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Brett's features darkened and he nodded, looking completely unhappy with the news. |
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In truth, it was another wobble with his three wood which had darkened Woosnam's mood. |
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While the attacks darkened the mood of our country, I am heartened to know that the core values of Americans remain strong. |
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But his mood darkened as time went on and his eldest daughter remained uncontactable. |
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Rhian thought of saying something to cheer the girl up, but her exchange with Gina had momentarily darkened her mood. |
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His mood darkened, though, when Dougal levelled the teams again 11 minutes later by inexplicably waving a red at McIntyre. |
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Jacynthia and Lark's moods had darkened quickly and they sulked while taking notes. |
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After Chile called for a 45 day deadline the mood darkened at the thought of another month and a half in this dump, waiting and waiting. |
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However, his eyes had darkened dangerously and she could not tell with what emotion. |
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Mark's eyes darkened with anger, and it was obvious that only his iron control over his emotions kept him from striking him. |
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Ethan's grin was wide, though his eyes darkened in pent up anger, and fear. |
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A frown darkened the girls' eyes and they brought the page of confusing pictures up closer to their faces. |
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Annoyance darkened her brown eyes as she glared at the vicious, little black ball of fur. |
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Vicki stepped off the overflowing bus with a sigh, the forlorn glaze that had darkened Wil's eyes setting heavy on her heart. |
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I worried for Brent because he was my only friend in Arlington and I understood the pain that darkened his eyes. |
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He was too busy checking up on Rhys to see the impatience that darkened his eyes. |
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An unidentifiable emotion darkened his eyes so that they were almost black. |
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They were swooping along above a thousand darkened dells, and Kymenos could have chosen any of them to hide in. |
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In most of the theater photographs, a darkened proscenium arch and decorative architectural details enclose a rectangle of dense, milky light. |
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The sun, rising fat and slow made the darkened hat shop appear strange and purpled. |
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His green eyes darkened as he stared at the diary, its cover slightly damaged by water that had long since evaporated. |
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In the darkened second gallery were two book-like works involving electroluminescence or fiber-optic light. |
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The hair was also jet black, and the cheeks were darkened with a slight growth of stubble. |
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I'd heard a sound coming from the darkened doorway of a large red building to my right. |
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The darkened arched doorway yawned to her left and began to coax her in, tugging at her curiosity. |
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My university years were a time to rediscover the joys of the darkened cinema. |
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You need special material and on no account simply use darkened glass, old spectacles or glasses. |
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He returned to New Zealand, but he would have been forgiven for just having a lie-down in a darkened room. |
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His chocolate-colored eyes darkened, and a wisp of raven hair escaped its gelled hold and fell across his forehead. |
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In a darkened hallway, a young girl and her parents stare after the teenager tramping upstairs. |
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The darkened rooms on the south and west side are all aglow with moon shine. |
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Adam's face darkened, and his teasing, light-hearted mood was gone beyond recall. |
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In addition, lifesize models of raggedly clothed families huddle enclosed behind glass in darkened recesses in the walls. |
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I had bright red hair as a child, but it has progressively darkened to its current brown. |
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The group set up a darkened, womb-like room, with a red velvet spread covering a big bed, candles everywhere, and pictures of Claire as a baby. |
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The light spills on to the darkened street and the warmth reddens my cheeks in seconds. |
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Watch out in the darkened closes and wynds of Edinburgh's Old Town, was the message from one of them to the new leader. |
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Sweat darkened her golden coat and made white foamy rings where the halter had rubbed the perspiration into lather. |
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The world around her darkened as she fell into a deep restful and peaceful sleep. |
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From the darkened bar from which I dictate this missive, I can hear the starter engines revving up! |
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As the instruments darkened, I raised my tinted visor and turned up the rheostats. |
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The crevices of the bead or charm are darkened to give it an antique appearance. |
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The huge primary lights in the ceiling were darkened but the scattered emergency lights gave some illumination. |
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Slowly people left, and just as slowly the park darkened and the quaint round lanterns set around the circle flickered into life. |
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The sharp detail and good contrast control offer a good look at the few interesting things that happen in the mostly darkened production. |
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Ringing bells, whirring motors and flickering lights assailed the senses as one entered the darkened gallery from the street. |
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Off Norway, Triton challenged a darkened submarine but failed to elicit a response before firing a salvo which sent Oxley to the bottom. |
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To innovate, the avant-garde needed to push film out of the black box, the darkened theatre, into the white cube of the gallery space. |
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All of the colors swirled together, scarlet, crimson, vermilion, gold, violet, and rose converging on a darkened figure in the center. |
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If your bedroom cannot be darkened, use another room for sleeping. |
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The pupils should be dilated and the fundus examined in a darkened room. |
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In the Kodiak harbor, the salmon seine fleet was loading supplies and heading out for an opening the next day, and schools of inch-long smolt darkened the water. |
