Sentence examples for macabre facade from inspiring English sources
The alternative is to allow the realities of immigration detention to continue, glossed over by a macabre facade of PR activities.
Farther up Via Libertini on the same side, the 17th-century Chiesa di Santa Teresa has a restrained neo-Classical facade and an interior containing macabre artworks, from an emaciated statue of Jesus writhing in a glass-box coffin to a painting of Salome with the head of St. John.
Southern Gothic, fascinated by the dark truths that fester behind society's genteel facades, is one of the most macabre literary genres.
Arbus mixed Richard Avedon's gritty realism with Weegee's macabre surrealism, masterfully using her camera to crack the facades surrounding American decorum.
But the development is interrupted by a macabre discovery, which threatens the safety of its inhabitants and unearths the dark secrets previously hidden by the town's idyllic facade.
It was a murder that provided macabre confirmation of Brazil's homophobia and transphobia problem, as well as shining a light on the criminal underworld that lurks behind the happy-go-lucky carnival facade.
The danse macabre continues.
7. 9) John Lydgate, Dance of Macabre.
We retell the macabre jokes.
