Sentence examples for examining the dark from inspiring English sources

Yesalis spent nearly 30 years examining the dark side of sports, exploring firsthand the lengths to which athletes will go to get an edge.

Hollywood does, of course, have a long history of making films examining the dark side of war going back even to the 1930 epic All Quiet on the Western Front, a tale of German conscripts in the trenches, Dr Strangelove, M*A*S*H and Apocalypse Now, which respectively offered contrarian takes on the Cold War, the Korean War and the Vietnam conflict.

The Journal had just won a Pulitzer for its China coverage, for a series examining the dark side of Chinese economic growth: the environmental damage, the political repression, labor abuse, forced relocations of peasants, confiscations of land and so forth.

In the service of this website's Big Night Out series, I frequently found myself a long way from home, examining the darker sides of the human party experience – my own Jägerbomb-stained version of The Kinsey Reports.

The show also examines the dark side of the legacy — the Fascists' appropriation of classical tropes.

The lecture, which was later published, examined the dark, distended underbelly of conspiracy theory and scapegoating in American political culture.

In this brilliant, jet-black comedy, Bret Easton Ellis satirises the excesses of yuppy materialism and examines the dark side of the American Dream.

Adams found the bunk where his great-grandfather had slept, while Worsley examined the dark recesses of the room as if he were rummaging through a tomb.

The production, which Eyre remembers as "pure bravura," examined the dark, subterranean sexuality that is traditionally kept in the background of American versions.

I also like to explore the work of people I find entirely unentertaining, thuggish and morally repugnant – to examine the dark.

It has a long reach too: Clio Barnard's The Arbor, from 2010, examined the dark underside of Dunbar's creations.