The phrase "a dark reflection of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that reveals negative or troubling aspects of a subject or situation.
Example: "The film serves as a dark reflection of society's struggles with inequality and injustice."
Alternatives: "a grim mirror of" or "a troubling portrayal of".
Ms. Cook rose to the task, her Duchess a dark reflection of Strauss's Marschallin for an age in which noblesse is no longer obliged.
Small wonder that the Hunger Games, with its tributes and brutal deaths, its armed rebellion in District 13 and its pleas by traumatised citizens for the state to stop killing its citizens, seems less like fantasy fiction and more like a dark reflection of our times.
At the back of the theater, the player finds a portal to the Plane of Shadow, a dark reflection of the Prime Material Plane, where he defeats the Red Wizards who murdered Lienna.
A Dark Reflection Dramatisation of a real-life aviation conspiracy exposed by a Sussex reporter.
Rather than a proxy for terror, his enemy is a dark reflection, a monster of the unfettered id, a nightmare vision of America as a rogue state.
He then reaches for his Dungeons and Dragons guidebook and elaborates: "The Vale of Shadows," he reads, "is a dimension that is a dark reflection, or echo, of our world.
The bitterly ironic phrase synonymous with the finance-driven economic collapse of the last four years – "too big to fail" – is a perfectly dark reflection of Schumacher's irresistibly optimistic vision for reinventing economics as if people (and the planet) mattered.
A few days ago, the science writer-provocateur John Horgan wrote a dark reflection, in Scientific American, on a litany of failures in science that he has seen over his thirty-year career.
Combined with the grey of the sky, the dark reflection of it in the water and the yellow-brownish sand (sparsely covered in trash) it turns into a rather depressing color palette.
A dark reflection of the white mausoleum could clearly be seen, befitting Shah Jahan's obsession with symmetry and the positioning of the pool itself.
The music is often playful but almost always cut through with a darker strain, a reflection of the disillusionment and restlessness that have supplanted the self-assurance of an earlier generation in Europe.
