Sentence examples for macabre illusion from inspiring English sources
To add to their realistic effect, each head hasn't got any hair, resulting in the macabre illusion that they've been decomposing for some time, not fresh from the oven as they actually are.
It works its intended macabre magic.
Starring Aurélia Thierrée, a charming waif who's the daughter of a French cirque-nouveau dynasty, as well as the granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin, the show plays lightly and wittily with stage illusions, veering occasionally into the macabre.
The author crams into the chinks between his reconstructions an immense amount of fact -- endless lists, many of them involving unpleasantnesses (Hanson has a macabre fascination for old London's dirt, disease, degradation and depravity) -- the better to give the illusion of verisimilitude.
Illusion dresses that appear as if the sequins and lace were embroidered directly on the body are nothing new at Marchesa, but the designers Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig took a turn this season that you could call macabre, or you could call McQueen.
The danse macabre continues.
We retell the macabre jokes.
7. 9) John Lydgate, Dance of Macabre.
But its fate was macabre.
2. Ligeti: "Le Grand Macabre".