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For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. |
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The bear's expression darkened as he grumpily stood up on all four paws. |
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Right now, however, Lewis' sponsors and management plot her future in the darkened corner of the studio, as stylists dress her and beauticians cluck over her eye shadow. |
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Thus we were ordered to tipsily navigate the darkened, traffic light-less, wreckage covered streets to our hot, powerless, and, in some cases, devastated homes. |
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We see a solitary figure in a darkened office, a lighted miniature Christmas tree sitting on someone's desk, and a dippy Christmas novelty song playing on the radio. |
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Shana's face darkened from pale pink to tomato red in a matter of seconds. |
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I still hear the screams of terrified people through the hissing of fire, still see tongues of flame rear high into a night sky, darkened even more by heavy black smoke. |
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I ventured solo toward the lodge for a brief ride through a nice eight inches of powder away from the over-bright halogens into the darkened trees. |
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There are two layers beneath the garden, a white space and, below that, a darkened second space that traces out the footprints of the fallen towers. |
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Finally, most fish seek shaded, darkened areas during hot, sunny days. |
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His thoughts darkened rapidly as his fingers continued to itch. |
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He quickly shed his clothes and climbed gratefully into a bed that hadn't been used in too long, turning on his side so his back was to the darkened glass. |
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His eyes darkened, his disdainful expression frozen in place. |
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Scott turned slightly while she was still in his arms and shut the door behind them then reaching for the light switch the room darkened around them. |
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Cake and coffee finished, she pulled out a long slim panatella, lit up and smoked it full down, all the while watching the street scene through darkened glasses. |
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Goodwin looked like someone had hit her behind the eyes with a quarter megaton of fissionables as her swarthy face darkened and her hands on the table clinched. |
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A scowl darkened his brown eyes to black as he glared ahead. |
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I am startled by your wild eyed face darkened with the moko. |
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The room, darkened both by the sun's setting and the closed blinds, was shut of all noise and interference, save for the monitoring devices secured around the bed. |
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She guided us into the nurse's office, stopping for nothing, and sat us both gently down on a cot in one of the darkened sickrooms which was thankfully vacant. |
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The room darkened again as a cloud passed in front of the moon. |
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The room had darkened, as if obeying the laws of pathetic fallacy. |
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He was shouting up at the darkened windows of banking executives who could not hear a word he was saying. |
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But there was no way, as they stood there blindfolded in the darkened room, to know if they were being told the truth or not. |
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For years your bright light was darkened by a blizzard of lies, cheating and innuendo. |
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Iris watched as his expression darkened and his speech became more abrupt. |
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The sky has clouded over almost entirely, the day has darkened. |
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Through the darkened windows of one of the lower decks nearest to the quayside could be seen tables laid out for dinner in one of the ship's four restaurants. |
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Her coffee brown eyes were sharp and darkened with every word she uttered. |
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Her face was weather-worn and darkened by sun, but beautifully shaped. |
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The mayor jokingly suggests traditional activities that take place in darkened movie theaters to help the audience preserve their precious body heat. |
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Her weathered, darkened skin and bulky build advertised the separate life she had lived as a Comanche wife and mother. |
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Her natural eyebrows had thinned with age, but they were darkened and thickened with great black pencil lines which jutted down the sides of her face. |
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That incident not only required emergency eye surgery, but several weeks in a darkened room, and several months with double vision before it spontaneously righted itself. |
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A darkened backward slanting vertical bar is present beneath the eyes. |
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Casey clicked off the light and the room was completely darkened. |
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It's an anonymous block in a darkened corner of the downscale shopping centre that passes for the heart of Mt Roskill, one of New Zealand's odder suburbs. |
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Confusion darkened her eyes and lowered her brows in a frown. |
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The Duke disappeared into a darkened side room, where he sat inches from a glowing television screen, gazing at golf. |
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New mothers want two hammocks made of soft, shapeless cotton sewn together and viewed only in a darkened room. |
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England have qualified for the Euro 2004 championship finals, but it was a passage to sunny Portugal darkened by one of the most unedifying weeks in the game. |
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The economic downturns in 1920 and 1921 darkened the public mood. |
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Alternating her glance between the two, confusion darkened her blue eyes. |
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But the vision of a new world soon darkened, as constitution-making gave way to mob rule, regicide, terror, atheism, and then military dictatorship. |
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Abruptly the sky darkened again, and fat drops of rain fell. |
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Scattered remnants of the hawkers' presence littered the darkened scene. |
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A cloud of confusion darkened Vicki's eyes and she kicked a rock. |
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Breathless, he burst into the darkened interior of the guardhouse, and in his excitement, he was oblivious to the fact he had caught the captain fast asleep on his bunk. |
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In a darkened movie theater, we allow filmmakers to deliver into our minds a false world to envisage. |
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Millions of people around the world live in a blurry or darkened world because of eye diseases such as macular degeneration or retinitis pigmentosa. |
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His mood suddenly darkened as if remembering something painful. |
