Sentence examples for tones of black from inspiring English sources

Adams suggested he go for deeper tones of black.

Osakwe's blouses and dresses in the tones of black skin seem like a deliberate response.

This work, sparsely executed in tones of black, grey and brown, already betrays the radically different sculptured style that was later to become Picasso's hallmark.

Bean's atmospheric illustrations, in earthy tones of black, taupe and slate blue, give this quiet tale of maternal devotion a distinctive and appropriately lovely look.

Done mostly in tones of black and white, with a flash of cobalt or orange-red, the shapes seemed to hover between firm structure and airy volumes.

"By Twos" presents three tones of black — velvety, drier and dry — divided by zips of cerulean blue carefully touched with white so that they almost seem to twist against the black.

Mr. Maddin has assembled a cast of faces made for the haunting, expressionist tones of black-and-white film, though the modern inflections of their voices sometimes mar the effect.

The vocalists of Exaudi intone and moan screeds of largely indecipherable automatic writing while baritone Mark Stone exhorts Myers' anxieties on the passage from life to death in tones of blackest despair.

Part of what I was doing was to get the tone of black and white early French film.

Managing the complex tone of black humor in the face of horror, he surveys bodies lying in an East Village boutique and when told it's a "vintage" clothing shop, says, "Oh, yeah, I think I recognized my old bowling shirt".

It has a strange, almost unreadable tone of black comedy amidst the grimness which made it pretty compelling – although I have to concede that it was not as good as the film which earned Mungiu his own Palme d'Or: the Ceausescu-era drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days.