Sentence examples for dark narrative from inspiring English sources

Auster-land is tricky, filled with dark narrative alleyways and sidewinding plots.

Nor is the inclusion of this dark narrative likely in that institution's future $500m "expansion".

And his follow-up to that? "House of Joy," a dark narrative with, as he said, nary a step.

As I began exploring murder ballads and murder songs, I was struck by the alluringly dark, narrative qualities of these tunes.

Part prison, part playground, it is the work of French artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, who filled Tate Modern's turbine hall with a post-apocalyptic scene of bunk beds in 2008, and has now brought a dark narrative to Lisbon.

In the afternoon program, Mr. Wheeldon avoided references to the dark narrative of the musical "Carousel," choosing instead to spool out dancing to match the score's hum-along sweep.

My mind was spinning out these very full, detailed and dark narratives, which I was simultaneously watching happen from another, walled off perch in my brain.

Did his harassed characters and dark narratives make me want to listen in the way that one glances, guiltily, at a couple arguing on the sidewalk?

Audiences expect spicy and sometimes dark narratives, but because the networks are still in the business of not offending mass audiences, they cannot even grab a hit when it comes lurching through the door.

However ugly the word, the fact is that the many US TV series that tell dark narratives but with great jokes is one of the joys of screen-based life.

In these spare television adaptations (the books' internal monologues can be seen in the anguish of Wallander's eyes and the exhaustive police procedures are compressed into meaningful glances and crisp cellphone exchanges), he seems especially troubled by a modern generation of disaffected youth, who often come to a terrible end in his dark narratives.