Sentence examples for fiercely dark from inspiring English sources

The last thing we burned was an oil painting Stephanie had created of William Green, a picture of his face and his fiercely dark eyes.

Like many of Rivette's films, it starts as a whimsical urban riff on the theme of chance connections: Marie (Bulle Ogier), a toughened woman of a certain age, heads to Paris after getting out of prison and is joined by Baptiste Pascale Ogierr, her real-life daughter), a long-limbed and fiercely determined dark angel who travels by scooter.

It starts as a whimsical urban riff on the theme of chance connections: Marie (Bulle Ogier), a toughened woman of a certain age, heads to Paris after getting out of prison and is joined by Baptiste Pascale Ogierr, her real-life daughter), a fiercely determined dark angel who travels by scooter.

So are the huge alligators with their red eyes that glow fiercely in the dark, along with the cat in the enormous paper bag and the phosphorescent strings.

ANKARA, Turkey — Looking dapper in a bow tie and a crisp suit, the founder of the Turkish republic, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, stared fiercely into a dark room.

A dark, fiercely funny comedy about class, money and the marital tensions that our seemingly endless white-knuckle economic era can breed, "Detroit" is one of the most trenchant new plays I've seen in the last few years.

Rufus Norris's 2006 revival of this Kander & Ebb classic blew me away with its dark, fiercely energised and full-frontal vision of Weimar Berlin as a society gyrating its crotch at the edge of the abyss – at once a drug-fuelled hotbed of rampant, polymorphous perversity and a fertile seedbed for Nazism whose rise emerged in pointed conjunction with the spread of neurasthenic kinkiness.

A "dark, sprawling, fiercely clever novel", the judges said.

The Scottish poet Don Paterson won the poetry prize for his new collection 40 Sonnets, praised as "a tour de force by a poet at the height of his powers", while Frances Hardinge took the children's award for her "dark, sprawling, fiercely clever" Victorian murder mystery, The Lie Tree.

A fiercely visual book, "Plowing the Dark" sometimes feels less like a novel than the project of a stern museum curator.

It is his self-communings that are tragic and touching a dark whirlpool churning fiercely below the unflagging hilarity of his surface activities".