Word: darkeness
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Last Friday night, unfurled flags from across the world hung limply on the walls of Adams dining hall, making a sharp contrast with the dark-stained mahogany columns and gilded chandeliers. Somehow, it was the perfect integration of the international and the American aesthetic. It was the Woodbridge Society’s annual Fiesta Mondiale, and it was completely sold-out. Originally created by five international students in 1994, the Woodbridge Society is enjoying its most successful year to-date with membership numbers now swelling into the hundreds. No longer simply a refuge for foreign students, the society has become...
...what he's doing (though he's always remorseful afterwards). "Túrin was slow to forget injustice or mockery," Tolkien writes, "and he could be sudden and fierce. Yet he was quick to pity, and the hurts or sadness of living things might move him to tears." A dark cloud follows him, and Tolkien lays on the omens of foreboding: you get the sense that Túrin was born under an unlucky star...
...villain of Children is the cowardly and spiteful Morgoth, who's your basic evil incarnate. Tolkien's baddies rarely have much in the way of personality, and Morgoth spends most of his time squatting in his dark fortress of Angband, casting a shadow over the land and generally making war on all that is just and beautiful. He leaves most of the actual scrapping to his lieutenants, most notably Glaurung, a wingless, wormy and rather sarcastic dragon...
...term black hole is misleading in the case of this galaxy, known as NGC 1365, which has a brightly lit core instead of a dark one. The galaxy’s center—known by scientists as a nucleus—emits light and radiation due to the powerful gravitational field of the black hole, and is better known as a quasar...
...days it went from being shining bright to being very dark, then back to being bright again,” Elvis said...