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(adjective) shut off from the light; dark murky / (adjective) hard to understand; obscure / (adjective) causing gloom

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tenebrous



The poet's dream stole over him like sunlight
And passed into the tenebrous thickets.

—p.91 Alphabets (90) by Seamus Heaney
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1 year, 7 months ago


"with the tenebrous incense of the oracular"

quoting Steiner

—p.9 Introduction by Robert Boyers (1) by Robert Boyers
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9 years, 4 months ago

In some tenebrous manner, Hitler saw in the messanaic coherence of the Jewish people

—p.73 From The House of the Dead (69) by George Steiner
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9 years, 4 months ago

they flatter the writer with the tenebrous incense of the oracular

—p.245 Short Shrift (239) by George Steiner
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9 years, 4 months ago


there lurked a tenebrous techie will to power

—p.194 The Aristocracy of Brains (190) by Corey Pein
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7 years, 9 months ago


the tenebrous religious education I received from the Salesian brothers in the early sixties

—p.xvii Introduction (xi) by Pedro Almodóvar
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9 months ago