Lewis Thomas

It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits.

American Scientist

Karan Singh Grover

Saudi had been a very restricted place. Even on the magazines there, if there was a little leg or cleavage showing, they used to blacken it with a black mark. Me and Ishmeet, so many times, had tried to remove the black portion with our spit, but of course, it would never come out.

Indian Actor

David Hewson

Historically, Macbeth is one of the greatest kings Scotland ever had. He was on the throne for 19 years, and he simply has this dreadful reputation because Shakespeare manipulated history for the benefit of James I, who was paying him to write the play to blacken Macbeth's name.

British Author

Bernard Beckett

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition.

New Zealander Writer

Billy Eckstine

As a matter of fact they'd blacken us down. I guess there's a reason that according to what the Caucasian wanted us to look like. He wanted us to look-if we were Black, then he had his idea of what we look like.

American Musician

Adrian Lewis

When I play under bright lights on TV, the reflection off the dart barrel could be distracting. It's not high-tech stuff but I use the flame from the gas cooker at home to blacken the metal and dull them.

English Athlete

Natasha Bedingfield

I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.

British Musician

Paul Stamets

Chaga is one of the weirdest mushrooms you may ever see. A fungal parasite found on birch trees, Chaga is a hardened, blackened, crusty formation that looks like a bursting tumor.

Adlai Stevenson I

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.

American Politician

Leonard Cohen

I continually blacken pages and scribble away, so I always have a number of songs that are half-finished.

Canadian Singer

Use 'blacken' to describe something turning dark due to physical changes like burning or dirt.

Physical Change

'Blacken' suggests a significant change in color, not a gradual darkening.

No Gradual Shade

Using 'blacken' often implies damage, not just a change in color.

Damage Implication

'Blacken' can mean figuratively damaging someone's reputation, not physical blackening.

Figurative Use

'Blacken' has a strong negative connotation when used about someone's reputation.

Negative Connotation

In arguments, people may 'blacken' others' reputations to win or retaliate.

Use in Disputes

In cooking, 'blacken' refers to a specific method of seasoning and searing.

Culinary Technique

To 'blacken' food properly, a very high temperature is used to form a dark crust.

High Heat Required

'Blackened' in cooking doesn't mean burnt; it's a flavorful dark crust.

Not Burnt

 of such a ceremonial, where the king was involved, and the king's job, one of the large parts of his job, apart from organizing warfare and things like that, was to look after the tombs of his ancestors, and when a king died, the stool that he sat on was blackened and put in the royal ancestral temple,

Kwame Anthony Appiah: Is...

 even like a dead animal it's not like a mouse that's behind your wall that dies I mean it's a it's a pungent sweet smell you never forget it the researchers focus on details that would revolt most people such as blackened skin an important clue in establishing time of

Welcome to the Body Farm...

 or an off-the-grid village like Kgagodi, legs clad in dust stockings whose knees had blackened from years of kneeling and wax-polishing floors, whose shins were marked with lessons from climbing trees, who played until dusk, went in for supper by a paraffin lamp

Katlego Kolanyane-Kesupil...

 that would blacken the skies and threaten humanity. The Yellowstone supervolcano is just one reminder that the Earth continues to seethe below our feet. Its mobile plates put the planet in a state of constant flux. In another few hundred million years,

How North America got...

 rayless, and pathless, and the icy Earth swung blind and blackening in the moonless air; morn came and went -- and came, and brought no day." They had no way of knowing that the real source of their misfortunes

The colossal consequences...

 vengeance most of the land we stand on was originally created by volcanism like this over centuries the forces of nature turned blackened cinders into weathered rock on which grass can grow life can flourish

Earth-Building Wounds PIPE...

 pickings eventually the fuel runs out and the flames die the savannah a scorched and blackened land but the grasses here have evolved with

Fire and Feast PIPE A...

 blackened circular glass plate with holes edged in it those are constellations light comes through these holes gets projected in

Inside Neil deGrasse...

 “It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.”

Why should you read...

 eventually the fuel runs out and the flames die the savannah a scorched and blackened land