Sentence examples for dark appeal from inspiring English sources

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Comments in the museum's guest book summed up the genre's dark appeal.

Not quite as pretty, but I think it has a certain dark appeal.

We thought it had a dark appeal and could imagine it dangling from Marilyn Manson's left earlobe.

Mr. Guevara's solid tower of chocolate, a mighty fortress on the plate, has a potent, dark appeal that's almost gothic.

On the second day of a three-day meeting that comes after a wave of terrorist attacks in Paris, Sydney, Copenhagen and Ottawa, Mr. Obama said undercutting the Sunni militant group's message and blunting its dark appeal was a "generational challenge" that would require cooperation from mainstream Muslims as well as governments, communities, religious leaders and educators.

Sure, behind the scenes, our allies understood better than anyone that the Islamic State was a radical perversion of Islam, that it held a dark appeal to a minority of Sunni Muslims, but it didn't help to call them radical Islamic terrorists.

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However, this topic, in its modern form, has had very little exploration by the research community and thus most of the debate around this issue has remained abstract and highly polarized – filled with loaded terminology (e.g., backdoors vs "Going Dark"), appeals to authority and refutations of strawmen.

While "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" has been popular because it is funny, "The Lovely Bones," about the rape and murder of a teenager named Susie Salmon, has a far darker appeal.

They contained some of the darkest appeals in Tuesday's off-year contests — and that's saying something, given the Republican candidate ads that aired in places like Nassau County, N.Y., and New Jersey.

But weren't Trump's words perhaps too dark to appeal to the country at large?

In a bid to make Lovecraft's dark creations appeal to a younger audience than intended, Bruce Brown and Dwight L MacPherson have written two graphic novels aimed at children, Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom (which they created with artist Renzo Podesta) and Howard Lovecraft and the Undersea Kingdom (created with artist Thomas Boatwright).

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