Sentence examples for melancholy darkness from inspiring English sources

What's missing is the melancholy darkness of ETA Hoffmann's story.

In Mr. Bourne's version at Sadler's Wells, that element of melancholy darkness in the score is given its theatrical equivalent in a brilliantly conceived production that sets Cinderella's home in bomb-wrecked London, and her romance in the context of the live-today, die-tomorrow urgency of wartime life.

Spirewards is an impressive effort, soldering melancholy, darkness, and an almost baroque religious choral feel to a variety of tempos.

Though Holofcener's films invariably make us laugh in rueful recognition of the inane complexities of lives that manage to echo our own, "Steady Habits" also conveys a melancholy darkness, a more somber cast than usual.

Beneath their headgear, the performers, tightly clad in black lace over nude body stockings, looked like black valentines, which Ms. Lee said reinforced "the music's themes of death, melancholy and darkness".

"It reminds me of my life, melancholy and darkness all around with sunlight shining through.

Suffused throughout the sophisticatedly visualized "Man From Reno," though, is a melancholy and darkness reminiscent of Alan J. Pakula's abyss-rich '70s thrillers.

Like black metal progenitors Celtic Frost and Bathory before them, Slaegt's music uses shadowy spiritual overtones to convey a sense of melancholy and darkness.

Upon further inspection, I realized that many other lullabies harbor this element of darkness: Melancholy.

There are funny bits but these are real lives and there's a tone of darkness, melancholy and frustration in these men.

Dürer, we can guess from this print, knew the darkness of melancholy personally.