The clouds overhead were the color of ash, but there was a vast black mass of them to the north, and it was headed our way. (bookbrowse.com)
Kim reimagines that line as a thick black mass in order to indicate multiple meanings — literal, conceptual, and emotional — that can be projected onto the word. (whitney.org)
It took him a disorienting second to realize what he was seeing, the swelling black mass against the white stone and glass of the hotel facade, and then it was finished, with a sound that he knew he would carry to his grave. (bookbrowse.com)