Sentence examples for dark exploration from inspiring English sources

Or is it a dark exploration of stolen infants, partner swapping and thinly-veiled pederasty?

There are some bleakly funny lines, but mostly this is a dark exploration of big, mid-century themes.

This wasn't so problematic at first: exhaustion actually suits Christopher Wheeldon's "Klavier," a dark exploration of the moment when opulence overripens to decadence.

The film is a dark exploration of a professional killer's torment at "retiring" robots which seem disturbingly human, and of the implications of a technology that can hide a robot's real nature even from itself.

The shortlist also features her compatriot Hanya Yanagihara's increasingly dark exploration of the lives of four friends, A Little Life, which had previously been shortlisted for the Booker, and fellow American Elizabeth McKenzie's The Portable Veblen.

Souza was a Goan Catholic whose broad strokes, figurative distortion, facial displacement, focus on nudes and the human form, and dark exploration of religion and sex made him the most subversive of the lot, wrote the art historian Yashodhara Dalmia in her 2001 book, "The Making of Modern Indian Art".

It's also one of the most fearless and bracingly dark explorations of mental illness in recent memory".

Pauline heavily edited Thérèse's autobiography, l'Histoire d'une âme (The Story of a Soul), sanitising it for an audience that preferred saccharine metaphors of flowers and doves over Thérèse's sometimes dark explorations of the human relationship to God.

Unlike Buckingham's dark explorations of his soul or Nick's balancing act between gritty relationship strife and mystical flights of fancy, McVie's songs often bristled with optimism, at least on the surface.

Lyrical themes found in Nine Inch Nails songs are largely concerned with dark explorations of the self ranging from religion, greed, fame, lust, addiction, self-deception, aging, regret, nihilism, and occasionally politics, with the latter topic often being scrutinized in Year Zero.

(Brantley) Off Broadway ★ 'The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs' The accomplished monologuist Mike Daisey weaves the story of the life and vision of the Apple co-founder, Mr. Jobs, into a darker exploration of the troubling economic disparities that underlie our technology-obsessed age.