Sentence examples for dark influences from inspiring English sources

"People wouldn't stop asking us about all our dark influences," says Hollingworth, "and to be honest we didn't really have any, so we were trying to give them something.

(Dick Cheney's dark influence is still belching like the well.

2) Derek Smalls's dark influence starts to drag the Tap perilously into jazz-club territory for their new "direction".

The structure of the story follows Conrad's Heart of Darkness with some fidelity, as the Marlow figure travels the river from the centre of empire to its outposts, in quest of that highly ambivalent and suspect colonial trader, Mr Kurtz - a dark influence on Mason's more civilised, art-loving Carroll.

Because in a year where so many award favourites have at least one obvious forebear (Black Swan and The Red Shoes, The Fighter and Rocky, True Grit and True Grit), the dark influence of Mackendrick's classic lives on in The Social Network – the greatest story ever told about the print media channelled into the best film yet made about the internet.

Ochiai won three Triple Crowns in the 1980s - two in succession - doing so in a manner that made Japanese parents fear for the dark influence he might have on their children.

And to identify Houellebecq with his Des Esseintes in Chinatown, to attribute to him some dark influence over the unfolding of the current tragedy, is absurd and repellent, succeeding as it does only in transforming the commentators and critics concerned into characters from the novel.

Sepúlveda's interview with Bloomberg Businessweek caused a stir throughout Latin America, as well as the United States, particularly for the alleged involvement of Juan Jose Rendón, a Miami-based political consultant who, Bloomberg wrote, has been called the Karl Rove of Latin America for his dark influence on right-wing politics.

To this end, the team created Joanna Dark, influenced by a number of other fictional heroines: Kim Kimberly from Level 9 Computing's text adventure Snowball, the seductive spy Agent X-27 in the 1930s film Dishonored, the eponymous femme fatale of the film Nikita, and FBI agent Dana Scully from The X-Files.

These are all closely intertwined with one another and directed toward the larger goal of understanding how light and dark influence human health in the modern world.

It's when their hopes and dreams fade in the absence of a good education and positive role models that darker influences fill the void.