dark room
Noun
Meaning
dark room (plural dark rooms)
(photography) Alternative form of darkroom
Examples
A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.
"Sunlight's a thing that needs a window Before it enter a dark room. Windows don't happen." So two old poets, Hunched at their beer in the low haze Of an inn parlour, while the talk ran Noisily by them, glib with prose.
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.
Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.
It is difficult to catch a black cat in a dark room - especially if the cat isn't there.