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as in darkened
being without light or without much light
with its only light burned out, the closet was pitch-dark
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The tips of my lashes are blonde and can make a mascara look rather dusty if it's not pigmented enough, but that wasn't a concern with this pitch-dark formulation.
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Talia Gutierrez, Allure, 8 July 2024
The book also shares with Park’s films a pitch-dark, absurdist humor.
—Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
In the 52 years since then, only a few unmanned probes have been down to those pitch-dark deeps.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Jan. 2012
In Merlo’s delirious play—staged by the director Jack Serio with the audience seated at a long table in a pitch-dark room—a genderqueer teen is missing, and their detective father is on the case.
—The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2024
The pitch-dark periphery engulfing the stage, a signature of the director Michael Greif, encourages such moments of tunnel vision, though O’Hara accomplishes the effect on her own.
—Naveen Kumar, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2024
Two young men sat next to it, around a fire, in an otherwise pitch-dark street, their feet covered in mud and clothes in dust.
—Jomana Karadsheh, CNN, 15 Sep. 2023
Noah Agemo for Fortune The snow is falling heavily in Stockholm, but inside a small, pitch-dark auditorium, the atmosphere is cozy and warm.
—Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 27 Apr. 2023
Lines formed at old wells as people lugged jugs of water to pitch-dark apartments in Kyiv.
—Marc Santora, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023
Talia Gutierrez, Allure, 8 July 2024
The book also shares with Park’s films a pitch-dark, absurdist humor.
—Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
In the 52 years since then, only a few unmanned probes have been down to those pitch-dark deeps.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Jan. 2012
In Merlo’s delirious play—staged by the director Jack Serio with the audience seated at a long table in a pitch-dark room—a genderqueer teen is missing, and their detective father is on the case.
—The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2024
The pitch-dark periphery engulfing the stage, a signature of the director Michael Greif, encourages such moments of tunnel vision, though O’Hara accomplishes the effect on her own.
—Naveen Kumar, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2024
Two young men sat next to it, around a fire, in an otherwise pitch-dark street, their feet covered in mud and clothes in dust.
—Jomana Karadsheh, CNN, 15 Sep. 2023
Noah Agemo for Fortune The snow is falling heavily in Stockholm, but inside a small, pitch-dark auditorium, the atmosphere is cozy and warm.
—Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 27 Apr. 2023
Lines formed at old wells as people lugged jugs of water to pitch-dark apartments in Kyiv.
—Marc Santora, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023
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