Sentence examples for bleak undertone from inspiring English sources
Kingsley Amis also went for comedy, in Ending Up, with a group cohabiting in a cottage and busy scoring points off each other – funny, but with a bleak undertone.
She singles out Kingsley Amis's "Ending Up" for avoiding stereotypes of old age, by being "funny with a bleak undertone," and the trilogy that Jane Gardam started writing in her mid-seventies and recently completed in her mid-eighties ("Old Filth," "The Man in the Wooden Hat," and "Last Friends").
The event, which descended into a riot, had a bleak undertone; the rejection of black, gay, and latino art and values.
The event, which descended into a riot, had a bleak undertone; the rejection of black, gay and latino art and values.
WITH its bleak, film-noir imagery and barely suppressed undertone of suicidal despair, Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life" has somewhat mysteriously assumed an unshakable position as America's official holiday film.
An undertone of passion (Bob Geldof)?
Many note that his bleak and unflattering depiction of a traditional Muslim society comes at a time when the defense of laïcité, the French model of secularism, has increasingly assumed anti-Muslim undertones, and when the far-right National Front was able to beat all other parties in the 2014 European Parliament elections, with nearly twenty-five per cent of the vote.
A subtle undertone of sulphur.
An underlying meaning; an undertone.
