The idea of the engagement party was hanging over my head like a dark cloud and I wondered whether there was any way to get out of it. |
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She looked up at the horizon and frowned when she saw a dark cloud heading their way at rapid speed. |
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The election result is basically one big, fat, ugly dark cloud with a few little silver linings hanging off it. |
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Just little tiddlers all of them, rain and dark cloud for about 20 minutes and then sunshine again. |
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As we plodded out into the garden about ten o'clock this evening, a thin layer of dark cloud drifted across from the south-east. |
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Tis a name that befouls the air, like a dark cloud of poison that will choke the soul of that whom breathes it in! |
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I peer over one shoulder to see a bank of dark cloud menacingly close, and I can feel the temperature beginning to drop. |
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They saw the flashes of lightning within the dark cloud looming ahead of them. |
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As lovely as this seems, there is a dark cloud threatening to corrupt this pure, chaste, unspoiled sensation. |
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As long as this litigation was pending, uncertainty hovered over innovation like a dark cloud. |
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At some indeterminably distant point, a band of dark cloud hovers, apparently held between twin fingers of ice and sky. |
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I felt a cloud settling on me as I sailed out of the harbour, a deep, dark cloud of troubles to come. |
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I feel panic rising in the back of my throat, urgency illuminating my cerebral cortex, and a dark cloud of bewilderment obscuring my vision. |
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The dark cloud of European sovereign risk still cast a long shadow over the markets. |
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To human eyes, he resembled a dark cloud, a pool of black ink diffusing into thin wisps around the edges that could manage to remain vaguely anthropomorphous. |
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In the middle of the night, we were stuck under a dark cloud and saw our rivals going by on either side of us. |
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Despite the rebound, worries persist about the zone's inflexible labour market while economic stagnation in Germany is still a dark cloud hanging over the entire region. |
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The dark cloud has lifted to reveal a red haze, if you will. |
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Unfurled in baleful grandeur, like some dark cloud of heaven, surcharged with thunder and the brewing tempest, it rides the air, and bedims the beams of day. |
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It is one of the only books that turns an unforgiving spotlight on the German people and how they came so easily under the sway of the dark cloud of Nazism. |
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To embrace the corollary of a popular expression, however, in front of every silver lining there is a dark cloud. |
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It works best in clear water where it creates a dark cloud that will keep predators away from the swim. |
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Although the dark cloud of the global recession has not yet left us completely, Canadians know that we have weathered the storm very well and should be proud of our achievements thus far. |
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Obviously, the dark cloud over everything is the economic performance. |
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But thankfully this dark cloud has passed. |
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Suddenly, a dark cloud covers lower Manhattan. |
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This switching delay of about 60 seconds stops the light switching on or off when not necessary, e.g. if the sensor is triggered by a car's lights briefly shining onto it or by a dark cloud. |
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Ruthie has been yanked out from under whatever dark cloud she conjured up. |
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If there's a silver lining in this dark cloud of global financial crisis that we face, it is that it's causing people around the world to focus on protectionism and the realities and pitfalls that go along with it. |
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But the dark cloud of poor performance has a silver lining. |
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That is why I opposed this new gimmick which, with its administrative overkill and the financial stranglehold it exerts, is in danger of placing a dark cloud over many of our businesses. |
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He has never ceased to offer fresh hope for defeating the forces of tyranny, cynicism and moral relativism, hovering like a dark cloud on the horizon. |
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