Sentence examples for dark thrill from inspiring English sources

For a moment, with a dark thrill, one feels on the rim of that ecstatic rally.

Nicholas does not feel envy himself, but he is secretly addicted to the dark thrill of being envied by the poor saps who come to his "retreat".

READERS who look forward to the dark thrill of a public execution on days when there are no stars attached to this column should turn elsewhere to satisfy their blood lust.

"Maybe I'm lacking in fantasy, but I can't imagine that many people would come to a place like Hoheneck only for a dark thrill," said Anne Kaminsky, the director of a state-supported foundation that researches the East German dictatorship.

In Henry James's "The Princess Casamassima," published the same year as the Haymarket bombing, the anarchists have a Master, and the fey young bookbinder Hyacinth Robinson gets a dark thrill out of imagining himself no more than a key on a piano, which "would grow generally audible (with a small, sharp crack) for a second" under the Master's playing.

The answer lies partly in the clash of tones; when Mamy denounces her daughter as "Fille ingrate!," she could be declaiming Racine, and there is a dark thrill to be had from watching all these manias being corseted into the demands of French rhetoric and conduct.

It passes the time as I pursue the rehabilitation of the purulent, the dark thrills of the interdit.

Productions of Doctor Faustus often struggle to balance the play's dark thrills with what you could charitably call its "challenging" comic sequences.

But Angela Gheorghiu's Marguerite doesn't sound like Snow White, unless Snow White has a dark, thrilling lower register and radiant top notes.

There's a outstanding Cavaradossi, one of the finest of recent years, from Vladimir Galouzine, entirely convincing as artist, lover and revolutionary, his singing dark, thrilling and wonderfully insistent.

They acknowledge the necessary, dark, dangerous thrill of ankle-breaking hinterlands, before hedge-strimming and gloss touch-ups set in with sober age.