心一點零-B12

Word of the Day for Sunday September 11, 2005

tenebrous \TEN-uh-bruhs\, adjective:
Dark; gloomy.(陰暗的、陰鬱的)

He found the Earl, who is eight feet tall and has the
family trait of a Cyclops eye, standing stock still,
dressed from head to foot in deepest black, in one of the
most tenebrous groves in all his haunted domains.
--Peter Simple, "At Mountwarlock," [1]Daily Telegraph,
March 20, 1998

We are so used to the tenebrous atmosphere that can be
created in indoor theatres that it's a shock to realise
that this murkiest of tragedies first saw the literal light
of day at the Globe theatre.
--Paul Taylor, "Cool, calm, disconnected," [2]Independent,
June 7, 2001

And lurking behind our every move is the knowledge of our
own mortality. It gives life its edgy disquiet, its
tenebrous underside.
--Douglas Kennedy, "Sudden death," [3]Independent, July 3,
1999