All flower colors are more dramatic around a dark-leaved partner-especially flowers with a hint of deep purple in them, like the many lilies sprinkled with dark spots. Tall, dark plants become a backdrop for everything else in the garden: their purple-to-black foliage makes chartreuse plants pop, while upping the elegance of silver- and blue-toned annuals and perennials. This month in Smart Gardener we look at the tall and deeply colored plants that are fast becoming a signature in modern gardens.ĭeep, rich color gives gardeners the dark side of contrast that can be hard to achieve with green-foliaged plants. It's their height…their interesting contrast…those smoky good looks. Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights who is described as a 'dark-skinned gypsy' with 'deep black eyes' and a 'handsome figure' but can also be seen as a sinister character.Admit it: you're always drawn to them. Mr Rochester in Jane Eyre, though not traditionally handsome has 'great dark eyes, and very fine eyes too' and 'sable waves of hair', 'dark eyes and swarth skin' but holds a secret. ODO Dark: 3.3 Suggestive of or arising from evil sinisterĮxamples in C19th literature of this mysterious/sinister idea include: However, in literature a 'dark stranger' can also be negative drawing on yet another meaning of 'dark': The idea of the 'tall, dark stranger' mentioned by a psychic is probably this one. In Scotland, a tall, dark, stranger is a symbol of good luck in the tradition of first-footing. The 'dark stranger' is a trope in romantic fiction which I think draws on both meanings of 'dark' someone who is perhaps exotic-looking but also unknown, so in this sense attractive/exciting. In contrast I think 'dark stranger' not only refers to physical attributes but to a certain air of mysteriousness that this individual projects. ODO: Dark (Of a person) having dark skin, hair, or eyes The Oxford English Dictionary suggests that 'dark' when referring to a person can mean skin, hair or eyes, so it could mean any, or all, of those three. 'tall, dark and handsome' the word 'dark' seems to be about physical looks alone, literally tall, dark (eyes/hair/skin) and good-looking.
To a certain extent I don't think there is a conclusive answer to this question, but in the second example you give i.e.
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