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Example sentences for: macabre

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In a macabre way, one might take heart from the news that books could still be perceived to have such an impact; my own cynical view is that had it not been for the attention drawn to it by the fatwah, Satanic Verses would not have had much effect and would have been long forgotten by now.
But such macabre behavior transcends geographic bounds.
Many Russians who find Lenin's public resting place a macabre embarrassment think his soul will only rest (and theirs with it) once he goes underground.
The tabloids hit a macabre trifecta this month with extensive reports on three of their major stories: the murder of JonBenet Ramsey, the death of Princess Diana, and the dead duck presidency of Bill Clinton.
This seems strong--you can condemn a criminal regime through an unsympathetic portrayal of its perpetrators as well as through sympathy for those they killed--but it's true that in 1999, Grass' dance of the macabre does come off as weirdly timid.