Sentence examples for macabre air from inspiring English sources

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Written and directed by Michel Laprise, the production is infused with a vaguely macabre air, a touch of the eerie freak show, that gives the whole a more cohesive, occasionally entrancing effect.

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The kids' ordinary comings and goings take on an air of macabre mystery that's rendered all the more perplexing in the detective's jargon-filled reports.

Relocated to a working pub, Brooker tells me about his appearance at the Brighton festival, where two episodes of his macabre Black Mirror dramas will air.

"Let the Right One In is thoroughly macabre, maintaining a downbeat, realist lugubrious air, like a cop procedural," writes our own Peter Bradshaw.

Meanwhile, those McQueen quirks that seem perhaps at odds with what Dior stands for (an air of darkness and macabre, the intense and obscure historical and artistic references) were less in evidence this time around.

Let the Right One In is thoroughly macabre, maintaining a downbeat, realist lugubrious air, like a cop procedural - but there's no point waiting for Kenneth Branagh's careworn Wallander to come trudging through the snow to save the day.

Bainbridge, in her odd, macabre way, delights in sucking the air and light from Streatham until it almost becomes one of the mingy little postwar Englands she first became famous for depicting.

There was a lachrymose air to the concerts exploring themes of mortality, the most macabre being a programme by Alla Francesca entitled Music for the Black Death.

I'm thinking that maybe it'd be just as effective to analyze air travel records or hotels, but this is much more fun and macabre.

There was something especially macabre and symbolic about the rockets on London that summer; the tension had gone out of the air raids, there was no waiting now, and people arrived before you knew they were coming.

It's macabre.

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