Sentence examples for macabre of from inspiring English sources

IT WAS, said one commentator, a "danse macabre" of Croatian society.

But it also reflects deeper contemporary fears of the apocalyptic and the macabre: of bad science and corrupt power.

In this carnivalesque allegory of Ireland's property boom, Claire Kilroy presents a satiric danse macabre of brio and linguistic virtuosity.

Not satisfied with mere fringe manias, more and more readers want the macabre of real life stirred into their horror stories.

Harold Bloom can't be blamed for that: he certainly pointed to the danse macabre of influence and anxiety, but to him the association was perfectly creative.

Some days, my only relief from a world slowly pricing me out is that danse macabre of a new pair of shoes that I can't really afford.

The lab looks like the studio of a sculptor in the grip of a macabre vision of the lower extremities.

In a further reminder of the macabre history of the Belanglo State Forest, another body was found there in November.

Isis is still rampaging through Syria and Iraq after publishing their gloating, macabre videos of thousands of deaths.

The majority of them have simply disappeared into the macabre statistics of the victims of the war against drugs.

Discarded Halloween decorations provide macabre reminders of the violence of the storm.