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disturbing because of graphic and emotional association with death- a macabre tale of the walking dead
- macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages
- macabre tortures conceived by madmen
- "We're masters of the macabre," Evra said.Darren Shan -- A Vampire's Assistant
- It sounds macabre, but when Mother realized that after she's dead, she won't be able to tell me what to wear anymore, she came up with this ingenious postmortem system.Kathryn Stockett -- The Help
- The wide, humorless smile reappeared, made macabre by the blood running down his face.Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
- Any delight he felt in Murtagh's reappearance was overwhelmed by the macabre circumstances of their meeting.Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
- Systematically, in her kind, concerned voice she conjured up the macabre future in store for them.Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
- Commit a second murder, or lie low and accept the first as a kind of macabre present?Agatha Christie -- The ABC Murders
- She must have seen life repeating itself as a macabre dance.Russell Baker -- Growing Up
- The macabre scene was deeply disturbing.Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
- Suddenly, Rodchenko reflected, into this danse macabre had come the paranoid monseigneur from Paris.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
- I vaguely remembered a small crowd of vampires hovering close to Aro in his macabre tower, some male, some female.Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn
- His tongue was black and swollen and sticking out of his mouth at a macabre angle.Scott Pratt -- An Innocent Client
- Salander had taken out a Canon digital camera and photographed the macabre tableau before Blomkvist got a rubbish sack and cleaned it away.Stieg Larsson -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- That's macabre, I had said, and he had just shrugged it off; he saw the business of death and dying every day.Jodi Picoult -- Change of Heart
- The flashlight procession moved on, and the papal silhouettes rose and fell against the walls, stretching and vanishing in a macabre shadowbox dance.Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
- I was trying for a joke, but it came out sounding macabre.Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale
- CHAPTER FIVE — Dance MacabreNeil Gaiman -- The Graveyard Book
- The masks Barbara picked out ranged from the ludicrous to the macabre.Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
macabre = disturbing because of graphic and emotional association with death
macabre = disturbing because of association with death
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