Sentence examples for flashes of dark from inspiring English sources

Illuminated by flashes of dark humor, the novel, most likely autobiographical, is painful, honest and brave.

Sometimes, there are flashes of dark humor about the whole enterprise, and some conversations were in restaurants.

Warren Spears's "Black" is an intriguing dance: subtle and larger than life and full of flashes of dark light that may or may not be ironic.

Spare, laced with flashes of dark humour, and a page-turner, a quality that could easily have disqualified it from the shortlist.

Flashes of dark humor embedded in prim lists call to mind Marianne Moore or James Schuyler, as in the pseudo-zoological "Marriage Nests," which inventories "paper, grass, tangled bloodroots" but also "for some species, / a shallow depression made in sand".

But just as the novel's comedy was anchored by an underlying hint of melancholy, so the generally somber tone of "Referred Pain: And Other Stories" is lightened by flashes of dark humor.

By the time the Buffy-style high impact intro runs wailing guitars, flashes of dark-made up eyes, and historical images of tarot cards, devils, witches, and red candles every young woman is mesmerized.

The movie was impressively shot by the cinematographer Tom Stern in the same style as "Flags" — largely in black-and-white, with occasional flashes of wine-dark blood or orange flame — but the many scenes in caves and tunnels induce claustrophobia.

And even now, in his movie career, we have seen flashes of Johnson's dark side.

He said "the tough love story," flashes of nudity, and dark themes of "Spring Awakening" were "not my thing," and he also did not envision the show as appealing to his subscribers.

On to this he daubs flashes of bitter hatred, dark sex and repressed violence in a story about Ruth (Press) who returns from Israel to care for her dying mother and tries to bring her estranged, rebellious brother David (Joel Chalfen) back into the family.