Sentence examples for touch of darkness from inspiring English sources

But it casts an unusual touch of darkness on the outer edges of the story.

Do you believe that underneath the darkness is some light, and under the light lurks a touch of darkness?

The event began Monday morning on the West Coast with just a touch of darkness, like someone had taken a tiny bite out of the sun.

In the gallery's printed materials, he mentions Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) an an influence, which is probably why there is a touch of darkness in the work.

His cast of variously cute, erotic or grotesque creatures and intense decorative pilings-on range across paintings, sculptures, animations and wallpaper, building at times to a hallucinatory intensity that has more than a touch of darkness.

Mahler would have added a touch of darkness and substance to what was essentially a light and rather short program of overtures and waltzes by Franz von Suppé and Johann Strauss, as well as a genial Mozart work, the Piano Concerto No. 17, with the superb pianist Leif Ove Andsnes as soloist.

("Vaseline is the best," he said). With a touch of shadow, he added some darkness under the eyes for a messy, day-after makeup effect, and a shock of turquoise blue at the inner corner of the eyelid for a rounder, doll-like shape.

A touch of extra darkness, when it comes to Merchant-Ivory, is always welcome.

There's a harrowing touch of "Heart of Darkness" — upriver, where the beast thrives — to this aspect of Guston's imagination.

Stanley Siegel, a psychotherapist and former columnist for Newsday who mentored Mr. Bergeron, said: "We would get together regularly and there were many personal conversations, none of which ever touched upon the darkness of his life that he must have felt.

"So I really touched on a lot of darkness first, in this album.