Sentence examples for dark fantasia from inspiring English sources

His most recent works are a failed attempt at a commercial hit, The Brothers Grimm (2005), and Tideland (2005), a wantonly dark fantasia seen by almost no one.

Watch these two masterpieces side by side, and you feel that Hawks is summoning a dark fantasia, in which his creatures are touched (as if by a capricious moon) into the lunacy of love, whereas "The Lady Eve" is, even in its peaceable moments, knockabout stuff: like the rest of Sturges's movies, it acts on the assumption that people, as much as the objects around them, make excellent ninepins.

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At this point, Bean seems to be teasing "Batman" and other dark-city fantasias of lonely superheroes.

The physical terrain (with Hawaii standing in for Nigeria) is a stunningly beautiful fantasia of dark high grass surrounded by thick rain forests; the human terrain is a sorrowful tangle of ethnic cleansing and atrocity.

Lady Gaga's "Paparazzi," one of two for which she was nominated, was a lush seven-minute fantasia of the dark side of celebrity life.

Colin spends his fortune on a cure, which consists of surrounding Chloe with a constant supply of fresh flowers, and the candy-colored fantasia gets very dark, very fast.

(Even some of the indoor scenes are so dark and menacing that they make "CSI" look like "Fantasia".) One of the few times there is bright sunshine and a clear blue sky is in the first episode, "Sidetracked," when a girl hiding in a field of waving yellow rape douses herself in gasoline and sets herself on fire.

Her warfaring creatures are meant to transcend the myth of fantasia by presenting scientific "evidence" of a more sinister and dark realm of fantasy.

On "Driftwoods" (Tompkins Square), a new solo piano record, he takes a tightly written old pop song — like "Dancing in the Dark," "Unforgettable" or "Lost Highway" — and reveals behind it a slow-moving fantasia, full of shuddering harmony played with the sustain pedal down.

Plus, many of the great Disney classics - one thinks of Snow White, Fantasia, or 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - are essentially dark fairy tales, very much in keeping with the original Star Wars vision.