The electricity goes out, the city dissolving into a noisy darkness.
Directed by Henry Selick, it was devised and co-produced by Tim Burton, who leaves a trail of his familiar obsessions: graveyard humor, whirling snow, a velvety darkness.
Mr. Cerveris, who played Giorgio opposite Ms. McDonald and Patti LuPone in Lincoln Center's semistaged 2005 concert version of "Passion, " brought to the role a troubling darkness that the outgoing Mr. Silverman, excellent though he is, cannot muster.
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Pakistan's government has ordered an inquiry into the cause of a nationwide power cut that plunged the country into darkness for a few hours.
He says that on several occasions that the police have gone to a bar and they've found it locked and in darkness on a Saturday night, and it is clear that somehow the bar owner has been warned.
Peak falls on trough to create a core of darkness along the lens's central axis.
But although Flanery, too, takes a dark view of history, and resists offering false comfort, his is a more capacious darkness.
For some employees, the news that their colorful little bricolage of a company had been bought by Amazon felt like a plunge into darkness.
And his biggest fear, he said, was the prospect of having to swim with all of his equipment for up to two hours at a time in darkness.
There is also likely to be another burst of consumer outrage as America's overloaded and decaying electricity grid succumbs to blackouts, like the one that plunged parts of Silicon Valley into darkness a few weeks ago.
And so, as tragic as the circumstances of what we've seen today are, as heartbreaking as it is for the families, it's worth us spending most of our time reflecting on young Americans like Allie and Stephanie, because they represent what's best in us, and they assure us that out of this darkness a brighter day is going to come.
Mogadishu, Somalia (CNN) -- French forces swooped into Somalia for a rescue mission under the cover of darkness, leading to a fierce gun battle with militants who killed the hostage, the French defense ministry said Saturday.
Before me opens up, in the semi-darkness, a field of rubbish and stones and elephant grass.
But, in later years, he had developed a potent fear of darkness in an empty house.
The pirate captain Black Stache (Christian Borle), a dyslexic prince of darkness, expertly fits the bill.
Jacobs said batting with the virtual rookie Edwards in near darkness was a worry.
Mr. TAYLOR: (Singing) There is a passage through the darkness and the mist.
Kendall was enclosed in a dark space high above a city rising from a coast engulfed in darkness.
The rain, as he had foretold, had returned, whispering and drumming outside, and bringing inside a deeper shade of darkness.
It begins with a description of a rural cemetery in darkness, turning to the fates of the people who lie six feet below.
Across Sweden, Midsummer is greeted with an exuberance that's hard to understand unless you've experienced the cold and darkness of a Swedish winter.
Earlier his wife, Marisabel, and children had left Caracas in the cover of darkness on a PDVSA jet for Barquisimeto in western Venezuela.
The conclusion of my solo ride in the darkness was a vision so bright that I can see MY PURPOSE written on the wall.
The images are heavily shadowed, with faces often seen half in darkness, a visual hint that these people do not know themselves very well.
It was very cold, but still we sat until the darkness had a brown edge to it, and my mother came to the door, expressing no surprise at seeing me there.
The biggest broadcast event of the year was suddenly jolted by silence and darkness when a portion of the Super Dome in New Orleans lost power early in the game's second half.
They found a place with air-conditioning, and Kinney got the two of them set up with beers and shots in a booth in the darkness at the back and began preparing depth chargers.
There is no doubt that the circumstances were not helping Murray but there seemed every chance the match would carry over into a second day as darkness fell, only for the Briton to drop serve twice in succession and hand Berdych the win.
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