local color
Example Sentences
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This moody neo-noir is peppered with car chases and local color, though it’s primarily a character study, about a man forced by circumstance to confront the failures of his past.
From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2024
Hughes also predicted that global diets will become more uniform, since the loss of agricultural and livestock variety will lead to a loss of local color in diets.
From Salon • May 4, 2023
The plot strains credulity less than many procedural series do — and they all do — and the production aims for realistic local color.
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2022
Vividly filmed with vibrant local color and nonprofessional actors, it movingly captures a clandestine sisterhood in a male-controlled society.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 10, 2021
I know I should probably hate that about interstates and yearn for the halcyon days of yore, back when you could be drenched in local color at every turn— but whatever.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
