Etymology
Origin of blackness
Example Sentences
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“This was a period in English culture before blackness acquired its fatal association with slavery,” he writes, identifying a “certain strain of indifference to color” in the thinking of the time.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
The amnesia conceit allows the film to highlight its artificiality: painted backdrops, stages that recede into blackness, supporting players recast in multiple roles.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2025
This white haziness in their lungs, where there should only be the empty blackness of air, is commonly the mark of a tuberculosis infection.
From Salon • Dec. 16, 2024
By the end, Sakamoto appears to be playing in inky blackness, with one light standing in for the moon shining over his left shoulder.
From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2024
Out of the blackness of sleep a dream formed.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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