When the army staged a coup d'etat in Haiti earlier this month, a handful of foreign reporters climbed to a creaky upper veranda of the Grand Hotel Oloffson to peer into the steamy darkness in the direction of all the shooting.

In the steamy Indonesian darkness, a Sumatran rhinoceros slops through a swamp.

The top of the cliff reared upward until it vanished in the steamy darkness.

For a moment, no one said a word in the steamy darkness.

In the crew's sweat lodge one night, across the street from a diner, Wayne lamented in the steamy darkness that they weren't getting out in the canoe enough.

Eventually Chyna said, "I can still see her standing in the steamy darkness on the banks of that canal, greasy with sweat, her hair hanging damp and all tangled, covered with mosquito bites, eyes bleary from vodka.

It was very hot--the lamp glass threw a round, moonlike patch of light upon the ceiling, but the rest of the room was drowned in steamy darkness.

It wouldn't do to let us lesser types get our hands on stuff like this; oh no ...' I was drifting in a steamy darkness.

I almost laughed aloud into the steamy darkness as I lay beside his sleeping form.

The exploited workers, scurrying about in the steamy darkness with miner's lights on their caps, provided the production with some of its most striking images.