| 单词 | pitch-black |
| 例句 | “I’m just a horrible dancer. Terrible. In fact, I’m so bad I even have a rule against it. No dancing unless I’m alone in my room or it’s pitch-black dark.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I left at nine, when it was pitch-black out. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z In the pitch-black night, there was nothing to look at but the road ahead, lit by the car’s headlights. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The city is pitch-black, but even if it wasn’t, I wouldn’t be able to see very far. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z He rode deeper and he rode through gathering darkness: from gloom to twilight to night to a pitch-black starless dark. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z I bank left into the little hallway and toward the two pitch-black bedrooms. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Outside the east had just begun to lighten, and the stars of morning still hung in a pitch-black sky. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z This was not a fun place to be if you happened to have a touch of claustrophobia—sitting in a pitch-black Level 4 closet while wearing a space suit. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The birds were the size of eagles and pitch-black, with long, hooked black beaks. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z After a few steps through the pitch-black darkness the way became lighter. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z No dancing unless I’m alone in my room or it's pitch-black dark. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Her cheekbones triangulating into her chin, her pitch-black lips barely turned to a smile. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z It’s pitch-black because the two windows that appear on the layout are boarded up from the outside. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z When she woke, it was pitch-black and her bladder was full to bursting. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Tempest used old-school vector graphics, so the game’s images were created from glowing neon lines drawn against a pitch-black screen. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “No dancing unless I’m alone in my room or it’s pitch-black dark.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z At first I couldn’t see a thing except the pitch-black sky as I slowly cartwheeled away from the Agena, but then the Gemini swung around into view. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A streetlight was shining right at us, which made everything around it look pitch-black. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Pluto, covered with methane ice and accompanied by its solitary giant moon Charon, is illuminated by a distant Sun, which appears as no more than a bright point of light in a pitch-black sky. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The fog dissipated, and they found themselves on a peninsula that jutted out over a pitch-black void. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The hollow space behind the walls was pitch-black, but he fumbled until he felt metal. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Finally, we made it through the pitch-black forest to Aunt Sandra’s house, where we spent the night in near silence. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z One of the men stood up—a huge guy with a long tangled pitch-black beard and teeth the same color. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z The pitch-black room seemed alive with the voodoo spirits of my mother’s tales, ready to pounce upon me if I as much as took a step from where I was standing. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s pitch-black everywhere, like Moreau’s cage is floating in an ocean of shadow. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The museum was pitch-black except for the bits of light Aru had been able to convince Vajra to spit out. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z But I sink slowly into the muddy, pitch-black water. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z Tonight it is pitch-black except for the light from the cabin windows. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z It’s pitch-black outside when Henry’s body finally subsides, and the room is impossibly quiet, the fire gone out. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Harry paused, trying to see where the spiders were going, but everything outside his little sphere of light was pitch-black. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z The dollhouse had two teeny wooden rockers with a little doll sitting in each: one with light brown hair like mine, and the other with pitch-black hair like Mom’s. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z It’s pitch-black inside the guardhouse, but I see Ma’s face clearly in my mind’s eye. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z The lobby of the Department of the Unexplained is pitch-black. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z I open my eyes, and the sealed guardhouse is still pitch-black. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z They had left the city late, and outside the windows it had been dark, the disturbing pitch-black of early winter evenings. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It was pitch-black there and we couldn’t find it without a match or a light, so we left it. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It looked like someone had crumpled up a pitch-black blanket and dropped the Weird Watsons down into the middle of it. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z There, you can run for miles along yellow prairie and never see a car, and at night, it’s pitch-black as a coal mine. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I’m far too old to be playing hide-and-seek with a bunch of children in a pitch-black movie, theater. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Shouts and shrieks go up as a pitch-black puddle slinks across the floor to the center of the room. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Tall pine trees loomed over the valley, casting pitch-black shadows, though the morning was sunny. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “It’s better since I don’t dance — in fact, I have a rule against it. No dancing unless I’m alone in my room or it’s pitch-black dark.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Otherwise, there’d be fireballs raining down and smoke and dust blocking the sun, making the sky pitch-black. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Be brave, I told myself as I made the agonizingly long walk in the pitch-black to his driveway. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z It was pitch-black dark before the rain finally drizzled away and the moon came out. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z It’s almost pitch-black in Chris’s room—the red sky shines a bit of light through his windows. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z When I push open the door to our bedroom, it’s pitch-black and nothing seems to be moving. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z The room is pitch-black, except for the sliver of light from the open door. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t see anything in the still night, so I waited, hoping my eyes would adjust and that it wasn’t actually pitch-black out. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z It could only be an hour or so from dawn, yet it was pitch-black. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z It was pitch-black and smelled horrible: Harry had just made out a chamber pot protruding from under the bed before Bathilda closed the door and even that was swallowed by the darkness. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “Everything went pitch-black and the next thing I knew, I was being hurled headfirst out of the room!” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z In 2008, researchers from the University of Paris ascertained that the Chauvet paintings - which lie within huge, inaccessible, pitch-black networks of tunnels - are located at the points of greatest resonance in the cave network. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z All he could do was try to stay alive.Soon it was pitch-black. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The flaps of the tent’s entrance curve to both sides, revealing a yawning, pitch-black hole into which a velvet carpet extends. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The house was pitch-black and mustier than Trotter’s. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z It was almost pitch-black inside, for not only were the shades down but blankets were tacked over the windows. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It was pitch-black, except for a small, shimmering pale light coming from deep within. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z It’s pitch-black outside and pouring rain and the glide scope is down. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Though the Wood was pitch-black all around them, the riders of the Fairy Hunt stood out against the dark. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The sky was pitch-black, but by now Tally could read the stars well enough to know that the first notes of dawn were only a couple of hours away. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z It was pitch-black in the root cellar, and it smelled of chickens, potatoes, turnips, onions, dirt, and breath. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z By noon, everything was pitch-black I clung to life. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z She watched in horror as the sky turned pitch-black. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z As dawn slowly turned the dense jungle from pitch-black to gray, birds began their melodic calls. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z As he’d expected, the landing was pitch-black by the time he reached it, save for a single wedge of yellow light coming from the Kuhani’s study. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She gasped in fright and hastened forward, clinging to the lantern, suddenly afraid she would drop it and be left in the pitch-black night. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The Griever Hole would’ve been pitch-black if not for the beam of Teresa’s flashlight cutting through the darkness. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z My grandmother had said that with their special nose-holes they could smell out a child on a pitch-black night from right across the other side of the road. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z When they saw Violet and Klaus, looking forlornly at pieces of pitch-black toast, they laughed and laughed, and then made pancakes for the whole family. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z He found himself in a brightly lit room with pitch-black walls. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Her pitch-black hair was nice, hairdresser tousled especially for him, and she had small pearls in her earlobes, like a little girl. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was pitch-black, it was so dark in the room. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z It's early evening, but it's already pitch-black outside, and the JumboTrons' reflections are visible in the street's puddles. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z My skin is slick, the room pitch-black, but my eyes are open. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Even if they overlooked private property and sheriffs writing citations, most of the highways feature narrow shoulders, in a landscape that gets so pitch-black at night, any car rushing past would likely kill them all. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z He drove as fast as he could, peering ahead into the pitch-black darkness. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z It was pitch-black when I headed back across the street. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The famous rock paintings at Chauvet, France, are located at the points of greatest resonance in the pitch-black cave network. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He did so in the flick of an eye, and from a goldfinch he became a rat, a powerful pitch-black rat with red eyes. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s pitch-black inside the cramped guardhouse, but my racing heart slows down a bit when Ma puts her hands on my shoulders. