Sentences with phrase «little macabre»

One detail which Andersen ominously left out is how exactly he acquired the skull (probably best not to ask too many questions in that regard), though he did get a little macabre when he mentioned how the process of drawing sound reverberations through the skull eventually caused all of its teeth to fall out.

It's a little macabre, but I adore the La Recoleta cemetery where Eva Peron and everyone who is (was) anyone is buried in above - ground crypts.

I told my husband that I want to be buried in it, which is a little macabre when I type that out.

(a little macabre, poor chickens) I feel the same about your cookbook... beautiful seasonal relationships that nourish soul, body and mind.

Not exact matches

The reason this grim little tale so amuses me (quite apart from the magnificent pun, which one hopes was purely extemporaneous), is that the lives of philosophers are so often oppressively, obtundently dreary that any diverting story — even one as macabre as the ordeal of Schopenhauer's poor old Putzfrau — comes to the scholar as a cherished respite.

The macabre implication is that the Republicans have become the party of the patrician class, in support of a feeble social contract that provides as little as possible to the masses, and a model for government whose raison d'être is to enable its wealthiest citizens to achieve a quality of life unattainable to the rest.

This dark, macabre tale of New England terror is about little Norman Babcock (Kodi Smit - McPhee) a fairly normal kid who has a special talent.

Their daddy, put to death, leaves the children fatherless, their mother, little more than a shadow, all but abandons the siblings until the day when Reverend Harry Powell ---- a macabre Robert Mitchum in what would become perhaps his most recognizable role ---- a false prophet and shyster, arrives.

I've rarely seen a movie so gleefully enjoy what should, by all rights, be a terrifying and macabre situation, to the point where I might not mind joining this crew for a little end of the world road trip as well.

Kirsty Capes with everything we know so far about Netflix's A Series of Unfortunate Events... If you're like me, and grew up devouring volumes of Lemony Snicket's macabre and witty series, you'll be a little more than a bit excited about the announcement late last year that Netflix will be turning the thirteen - volumes - strong A Series of -LSB-...]

Her large, black - and - white photographs of old women and young girls reinvent standard fairytales such as Little Red Riding Hood and Hansel and Gretel in order to bring something macabre and female - centric to the narratives.