Sentence examples for darker topics from inspiring English sources

Rivecca's collection is humorous, but it deals with darker topics.

Editors often seek him out for just such darker topics.

Directed by Alex Proyas, who has gone for darker topics in the past ("The Crow," for instance).

He also touches on darker topics, like how much firepower the United States expended on starving Somali pirates.

There are things the film doesn't address – darker topics, such as the deaths of her daughter and husband, and charges that she failed as a parent are left well alone.

Metal music focuses on darker topics that match the heaviness of the music and skirt the "popular" beliefs of society.

Aydemir uses a light hand to deal dark topics, allowing you to look and relook, think and revise.

It's understanding the mindset as best as one can, which means reading Émile Durkheim's Suicide and preoccupying oneself with rather dark topics.

Goodwin's comments sparked a lively debate in the press about "serious" women's literature, the current preponderance of sexual-abuse novels, and the need for humour to balance dark topics in fiction.

Morley is touching on some very dark topics here – abortion, death, illness, mass hysteria and family feuding – but she continually uses humour to keep pretentiousness and bombast at bay.

Those struggles have always lurked in the undercurrents of comedy, but can fundamentally dark topics ever be the joke?