Word: darkest
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This public approval prompted Hopper to return to painting in the 1920s. According to the exhibition text, Hopper declared, "After I took up etching, my painting seemed to crystallize." And his etchings make perfect sense within the development of his work: by using the whitest paper and darkest ink available, he achieves a high contrast which evokes the stark, lonely quality of his paintings. The subject matter and mood anticipate those of his more renowned work: American streets and window scenes in which the human figures seem merely part of the still and vastly solitary environment...
...terrorism.' As for Malan, Hawthorne says, "The general was asking for no favors. He would have his day in court, he declared, because he was innocent of the charges against him and he would prove it. The action against him, he said, showed that 'democracy was moving into its darkest hour...
...American-born author of Cuban-Spanish ancestry brought a reporter's sensibility to such enduring works as The Truth About Them (1971), a multi-generational novel tracing a Cuban family from Florida immigration to middle-class success, and The Franco Years (1977), an oral history of Spain's darkest days...
What lies at the core of this divisive issue is the Nation of Islam's notion of "the Black Man." It is essential to understand that Farrakhan has his own very particular perspective on the meaning of "manhood," a perspective which came of age in the darkest moments of the nineteenth century, and which, if espoused in the white community today, would be considered tantamount to fascism. In this archaic vision, women are meant to look after the home and remain, essentially "barefoot and pregnant," while the strapping (i.e. ardently homophobic, anti-semitic, Muslim) males look to more important matters...
Written in the year before her death, Persuasion is Jane Austen's darkest novel. The plot is similar to those of Emma and Pride and Prejudice. A sensible and intelligent woman overcomes her own character flaws and the interference of her family and friends to marry the only man who is her equal...