It is difficult to imagine anything which would cloud the skies of life more blackly than that.
I wonder whether the competitive position was not painted just a little too blackly in that picture.
But he really painted the picture unfairly blackly in the words that he used tonight.
This time the play was described as an astonishingly prescient, blackly comic modern classic.
The movie and its blackly comic tone were also widely imitated abroad.
They approached darker topics than usually encountered in sitcoms (although almost always in a blackly comedic manner rather than a serious one).
This is typical of an overtly morbid sense of humour they share, completing each other's sentences as a game and delighting in competing over laboured, blackly humorous puns.
