black arts
Example Sentences
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He has said that during the day he was a scheduler but at night, he was "trafficking in the black arts."
From Salon • Sep. 28, 2022
As a widower, I dabbled in the black arts of internet dating with varying degrees of success but nothing really stuck.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2020
That’s a lot to bite off when talking about centuries of global black artistic expression, but what about narrowing it to black arts created over these first two decades of the 21st century?
From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2020
As a young intern in Swedish intelligence, he had acquired an early taste for the black arts and it stayed with him for the rest of his political life.
From The Guardian • Feb. 1, 2020
Many became enamoured of the Darkness and the black arts; some were given over wholly to idleness and ease, and some fought among themselves, until they were conquered in their weakness by the wild men.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
