local color

Example Sentences

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By the end of the week, I was not only comfortable on the boat, but I’d made a cadre of vacation friends whom I genuinely liked, and whose life stories were useful local color for my novel.

From Salon

Your Montana of “Die, My Love” is also unique, filled with local color but almost an abstract place where a marital unraveling can take center stage.

From Los Angeles Times

He models himself on his father, whom he lives to impress, and points out at every opportunity that he has a business degree from “prestigious” Drexel University — Philadelphia local color.

From Los Angeles Times

The franchise has included iterations set in Los Angeles, New Orleans, Hawaii and Sydney, each applying local color and flavor to a tried-and-true formula; some have come and gone, some have not been around long enough to go, but none is likely to display the staying power or global penetration of the original, about to embark Monday on its 22nd season.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Los Angeles Times