Sentence examples for darkly amusing from inspiring English sources

The character of Kemp is ostensibly meant to be darkly amusing in his literate peevishness.

Cast against type, she's the best thing in Only God Forgives, delivering a performance that's both disturbing and darkly amusing.

She settled on an abecedarian approach to titling her books, partly inspired by Edward Gorey's darkly amusing The Gashlycrumb Tinies (1963).

Bent Hamer's "Home for Christmas" is a series of darkly amusing holiday vignettes that lighten up once they begin to intersect.

But behind the facade lies a brutally perceptive study of not just a relationship but any relationship; horribly familiar, fantastically petty and darkly amusing.

That's what makes it all the more darkly amusing to look upon the grand announcements that regularly come from the Russian government and its supporters.

Based on a novel by the late Elmore Leonard, this darkly comic tale of a kidnapping gone awry has plenty of amusing moments but not much substance.

A darkly comic possibility looms.

In any case, it's darkly funny.

The premise of "Yonkers" is darkly comic.

Darkly comic novels are my favorite.