Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch,[…]
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Tenebrous
/ˈtɛn.ɪ.bɹəs/
Synonyms for "tenebrous" (57 found)
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ambiguousamphibologicalbeamlessblackblack as nightcaliginouscrypticdarkdark as nightdark as pitchdarklingdarksome
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[…]and it is inevitable that her murdered spirit become a denizen of Jerusalem's tenebrous woods.
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White was more delicate, more feminine, more beautiful. Dark was more robust, more masculine, more tenebrous.
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Although Ishiguro’s novels are arguably more overtly concerned with emo- tional and psychological matters than with historical ones, it is certainly no accident that he sets all of his novels, as Margaret Atwood maintains, “against tenebrous historical backdrops.”
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