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  • Systematically, in her kind, concerned voice she conjured up the macabre future in store for them.†   (source)
  • The wide, humorless smile reappeared, made macabre by the blood running down his face.†   (source)
  • For one ghastly moment, I was reminded of our afternoon in Italy, in the macabre tower room of the Volturi, where Jane had tortured Edward with her malignant gift, burning him with her thoughts alone…… The memory snapped me out of my near hysteria and put everything in perspective.†   (source)
  • They danced a macabre ballet around the victim, whom, for their own sake, they were prepared to sacrifice to the flaming pit.†   (source)
  • I'm not into all that macabre crap."†   (source)
  • Salander had taken out a Canon digital camera and photographed the macabre tableau before Blomkvist got a rubbish sack and cleaned it away.†   (source)
  • So instead, Josie found herself veering drunkenly from the soft-focus moments with Matt to the macabre.†   (source)
  • "I'm Faintly Macabre, the not-so-wicked Which," she continued, "and I'm certainly not going to harm you."†   (source)
  • "It's not macabre," Bree said softly.†   (source)
  • Any delight he felt in Murtagh's reappearance was overwhelmed by the macabre circumstances of their meeting.†   (source)
  • Arriving at the battle site, Harlon moved in a macabre world of splintered trees and burned-out brush.†   (source)
  • "We're masters of the macabre," Evra said.†   (source)
  • The child, who had a certain inclination for the macabre, would concentrate according to her uncle's instructions until she was able to visualize her mother's death as if it were really happening.†   (source)
  • When night fell, they congregated in the darkness with flashlights, continuing their macabre vigil at the bomb line in brooding entreaty as though hoping to move the ribbon up by the collective weight of their sullen prayers.†   (source)
  • I was powerless to help her; all I could do was watch the macabre scene in horror.†   (source)
  • Bodies and body parts were carried out in trucks every night and posed throughout the city, a macabre public arts program that served to educate and edify.†   (source)
  • The streets were like a Bosch painting come to life: full of grotesque and macabre creatures and scenes of sudden, hideous violence.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, Rodchenko reflected, into this danse macabre had come the paranoid monseigneur from Paris.†   (source)
  • Little do they know how macabre those words actually are.†   (source)
  • The pure bright sacrilegious fire illuminated the grinning faces of the cadre, who had turned their faces toward the macabre light.†   (source)
  • Ann asks with a breathlessness that shows her love of the macabre.†   (source)
  • His tongue was black and swollen and sticking out of his mouth at a macabre angle.†   (source)
  • And she had heard the macabre stories about the damage done to those who had been seduced into strapping bombs to their bodies.†   (source)
  • However, no sooner was he stretched out than he sat bolt upright, his head and shoulders suddenly propelled into view, with somewhat the macabre-comic effect of a corpse falling out of a closet.†   (source)
  • The next day the fine weather holding, Mark went with the elder men of the tribe, and what had seemed so reasonable a project became suddenly huge and macabre.†   (source)
  • The morning of the day that she was scheduled to submit to the Electro-Sensilator's macabre embrace she woke up feeling exceptionally worn-out and sick, far worse than ever before.†   (source)
  • She must have seen life repeating itself as a macabre dance.†   (source)
  • But the intuition grew, and now he was moving forward toward the altar, raising his arms with grim and macabre dignity, half Miltonic dream of Lucifer, half whitefaced mechanical man in drab, once-black, moth-eaten clothes, responding with tin emotions to the demand of a drive in a museum of horrors.†   (source)
  • The macabre scene was deeply disturbing.†   (source)
  • His face was smeared with blood, a violent, macabre sight.†   (source)
  • In the wild revolving lights his face looked as macabre as any in the frenzied rock group.†   (source)
  • I'll get you something less macabre to wear.†   (source)
  • She performed as he had ordered, the effect macabre.†   (source)
  • People think that's macabre, but I do wish it.†   (source)
  • "I thank you very much," said Faintly Macabre.†   (source)
  • In a macabre way, I'd think you'd be elated.†   (source)
  • It's the sort of macabre fact she loves to collect.†   (source)
  • The masks Barbara picked out ranged from the ludicrous to the macabre.†   (source)
  • Even with this macabre vision I could not convince Mary that swimming was for her.†   (source)
  • The flashlight procession moved on, and the papal silhouettes rose and fell against the walls, stretching and vanishing in a macabre shadowbox dance.†   (source)
  • If it happened that we danced the danse macabre with them, the dance of death, then we would not speak of it, and we certainly would not to speak of it to the living.†   (source)
  • Sitting in his office, Aubrey Rubenstein talked easily, as a black colleague sat nearby eavesdropping with awe at the macabre conversation that unfolded between this elderly white man and myself.†   (source)
  • There was a good deal of macabre testimony about decomposition and body fluids and the effects of chloroform.†   (source)
  • He who had lambasted his colleagues for not publishing the truth, here he sat, discussing, negotiating even, the most macabre cover-up he had ever heard of.†   (source)
  • Each day they delved more deeply into the secrets of the "castle," and each day turned up additional evidence that Holmes was something far worse than even Geyer's macabre discoveries indicated.†   (source)
