But where we have both dark and light we have also the inexplicable.

And by a skillful and unobtrusive use of imagery ( the enclosure is called a `` Roman-camp stockade '', the hastily erected lean-to is a `` Babylonian hovel '', the men begin to look like `` Peruvian mummies '' and to acquire `` Gothic faces '' ), Malraux projects a fresco of human endurance -- which is also the endurance of the human -- stretching backward into the dark abyss of time.

The genus also contains several well-known ornamental plants, such as Amaranthus caudatus ( love-lies-bleeding ), a native of India and a vigorous, hardy annual with dark purplish flowers crowded in handsome drooping spikes.

Lucifer is the light spirit, which " plays on human pride and offers the delusion of divinity ", but also motivates creativity and spirituality ; Ahriman is the dark spirit, which tempts human beings to "... deny link with divinity and to live entirely on the material plane ", but also stimulates intellectuality and technology.

It is also possible that the name Axeinos arose by popular etymology from a Scythian Iranic axšaina-' unlit ,' ' dark '; the designation " Black Sea " may thus date from Antiquity.

The word black comes from Old English blæc (" black, dark ", also, " ink "), from Proto-Germanic * blakkaz (" burned "), from Proto-Indo-European * bhleg-(" to burn, gleam, shine, flash "), from base * bhel-(" to shine "), related to Old Saxon blak (" ink "), Old High German blah (" black "), Old Norse blakkr (" dark "), Dutch blaken (" to burn "), and Swedish bläck (" ink ").

" J. Patton of The Bent Cover praised Jeter for " try to emulate Philip K. Dick ", adding, " This book also has all the grittiness and dark edges that the movie showed off so well, along with a very fast pace that will keep you reading into the wee hours of the night.

Dark energy is also an area of intense interest for scientists, but it is not clear whether direct detection of dark energy will be possible.

This might include such ordinary matter as neutrinos or free electrons ; however, it may also include exotic species of non-baryonic dark matter, such as supersymmetric particles, axions, or black holes.

Not only was Bathory's music dark, fast, heavily distorted, lo-fi and with anti-Christian lyrics and imagery, Quorthon was also the first to use the " shrieked " vocals that came to define black metal.

Australian Aboriginal astronomy also describes dark cloud constellations, the most famous being the " emu in the sky " whose head is formed by the Coalsack.

It is also true that the content of certain films ( such as dark subjects, alienation, transgressive content, or other controversial subject matter ) can also decide whether or not a film is a " cult film ", regardless of the film's budget or studio affiliations.

The constellation was also used on the dark blue, shield-like patch worn by personnel of the U. S. Army's Americal Division, which was organized in the Southern Hemisphere, on the island of New Caledonia, and also the blue diamond of the U. S. 1st Marine Division, which fought on the Southern Hemisphere islands of Guadalcanal and New Britain.

This galaxy has also been cited in studies of dark matter, because the stars in the outer ring orbit too quickly for their collective mass.

It also cannot interact with ordinary matter via electromagnetic forces ; in particular, dark matter particles do not carry any electric charge.

There are three prominent hypotheses on nonbaryonic dark matter, called Hot Dark Matter ( HDM ), Warm Dark Matter ( WDM ), and Cold Dark Matter ( CDM ); some combination of these is also possible.

In EverQuest, players create a character ( also known as an avatar, or colloquially as char or toon ) by selecting one of 16 races in the game, which range from humans ( basic human, Erudite, and barbarian ), elves ( high elves, wood elves, and dark elves ), half-elves, dwarves, gnomes, halflings, trolls, and ogres of fantasy, to cat-people ( Vah Shir ), lizard-people ( Iksar ), frog-people ( Froglok ), and dragon-people ( Drakkin ).

It has also been suggested that the dark matter halo can pull the galaxy, thus stopping disk contraction.

Observations of the Bullet Cluster are the strongest evidence for the existence of dark matter ; however, Brownstein and Moffat have shown that their modified gravity theory can also account for the properties of the cluster.

In the dark days and months following Bonnie's death, Rhett is often drunk and disheveled, while Scarlett, though deeply grieved also, seems to hold up under the strain.

Some undefined conversation is shared lazily, the sun sets ; then Marlow states how their location also " has been one of the dark places of the earth.

In superspace, dark energy is the force that holds the multiverse together, as well as having other properties.

In Erinnerungen (" Memories "), he writes of the " dependency on the soil of home, the Vogtland " that draws and holds the gaze " as though yonder, far back in the distance beneath the sap-dripping pines, there where the mountains rise up like terraces in dark blue, some secret were hidden that lures us to it and that would gladly reveal itself to us ".

Yet the record of her trial with Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne holds her giving an energetic confession, speaking before the court of " creatures who inhabit the invisible world ," and " the dark rituals which bind them together in service of Satan ," and implicating both Good and Osborne while asserting that " many other people in the colony were engaged in the devil's conspiracy against the Bay.

At length, sick with longing for those glittering sunset streets and cryptical hill lanes among ancient tiled roofs, nor able sleeping or waking to drive them from his mind, Carter resolved to go with bold entreaty whither no man had gone before, and dare the icy deserts through the dark to where unknown Kadath, veiled in cloud and crowned with unimagined stars, holds secret and nocturnal the onyx castle of the Great Ones.

He is shining dark blue, wearing a yellow dhoti, and holds a conch, a mace, a wheel and a lotus.

Dwarf lore holds that it is very dangerous to leave any of these in the dark.

Zoro commonly wears a white shirt, dark green pants, and a haramaki sash that holds his three swords.

* The Forest of Darkness – A large forest that holds trees with glowing stars, but is very dark.

Knowing of Link's potential threat to his plans, Ganon stole a dark artifact that holds the ability to take the inner darkness of a person and bring it to life, in order to combat Link.

Originally delivered in a dark gray or black, rumor holds that Edith Stuyvesant Vanderbilt found the color depressing, and ordered a repaint.

Should the hero have discarded the Sword of Aeons he will have the opportunity to gain the sword " Avo's Tear ", a sword of similar design and equal power but that holds a light alignment rather than dark.

Reuslts of 1998 U. S. Senate election -- light red for Republican holds, dark red for Republican pickups, light blue for Democratic holds, dark blue for Democratic pickups.

He knows nothing of the secrets the top-secret military installation holds until he is caught up in the desperate series of events to stop the mothership flight after participating in a strange operation surrounding the government conspiracy aimed at keeping the American public in the dark about what is in the Groom Lake complex.

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She helped him with the dishes, then he brought more water in from the spring before it got dark.

They passed ranches that were framed dark gray against the black hills.

The clouds parted and hard gashes of sunlight swooped down to stain the earth with streaks of white and gold light so that the shadows of the running horses flowed like dark streams over the dazzling snow.

Mike passed through it and moved toward the dark mass of horses.

At first they were only feathers and dark indistinguishable faces and bodies, hunched over their horses' heads.

Above me a dark rider was whipping his pony with a quirt in an attempt to hurdle the bales.

His eyes were dark, fluid, fearful, and he gave a sigh as my knife went in.

`` You shouldn't be riding up here after dark, Judith '', he said quietly.

Although it was dark as usual I could see that the hall had only recently contained a great many people.

I felt certain that the director, like the afternoon clerk, seldom moved beyond the counter, that the hall, to them, was a jungle, a dark and unwelcome place.

They slid through the wicket in the big gate, ghosted across the dark ground.

It was a bold, dark castle of pine boughs that stood like a medieval fortress, eclipsing the sun and human time.

It was dark early, because of the storm.

Once the door was open, they crowded him inside the dark building.

Deputy Marshal Luke Harper still stood guard on the veranda, a forlorn, scarecrowish figure in the murky dark.

At the sight of Sally's happy face and carefree expression, Harmony's dark, brooding eyes quickly brightened with unshed tears.

Giving the other a dark look, he hauled his bronc around and trotted down off the street.

There was a feeling that this mission would be canceled like all the others and that this muddy wet dark world of combat would go on forever.

His face was dark as the sky above it as he stood on the wing and waited for his pilot.

The dark brown bombs hanging under each wing looked large and powerful.

To the west, the dark green hills of Leyte were lost in the clouds about halfway up their slopes.

Underneath him the sea was a dark and muddied gray.

Another car was coming, a tiny, dark shape on a far hill.

the car's far windshield panel turned into a silver web with a dark hole in the center.

Big and dark, a melting, golden brown.