Sentence examples for a touch macabre from inspiring English sources
The former cabinet member's explanation, though still a touch macabre, may help.
The idea that livers, hearts, and skin would be grown in the laboratory may seem a little strange, even a touch macabre.
Comedy, with a touch of macabre.
To temper that, a jacket printed as if on fire, and a coat with streamers that looked like blood added a touch of the macabre.
To be sure there's a touch of the macabre to her appearance in his 1965 film "Lupe," in which she plays out the last moments of the Hollywood actress Lupe Velez, who tried to stage a beautiful suicide and ended up wrapped around a toilet bowl, but only because Ms. Sedgwick herself provided the fatal postscript.
It's a good twist: macabre with a touch of whimsy.
Written and directed by Michel Laprise, the production is infused with a vaguely macabre air, a touch of the eerie freak show, that gives the whole a more cohesive, occasionally entrancing effect.
The macabre image of Mao certainly has a touch of fiction about it.
His work is colourful and beautiful, but the paintings often have a touch of sadistic cruelty – the fairies have nasty little spears with which they're tormenting a frog or a bat, or something equally macabre.
The body above twirled round on its noose and a white spot shone in its eye socket – a macabre touch caused by the closing of its extra eyelid.