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Their eyes are darkened in their sockets, cheeks hollow and shrunken, their heads and hands unnaturally out of proportion as if they are famine victims. |
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Anne, being her usual bubbly self, engaged Lady Allenwood in a lively conversation about theatre in general as we traveled the darkened streets of London. |
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The ordeal of the police identity parade is as nerve-wracking for those who take part as the witnesses on the far side of the darkened glass screen. |
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A beard of several days darkened his face, and nearly every bit of mail, leather and armor plate that he wore seemed to have acquired some blemish or other. |
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Experts can advise on everything from door chains, window locks and alarms to whether you might benefit from a floodlight in a darkened back yard. |
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Coruscating Cinnamon Granules is a looped, silent black-and-white film of cinnamon bits flaring as they fall on an electric burner in a darkened room. |
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He heard some whispering in the background and a glare darkened his eyes. |
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The cutaneous form of anthrax presents with a darkened eschar or papule that is not painful, but can be somewhat itchy and is generally striking in appearance. |
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I lay alone in the darkened bedroom, staring into ashy, cool murkiness. |
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Instantaneously, the sky darkened, thunder rumbled, and lightning flashed. |
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But her face was pale and ashen, and her eyes darkened with worries. |
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For example, the projection of film in the darkened auditorium and its public reception are important elements of the cultural experience of film. |
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Knowing that she was still in danger if she remained here, I lifted her tenderly and took flight, dogs baying at our heels as I loped along darkened paths. |
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After each film snippet, the darkened stage lit up to reveal that person in the flesh, dressed in street clothes and performing one phrase, center stage, before exiting. |
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There was only the wind and the snow whipping around darkened, heatless homes. |
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Serai curled her lips and darkened her brow to show she was angry. |
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People took to the darkened streets for the first time in weeks, honking horns and hooting. |
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He looked impassive, but his blue eyes had darkened in controlled anger. |
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The orange glow began to fade as the sun set, turning softer, then pink as the sky darkened to a purplish blue. |
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Her arms were crossed in front of her, and a scowl darkened her face. |
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They queued up and took their place in the crowded, darkened cinema with the public. |
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I arched my back into him, and his eyes darkened dangerously. |
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His eyes darkened, and the right side of his lips curled slightly. |
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The Harvard Yard is also darkened and made to seem far more bosky and umbrageous than it was. |
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The tree throve and branched so heavily that the windows of Lower West and the Doll's Flat were darkened. |
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The little windows, fifteen feet up, were darkened with wasp-nests, and lizards hunted flies between the beams of the wood-ceiled roof. |
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At the convict hour between four and five when even those with the least to fear are darkened and sober, and back away from waking. |
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This revelation of disaffection, together with the fall of Constantinople in 1453, darkened the last years of Pope Nicholas. |
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The Anglosaxon belief in the Shieldmaidens comes to us indeed in a darkened form, yet we can hardly doubt that it survived. |
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Harry Schick, 17, tried to kill 16-year-old Gavin Doyle after luring him to darkened woodland, the Old Bailey heard. |
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Slit-lamp examination and funduscopy were performed in a darkened room without pharmacologic dilation. |
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In fact, I was shown into a darkened room which smelled of manure and sanctimoniousness. |
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James MacMillan's gigues, waltzes, and lonely Satie-like piano music were darkened by sirens and rumbles. |
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Sun spots are characterized by small, darkened patches usually found on the hands, face, or other areas frequently exposed to the sun. |
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It was written in 627 AD in Cufic script on a piece of darkened parchment measuring 16x19cm. |
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The bot juddered to a halt, as the whole lower segment of its power arm darkened. |
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Toward the end of his life, he sank into a morbid state, darkened by his drug addiction to chloral hydrate and increasing mental instability. |
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A thick blanket of dust that was thrown up darkened the globe, affecting plants and other photosynthesising life. |
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He noticed for the first time that the fellow was naked. He had taken little notice of him in the darkened room, and afterwards had seen him only through the fly-wire door. |
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They are almost always accompanied by immature bald eagles that, although about the same size as a mature baldie, have a darkened head and mottled feathers. |
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With 8 of the 16 exits arbitrarily blocked, 853 mixed passengers and 20 crew exited the darkened aircraft in 78 seconds, less than the 90 seconds required for certification. |
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Back then, Davis was like the proverbial deer in the headlights, paralyzed by blackouts that started in San Diego and within months darkened most of the state. |
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The room darkened slightly with the clothing, a few scenesters and granola-heads moved back and gradually out the door, or peered in off the street and decided to move on. |
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However, some lights were darkened, including those of the amusement parks in Coney Island, Brooklyn, and the Coney Island Light, and Sandy Hook Lighthouse. |
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The British government responded by passing several Acts which came to be known as the Intolerable Acts, which further darkened colonial opinion towards the British. |
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The human mind has long suffered an eclipse and been darkened and dwarfed in the shadow of ideas the real meaning of which has been lost to moderns. |
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When a single light appears to course up and down the darkened work before stopping in the center and exploding, for example, it floods the adjacent walls. |
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