Sentence examples for dark delight from inspiring English sources

There is a dark delight in despair and doom, in the 50 shades of emotional grey on offer to your average depressive teen.

The Horrors were a dark delight with their krautrocking drone disco, and the xx kept things nice and chilly, if not chilled, with their icy dubstep pop.

When a Friday sneak-traveller has his perfect plans foiled by the airlines, we might be tempted to empathize, but we can also be forgiven a moment of dark delight.

(Seitz) ★ 'DANS PARIS' (No rating, 90 minutes, in French) The talented French filmmaker Christophe Honoré revisits the New Wave with help from his lovely leads, Louis Garrel and Romain Duris, here playing brothers who are a study in contrasts — light and dark, delight and despair, hope and its absence.

A story of love between brothers who are a study in contrasts — light and dark, delight and despair, hope and its absence — "Dans Paris" is very much also about that glorious, fizzy, enlivening flashpoint when you think love might have struck, and that crushing, seemingly bottomless moment when you know it has left the room for good.

It's a minimalist setup with plenty of dark delights, among them Margaret Colin and Victor Slezak, who are pitch perfect as the embattled couple.

While that's not a look usually associated with Carroll's tale, the aesthetic has been adapted this spring, with the movie Alice returning not to Wonderland, but Underland — a world of Burton-esque dark delights.

The poem, "Boîtes," is in a Mailer miscellany, "Cannibals and Christians," and it is a Vachel Lindsay blank-verse eulogy in which Short is called "divine," a "Prince of the Congo," "darkest delight," "blackbird," and a "King of the Congo".

Creatures in the Dark, an imperial stout noted on the Proof website as an "incredibly balanced sinister delight," is a potent beast.

So as we venture into this very cold and dark winter, delight in the bright bitterness of grapefruit.

Though the lack of an overarching argument is evasive, this makes for a lively book, albeit one driven by a dark, Gothic delight in representing on the page the violence it ostensibly anathematises.