- a black lie.
- a blue day.
- a dark age in the history of education.
- a dark day.
- a dark gloomy day.
- a dark purpose.
- a dark scowl.
- a disconsolate winter landscape.
- a glum, hopeless shrug.
- a morose and unsociable manner.
- a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius.
- a sour temper.
- a sullen crowd.
- a week of rainy depressing weather.
- benighted ages of barbarism and superstition.
- black deeds.
- dark as the inside of a black cat.
- dark colors like wine red or navy blue.
- dark eyes.
- dark glasses.
- dark green.
- dark shadows.
- dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility.
- Darth Vader of the dark side.
- grim rainy weather.
- he moved off into the darkness.
- he sat in moody silence.
- he was in the dark concerning their intentions.
- his black heart has concocted yet another black deed.
- his lectures dispelled the darkness.
- keep it dark.
- much that was dark is now quite clear to me.
- sitting in a dark corner.
- the dark ages.
- the dark days of the war.
- the first dismal dispiriting days of November.
- the powers of darkness.
- the proverbially dour New England Puritan.
- the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him.
- the theater is dark on Mondays.
- this benighted country.
- those who do not appreciate Kafka's work say his style is obscure.