Sentence examples for dark chords from inspiring English sources

This is equivalent to the dark chords of movie music, but it works.

"Very young children made up songs about the different ways Amanda died, killing her happily at the end of every verse, too young to understand the horror," he read, and Palmer underscored his pauses with dark chords.

The Danish composer Poul Ruders is one of contemporary music's free agents — a lover of sweet melodies with a yen for dark chords, a comedian with a flair for apocalypse.

Baez's "Day After Tomorrow" (Razor & Tie) was produced by Steve Earle, who keeps Baez focussed on the Americana and the contemporary country of her last album, "Dark Chords from a Big Guitar".

With just a few dark chords, Deathgasm shifts into a (less funny and less engaging) Shaun of the Dead, as the band try to race to safety and reverse the spell.

He opened with "Quattro Illustrazione" by Giacinto Scelsi, four linked vignettes of thick, dark chords examined, layered, picked apart and pounded together, all with an air of spontaneous curiosity.

While Heath Ledger was the brilliant, dark chord in Ang Lee's sparse, melancholy "Brokeback Mountain" (based on the Annie Proulx story that appeared in our pages), I felt that his performance — and the interviews that he gave after the film's opening — was imitative, too.

She starts out low and slides up to the pinnacle high note that announces the transition from the permeating darker chords to a more uplifting crescendo.

The dark piano chords of "Road" have nothing on "1985".

Her orchestra makes winds whistle, waves roll and crash, and fog creep over the rocks in dark minor chords.

Or these weird, dark wind chords: the physicists are saying one thing, but you in the orchestra are telling us there's a whole lot more.