The darkness may be poverty, hunger and homelessness. This kind of darkness differs from one person to the next. In the dark, greed took over.ĭarkness can also refer to people whose circumstances in life are any thing but bright, positive and optimistic. In the dark businesses were practically destroyed, not by hardened criminals, but by neighbours, by ordinary people who lived up the road, by normally law abiding people. Smashing shop windows, walking away with TV sets and toasters and stereo systems. In fact, as I recall, it actually lasted a few days.īy the second night, still without power and lights, the people started looting. But this one affected a wider area and it lasted longer. It’s not as if there hadn’t been blackouts before. On a dark night, some years ago, the lights went out in a major American city. It is always the bad guys in movies who wear black to symbolise their dark deeds (Darth Vadar in Star Wars or The dark land of Mordor in Lord of the Rings) Death is described as something dark and sinister. We think of many acts of cruelty and violence as coming from our dark side. Under the cover of darkness many crimes are committed.
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In the Bible and in literature generally darkness is associated with things that are evil and with death. Why does everyone think the story to be so humorous? You are “in the dark” so to say, and it isn’t until someone explains (or throws some light on) the punch line that you finally get it. For the life of you, you can’t see what was so funny. And at the end of the story everyone burst into uncontrolled laughter – everyone, that is, except you. Sometimes the phrase “in the dark” might be used to indicate that we are confused, don’t understand, unclear, bamboozled. Some people can’t sleep unless curtains block out all light and their bedroom is completely dark.
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Light in darkness movie#
Going to see a movie at the theatre only works if the theatre is dark.
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Having a candle light dinner in a darkened room has a special appeal and romance.Sometimes darkness is preferred over and above the bright light of day: Sermon Isaiah 60:1-3 The Light in Our Darkness