Sentence examples for a darker sort of from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

"I have a beautiful study there, with a view of the water," she said in an e-mail message, "but when I'm really working, toward the end of a book, I abandon it and go into a dark sort of attic space, under the eaves, with no view and no phone, no machines, nothing but floor space and silence".

Both are: Stories about death that are quite often funny, in a dark sort of way.

But misery loves company and that's affirming in a dark sort of way, no? Trailers are shown... stills... it looks like shit.