a black lie.
a black moonless night.
a calamitous defeat.
a dark purpose.
a face black with fury.
a fateful error.
a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.
a grim joke.
a shameful display of cowardice.
an ignominious retreat.
an opprobrious monument to human greed.
as black as coal.
black deeds.
black humor.
black leather jackets.
black looks.
black propaganda.
black words.
dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility.
Darth Vader of the dark side.
fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit.
grim laughter.
his black heart has concocted yet another black deed.
his shirt was black within an hour.
in the black of night.
inglorious defeat.
it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
it was pitch-dark in the cellar.
Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult.
Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands.
Negro.
Negroid.
prospects were bleak.
rich black soil.
such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory.
the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign.
the black economy pays no taxes.
The ceiling blackened.
the future looked black.
the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him.
The smoke blackened the ceiling.
the stock market crashed on Black Friday.
the widow wore black.
they fumbled around in total darkness.
through the pitch-black woods.
took a dim view of things.
with feet black from playing outdoors.