Sue Perkins

I have a voice inside. A voice that I am forever trying to silence. A voice that calls me in when I want to be out, playing. A voice that is always sad. That is always terrified. That always wants to sit in the darkened room, away from noise and movement and colour - away from any experience that could prove to be challenging.

English Comedian

John Reid

There are many ways of encouraging people to make life better other than joining a political party. Politics with a small 'p' isn't just about darkened committee rooms, endless meetings - it is about giving people the right to make decisions about our lives.

British Politician

Kameron Hurley

As a science fiction and fantasy writer, I used to love writing bleak, grimdark futures full of bleak, grimdark people. But I've found that as the world around me darkens, all I really want to do is grasp for more light.

American Writer

Emily Watson

My character Lena is somebody who responds to people in a very simple way. I didn't have to take myself off to a darkened room to concentrate, I just had to try and be open. It's an interesting, subtle relationship.

English Actress

Steve Carell

Your brain, like your tongue, is a muscle. Practicing thinking by yourself really helps develop your brain, which you need throughout your day. I like to practice my thinking in a darkened room, alone.

American Actor

Jon Richardson

Comedy gigs are there because you are all in acceptance that the world is not the way it should be. You have to give yourself a break; otherwise, you would sit crying in a darkened room.

Alice Walker

On a spiritual level, it's as though with my sighted eye I see what's before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what's hidden. It's illuminated life more than darkened it.

American Author

Harriet Ann Jacobs

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.

Plutarch

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

Greek Philosopher

Groucho Marx

American Comedian

Use 'darken' to talk about changes in lighting due to weather or time of day.

Atmospheric Changes

Refer to diminishing brightness of screens or displays with 'darken'.

Electronic Screens

Use 'darken' to describe something becoming dark that could later brighten.

Temporary State

Darken reflects a negative turn in mood or atmosphere.

Emotional Shift

Even without actual darkness, 'darken' can describe a heavy emotional state.

No Physical Darkness

Sometimes, 'darken' signifies a gradual shift in feelings.

Subtle Changes

Use 'darken' when talking about changing something's color for style or design.

Aesthetic Choice

It's often used to describe hair or makeup becoming a darker shade.

Personal Appearance

In art, 'darken' is about adding shadow or depth using darker colors.

Artistic Terms

 using assumptions about visual information to create a tailored, edited vision of the world. Imagine your brain calling out these edits on the "Okay, those squares could be objects. Let's enhance that black-white contrast on the sides with lateral inhibition. Darken those corners!

How optical illusions...

 Hunger descended on humanity. Parents struggled to console their starving children while their own stomachs rumbled. With nothing to eat, people no longer gathered over heaped bowls of rice, but withdrew and shrank from the darkening world. To His shock and awe,

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 with an amazing new technology that would transform everything in the world and darken the history of the human species forever after? And isn't it a little strange that he required no payment for this? That he asked for only one thing --

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 Elvis Costello van accident when do you think of a veteran what image comes to mind a bedraggled guy on the sidewalk panhandling for change a PTSD addled fellow sitting on his sofa in a darkened room a group of old men sipping beer in

Lessons we can learn...

 their striking patches may help them stay cool it was found that underneath each darkened patch they had sweat glands but the size of these glands were significantly larger suggesting that indeed their skin plays a vital part in

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 The clouds darken as they fill and become heavy with water. Cool, dry air from the upper layers of the atmosphere known as a downdraft then pull this moisture downward causing it to fall as life-sustaining rain.

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 all ant workers are female and sterile unable to reproduce themselves their sole purpose in life is to serve the queens they darken as their bodies become harder

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 themselves their sole purpose in life is to serve the queens they darken as their bodies become harder and then they are ready to take up their duties

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 their sole purpose in life is to serve the queens they darken as their bodies become harder and then they are ready to take up their duties

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 and sterile unable to reproduce themselves their sole purpose in life is to serve the queens they darken as their bodies become harder