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z And Sunday night the stellar Jack Quartet will offer Mr. Haas’s alluring String Quartet No. 3, which, like “In Vain,” is performed in a pitch-black room. The Week Ahead: Sept. 5 ? Sept. 11 2010-09-01T16:50:00Z In addition to hills and twists, it does a 90-degree turn, all in pitch-black darkness, some of it underground. New Twists for Wooden Roller Coasters 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z Just after leaving the station, it enters a pitch-black tunnel and twists and turns even before getting to the lift. Taking the Plunge on California’s Coasters 2013-08-01T20:30:31Z At times though, the dramatic setting for the catwalk show threatened to upstage the clothes: the models paraded through a cavernous, pitch-black space, each one bathed in a circle of light from floodlights. Saint Laurent mixes tweed with fetish-style catsuits for Paris show 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z As I jolted along in a rented Fiat Uno on a late August night, my headlights caught the glare of dozens of red eyes staring in the near pitch-black far ahead. Frugal Traveler Blog: It's a Jungle Out There: Wildlife in the Pantanal 2011-10-18T19:05:50Z “Because after a song it goes pitch-black dark and it’s like every man for himself trying to get back. We always run into each other.” Luke Bryan’s not the only star to take a tumble 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Slight in characters, this pitch-black fantasy is far more compelling as a societal portrait; a look at how World War II reshaped the Japanese worldview. ?Godzilla? the Great: New Criterion Release Celebrates the Greatest Monster Movie 2012-01-25T16:20:11Z “Comma,” about the brief tormenting of an invalid by a mad, violent child, and “The Long QT,” a pitch-black joke about one quick way to end a marriage, are barely vignettes. ‘The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher,’ by Hilary Mantel 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Perry's reaches full potential in the pitch-black, with a sensory overload of flashing lights and geometric shapes gracing screens and flat surfaces. Lollapalooza Day 1: Black Sabbath, Black Keys and Passion Pit's black thoughts 2012-08-04T06:11:00Z And yet, Mr. Obana’s show, in a pitch-black theater at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center on Friday night, was utterly engrossing. | Fashion Review: Men?s Wear Review ? NY Fashion Week 2011-09-11T21:33:03Z After dinner, I walk away from the soft glow of the Kia Ora, across the unlit road and into the pitch-black night of the oceanside beach. Diving into the tranquility of Tahiti 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Housetraining required that I rise every three or so hours and head outside, into the pitch-black coldness, parka wrapped around my nightgown, feet shoved sockless into big rubber boots. I love my dog as much as my child 2012-11-10T17:00:00Z “At one point, I looked out the window and I was like, ‘It’s pitch-black outside,’ ” she recalled. Date Lab: She had no expectations and was delighted that he didn’t either 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z “Spectral Scriabin” opened dramatically with a pitch-black stage area. Music Review: ?Spectral Scriabin? at Baryshnikov Arts Center - Review 2011-11-04T22:54:27Z From the bright stab of morning after a rough night to the merciless glare of the spotlight in a pitch-black comedy club, this knife-edged portrait of a struggling stand-up uses agony like a silent soundtrack. Movie Review: ‘Ape,’ by Joel Potrykus, Follows a Tortured Loser 2014-04-25T00:21:54Z In one, half of a pitch-black sun looms on the horizon while a second sun, fuller but less distinct, ominously gathers force in the sky. Sally Mann’s Haunted South 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z As “Heathers” approaches the 30th anniversary of its U.S. premiere, television has made yet another failed attempt to pay homage to Michael Lehmann’s 1989 pitch-black high school comedy. What’s your damage? Why a "Heathers" TV adaptation hasn’t worked — yet 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Pierogis baked with turnip and squash at Brooklyn Beet Company taste perfect when it’s pitch-black at five o’clock on a Saturday. Tables for Two: The Finest New York Restaurants in 2014 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z It traces a journey from pitch-black night into daylight, starting with two of Chopin's darker Nocturnes, Op 27, played with an almost trance-like tone, the occasional hint of menace, and an air of slight detachment. Stephen Hough – review 2013-01-22T12:18:59Z The pitch-black sky lit up in a panoramic view of lightning strikes, like a well-timed electrical grid. T Magazine: Bright Passage 2012-11-14T17:30:55Z As is often true in animation, “Frozen 2” soars highest when it embraces abstraction, as in one number with a pitch-black void that entertainingly evokes Jonathan Glazer’s “Under the Skin.” ‘Frozen 2’ Review: The Cold Still Never Bothers Them 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z “Crocodile Fever,” a pitch-black comedy at the Traverse Theater, extends the best Fringe tradition of showcasing the new. Onstage in Edinburgh, the Mood Is Grim 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z But Phantom Thread is a fascinatingly unexpected and wildly subversive treat, a film about far more than initially expected, a piercingly sharp study of a relationship that turns into a pitch-black romantic comedy. The 50 top films of 2017 in the US: No 4 Phantom Thread 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z “The shadows created by the lights hitting the columns reminded me of being in a pitch-black forest, only holding a torch,” he recalled. Sydney Museum Sends Visitors Into an Oil Tank (and an Artist’s Imagination) 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z Let cool completely before serving, preferably with pitch-black coffee. 10 brilliant ways to repurpose pie dough scraps 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z The comedy is pitch-black, but the crowd appreciated its sinister quirks. The Breakout Movies at SXSW You’ll Want to Know About 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z The film is more of a mood piece, and much of its pitch-black humor derives from the contrast between the barren landscape and the sheer number of horrors it contains. ‘A Dark, Dark Man’ Review: Murder and Corruption in Kazakhstan 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z These four words — spoken in a clipped, lilting rush over a pitch-black screen — are the first thing you hear in “The Godfather” after a short moan of music. ‘The Godfather’ Explained in Seven Quotes 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z He sits Les in a chair and fits him with a pair of what look like pitch-black swimmer’s goggles. Disappearing ink 2012-12-26T01:00:00Z You’ll know if there are any triggers, like loud noises or pitch-black sections. Planning a magical Disneyland trip on a budget: 10 tips to save money, avoid stress 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z As Marco Pasanella, the owner of Pasanella & Son Vintners, at 115 South Street in Lower Manhattan, posed this question, he paced the abandoned, pitch-black pavement, sounding like a character in a “Twilight Zone” episode. Stage Fright: The Vintner Marco Pasanella Restarts After Hurricane Sandy 2012-12-06T21:37:21Z On this evening, audiences in the generously proportioned 500-seat Beverly Hills venue were kept in a nearly pitch-black hall much of the night. Marsalis, Philadelphia orchestra go by the book at the Wallis 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Mr. McConaughey admitted he was put off on a first read, but a discussion with Mr. Friedkin helped him see the pitch-black humor. Matthew McConaughey Shifts Gears 2012-07-06T23:59:02Z It concluded with a puncture on a pitch-black country lane just as the jackals started to howl. Cycling the Middle East: the kindness of strangers and the desperation of refugee camps 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z Stipulating that a work be performed in a pitch-black hall sounds potentially gimmicky, but in this case it isn’t — it renders the experience initially disorienting, then intoxicating. Critic?s Notebook: Unearthly Harmonies, Best Heard in the Dark 2011-02-15T22:20:14Z As Bateman dances around in his underwear or in a dapper pinstriped suit, there’s little doubt that the story works best as a hallucinatory, pitch-black comedy. Bret Easton Ellis Takes In ‘American Psycho’ the Musical 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z A tour of this bleak yet fascinating relic provides a glimpse of convict life over the years: pitch-black solitary confinement cells, subterranean tunnels leading to a courtroom, the gallows where 300 prisoners were hanged. 36 Hours in Hobart (and Environs) 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Variety’s Jessica Kiang said Bong was on “excoriating form in his exceptional pitch-black tragicomedy”. Darkly comic 'Parasite' gets critics buzzing at Cannes 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Filled with weird turns, dark digressions, and pitch-black comedy, “Preacher” is like nothing else on TV. New in home entertainment: Absurdist comedy 'Swiss Army Man' and first season of AMC drama 'Preacher' 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z With pitch-black comedy, “Ornamental,” nimbly translated by Lizzie Davis, channels the ways that egomaniacs in science and art — in any field — rise to the top, up the pyramid of capitalism. The Pill That Makes Life Shine Brighter, Fallout Be Damned 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Sometimes, when all lighter diversions have failed, what a person who’s been in confinement needs is a wallow in the pitch-black mud. Finding the Sweet, Stinging Salt in Plays of Confinement 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z Curtis Mann’s “Removal attempt, randomly orbital sanded” takes overexposed light-sensitive photo paper as its “canvas,” then uses physical intervention — with an orbital sander, here — to create a ghostly abstract pattern on the pitch-black paper. Photo Center NW’s ‘Process’ is about more than images 2014-03-27T20:58:59Z “Gretel & Hansel” is a disturbing slab of Gothic horror, filled to the brim with nightmare imagery and pitch-black humor, and decidedly not meant for the kids. ‘Margaret,’ ‘American Animals’ and More Streaming Alternatives 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z His fifth film with Scorsese saw De Niro show off his talent for pitch-black comedy. Robert De Niro: five best moments 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z For a few miles, I rode beside a man who said that the fall rides were spectacular – pitch-black except for the bike light in front of you. In Ohio’s Cuyahoga River Valley, biking along the Ohio & Erie Canal towpath Everything was pitch-black, as if you were in an air raid, so your eyes had to adjust like a raccoon’s as you made your way down the hall. “Robert De Niro bit my face off!”: How I learned to work with our greatest living actor without coming unglued 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z Listeners were asked to sign waivers and provide emergency telephone numbers in case they reacted badly to being closed in a pitch-black room, and ushers wore night-vision goggles. Music Review: A Musical Question: Does a Quartet Sound Different in the Dark? 2010-09-06T22:51:00Z Its biggest competitor is “The Favourite,” a pitch-black comedy about royal schemers. Golden Globes 2019: What to watch For 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z With Baldwin's stentorian voice as a focal point and guide, the podcast regularly delivers a mix of pitch-black humor and deadpan chills. 'Welcome to Night Vale' podcast becomes an equally weird, haunted yet humorous novel 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Instead, we follow flashing torches through pitch-black rooms and wait for this motley crew of idiots to be picked off. Review: ‘Eloise’ Has the Usual Haunted-Hospital Clichés 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z “I’m trying to figure out how to keep delving into the pitch-black areas that interest me without just being suicidal,” she says with a smile that assures that she’s okay. Karyn Kusama has been through ‘dark times’ in Hollywood. But her movies are even darker. 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z This pitch-black series, with its brooding protagonist, may draw comparisons with “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” but consider this: The stories are even sharper. Review: ‘The Keeper of Lost Causes,’ Pitch-Black Nordic Noir 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z He woke to a smoky apartment and a pitch-black curry. Fancy Cakes? Quarantine Sourdough? Not for These Hapless Home Cooks 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z It was a first-floor entrance and, when I walked in, the room was pitch-black. When Walter Hopps Met Andy Warhol and Frank Stella 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z The team used flashlights, and we used our cellphones, to find our way through pitch-black fog. Hiking the Great Wall of China, the wild and free way 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z The book’s news items seem almost like prompts for his novels, especially the pitch-black early ones. 50 Years On, ‘Wisconsin Death Trip’ Still Haunts and Inspires 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Standing in the nearly pitch-black hallway, as our guide reminded us that the building didn’t receive electricity until 1924, I thought of the words of another American Catholic, who came to this area in 1917. A Tourist’s Guide to Catholic New York 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z The ghost stories — and howling coyotes and pitch-black landscape that surrounded her family’s home — left an impression. Linda Ronstadt’s Borderland 2013-12-27T17:32:15Z His latest is no less bizarre: a pitch-black allegory about an Afghan war veteran employed as a factory stoker. The Stoker – review 2013-05-16T21:02:01Z The bellhop, a husky woman sporting a crimson wig and black beret, escorted me into a near pitch-black elevator showing a digital video of cascading points of light. In Sydney, Lively Culture Amid Natural Beauty 2014-04-11T18:04:18Z But first he led me into a pitch-black room at street level where he had just finished installing a piece of his own, “After Effect.” James Turrell Takes Up Curating, With a Show by His Hero 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Both pitch-black comedies, they show the ways that women are conditioned to feel for even wildly toxic men, while doggedly discounting their own needs, their own suffering and that of other women. Toxic Men Get All the Attention. But Not in These Plays. 