macabre 的定义
- gruesome and horrifying; ghastly; horrible.
- of, pertaining to, dealing with, or representing death, especially its grimmer or uglier aspect.
- of or suggestive of the allegorical dance of death.
macabre 近义词
eerie; deathlike
更多macabre例句
- In Pune, one of the worst-hit cities in India, the wailing sirens of ambulances have become a macabre feature of the city’s soundscape.
- Later in the “Sinnerman” narrative, the game features yet another scene that makes excellent use of the first-person camera, using your eyes and hands to partake in this macabre, sacrilegious act of violence and media.
- Given the somewhat macabre origins of the feast, many of the celebrations were designed to placate the gods.
- You two seem to have similar artistic sensibilities, both very interested in the macabre.
- After all, he was on television every week, telling macabre stories, frightening us.
- And in the summer months, when shootings soar, the city can be a ghoulish playground for those interested in the macabre.
- Over the past few years, macabre signs of vampire burials have been unearthed across Europe and even in the United States.
- For the significance of the French word macabre we must turn to the Arabic makabir, signifying a burial place or cemetery.
- "All over but the cheering," he replied with that strange, macabre humor which often comes to solace men about to die.
- At Rouen in the aitre (atrium) or cloister of St Maclou there also remains a sculptured danse macabre.
- The Danse Macabre itself is a subject which is well nigh exhaustless.
- Saint-Saëns has even utilized the barbarous xylophone, whose proper place is the variety hall, in his "Danse Macabre."