blackness

Example Sentences

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Dark, nearly black, almost blue in its blackness, melanin black.

From Literature

“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

“You turn off the lights and they just tumble into the blackness of space,” he told me.

From Los Angeles Times

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

She continued up Lake Avenue, then suddenly plunged into blackness.

From Los Angeles Times