The blackness would last for the rest of the afternoon, past twilight and into full night.
Neal said Jackson's changes were not to deny blackness, nor to become more white.
My wife, Erica, and I finished dinner by candlelight and looked outside and saw blackness.
They showed cities, oil-fields and even fishing fleets as giant conflagrations against the blackness of the night.
He was smiling under the blackness that shone on his face, and he leaned over me and seemed to shriek.
For the most part, most of the images of blackness that I had been subject to were, you know, about crime.
As the daytime hours of blackness wore on, some people, according to historical accounts, began to think that there might never be light again.
When the cab got to 13th Street, where we live, we had to look carefully into the blackness to see where our building was.
He sees his blackness as a liability, and associates it with the poverty and obscurity he has worked so hard to put behind him.
At this moment I wasn't just looking down at the Earth but I was looking at a planet hanging in the blackness of space.
Michael Jackson artistically and aesthetically never turned his back on blackness.
Leaving Hanwell standing in the blackness in short trousers holding bangers.
Dubois termed it, but rather infinite consciousnesses, complicating their very blackness.
And people have been gradually embracing the term black, you know, in different Portuguese ways of saying it, as opposed to using these euphemisms for blackness.
Ours was a land mass of forests and rivers and deserts and plains, a tangled and disconnected tableau that disappeared from view with the blackness of night.
And then later, maybe that same year, maybe the next, on November 5th, suddenly at the back door in the blackness with the gift of some penny bangers.
And I think it's very possible right now for white kids to experience hip-hop without experiencing any ideas of blackness or any ideas of connecting with the African-American community.
Mr. TANZ: You know, a few years ago, I would say no way, like, I don't see how that could happen just because it is so associated with blackness.
The former jute mill in the Blackness area of the city opened as a museum in 1996 and is dedicated to the textile industry that once dominated the city's economy.
The imagery was of a lonely freighter out there somewhere in the dark, with Winchell's disembodied voice floating out of the blackness, like a rumor, a message in a bottle.
For most of the speakers, that elaboration was the musical counterpart of Afro-America's proud, complex, even separatist re-conception of blackness, and rendered him as supreme in his era, as Louis Armstrong was in his.
Even after adjusting the gamma and blackness controls, transitions from scene to scene often resulted in blinding brightness or darkness so intense that, when I turned away, I couldn't make out individual items on a desk.
And on this dazzling sheet, spread under the blackness of the clouds and emitting a bluish glow, Captain MacWhirr could catch a desolate glimpse of a few tiny specks black as ebony, the tops of the hatches, the battened companions, the heads of the covered winches, the foot of a mast.
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Three miles on this path, with no light beyond the scope of our high beams, no moonlight, no starlight, just trees and a blackness so heavy that we both stopped talking and stretched our necks until our foreheads were almost touching the windshield, trying to make sense of the tarry vastness around us.
It was only later, when upon the white flash of another high sea hurling itself amidships, Jukes had a vision of two pairs of davits leaping black and empty out of the solid blackness, with one overhauled fall flying and an iron-bound block capering in the air, that he became aware of what had happened within about three yards of his back.
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