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z At other times, on the station I was watching, the cameras turned to frame him, sitting against a pitch-black and cavernous backdrop. The non-roar of the invisible crowd: Stage design at the first Trump-Clinton debate 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z There’s the cinematography, toggling between the brutally sunny New Mexico days and pitch-black nights, with particular emphasis on the chiaroscuro of dark interiors. ‘Better Call Saul’ Starts Its Fourth Season, Still Waiting for Saul 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z The first was a happy ending, which is remarkable when you consider that it was a pitch-black meditation on the agony of loss. The best TV episodes of 2017, from The Deuce to Line of Duty 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z With pitch-black eyes and alabaster makeup, clutching a headless doll, she looks spookily doll-like herself, and speaks with a mournful lilt. Review: ‘Ride the Cyclone,’ About Teenagers, and Angst, in Purgatory 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z For the show to gain the rocket blast that will take it beyond a comfortable observational orbit, it will need LeBlanc to draw on a mighty payload of bitterness lurking in a pitch-black soul. Rewind TV: Shameless; Episodes; Kidnap and Ransom; Human Planet ? review 2011-01-16T00:05:49Z As I lie down, ripples splash against the tub and back against the sides of my body in the pitch-black room. Miseries of a stay-at-home dad 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z When night finally falls, the pitch-black sky, unpolluted by artificial light, exposes the vastness of the Milky Way and the smallness of even a pandemic in the scheme of things. In coastal Maine, the perfect pace for self-quarantining 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z While it was brisk and pitch-black outside, it was a night full of warmth, life and youthful energy inside U Hall. Sweater Beats bares his soul at U Street Music Hall 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Applegate is especially good as she navigates pitch-black humor and heartbreaking sorrow. At Home This New Year’s Eve (Unexpectedly)? Here’s What to Watch. 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z Related: The Trust review: Nicolas Cage gets wacky in pitch-black heist comedy Especially your character. Elijah Wood on police boycotts and getting an impromptu massage from Nicolas Cage 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z To the beauty, clarity, coherence and power that Mr. Levine has always extracted from this knotty score, Mr. Luisi added a fleetness that boosted the work’s pitch-black humor. Music Review: ?Lulu? at the Met, Now Conducted by Fabio Luisi 2010-05-09T22:19:00Z Growing up to six feet long, the giant tube worm lives on the pitch-black floor of the Pacific Ocean a mile or more below the surface. Ever wondered which animals are the toughest? 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z After the movie, as we walked back to Julia’s house in the pitch-black darkness, discussing the changes in Cuba, we encountered a group of young people drinking rum and playing congas. Mariane Pearl: Revisiting the Cuba of My Youth 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z The nights are pitch-black, leaving visitors to ask, “Where is the moon?” Documenting with dignity in the Ebola zone Ian walks into a cellar and says, “It was pitch-black, but my feet walked the space like it was my own coffin.” ‘The Innocence Game’: three students, a crime and a Raymond Chandler overdose 2013-05-08T21:10:00Z On a pitch-black Friday evening, I had some trouble finding it in a nondescript office park. Journeys: San Diego’s Thriving Craft Beer Scene 2012-05-25T17:33:07Z The ideal setting is pitch-black with a clear, moonless sky. Every winter, the aurora borealis turns the night sky into a paint box of colors 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z Perhaps no one else could have held together Paul Verhoeven’s film: part psychosexual melodrama, part pitch-black comedy, part trashy thriller. Oscar Spotlight: The Actresses 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z I popped on a headlamp and lifted the tent flap to see my canvas bag disappearing into the pitch-black darkness. Experience: I lost a fight with a fox 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Lazar also steps out of the play and wanders up the aisle to deliver a pitch-black commentary on the existential darkness and the futility of hope. 2010-01-15T04:13:00Z Jovial banter is obliterated once at the destination, where we are shoved, one by one, into a pitch-black space. Dance Review: Reviving ?The Shining? Installation by Yvonne Meier - Review 2011-12-14T22:45:41Z But the more I thought about those last few minutes, the more I’ve become convinced that Nolan opened the door for an even bleaker continuation of his pitch-black vision. Dark Knight Sequel: Did Christopher Nolan Pave Way to Something More Cryptic? 2012-07-24T12:00:07Z LANCASTER, Pa. — It’s pitch-black and starting to pour in Amish country. Stand-up guy: Mark Twain Prize recipient Jay Leno returns to his comedy roots Arthur Penn, another Studio luminary, later claimed to be helping her access the emotions for a scene by dragging her, protesting, into a pitch-black prop closet and locking her inside until she screamed. Is It Finally Twilight for the Theater’s Sacred Monsters? 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z Romanians are back with another bone-dry, pitch-black comedy—this time bearing a particularly cynical view on happiness, the cruelty of families, and the making of inept television commercials. New Directors/New Films Series Sets Lineup 2010-02-25T17:48:00Z For some reason Trevor Eve looks like he could play an embittered man with a pitch-black soul. Rewind TV: Shameless; Episodes; Kidnap and Ransom; Human Planet ? review 2011-01-16T00:05:49Z As much as the narrative around Trump often resembles a grand tragedy in the making, it just as often comes off as pitch-black farce. Who should direct the Donald Trump biopic? 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z Gaunt, often in dark clothing, his hair pitch-black, he cuts a severely elegant figure with a distant resemblance to Edgar Allan Poe. Review: ‘One More Time With Feeling’ Listens to Nick Cave’s Darkness 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Things grow even weirder, alternately pitch-black to the point of slapstick, when Walter’s wife dies and the two men engage in a strange pas de deux. The Essential Patricia Highsmith 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z It sent you storms and pitch-black nights; it also gave you rainbows and moonlight. Art Review: ‘The Path of Nature,’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2013-01-24T22:22:49Z Standing in a pitch-black cupboard, lit only by the glow of a beaker full of luminous bacteria, Benjamin Palmer, a human and medical science student, explains his experience of working with an illustrator. Art students find inspiration in the lab 2013-03-19T09:00:01Z Charles wanted to live in a place that never got as pitch-black as the country on a moonless night, so he went to Washington. How do you keep a job for 60 years? This man knows: Be irreplaceable. 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z This is not the famous windmill scene: in that one, the machines are clearly visible; this one, by contrast, takes place in pitch-black night. Technology and the novel, from Blake to Ballard 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z And in 2015, Burger King rolled out a Halloween Whopper with a pitch-black bun in partnership with A.1. steak sauce. Burger King creates extra cheesy Whopper for Green Bay 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z When I woke up at 1 a.m., initially disoriented by my pitch-black bedroom, I groggily stumbled into the living room where my boyfriend was quietly listening to music. The indulgent joy of (very late night) cooking 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Norris has made a name for himself by blending incisive drama and pitch-black humor, a quality that Ms. Metcalf has repeatedly displayed since “Balm in Gilead” more than 30 years ago. Laurie Metcalf, on Broadway in ‘The Other Place’ 2012-12-27T16:27:16Z “Ultimately, I became obsessed with the concept of impermanence,” Saalfield, 32, said on a video call, speaking from an almost pitch-black room in her home in Fitzroy, a suburb of Melbourne. Hiatus Kaiyote’s Life-Affirming, Genre-Defying Cosmic Soul 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z I felt like a woman stumbling through a pitch-black room looking for a hidden light switch. Losing my twin 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Pamela Smart is best known today as the inspiration for Joyce Maynard’s novel “To Die For,” the pitch-black comedy about a seductive woman who convinces young men to kill her husband. “Captivated” director: Pamela Smart is not the demonic ice princess that the media created 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z There he was, driving down a pitch-black road outside Shreveport, La., in the early hours of Oct. The brief, wondrous life of Hank Williams 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z If darkness was his way of showing how easily the past can be erased, the theater should have been pitch-black. Dance Review: A Work Starts Onstage and Stops at the Subway 2011-04-29T22:09:55Z Less than three hours later, Jessop would find herself in a lifeboat on the North Atlantic, one of 705 survivors who could only watch in horror as the Titanic sank beneath pitch-black waters. 7 facts about "Titanic" survivor Violet Jessop 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z Taking literally the idea of living with cancer makes for a clever, pitch-black buddy comedy here, as Dupontel plays the physical incarnation of alcoholic Dujardin's illness. This week's new films 2011-02-05T00:05:33Z Wajukuu Art Project’s pitch-black tunnel at the entrance to an exhibition hall, for instance, challenged the country’s health and safety regulations. The Bumpy Road to a Group-Led Documenta 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z Then he wrapped a blindfold around my eyes and led me into a pitch-black ballroom filled with other masked dancers leading other blindfolded guests in a waltz. LAXArt Gala, a night of art-magic and mystery at Greystone Mansion 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z After dinner, we cycled toward my guesthouse along pitch-black streets devoid of streetlights. Deep in Vietnam, Exploring a Colossal Cave 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z This pitch-black comedy — in terms of both rarity and mordant humor, it’s the program’s biggest find — details the attempts of an unexceptional, rather dim family to run a musty mountain lodge. Critic?s Notebook: Bloody Attempts to Escape From Fate 2011-02-26T00:24:54Z “Alternatino with Arturo Castro,” on Comedy Central, had a handful of pitch-black sketches that commented on the darker themes of the past year, especially the perilous situation of immigrants in the United States. The Best Jokes of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Memento or memory: My greatest memory was traveling by canoe, after a deep rose sunset, through a pitch-black course with only the sound of frogs’ jubilant croaks and flying fish soaring overhead. What a Trip: In Brazil, wildlife encounters and an Amazon cruise The door to the theater at New York Live Arts was within arm’s reach, but we were taken on a detour, directed to walk down a staircase, which veered into a pitch-black corridor. Review: Pavel Zustiak’s ‘Custodians of Beauty’ 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z We're torn between viewing this one as DreamWorks' version of Animal Farm or a pitch-black twist on The Wizard of Oz. Autumn movie preview: how this year's Oscar contenders warn of America's fall 2012-08-09T19:00:00Z In a pitch-black gallery, a single white spot gradually grows into a beam and eventually into a vast hollow cone. Light Show – review 2013-02-03T00:05:16Z It's not exactly clear why or how this setup came to be, and in fact that mystery may be one of the play's strengths, along with its pitch-black sense of humor. Gothic feel but murky focus for Mammals' 'Dream Journal' 2011-03-08T17:11:00Z Both works, however, circle around dramatic acts of mourning: the first as lyric tragedy, the second as pitch-black comedy. Funny man 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z The sun doesn’t move, but we experience different levels of light — a burst of sunshine at noon, the pitch-black of night, and everything between — because we’re spinning. Ever wondered why days get shorter in winter? 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Those occasional power outages, which send the theater into pitch-black darkness, don’t bode well. Theater Review: ?Samuel & Alasdair,? From Mad Ones, at New Ohio Theater 2012-02-13T00:54:00Z RoboCop, for the love of God, because kids have traditionally always gone crazy for pitch-black satires dealing with the logical endpoint of military-industrial capitalism. 