Sentence examples for a dark sort from inspiring English sources

These were quite likely the black blowfly, Dr. Marshall said, a "dark, sort of metallic, gleaming indoor fly".

Frere-Jones: It bears repeating the obvious here, as a dark sort of coda, that recordings have often been poor sources of income for artists.

His account is a dark sort of anthropology, written in the hope that the reader will come to both know and hate the enemy.

The peculiar line readings even begin to feel almost comical, in a dark sort of way, as the subject matter becomes more grisly.

I knew I was going to fictionalize it because it's a dark sort of subject and I didn't want to write a disease-of-the-week story.

We are a nation of moaners, and that can be fine – a good moan can be enjoyable in a dark sort of way.

Otherworldly qualities of a darker sort informed Schumann's "Muttertraum" and "Der Schatzgräber," and in Schubert's "Prometheus" Mr. Owens maintained a perfect balance of dignity and rage.

The verdict came after five days of deliberations, four weeks of trial, a year in a Manhattan jail, three years in Guantánamo, and two in a darker sort of prison, a "black site" run by the C.I.A.

Those thoroughly satiated with beach days and summer blonds can seek refuge of a darker sort in two new novels for young adults in which classic 19th century Gothic novels get a postmodern, post-punk makeover influenced by the aesthetic of their 20th century pop culture counterpart, Gothic rock.

However, in the time that has passed since 2005, the cultural interest in such an aesthetic has waned; the financial crisis of 2008 ushered in a new era of pessimism for the American outlook, and accordingly, a darker sort of pop-culture sensibility has taken reign.

That seems to have been the case in a number of habeas corpus proceedings, including one involving a prisoner locked up in Guantánamo since he was a child, and is a rather dark sort of problem.