Sentence examples similar to macabre preoccupation from inspiring English sources

With its motley cast of schoolmasters, policemen, perverts, dogs and hens, The Queue might at times verge on the prolix or the infantile – it was never completed, let alone edited – but it repeatedly recalls Joe Orton in its macabre preoccupations and scabrous humour.

The age's preoccupation with death produced a macabre flowering of art: the dance of death, a large body of sermon literature on the memento mori theme, tracts on the art of dying well (ars moriendi), as well as a rich body of visual and plastic art.

It's macabre.

The danse macabre continues.

7. 9) John Lydgate, Dance of Macabre.

We retell the macabre jokes.

Another big, new preoccupation?

2. Ligeti: "Le Grand Macabre".

But its fate was macabre.

His humor is macabre.

Markets like macabre metaphors.