2 Fast 2 Furious 2 Animated: in praise of the cartoon spin-off series 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z The system also includes a variety of zones -- from pitch-black, deep pits with no direct openings to the surface to shallower sinkholes sparkling with sunlight. Yucatán's underwater caves host diverse microbial communities 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z Claiming to be at a site that holds “the most horrifying unsolved crime in Seattle history,” this haunted house isn’t for the faint of heart — it includes a pitch-black maze. Pumpkin patches, haunted houses and Halloween events around Seattle this year 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z So just two days after September’s new moon, I found myself fumbling with a camera in a pitch-black field of Yucca brevifolia, trying to capture a few decent photos for this story. You can take majestic night sky photography in Joshua Tree. Here's a class for that 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z Patchett, on the other hand, said she spent eight hours "hacking up snakes in some pitch-black cauldron of lava at the center of the Earth." Psychedelics plus psychotherapy can trigger rapid changes in the brain. Here's how 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z Like being outside on a cruise ship in the middle of the ocean, there was virtually nothing around us but pitch-black roads, which are understandably freaky if you think about them for too long. 2 weeks, 11 national parks, 3,350 miles: Savor the Southwest on the Grand Circle road trip 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z This is a world whose secret passageways and pitch-black shadows you can get all too happily lost in. Review: With ‘A Haunting in Venice,’ Kenneth Branagh’s Agatha Christie series hits its stride 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z The conjunction of metal and McCarthy isn’t as far-fetched as it might seem; in its pitch-black reckoning with humanity’s most self-annihilating urges, the novel could easily be read as an allegory for the Anthropocene. Cormac McCarthy shaped a generation of writers like me — even when we didn't admit it 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z At the Titanic’s depth, the ocean is pitch-black and relatively poor in nutrients, so there’s not a whole lot of life or much else to see in most regions, Jaffe says. What We Know about Missing Titanic Tourist Sub 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z Red and blue lights from his police cruiser reflect off the pitch-black water. Florida deputy and motorist survive being swept through storm drain amid huge rainstorm 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z Pared to the bone, the movie opens with several moments of pitch-black screen and the lushly dissonant surge of Mica Levi’s score — an unsettling overture that prepares us not just to look, but to listen. With two essential films, Cannes finds haunting new prisms on the Holocaust 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z Loafers Lodge resident Tala Sili told news outlet RNZ that he saw smoke pouring through under his door and opened it to find the hallway was pitch-black. Fire at New Zealand hostel kills at least 6 people, officials say 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z He also used a pitch-black side street next to Woodlawn Cemetery as a stopping point. A Santa Monica police employee molested more than 200 kids. Why were warnings ignored? 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z It’s one of my favorite objects; an eerie, pitch-black ghostly mass that utterly blocks all light from stars behind it, like an opaque hole in the sky. Our Sun Was Born in a Stellar Family Far, Far From Here 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z In the pitch-black streets, passing headlights revealed mounds of rubble, frames of broken windows, and entangled rebar. Turkey's Antakya turns into a ghost city after third quake 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Part dance troupe, part electronic spectacle, the Light Balance Kids suit up in head-to-toe black costumes lined with LED lights and perform on a pitch-black stage. Despite War, Ukrainian Dance Group Returns for the ‘America’s Got Talent’ Finale 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z How jumbled must Rodgers’s mind be that he needs to spend nearly a week in pitch-black solitude to figure out his next move? Perspective | Aaron Rodgers is going on a darkness retreat. So I did, too. 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z So even someone thousands of miles away from any possible ground zero — that is, where the thermonuclear blasts occur — would sooner or later starve to death under pitch-black skies at noon. The Doomsday Clock is an imperfect metaphor — but the existential danger is all too real 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z The sky is still pitch-black when the bus rumbles down her street in Southwest Washington around 6:45 a.m. Critics of D.C.’s ‘Safe Passage’ question if school commutes are safer 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z Steven Spielberg’s cinematic memoir “The Fabelmans” and Martin McDonagh’s pitch-black comedy “The Banshees of Inisherin” look like the front-runners after winning the Globes’ best picture prizes for drama and musical or comedy, respectively. Analysis | It’s time to start predicting the 2023 Oscar nominees 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z When the sun set, the already quiet town of Fortuna was silent, pitch-black and difficult to navigate. 'Living here isn't easy to begin with.' How an earthquake brought people together 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z It sure beats racing through the yard on a cold night, trying to wiggle out of a scratchy union suit just to use the spider-infested outhouse in the pitch-black dark. Twitter’s new reign of free speech exposes true fascists like Alexander S. Vindman 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z No power meant everything stopped; as far as I could see, everything was pitch-black. Opinion | A plane crash and sudden darkness: What happens next? 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z It’s just the twins and teammates waking up at 4:30 a.m., stretching in a pitch-black morning, taking off for a tough run with pace goals. Leo and Lex Young ready to try latest run for a state title 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z The movie music of 2022 bristled with pent-up fury and pitch-black humor, ancient evils and contemporary monsters, men with emotional blockages and women who need to finally erupt. Film scores cover a spectrum of sounds and musical colors. Here are a few of note. 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z As the party continued, some people pulled away and headed home, along pitch-black streets, to dwellings without power or water. Kherson residents celebrate liberation and describe trauma of occupation 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z The Beastly Burrows required Hancock to crawl through a series of pitch-black tunnels and chambers, while having buckets of slime and insects poured over him, in order to win meals for the camp that night. I'm A Celebrity: Matt Hancock sings and slips on first episode 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z She dutifully stays late to oversee a poetry club meeting, but when one of the blowhard patrons behaves badly, her eyes turn pitch-black and she’s suddenly powerful enough to pummel him bloody. Review: Willfully impenetrable, 'Petrov's Flu' says it's complicated being Russian 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z A wander through the pitch-black town revealed shadows of massage ladies, chatting quietly while huddled together, looking out onto the pathway. Going with the flow on an impulsive trip to Thailand 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z That’s the same exact technology as in the Urbanista Los Angeles solar-powered headphones we reviewed last year, and they also quote the same 80 hours of “reserve” battery life, even in a pitch-black room. Adidas will now sell you a pair of solar-powered headphones 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z It was 1 a.m. and pitch-black in the village of Volodymyrivka, in Donetsk province, when everything went sideways. In a war-torn Ukrainian town, 'we were all ready to die' 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z A pitch-black background is speckled with thousands of distinct lights, some starlike in their brilliance, others smudgy, and still others smaller than pinpoints. Opinion | The years and billions spent on the James Webb telescope? Worth it. 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z The third wave arrived between the fifth and sixth innings, a pitch-black sky that came with lightning, wind gusts and a deluge stronger than the first rain. Brewers top Twins 6-3, as McCutchen, Adames hit 2-run homers 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z Scientists have long been in the dark about how deep-diving seals forage for their meals in pitch-black seas, and the answer may have been right under the animals’ nose all along: whiskers. Wiggling Whiskers Help Hungry Seals Hunt in the Dark 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z The writer and performer can now add director to his bio, making his feature directorial debut with the pitch-black suicide comedy “On the Count of Three,” in which he co-stars opposite Christopher Abbott. Review: Jerrod Carmichael makes a confident directing debut with 'On the Count of Three' 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z The men often spoke over one another, the light of the phone occasionally bringing their faces into focus in the otherwise pitch-black darkness. Despair in Mariupol’s last stronghold: ‘They’re bombing us with everything’ 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z But the smoke “kept escalating to black, black smoke like 9/11,” he said, “and the whole train was pitch-black.” After bullets flew, NYC subway workers kept their cool 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z I live in Tokyo, where it’s difficult to find yourself in a truly pitch-black situation, but the darkest alleyways in my neighborhood looked like daylight on the Mate Pro’s screen, with colors rendered clearly. The Duovox Mate Pro is a tiny camera that truly sees in the dark 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z But the greatest fear is getting stuck in a traffic jam in one of the highway’s long, pitch-black tunnels, where the buildup of carbon monoxide can suffocate those trapped within. ‘Fighting Was Easier’: Taliban Take On a Treacherous, Avalanche-Prone Pass 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z “We went in at halftime, and we were in a pitch-black locker room,” Bob Young, Sioux Falls’ longtime coach, told The Times last month. How UW coach Kalen DeBoer forged a championship blueprint in Sioux Falls, SD 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z “Please Hold”: Clever filmmaking in a pitch-black satire of commercially run correctional systems. Hard-hitting drama, clever satire: The 2022 Oscar-nominated live-action short films 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z This new shade still isn’t the same as the one presented in Google’s test of a pitch-black dark mode on desktops last month. Google tests an even darker ‘dark mode’ for its Android app 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Users are beginning to see Google’s new pitch-black dark mode, 9to5Google reported. Google’s dark mode goes darker 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z Now, Sunday nights are for “Succession,” the beloved pitch-black workplace drama of the post-Trump nihilistic years. The Age of Anti-Ambition 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z NOVOTROITSKE, Ukraine — The battalion commander made a left turn in the trenches and walked into a cramped, pitch-black den. In Ukraine’s trenches: Soviet relics, video games and hope for more Western weapons These are mostly hard-hitting dramas, with one pitch-black satire among them. Hard-hitting drama, clever satire: The 2022 Oscar-nominated live-action short films 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z I momentarily had the pitch-black search page on desktop, but shortly after, it switched back to dark gray. Google tests an even darker ‘dark mode’ for its Android app 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z The contrast between the gray font and the pitch-black background makes the change appear starker, but I think I prefer the dark gray background, which doesn’t have as much contrast. Google’s dark mode goes darker 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z In the distance, across the pitch-black, fallow farm field that separates the two sides, answering volleys rang out. With Low-Tech, Trench Warfare, Ukraine’s Army Isn’t NATO Caliber 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Some tenants who managed to make it down the pitch-black stairways unscathed stood outside or huddled in cars. Inside a Deadly Bronx Fire: Scenes of Chaos, Desperation and Love 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z But as a baseline, listening to them in a pitch-black room with ANC off should get you 80 hours of listening. Urbanista Los Angeles review: solar-powered headphones deliver on a lofty promise 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z Suddenly, they heard a collapse, said Dylan Ramskriet, one of the brothers, and a gush of water shoved them through the pitch-black apartment as the walls caved in. Trapped in Basements and Cars, They Lost Their Lives in Savage Storm 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z “I didn’t feel like wasting time getting out,” he said to The Post, recalling how the sky was pitch-black when he left town. 8 people are missing after Dixie fire tears through Northern California 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z “It’s not that easy to work in a pitch-black forest in the middle of the night.” Western wildfires: Crews make progress on huge Oregon blaze 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Night after night in the pitch-black jungle, López-Baucells captures bats in the field around the world. To Save Bats and Their Habitats, We Must Protect the Land Rights of Indigenous People 2021-07-18T04:00:00Z Mirrors underline the characters’ double natures, and pitch-black darkness encroaches on their domestic tranquility. Review: The 'Rosemary's Baby' setup of 'False Positive' is chilling but ending disappoints 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z Paterson said he slipped out of his house into the pitch-black November night. Scotland Returns to Soccer’s Heights, Trailed by Its Tartan Army 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z According to one cast member, the wait for the pitch-black indoor coaster has occasionally peaked at 45 minutes even under reduced capacity. Disneyland won't be locals only for long. Navigating the reduced-capacity lines 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z Clearly, there are serious technological challenges to operating in the pitch-black depths. Accident leaves deep sea mining machine stranded 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z Four years ago, after taking the oath of office, President Trump delivered a pitch-black inaugural address that vowed to end the “American carnage” under his predecessor. News Analysis: Trump spoke of 'American carnage,' then made it his reality 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z On any given weeknight, they travel back and forth across the pitch-black basin situated below the snow-capped Uinta Mountains providing much-needed aid. COVID-19 is taking a heavy toll in America’s mental health-care deserts 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z It was a pitch-black night, and the King Jacob - a huge container ship - switched on its lights. 1,000 lost on one boat - this woman hopes to name them 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z He couldn’t know it in the pitch-black darkness, but just a few paces away lay his own half-sunken sailboat. Perdido Key man shares harrowing tale 2020-10-03T04:00:00Z By then, more than three hours after this started, the cotton candy clouds were subbed for a pitch-black sky. The Nationals, in an odd and balanced effort, score a 5-3 win over the AL East-leading Rays 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Video shared on social media showed passengers sitting in a pitch-black cabin as lights and flames flashed outside the windows. Atlas Air flight makes emergency landing in Honolulu 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z The present: Ultimately, it’s Terminator 3’s pitch-black ending that makes it worth highlighting now, in 2020. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines marched us all to our doom 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z She broke into tears, sobbing in the pitch-black house. How Republicans gutted the biggest voting rights victory in recent history 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z There’s a pitch-black irony to the reality that this deliberately paced, quietly unsettling piece of art horror will also play in drive-in theaters nationwide due to the pandemic. Review: The high-end horror of 'Relic' chills to the bone 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z Pluto appears to be losing its atmosphere, and solving the mystery of a pitch-black prehistoric mine. The six year old space agency with hopes for Mars 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z The combination was a potent one as the furious assault of tracks such as Death Valley 69 surged into the now pitch-black and icy-cool desert night. Sonic Youth, Desolation Center 1985: 500 tabs of acid, one life-changing gig 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z In the pitch-black darkness, sitting on the forest floor with our bodies so close that we touch, we sing, each voice producing a different yodeled melody to create a densely overlapping harmony. How Sustainable Development Ravaged the Congo Basin 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z Rushing said his arms swelled up after the incident and his urine turned “pitch-black.” Student hospitalized after pushup punishment gets $183K 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Rushing said his arms swelled up after the incident and his urine turned “pitch-black.” Student hospitalized after pushup punishment gets $183K 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z It’s also a marked improvement on “Suicide Squad,” which may not be saying much, insofar as two hours spent in the company of a pitch-black screen would be a marked improvement on “Suicide Squad.” Review: 'Birds of Prey' lets a Joker-free Harley Quinn shine 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z It was pitch-black in the early morning after the Washington region’s first snowfall, when the Nigerian farmer went to check on his crops. New to the country, veterans of the land 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z He hoped that light would stay on, and someone would find him and crewmate Dean Gribble Jr. in the pitch-black aftermath of Scandies Rose crab boat going down in the Gulf of Alaska. Battling the waves to stay alive: A tale of survival from the Scandies Rose 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z For Thompson, that means a pitch-black room with the temperature turned down and complete silence. For some Redskins players, the NFL season can complicate life as a dad 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z After some days of sun-drenched reading on the beach, I found myself in the pitch-black parking lot of a McDonald’s on the outskirts of Oaxaca City at 5 a.m. City Malaise, Cured by a Cloud Forest? 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z They spend the winter months dodging dense pack ice, where humans cannot follow, and can swim a mile deep, twisting upside-down as they descend into pitch-black water.” The narwhal tusk has a wondrous and mystical history. A new chapter was added on London Bridge. 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z The plane landed in Afghanistan on a pitch-black runway, while the pool was only allowed to take pictures of Trump’s arrival from a nearby van. How Trump’s Thanksgiving Afghanistan trip was kept under wraps amid extreme security 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Once two more officers arrived, McClain decided to enter the home, which was pitch-black, Fox 2 Detroit reported. Detroit man 'baited' police by waiting in basement before shooting that killed officer, chief says 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z One after another, the deep passes fell from the pitch-black sky over Memorial Stadium, originating from the cannon right arm of Kedon Slovis. The Sports Report: UCLA tries to cash in, gets reality check instead 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z One after another, the long passes fell from the pitch-black sky over Memorial Stadium, an aerial attack from the right arm of Kedon Slovis. Kedon Slovis powers USC's offensive barrage in victory over Cal 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z The concept has been talked about for decades, but until now it's been thought too difficult to operate in the high-pressure, pitch-black conditions as much as 5km deep. Electric car future may depend on deep sea mining 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Ahead of “Joker’s” release, even Warner Bros. executives were unsure that the movie would succeed, given its pitch-black tone. 'Terminator: Dark Fate': What makes a franchise live or die? 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Residents of the Villas at Hamilton in Novato, which is north of San Francisco, say they encountered pitch-black stairwells and hallways, and elevators that shut down. Disabled, infirm at senior complex were ‘abandoned’ in dark 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Inside the pitch-black space, the flashlights didn’t help much as audience members navigated a tight maze of small arrows on a black tarp. Inside the L.A. horror theater show where no subject is taboo 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z On a recent September night, Marco, the camp’s senior biologist, carried a red flashlight — white distracts the reptiles — and followed stone markers to the pitch-black beach. The warming climate is making baby sea turtles almost all girls 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z According to the publication her "refusal to suffer fools was legendary", as was her "pitch-black humour". 'Fearless' journalist Deborah Orr dies aged 57 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z She learned of its return in August – an experience she relayed to friends with defiant detail and pitch-black humour. Award-winning columnist Deborah Orr dies aged 57 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z There was the resulting cheer, when some 43,675 fans find unison, when a four-run third inning is a reason to reach for a pitch-black sky and roar. Nationals demolish Cardinals, 8-1, in NLCS Game 3, move within one win of World Series 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z The rock-strewn deserts of Al Ula in Saudi Arabia are known for their pitch-black skies, which allow stargazers to easily study celestial bodies without the problem of light pollution. Uncovering secrets of mystery civilization in Saudi Arabia 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z You’ve realised that friends are ultimately a financial burden, and so spend all your nights in silent pitch-black solitude. You never go to Pret … and 24 other signs you’ve reached financial maturity 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z He coaxed her to take risks and to experiment, to scuba dive and join him in the pitch-black holes of wells. The Golden State Killer suspect became part of their family — and slowly revealed his violent side 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z The process creates pitch-black coke that is used to fuel the blast furnaces of nearby steel, cement and aluminum manufacturers. The betrayal: How a lawyer, a lobbyist and a legislator waged war on an Alabama Superfund cleanup 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z The Event Horizon Telescope shows a ring of orange light with a pitch-black center, where the laws of physics are obliterated. Black hole politics: Why no progress escapes DC's gravity 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Everto León, 58, sat on a pitch-black road where the power outage continued, a short drive from the worst of the looting. Venezuela Was Crumbling. A Blackout Tipped Parts of It Into Anarchy. 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Kavanagh shoots many scenes in the pitch-black night, with flickering fire the only practical light source. Reviews: Boxing doc ‘Cradle of Champions,’ Emile Hirsch and John Cusack in western ‘Never Grow Old’ and more 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z Reflecting this, the installation starts in a confessional where I am placed, alone, in a claustrophobic pitch-black stall. 'It's very good': how soap made from siphoned human fat left audiences in a lather 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Just as the AUV’s mythological namesake travelled to the underworld, Orpheus will one day venture down into the pitch-black Hadal Zone, 6,000 metres below the surface. Panthers, propellers and catfish — February’s best science images 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Li, who worked as a moderator for about a year, was one of several employees who said the workplace was rife with pitch-black humor. The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Democracy dies in darkness, and without a free press and without a beer frame, we are left to taking deep, shuddering breaths in a pitch-black hell on Earth. Perspective | America, embrace Jason Belmonte. With two hands. 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z Nine years ago, his Third Quartet caused a sensation in Pasadena when it was performed in pitch-black darkness. Review: Jacaranda, 'Premonition' and the angst-filled sound of Germany a century ago 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Through it all, one thing remained constant: the relentless sound of inmates banging against the jail windows, some of them waving lights inside pitch-black cells in an attempt to be seen. Protesters swarm Brooklyn jail that endured polar vortex with no heat 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z The two best older horses from Southern California had to travel to Gulfstream Park and compete under an almost pitch-black sky, a growing rain and a track labeled as sloppy. City Of Light storms to Pegasus victory, with Accelerate third 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z The St. George News reports the Washington County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue team sent the drone to light up the pitch-black cliff where the 60-year-old man was stuck Wednesday night. Crews use drone in rescue of hiker stuck on Utah cliff side 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Last September at a card table in Vegas, the professional poker player Rich Alati bet a rival $100,000 that he could spend 30 whole days alone in a pitch-black room. Thursday US briefing: Trump throws 'temper tantrum' at shutdown talks 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Three – or was it four? – days after he shut himself in a pitch-black bathroom, Rich Alati started to hallucinate. Hallucinations and $100,000: the poker player who shut himself in a pitch-black room for weeks 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z But what stands out for many is that it was also the first time most people back on Earth had seen their world as a sphere floating in the pitch-black void of space. A Half Century Later, the Journey of Apollo 8 Still Inspires 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z A group of 40 scientists from 17 different nations teamed up to search the freezing, pitch-black area, using cameras and other equipment. Scary venomous snake, 'translucent' spider and 5 other new species discovered in 2018 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z But as the opening credits rolled on “Dr. Strangelove,” Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 classic, it became clear that the film was not a military thriller but a pitch-black comedy. Pablo Ferro, evocative title designer of ‘Dr. Strangelove’ and ‘Bullitt,’ dies at 83 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z The sky was pitch-black with flashes of purple fire and ash falling from the sky when she found the paper, The Chronicle reported. 'Ominous' piece of burnt paper descends from sky amid fast-moving Calif. blaze 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z The off-hour chumminess between reporters and the pitch-black joking of Fourth Estate members is well handled - and accurate. Review: Gary Hart biopic a great look at a political moment 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z Now, it is silent and pitch-black, illuminated only by the searching headlamp beams. US West’s abandoned mines hold danger and, for some, thrills 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z The pitch-black and molasses-thick bunker fuel they produce comes from the dregs of refined products. Shipping industry slow to move on cleaner maritime fuel 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z The collection, which launches this fall, is replete with ancient iconography: A polished aluminum table lamp is shaped like a stepped pyramid; a console, carved from pitch-black marble and volcanic rock, references a Mayan altar. 6 Rising Design Studios From Central and South America to Know 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z A photographer and I met him near dusk at an empty ferry landing and off we went, an eight-hour chug down a pitch-black and unnervingly quiet Mississippi. Keep Your Notebook Dry: What Times Reporters Learned From Covering Hurricanes 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z After performing its latest job, the booster landed upright on a floating platform in the pitch-black Atlantic. Newest SpaceX booster flies again with Indonesia satellite 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z After performing its latest job, the booster landed upright on a floating platform in the pitch-black Atlantic. Newest SpaceX booster flies again with Indonesia satellite 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z The boys and their coach were alive after nine days of pitch-black isolation, six without any food. ‘Time is running out’: Inside the treacherous rescue of boys trapped in a Thai cave 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z I remember sitting on the hood of the car holding a flashlight while my father drove through pitch-black jungle to the next town. An Austin A40 Brings Back Life in India 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z Falling oxygen levels, and with many of the boys not able to swim well, present further risks should they panic as they are guided slowly through the pitch-black waters. Perilous, dark labyrinth for Thai schoolboys on journey back to light 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z Tait’s unit includes personnel equipped to provide psychological treatment to the children, whose last 10 days were spent in a pitch-black environment. 'It felt like a movie': international team trying to save Thai football team from cave 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z Neshat printed the photograph against a pitch-black background, so no location for the bodily fragment is in evidence. In Iranian art show at LACMA, the past wrestles with the present 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z Surrounded by silence but for the whirr of wheels and the sound of breathing, we negotiated gravelly, potholed single-track roads at 30mph with just a pair of small lights to fight the pitch-black night. Rise of the ultra-cyclists: a new breed of riders go the distance 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z But it also feels wonderfully real, from the concrete concourses, to the city backdrop, to LAFC's pitch-black and California gold colors. Hot soccer in the city? In L.A., you can Banc on it 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z And that's exactly how Galás' startling performance at the Palace Theatre downtown unfolded Thursday night in front of a fawning audience whose pitch-black leather ensembles and crude eyeliner matched that of their muse. Swoops, shrieks and croons: Diamanda Galás transfixes at Palace Theatre 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Scooter drivers, already accustomed to the new Roman slalom, find the degree of difficulty increased by mogullike bumps raised by pine-tree roots and pitch-black streets darkened by broken lampposts. All Roads Lead to Rome, Where Potholes Will Destroy Your Tires 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z Residents described it as a "godsend" on a "pitch-black" path leading to the town's railway station. Seven-year wait to switch street light on 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z At least it’s not pitch-black and pouring rain. Squidding on the Seattle waterfront with chef Shota Nakajima 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z It was pitch-black in my Sylmar condo and I was thinking, “This is the Big One. I’m going to die.” Here's what it was like to live through the terror of the Northridge earthquake, which hit 24 years ago 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z The pitch-black Eileen made the 2016 Man Booker shortlist; this dark new novel features a privileged woman whose alienation is exacerbated by medication and an awful shrink. 2018 in books: a literary calendar 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z Its chilly, dank cells are underground, including four pitch-black cells too narrow for inmates to sit or stretch their arms or legs. Ethiopia wants to turn a notorious prison into a museum. But some fear the abuses will continue – LA Times 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z It’s really more of a dark comedy, but some of the humor is so pitch-black we’re just going to leave it here and back slowly away. Your guide to 2018 movies — minus the superheroes, sequels, spinoffs and reboots 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z "In the Fade" is written and directed by Fatih Akin, one of Germany's top directors whose breakthrough film was 2004's pitch-black romance "Head-On." Diane Kruger winningly anchors the wrenching tragedy of 'In the Fade' 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z The noise was horrific, and it was pitch-black as all my windows were shuttered. Here's what it was like to live through the terror of the Northridge earthquake, which hit 24 years ago 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z Honorable mention: The pitch-black comedy "One Week and a Day." Kenneth Turan's best films of 2017 include 'The Shape of Water' and 'The Post' 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Divers working in pitch-black water needed a week to repair the largest hole in the 90-year old dam, one of the last on the river made of wooden slats. Wooden dams and river jams: U.S. strains to ship record grains 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z "These events dispense with lighting techniques altogether, and clubbers abandon themselves completely to the acoustic experience on a pitch-black dance floor," he said in 2009. When dubstep left the underground 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Ice caps dominated most of the south and tossed it between ceaselessly sunny summers and pitch-black winters, while the north suffered intense heat and seasonal fluctuations. Antarctica Was Once Covered in Forests. We Just Found One That Fossilized. 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z “My hands and feet were pitch-black, dead,” she said. 'I have no fear': Florida woman perseveres after losing baby, arms and legs during pregnancy 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z “We may weep for the world in its occasional, localized pitch-black ignorance and gasping idiocy.” In $25 billion video game industry, voice actors face broken vocal cords and low pay 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z Divers working in pitch-black water needed a week to repair the largest hole in the 90-year old dam, one of the last on the river made of wooden slats. Wooden dams and river jams: U.S. strains to ship record grains 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Filming took place at sea in pitch-black, refrigerated filming chambers on board the ships. The secrets behind Blue Planet II 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z A little way back in line, Yolanda Carrasquilla, 52, contemplated the risks of bringing so much money into her house at a time when she felt unsafe in her pitch-black neighborhood. Without Power to Run A.T.M.s, Puerto Rico Is Cash Only 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z The team's work suggests that the planet's atmosphere is mostly atomic hydrogen and helium, and that this composition leads to the pitch-black profile. Astronomers Discover Pitch-Black Exoplanet 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z But when one set of villains is stalking another in a pitch-black bunker, viewers should be too on edge to care much about how they got there. Horror/heist mash-up 'The Vault' is effective on multiple levels 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z With menacing music in the background, a pitch-black screen turns aglow by fire. How the Media Captured Charlottesville and Its Aftermath 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Darkness Three strangers who’ve never met in the light of day must combine their skill sets to escape from pitch-black settings such as abandoned mines in this harrowing new unscripted series. Wednesday's TV highlights: 'The Lowe Files' on A&E and more 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Instead, the 27-year-old Mexican laborer climbed with his friends into a pitch-black, metal tractor-trailer compartment that lacked ventilation - a deadly oven that would claim 10 lives. Tractor-trailer survivor says truck had no ventilation 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z Trapped with as many as 200 people in the pitch-black trailer, they took turns breathing through a hole in the side. After deadly smuggling case, officials charge truck driver and decry ‘crime against humanity’ 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z Instead, the 27-year-old Mexican laborer climbed with his friends into a pitch-black, metal tractor-trailer compartment that lacked ventilation – a deadly oven that would claim 10 lives. Mexican laborer: we were told Texas ride that killed 10 would be air-conditioned 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z A line of eight or nine riders in pitch-black uniforms stretching out at the front of the peloton day after day, squeezing the life out of the competition, was never a sympathetic look. Team Sky rule the Tour de France again but will remain unloved | Richard Williams 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z It was pitch-black dark, no lights from towns or farms, just wilderness out there. Stop making sense! 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z However, Mr Kurniawan offsets the carnage and lightens the mood with skew-whiff logic and humour that ranges from slapstick to ribald to pitch-black. The secrets of Indonesia’s finest novelist 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z Light penetrates only the top layers, and the vast, deep oceans are pitch-black, with temperatures just a few degrees above freezing point. Why are countries laying claim to the deep-sea floor? - BBC News 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z "In a situation like this, it will gape at the threat, exposing the pitch-black, inside of its mouth." See How This Man Effortlessly Catches the ‘World’s Deadliest Snake’ 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z One recent morning, three figures in white lab coats descended cautiously into a pitch-black netherworld beneath a crumbling bridge in the Afghan capital. Opium use booms in Afghanistan, creating a ‘silent tsunami’ of addicted women 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z After escaping a car crash, your protagonist finds himself in a pitch-black world that’s visible only through a kind of echolocation. The 5 best VR games I tried at E3 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Two teenagers were rescued from the catacombs beneath Paris on Wednesday after being lost for three days in the pitch-black tunnels of the underground burial ground. Teenagers rescued from Paris catacombs after three-day ordeal 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z “Cup final always seemed to be boiling hot, curtains drawn, pitch-black, crowded around the TV and we loved every minute of it,” he says. It was Arsenal’s day in 2002 – but it has mostly been Chelsea’s ever since 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z “It’s lit up on Barracks Row near the Metro like it’s daytime, but it’s pitch-black on Alabama Ave.,” he said, referring to the commercial area along 8th Street SE. D.C. residents baffled by lack of attention over missing children 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z It was pitch-black outside and impossible to discern who was shooting where. The Desperate Battle to Destroy ISIS 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z It took me probably 10 minutes to adjust to the pitch-black, watery environment. Floating in warm saltwater might not totally cure your pain, but it sure will help you relax 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Don’t think the academy can’t appreciate a healthy serving of pitch-black humor. Oscars toast Gibson, not Bening, Adams, and more surprises 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z Walking through the pitch-black Mexican desert, feeling the vibrations of unseen rattlesnakes, Acosta thought about turning back. One family’s surprise reunion and their tenuous future 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z “Do you know what that was? 5:37 p.m. was the latest we could go at practice after daylight savings time before it got pitch-black dark. All we could do was punt.” Division I football’s longest-tenured coach says 37th season ‘isn’t a farewell tour’ 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z As well as immersing you in pitch-black, its live acts remain anonymous, adding further mystique. Dancing in the dark: the growing trend of gigs with the lights off 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Drills