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
That sets him apart, at least, from the customary authors of similar screeds, visitors from outside parachuting in for a week or two to sponge up local color for their takes.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2021
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
They’re tourists, from Japan it looks like, a trade delegation perhaps, on a tour of the historic landmarks or out for local color.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
