Vivien approached her husband, and embraced him, and planted a light kiss on his neck as they held each other against the darkness.

NEWYORKER: Fjord of Killary

Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) and the AUTOBOTS must fight against the darkness to defend our world from the DECEPTICONS' all-consuming evil in the smash hit from director Michael Bay and executive producer Steven Spielberg.

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The Mets lost in their first suspended game since Aug. 6, 1986, when the second game of a doubleheader against the Cubs was halted after the seventh for darkness Wrigley Field didn't have lights then.

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The dresses, the shoes, the pinkish smell of perfume, the scratchy darkness, all pushed against me like the side of a big cat, thrust themselves into my mouth and nose like fur.

NEWYORKER: History of a Disturbance

Sharapova had begun her match against the American qualifier on Thursday night and won the first set before darkness stopped play.

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Marina struggles with her new environment: the nightmares from the Larium she has to take against malaria, deadly insects, extreme weather and, always, the whispering darkness.

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The forces of darkness (pun intended) seem to be massing against Rebecca Harris's Daylight Saving Bill (see earlier posting).

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What drives her down into the darkness is her conviction that caves may contain our last defense against a dire health threat: antibiotic-resistant superbugs.

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