have pitch-black faces surrounded with white fringe, which look massive in males because of fatty cheek pads that mandrills don't have, says New York University anthropologist James Higham via email. Bet You’ve Never Heard of This Shy, Colorful Monkey Filled with weird turns, dark digressions and pitch-black comedy, “Preacher” is like nothing else on TV. New on video: 'Swiss Army Man' is twisted but fun 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z Beyond the TV screen – no bigger than a laptop, around which a hundred or so guerrillas are gathered – lies a pitch-black night. Preparing for peace: inside Farc’s Colombian jungle base 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z Finally, in a pitch-black storage room - “more like a dungeon,” Taylor said with a laugh - the duo found musty, unmarked boxes. Jerseys found in abandoned school could have historic ties 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z When you drive into either town, the streets are not pitch-black. Colorado Towns Work to Preserve a Diminishing Resource: Darkness 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z With nothing but small headlamps to light their way through the pitch-black night, they didn’t know what to expect. Rescue team rolls into flooded town just in time to help 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z The movie initially plays as a joke, squeezing pitch-black humor out of Kent’s desperate, fruitless efforts to remove his clown suit. Sick-and-twisted 'Clown' delivers the goods 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Strayed gave herself this protection through mind control; similar to that which I exercised during my, albeit, somewhat shorter walks through pitch-black parks after midnight. CJ Flood: teen girls have a right to roam too 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z But if you are highly trained and experienced - and an insatiably curious individual - you might continue on a course that quickly plunges much deeper, becoming narrow and difficult, through ice-cold, pitch-black water. The cave divers who went back for their friends - BBC News 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z At the back left corner of a pitch-black room, a woman’s face flickers on a television screen. In death, an artist and a young woman meet 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z She starred in, and co-created, the celebrated “Pulling,” a pitch-black comedy about three disastrously behaved women. The Brutal Romantic Behind “Catastrophe” 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z In “Concerto in Black and Blue,” David Hammons’s 2002 piece for a series of pitch-black rooms in a large SoHo gallery, visitors were invited to explore with tiny blue flashlights. 25 Songs That Tell Us Where Music Is Going 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z In the pitch-black room audience members shine flashlights on black and white photographs of people, including prominent rights activists, whose whereabouts are not known. Amid repression, art scene in Thailand's capital blooms 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z The rookie officer Liang was on patrol inside a Brooklyn public housing project with his partner and drew his gun upon entering a pitch-black stairwell. Protests around U.S. support New York officer convicted in shooting: reports 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z We are all light and shadow, except, perhaps, the pitch-black soul of Bob Ewell, Mockingbird's villain. Remembering Harper Lee's Hometown 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z Liang, a rookie cop at the time, was on patrol inside a Brooklyn public housing project with his partner and drew his gun upon entering a pitch-black stairwell. N.Y. policeman convicted of manslaughter in shooting of black man: media 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z The officer testified Monday at his manslaughter trial that he didn’t know anyone was in the pitch-black stairway when he accidentally fired. The Latest: Jury sent home for day in NYPD officer’s trial 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z As well as being pitch-black and soundproofed, flotation tanks are filled with extremely salty water, so that users stay completely buoyant, even if they fall asleep. Why do people use flotation tanks? - BBC News 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z The cars weren’t moving and it was almost pitch-black, so you couldn’t help but notice the lack of movement; there was some experimentation with steering-wheel cameras, but it didn’t make the scene any more engaging. Grease Live: the live musical you should've watched 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z It was strange that it was pitch-black outside. Oscars 2016: The snubs, surprises and outrage 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Learn about plankton populations, crawl through the pitch-black tactile dome or step into the mobile camera obscura and view the world upside down. Essentials for a San Francisco trip: Classics to what’s new 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z The Evening Standard, meanwhile, said Hampton's "pitch-black comedy of manners" was "theatre at its most seductive and sinister". Liaisons still dangerous 30 years on - BBC News 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z But moving a robot vehicle to precise spots along the pitch-black, irregular surface is difficult. Meet PlankZooka, the Deep-Sea Plankton Vacuum 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z Hyperspace Mountain is not a grand re-envisioning of the ride, and it maintains much of Space Mountain's pitch-black nature, especially for the first three-fourths of the experience. Tomorrowland at Disneyland revamps with Season of the Force ahead of new 'Star Wars' movie release 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z The Sunless Cell, meanwhile, culminates in a pitch-black battle that provides one of Destiny’s tensest moments so far. Destiny: The Taken King review 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z The hawksbill proceeded to dive down into the pitch-black ocean. Exclusive Video: First "Glowing" Sea Turtle Found 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z In October 2013 scientists working in South Africa announced that they had discovered a trove of fossil human remains in the pitch-black depths of an underground cave system. Mysterious New Human Species Emerges from Heap of Fossils 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z I am driven by an unstoppable impulse to leave my bed and walk slowly down the pitch-black stairs towards the door. Viewpoint: Why don't people talk about their dreams? - BBC News 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z Equally tempting is a later sector featuring near pitch-black areas slightly illuminated with white wall squares. Zadzooks: Q.U.B.E: Director’s Cut review 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Inside the studio, though, after a cheery greeting, it's almost pitch-black as you make your way to your assigned bike out of the 48 arranged in tight rows. Indoor cycling charges ahead in L.A. fitness scene 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z On Friday night his round was suspended by darkness after a three-hour rain delay, and he left off staring at putts in the nearly pitch-black night. Another wild day at British Open finds Dustin Johnson calm and in the lead 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z For eight pitch-black hours, the men stared upward in a driving rain, keeping their mouths closed because waves kept washing over them and squinting because shutting their eyes intensified the seasickness. Stowaways and Crimes Aboard a Scofflaw Ship 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z The wild-eyed prophet got all the good lines, but if your chosen backdrop is the pitch-black darkness of human nature, you need a normal on hand to get touched by said darkness. Review: True Detective's overpopulated second season 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z There’s existential angst, silliness, horror and pitch-black humor. Review: Rajiv Joseph’s ‘Guards at the Taj’ is dark, powerful 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z He ran through pitch-black woods, quickly gaining on his target, who was moving much more slowly and deliberately through the obstacles. Retired trooper gets life back after ankle injury 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z Carr, who stars in the pitch-black comedy “Hand to God,” is still in the pinch-me-I’m-dreaming mode after a hard, unlikely path to her Broadway debut this season. Geneva Carr’s cool, unlikely route to a Tony nomination 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Carr, who stars in the pitch-black comedy "Hand to God," is still in the pinch-me-I'm-dreaming mode after a hard, unlikely path to her Broadway debut this season. Geneva Carr's cool, unlikely route to a Tony nomination 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z “Life in the fast lane pushes people to far-flung corners of the world in search of stillness, solitude, pitch-black skies and empty beaches and forests,” says Pappyn. Where To Get Lost: The World's Most Remote Luxury Lodges 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z I got to the office during the New York City blackout of 1977 by climbing a pitch-black stairwell with a flashlight. Inside Forbes: From New Jersey, A Newsroom Grows 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Another soldier described a harrowing early morning escape, speeding over pitch-black fields that had been hardened by frost. Rout has Ukraine pleading for peacekeepers 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z “On a pitch-black night, when you walk up to the hole just to see where it is, it stamps a very strong image in your mind,” Casper told Golf Digest in 2005. Billy Casper, Twice a U.S. Open Winner, Dies at 83 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z She highlighted the detail that the room where Jackie alleged she was attacked was pitch-black. U-Va. rape survivor, author questions Rolling Stone account that has similarities to her own attack 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Seen from a helicopter, the oil production area is dotted with pitch-black ponds. Constant oil spills devastate Russia 2011-12-23T05:00:00Z When the sun goes down, many blocks are pitch-black. Losing Hope in Wilmington, Delaware The patrol on Thursday night was no different than most until a door swung open into the pitch-black seventh-floor stairwell, just as two uniformed officers began heading down the stairs from the eighth floor. Fatal New York police shooting stokes new criticism 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z When I was a kid I read about an interesting experiment in which researchers lived for months in a pitch-black cave. When the wife is away on business, the tidy homestead reverts to Planet Bachelor But inside, the pitch-black show space resembled a nightclub, with spotlight beams shining down on guests, including the most celebrity-heavy front row of the season. Paris Fashion Week: At Louis Vuitton, luxe meets lava lamp 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z We met our blind waiter Victor and were instructed to put one hand on each others shoulders to be led into the pitch-black dining room. Blind Date: Adventure Dining In The Dark at Canada's Popular O.Noir Restaurant 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z “You see the vegetation and the steep cliff. This was pitch-black for most of the time we’ve been here.” Firefighters recue man from St. Paul cave 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z Broken bottles lurk in the pitch-black sewer system too, he said, pointing at his leg, which was covered with scars and cuts. India's sewer cleaners keep working despite ban on job 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z It’s pitch-black until the old footage starts flickering. Ghosts of Uruguay’s 1950 World Cup upset still haunt some in Brazil An emphasis on absolutely pitch-black bedrooms could even be dangerous. The plague of light in our bedrooms 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z At night, stadium lights illuminate the pitch-black of the desert, while the metallic clanging of the plant's grinder cuts the silence. Special Report: Areva and Niger's uranium fight 2014-02-05T11:58:06Z Some side streets lead to bright, well-manicured homes, while others are pitch-black — plagued by the broken streetlights that are out in nearly half the city. Detroit Voters: Race Doesn't Matter 2013-11-05T01:05:29Z It was pitch-black, and it is not so easy to swim with just one arm. Brush with death inspired cider boss 2013-08-18T23:04:44Z And so I find myself holding onto the shoulders of a well-dressed gentleman with night-vision goggles as he leads me into the pitch-black basement in Manhattan’s West Village. Why You Want The World's Most Mysterious Scotch 2013-06-30T17:14:00Z Reading his watch by lamplight, he discovered that it was 8:30 A.M., and pitch-black outside from the cloud of ashes descending. Tambora Erupts in 1815 and Changes World History [Excerpt] 2013-03-01T18:45:00.280Z Night satellite photographs that were once pitch-black now show a massive gas flare luminance in the northwest corner of the state. North Dakota Went Boom 2013-01-31T12:00:12Z In the pitch-black room, the men — all of them in the prison’s addiction program — lay on their backs as Mr. Norris led them in breathing exercises. Inmates Find Health and Solace in Yoga 2013-01-03T18:55:26Z Throughout the pitch-black neighborhood, people were fighting for their lives. How a Staten Island Community Became a Deathtrap 2012-11-11T02:20:54Z Among thousands of urgent tasks, some officers lighted red-burning flares along pitch-black street corners, and placed floodlights at busy intersections. Police Officers, Busy Rescuing Storm Victims, Were Victims Themselves 2012-11-08T04:14:49Z A camera shot from underneath the capsule shows a pitch-black sky. Felix Baumgartner lands after flying faster than the speed of sound 2012-10-14T21:07:00Z Red fireworks exploded behind home plate and lit up the pitch-black sky. Washington Nationals clinch NL East crown 2012-10-02T02:23:28Z I spoke to a former Viet Cong guerrilla who once, on a pitch-black night, while evading an American patrol, unknowingly belly-crawled between the legs of a massive elephant that was straddling a jungle path. IHT Rendezvous: The Slaughter of Elephants in Vietnam Is Nearly Complete 2012-09-06T04:25:32Z Probes to delve into the pitch-black waters of remote Lake Ellsworth are packed for one of the most difficult science missions of recent years. Drill kit leaves UK for icy lake 2012-08-10T08:35:35Z Over the summit at 2,646m, a 30-mile blaze downhill, and then those pitch-black tunnels, where the red tail lights of other bikes hit me in the face like a hammer. Your own Tour de France: cycling the Marmotte 'sportive' in France 2012-06-29T21:45:08Z Living With P.T.S.D. and Allowing Myself to Get Help An alarm clock chimes across a pitch-black room. At War Blog: Living With P.T.S.D. and Allowing Myself to Get Help 2012-06-22T17:58:52Z Once more, in the pitch-black darkness of the night, Sefton began to realize the responsibility of his position. With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight 2012-04-21T02:00:25.260Z I do not like the pitch-black kind which is the negation of all thought. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z The collection was appraised in 2007 at $189 million, including some intellectual property alongside the myriad items plucked by remote controlled probes from the pitch-black depths, some 2 and ½ miles below the ocean’s surface. 5,000 salvaged Titanic items to be sold in April, century after world?s most famous shipwreck 2012-01-05T14:15:30Z Using their internal compasses, naked mole rats in Africa navigate their pitch-black underground mazes. Book Review: Our Magnetic Earth, by Ronald Merrill 2011-12-28T17:15:12.157Z The sun-bright eyes of her fair face Are tricked with sūrm— Restless wagtails on a golden lotus, At play with pitch-black snakes. Vidy?pati: Bang?ya pad?bali; songs of the love of R?dh? and Krishna 2011-12-02T03:00:26.297Z Once inside the door, which responded to a single turn to the key, the policeman and the government agent halted in the pitch-black darkness and listened. On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents 2011-11-26T03:00:14.947Z “Spirits in the pitch-black flames, where shall I find the Jewel for Emeralda...???” Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z In the pitch-black airlessness Herrick could feel Christina kneeling against him, quiet but for the broken breathing that told him she was still afraid of the dark. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z The sky was pitch-black, and the wife and children walked the shore in silent fear. The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book 2011-09-09T02:01:11.180Z He rides a pitch-black Turkish stallion, whose shabrack, richly embroidered with golden butterflies, is plainly the work of a gentle lady's hand. 'Midst the Wild Carpathians 2011-09-09T02:00:57.830Z Videos posted online shortly after the accident show plumes of gravel and sand lashing through a nearly pitch-black sky. State Fair Reopens With Prayers for Victims of Stage Collapse 2011-08-15T14:46:38Z In that pitch-black darkness, that almost sulphurous air, it seemed as if a thunderbolt must fall. Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z Of a sudden, as though extinguished, the moonlight faded, huge shadows leaped onto the ice before us, frenziedly waved their arms and melted into the pitch-black darkness which descended. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z But sudden came the barge's pitch-black prow, Nearer and angrier came my brother's cry, And all my soul was quivering fear, when lo! Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z She was slovenly dressed in a brown jacket and skirt of grotesque cut, and her hair was concealed under a voluminous wig of a pitch-black hue. Yekl A tale of the New York ghetto 2011-07-13T02:00:17.480Z The short period of tropical twilight gave place to pitch-black night, for the moon, now two days after the full, had not yet risen. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z Some fans whose seats were covered by the second-deck overhang stayed put and watched the pitch-black clouds pass over. Officials defend response to stormy night at CWS 2011-06-21T20:32:17Z When it was midnight, the earth seemed to crack, and on a coal-black horse he saw a pitch-black rider, who rode at him furiously, and sought to bind him with solemn promises. Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z Down came the night, with pitch-black clouds and a little shrewd wind that blew the dry and scanty reeds. Japanese Fairy Tales 2011-04-15T02:00:14.617Z Finally he paused in front of a girl with a superabundance of pitch-black side bangs and with a pert, ill natured, pretty face of the most strikingly Semitic cast in the whole gathering. Yekl A tale of the New York ghetto 2011-07-13T02:00:17.480Z Along the coast north of the airport, oil-storage tanks burned brightly, sending a funnel of pitch-black smoke nearly a mile into the sky. Quake, Tsunami Slam Japan 2011-03-12T05:46:44Z Bridge, willows, and cots all threw pitch-black shadows out into the glaring splendour of the moonlit night, which was absolutely free from mist and damp. Countess Erika's Apprenticeship 2011-03-10T03:00:46.973Z The interior of the apartment was pitch-black with smoke, said Lt. Fire in Brooklyn House Seriously Injures 2 Residents 2011-03-01T03:25:47Z The enemy’s lines were about one hundred and fifty yards away, and all observers agree that the chief difficulty experienced in the pitch-black darkness of a cloudy, moonless night is to estimate the distance covered. The Revellers 2011-02-26T03:00:50.133Z They came into the pitch-black vestibule, moving about by the little point of light made by their tiny electric torch. A Woman's Experience in the Great War 2011-02-26T03:00:48.257Z Yet not without a shudder he recalled his last conscious moment in the horrors of the pitch-black cramped interior of the after gondola. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z At eight o'clock they were all lined up on deck; the ship's lights were put out, and in the pitch-black darkness they waited for the enemy's attack. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 1 (of 10) From the Beginning of the War to the Landing of the British Army in France 2011-02-19T03:01:09.157Z It was pitch-black dark when I took over at 4 a.m., and a fresh breeze had raised a lumpy sea, which covered the bridge with spray. The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne 2011-01-30T03:00:19.213Z His face brightened suddenly, and he stepped back to where she was standing, and lifted her up in his arms and swung her to his shoulder and stumbled through the pitch-black doorway. The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business 2011-01-04T03:01:00.723Z "We are just arrived from Folkestone," the younger one explains in pretty broken English, as we grope our way along the pitch-black cobbled road. A Woman's Experience in the Great War 2011-02-26T03:00:48.257Z Out to sea everything seemed swallowed up in pitch-black darkness. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z On a moonless, pitch-black but impossibly starry night in early December, I traveled with a U.S. Fighting and Feasting: On the Ground in Afghanistan 2010-12-09T08:40:00Z As an hour had elapsed since the last depth-charge, I felt fairly happy at coming up, and on making the surface I was delighted to find a pitch-black night and a considerable sea. The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne 2011-01-30T03:00:19.213Z It was pitch-black and 25 degrees outside when Cashman arrived Friday morning. Yankees G.M. Practices His Swooping Descents 2010-12-03T15:16:00Z Last year a man was injured in Polish artist Miroslaw Balka's "How It Is," which invited visitors into a pitch-black room. UK 'sunflower seed' exhibit closed as health risk 2010-10-15T14:55:00Z Coming from the lighted compartment; they were momentarily dazzled by the transition from artificial illumination to murky, pitch-black night. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z As I start to drag myself through a narrow concrete pipe, in the pitch-black, a woman screams: she's just been caught by an electric wire, invisible in the darkness. Tough Guy: Nettle Warrior 2010 2010-07-29T09:50:00Z But she also suggests a host of factors beyond her control played a role — the pitch-black road, an unusually dangerous intersection, the small size of the stop sign, and the car the victim was driving. Laura Bush Opens Up About Fatal Crash 2010-04-28T02:20:00Z He knew that his father worked in the United States and that somehow, by trudging through mud in pitch-black darkness, they would find him. For U.S. Speedskater, a Bumpy Path Back to Vancouver 2010-02-26T04:21:00Z The interior of the old stone building grew pitch-black before three of the slates had been displaced and gently tossed into the herbage. A Traitor's Wooing A tiny, pitch-black closet opens out of the long room, and into this the Police plunge. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel A pitch-black darkness and heavy rain again favoured them, and they slipped through the pass and down to the plain below unchallenged. With Rifle and Bayonet A Story of the Boer War The light in the corridor behind him suddenly went out, plunging him into pitch-black darkness. The Door into Infinity He woke into almost pitch-black gloom, and, starting up, could count only four torches staining the unrippling water with their flare. The Three Mulla-mulgars The sun was just beginning to set, and the instant it disappeared the night would be pitch-black. The Old Martians It was a blind smother of a fight, there in that pitch-black narrow tunnel whose walls pressed ceaselessly upon it and hemmed it in. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life Europe, pitch-black, became, almost in its entirety, subject to the caprices of a hierarchy of despots who managed to be both stupid and fierce, absolute autocrats, practically kings. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern Bears usually knocked a barn-door in with one whack, and here we stood in pitch-black darkness. What Happened to Inger Johanne As Told by Herself "How can we see anything if the room's pitch-black?" The Brightener Wings diaphanous, beating bee-like, Wand within fingers, locks enspangled, Icicle foot, lip sharp as scarlet, She lifted her eyes in her pitch-black hollow— Green as stalks of weeds in water— Breathed: stirred. Down-Adown-Derry A Book of Fairy Poems At 4:30 it would still be pitch-black. Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North It was a pitch-black night, intensified by a slight fog, and I took my direction by compass bearing, wondering all the while if it would lead me right. On the right of the British line Everything around her seemed to be turning pitch-black, and the horror which froze her breast made itself felt even to the tips of her fingers. Pretty Michal For instance, the bits of glass in a window are separated by lead lines; pitch-black, therefore, against the light of day outside. Stained Glass Work A text-book for students and workers in glass Any slip, any contact with Army aircraft or Security patrol could throw everything into the fire— For hours he sat, gazing hypnotically at the black expanse of land below, flying high over the pitch-black countryside. Bear Trap But, my word, when it comes to sea fogs, midday is no better than a pitch-black night…. Letters from my Windmill The world is plunged into an eternal warm, pitch-black night. Common Science The walls and roof of this building shone blood-red in the evening twilight, but from the huge chimney issued volumes of pitch-black smoke. Pretty Michal When it was pitch-black we cast off the lines, an’ she drifted out on the ebb tide, which just there runs easy a knot an’ a half. The Harbor of Doubt The Spectre of the Goodwins It was a pitch-black night, with fine rain driving up from the south-west. Submarine Warfare of To-day How the Submarine Menace was Met and Vanquished, With Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery Ships Now we were out in God's clean light, looking up at the mass of the tower, as it rose pitch-black against the sky. Things as They Are Mission Work in Southern India In that moment, out of the pitch-black well of soundlessness, a scream shrilled! When the Sleepers Woke The stem at the base is pitch-black, as will be seen in Figure 319. The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth Zachary moved quickly in the pitch-black, his hands outstretched to feel the ladder, his breath coming and going rapidly through his parted lips. Mr. Wicker's Window The stinging, stifling sand, the shrill-screaming wind, the pitch-black whirling darkness; how could a man possibly tell where he was going? In the Musgrave Ranges He was in a pitch-black cellar smelling of wine. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel It was a pitch-black night, spitting fine rain. The Rough Road In the red nose, dishevelled, unkempt hair, the pitch-black moustache, one of which was jauntily twisted and pointed insolently toward the ceiling, he recognized the gallant cavalryman Klausoff. Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Detective Stories Termitaries, as far as the entomologist knew, were pitch-black places which no ray of light ever entered. The Raid on the Termites Still the moon was covered with clouds, making the night almost pitch-black. The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River or Diamond X and the Chinese Smugglers |
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