Sentence examples for dark depiction from inspiring English sources

"Cost of Living" has plenty of jokes and quips but retains a dark depiction of the troubles immigrants can face in New York.

Though originally panned by critics as a dark depiction of the holidays, "A Christmas Story" has earned status as a movie classic, rivaling long-time seasonal favorites like "It's a Wonderful Life".

2. Bruce Wayne (Batman, 1989) United Archives GMBH/Alamy Keaton donning the mask for Tim Burton's dark depiction of Batman gave birth to the modern superhero movie.

In the late 1980s, and early 1990s, after its release on videotape, the film became a widely known cult film, well known for its dark depiction of a suburban America.

The writer's His Dark Materials trilogy, with its dark depictions of Church hierarchies, whipped up a storm in conservative Christian circles.

An early play by a young William Faulkner, in which an author better known for his intense, dark depictions of life in the southern US tries his hand at light humour and romance, has been published for the first time almost a century after it was written.

But after the syrupy BBC drama Silk, with its have-your-cake-and-eat-it fusion of the best bits of commercial and criminal practice, perhaps the world is due a darker depiction of the legal profession.

The Futurists' best works here tend to be the most Cubist, among them Gino Severini's energetic "Red Cross Train Passing a Village" from 1915 (a Guggenheim-Rebay anduisition) and, from Venice, Carlo Carrà's dark, rubbery depiction of the vaulted ceiling of the Galleria in Milan.

The senate investigation will be headed by Democrat senator Dianne Feinstein who last month joined two other senators in lambasting Zero Dark Thirty's depiction of torture.

The controversy showed no sign of letting up over the weekend as an ex-CIA agent, Lindsay Moran, publicly questioned why photographs of Bin Laden's dead body have not yet been released by the CIA when Zero Dark Thirty's depiction of the hunt for the al-Qaida leader would most likely – in her opinion – do far more to radicalise potential terrorists.

"I think there's definitely room for both funny and cute versus dark and scary depictions of witchcraft," Cills maintains.