In a macabre touch, the queen maintains a group portrait of the family; she paints in the members - grandmother, parents, infant child - as she kills them off.

As he flashed by, noting the horrible graffiti of the black skid-marked across the tarmac, his mind recorded one final macabre touch.

Darius has him taken out, and orders all the courtiers who had accused Daniel to be thrown into the den with their wives and children, a macabre touch.

Despite occasional lapses into guidebook prose, the first-time author takes care to plot a pretty mystery in the orderly classical manner and to resolve it with a nice, macabre touch.

As a further macabre touch, there was a necklace around her throat and pretty bracelets of red and blue ceramic beads on the skeletal wrists.

In spite of such macabre touches, the musical is intended to be lighthearted and even whimsical.

It adds a macabre touch to the bones from the hospital.

El Verdugo is a farce or domestic comedy filled with macabre touches and scenes of black humor in which the taboos associated with death are transgressed.

A final macabre touch was the skeleton of his last meal still on the plate before him.

In a macabre touch, her killer had threaded white feathers through her long, black hair, like a garland, and .