  • Years later a villager with a blind spot for the macabre would write, "While at times there was considerable need of a police force in the Stock Yards district, Englewood pursued the even tenor of its way with very little necessity for their appearance other than to ornament the landscape and see that the cows were not disturbed in their peaceful pastures."†   (source)
  • I vaguely remembered a small crowd of vampires hovering close to Aro in his macabre tower, some male, some female.†   (source)
  • That's macabre, I had said, and he had just shrugged it off; he saw the business of death and dying every day.†   (source)
  • 'He's a man without a name but not without a macabre story,' replied d'Anjou, gazing at the mountains in the distance.†   (source)
  • …stark raving mad or giving me a heart attack, forgive me for getting all worked up like this, my hands are shaking, I'm very nervous, I can't explain what happened, a package in the mail and in it only three human fingers, cleanly amputated, a macabre joke that brings back memories, but memories that have nothing to do with Alba, my granddaughter wasn't even born then, I'm sure I have a lot of enemies, all of us politicians have enemies, it's not surprising there should be some maniac…†   (source)
  • Nothing to act upon immediately but something rather interesting, even fascinating in a macabre sort of way.†   (source)
  • I hadn't laughed in so long; I tried to remember the last time and couldn't–just that strange bout of macabre hysteria in the desert, which really didn't count aslaughter.†   (source)
  • I didn't know if the warden had intended for us to see what was happening behind it, but we could, in macabre silhouette: the hood being placed over Shay's head, the noose being tightened against his neck, the two officers who'd secured him stepping backward.†   (source)
  • Yossarian's stomach turned over when his eyes first beheld the macabre scene; he was absolutely revolted, and he paused in fright a few moments before descending, crouched on his hands and knees in the narrow tunnel over the bomb bay beside the sealed corrugated carton containing the first-aid kit.†   (source)
  • I had not screamed at plebes or starved them at mess or humiliated them on shower-room floors, but I had learned those macabre arts secretly and well.†   (source)
  • The museum's owners, however, balked at buying Oswald's original pine casket, which was replaced after his body was exhumed in 1981, saying it was too macabre.†   (source)
  • I find I miss the snoring that pestered me so; I miss her gloomy character and silly, romantic notions and macabre fascinations.†   (source)
  • That irony, too, was macabre.†   (source)
  • Faintly Macabre's Story†   (source)
  • Whenever an alumnus was killed in battle, it was traditional for his next of kin to return his ring to the museum for enshrinement upon black velvet in the macabre trophy case where these rings were proudly mounted.†   (source)
  • Breathlessly, his chest heaving, he placed his hands against the glass wall and leaned into it, bearing witness to the macabre scene barely inches in front of him.†   (source)
  • The irony was macabre.†   (source)
  • It is a macabre sight.†   (source)
  • The supernatural held a macabre fascination for the children; they discussed it frequently, and believed implicitly in the existence of witches, warlocks, ghosts, and devils.†   (source)
  • Since the kids believed as fervently in ghosts or witches as I believed in Chrysler motors, I imagined that Halloween was a much more macabre and meaningful night to them than it was to me.†   (source)
  • Pleased by her reception, she delivered her rendition of the witches' scene from Macbeth with such macabre passion and blood-chilling authenticity that the children without exception grew restless, wide-eyed, and frightened.†   (source)
  • I asked macabrely.†   (source)
  • Commit a second murder, or lie low and accept the first as a kind of macabre present?†   (source)
  • No one ever ascertained what pleasure they derived from this macabre game.†   (source)
  • English snobbery is more macabre to me even than English morals.†   (source)
  • …horizontality of everything else (the Museum of Science and Industry, with its dome stripped to its steel frame, as if for an autopsy; the modern Chamber of Commerce Building, its tower as cold, rigid, and unassailable after the blow as before; the huge, low-lying, camouflaged city hall; the row of dowdy banks, caricaturing a shaken economic system); and in the streets a macabre traffic — hundreds of crumpled bicycles, shells of street cars and automobiles, all halted in mid-motion.†   (source)
  • It was too macabre.†   (source)
  • They held the funeral on the second day, with the town coming to look at Miss Emily beneath a mass of bought flowers, with the crayon face of her father musing profoundly above the bier and the ladies sibilant and macabre; and the very old men —some in their brushed Confederate uniforms—on the porch and the lawn, talking of Miss Emily as if she had been a contemporary of theirs, believing that they had danced with her and courted her perhaps, confusing time with its mathematical…†   (source)
  • He thought of operating, of making a murderous wrong incision; and with a more immediate, macabre fear, he thought of the dissecting-room and the stony, steely Anatomy Building.†   (source)
  • Danse Macabre.†   (source)
  • Gounod had conducted the Funeral March of a Marionnette; Reyer, his beautiful overture to Siguar; Saint Saens, the Danse Macabre and a Reverie Orientale; Massenet, an unpublished Hungarian march; Guiraud, his Carnaval; Delibes, the Valse Lente from Sylvia and the Pizzicati from Coppelia.†   (source)
  • All the same, he was touched and glad that the ice had been broken; for despite his trophy, the macabre gift that he wore next to his heart, he was very fond of Herr Settembrini, set great store by his presence, and the thought of being totally rejected and abandoned would have weighed down on him more heavily than had the feeling of being a schoolboy no longer in the running and enjoying the advantages of disgrace, just like Herr Albin.†   (source)
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