The relationships take on a deliberately heartless air -symbolized aptly at the end by a sudden blackout and a handshake by each couple.

There are sudden blackouts.

As I stood in the lobby waiting for my wife to return from the ladies' room, there was a sudden blackout in the building.

She had not fought well when the pirates had launched their strike in the sudden blackout.

The resulting serious hypoxia causes sudden blackout with little or no warning.

The laugh caused a sudden blackout.

The guard could remember nothing but a sudden blackout.

An unobtrusive shower of metallic-colored confetti fell, followed by the sudden blackout that ended the piece.

A sudden blackout occurs, and when the lights come back on a few seconds later, Woods has been stabbed to death with one of the dinner knives.

At 20:27, there was a sudden blackout across Crossmaglen's square and at the same time, a single mortar shell was lobbed into the barracks.