Sentence examples for overly dark from inspiring English sources

An overly dark color often signifies an over-extracted wine.

But an overly dark stage made the longwinded story hard to follow.

Dickens was keen to avoid making something overly dark, yet didn't want to engage superficially with difficult issues.

My grandfather, whose background was not so different from Mr. Lumet's, was dismissive of movies that seemed overly dark or despairing.

In one overly dark and truly terrible digitally rendered chase scene, Snow hops on a big-wheeled motorcycle that looks like a rejected prototype from "The Dark Knight"; in another, Snow splat-crashes into a window instead of diving through it, in an apparent parody of a spectacular stunt from "The Bourne Ultimatum".

Washed out and overly dark areas are controlled, allowing for a natural tonal range to be reproduced, so both people and backgrounds are evenly exposed.

Too many shows try to go too dark or too fun or get overly complicated in the narrative.

Moderation is key: a northern exposure is too dark, and in an overly heated room, place the plant on a tray filled with pebbles and water.

He stated that the camera positioning during a lot of acts in not "overly convincing" and some close-ups are too dark.

When the episode was first broadcast, many fans felt it was too dark, unfunny and that Homer was portrayed as overly bad-mannered.

The optimist in me wants to give us all the benefit of the doubt, but the overly tired, dark-skinned realist in me knows that it is most likely the latter.