blackness

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“This was a period in English culture before blackness acquired its fatal association with slavery,” he writes, identifying a “certain strain of indifference to color” in the thinking of the time.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

The amnesia conceit allows the film to highlight its artificiality: painted backdrops, stages that recede into blackness, supporting players recast in multiple roles.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2025

This white haziness in their lungs, where there should only be the empty blackness of air, is commonly the mark of a tuberculosis infection.

From Salon • Dec. 16, 2024

All eyewitnesses like Samia* can say for certain is that the lights went out suddenly, plunging D Chowk, the square where they had gathered, into blackness.

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2024

There were about twelve Tombs, each with a low arched doorway that opened into absolute blackness.

From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis