local color

Example Sentences

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Opera delivers a “Turandot” that does at least provide local color.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2024

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

Here’s a region-by-region look at the status and quality of local color.

From Washington Post • Oct. 8, 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