Sentence examples for lustrous black from inspiring English sources

Walls are cream, accents a lustrous black.

Irina Baronova, in lustrous black braids, was a huge hit as the voluptuous queen.

Today, Antony is a sturdy 11-year-old with a head of lustrous black hair and an impish grin.

On the afternoon of Sept. 14, 1989, Milton Leeson, 15, sees a withered woman with lustrous black hair in his father's orchard, in Ireland's County Armagh.

Now we are inside, where a girl in a blue dress sits in the gloom, her face an expressionless mask surrounded by lustrous black hair.

Best of all, perhaps, is the short series of velvet shots; the model is supine in a gray armchair, her legs and torso lapped at the side by waves of lustrous black fabric.

Or you might single out Michael Haneke's Palme d'Or-winning film, The White Ribbon, as an example of the new austerity – its lustrous black-and-white photography accompanied by a thousand shades of grey in its account of small-town cowardice and cruelty.

Written by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman and directed by Alexander Mackendrick, the film is extraordinary for its depiction of a now-vanished New York night life (shot on location in lustrous black-and-white), for the spiraling viciousness of Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis (as the king of the gossip columnists and his press-agent toady), and for the plot, which hinges on a smear campaign.

So does a technical wizardry, the negatives yielding a rich palette of tonal grays and lustrous blacks.

Dressed in black skinny jeans, with lustrous dark hair and nail polish in Wadjda's turquoise shade, Ms. Mansour discussed making the film over lunch in Gramercy Park this spring.

Lloyd's "assured" revival, she added, "glosses the darkness to a lustrous, lacquered black that's gleefully enjoyable".