This was a macabre vision of the empty lives of ordinary people enchanted by glamorous Hollywood life.

For most of Mr. Coleman's career his macabre visions and unironically primitive style earned him a cult following even as they positioned him far outside the mainstream.

I preferred Paul Delvaux's macabre vision of the Crucifixion.

Midnight, according to one's mood, conjured up romantic or macabre visions.

I asked, allowing myself to entertain macabre visions of mutilated cat corpses.

Until you notice that this is a macabre vision: the dead Soviet soldiers strewn about are all awake - laughing, crying and fingering their gruesome wounds.

She then pushes the play into a macabre vision that the work does not earn.

I knew in that instant that the macabre vision was a true seeing, and he was dying.

The concoction of a successful dream narrative requires the inclusion of just enough of the mundane so that macabre visions can register against it.

The oppressive religious milieu, plus Edvard's poor health and the vivid ghost stories, helped inspire macabre visions and nightmares in Edvard, who felt death constantly advancing on him.