Unlike most string quintets, this one employs a double bass instead of a second cello, which gives it a somewhat darker cast.

She shuddered at the dark cast of his voice.

That will still leave a darker cast, the cherry color, showing through the white, and so it still may not be as light as you would like.

Clouds gave the image a dark cast.

But as the 20th century wanes, the millennialist impulse has taken an increasingly dark cast among some smaller and socially isolated groups.

He had shaggy reddish hair and a dark cast of feature, with eyes that fairly gleamed beneath heavy brows.

The show also points up the surprisingly dark cast of much of Haring's output.

"Solo" begins as the sunny evocation of a boy's dream, all blue skies and puffy white clouds, but it soon takes on a darker cast.

With chemicals, she treated her smooth, pale skin to make it weathered and lend it a darker cast.

Her eyes had the flat, dark cast of a Grant Wood matriarch.