darkling
- s uncannily or threateningly dark or obscure
a darkling glance
secret operatives and darkling conspiracies"-Archibald MacLeish - s (poetic) occurring in the dark or night
a darkling journey
- Visually, the Burton Faustus is a darkling carnival of skeletons, candles, caves and necromancy, tricked out with such cinematic hocus-pocus as action shots montaged into a skull's .
- Last week fog settled down a little closer around the darkling Axis.
- Set in a darkling alternate-universe version of England, and told with dry-eyed, white-knuckled restraint, Never Let Me Go is an improbable masterpiece, a science fiction horror .