How To Use Baleful In A Sentence
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By now it had reached the sea, where it paused for a moment to fix us with a baleful stare.
Times, Sunday Times
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Regarding politics and the art of government as, equally with arms, their natural vocations, they have never given the Nation a statesman, and their greatest politicians achieved eminence by advocating ideas which only attracted attention by their balefulness.
Andersonville
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Not long after our breakup I arrived in London for a television performance, and the city cooperated soggily with my baleful mood.
Living Alone and Loving It
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These groups point to a number of situations in which the proposal could have baleful effects on the rights of other workers or on customers.
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Under the paternal demeanor all anyone ever detected was a terrible waste balefulness.
Pioneers of Alienation and 50s Sci-Fi at Thing Street Asylum
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Local people can still recall the baleful glow in the night as the mill blazed.
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There was no sporting reference in that primitive debutant issue of 25 October 1961 – six corny homemade pages printed on yellow paper – but over the following half-century the magazine has significantly cast its wittily baleful eye over the prolix and self-important pomposities of modern professional sport and thank heaven for it.
Fifty years of Private Eye's eccentric eye view of sport | Frank Keating
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Under the baleful eye of the concierge, I head for the stairs down to the ballroom.
Times, Sunday Times
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Look at the baleful example of MPs' salaries.
Times, Sunday Times
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His baleful influence will wane.
Times, Sunday Times
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In his last great battle there was only a baleful and ridiculous malignancy.
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A constant stream of people waited patiently to photograph themselves in front of the statued entrance to the arena where Jesse Owens won four gold medals in 1936 under the baleful gaze of the Führer.
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I hope that my baleful "You're an ass" stare is as good as my friend says it is.
The Assmen Cometh
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Under the baleful eye of the concierge, I head for the stairs down to the ballroom.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's a one-book explanation for the current move to the left in a growing number of Latin American countries, tracing a centuries-long history of rapine and plunder, of genocide and dictatorship, first at the hands of Spain, and more recently under the baleful influence of the US, which operated directly or by proxy to ensure that nothing would ever change.
Archive 2009-04-01
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And when Satan's eyes are called "baleful," the word, besides indicating the "huge affliction and dismay" that he feels, gives a hint of the woes that are in store for the victims on whom those eyes have not yet lit.
Milton
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Shakily, Adam rose to his feet while the dog fixed him with a baleful glare and a low threatening rumble escaped its throat.
LOST SUMMER
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Then again, I had to give up drinking altogether when I saw the worm in mescal; even though it was dead, it stared balefully at me.
Say Bartender, make mine tuna on the rocks
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WBYL = 'baleful' it's not true that 'the baleful Jewish (thing)' has no meaning in Arabic.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Derrida became a flashpoint for controversies over the allegedly baleful influence of postmodernism and post-structuralism on the Humanities.
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By now it had reached the sea, where it paused for a moment to fix us with a baleful stare.
Times, Sunday Times
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Riffs should be big, brooding, baleful things.
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But the balefulness of the act is hardly reduced thereby - and therefore my sentiments about the filth who carried out the deed remain essentially the same.
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Edwards portrays Scrooge with zest and an appropriate balefulness that immediately casts a shadow on the opening scene.
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Yet somehow, because of the baleful influence of these few councillors, the place is toxic.
Times, Sunday Times
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If it's possible to cast a baleful glance with one eye shut, then she did it.
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One eye, magnified, glared at her balefully over a rounded blotch of white where a cheek was leeched to the pane.
A MEANS TO EVIL
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Sydney glared balefully, but her resolve crumbled under the power of the almighty puppy dog eyes.
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Whenever an election turns into a three-ring circus, I cast my baleful eye upon the proceedings and wonder what's really going on in the heart that beats beneath the fright wig.
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His baleful influence will wane.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The Weekly Standard; despite his having authored five books of non-fiction; and despite the word "baleful" having appeared in print
Acephalous
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It regards you balefully from little piggy eyes.
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She turned and glared balefully at Thomas Fraser, serene under his helm, with the hilt of his sword clasped under crossed hands.
Dragonfly in Amber
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I think; perhaps _ape_hood rather, -- paltry imitancy, from the teeth outward, of what our heart never felt nor our understanding ever saw; dim indolent adherence to extraneous and extinct traditions; traditions now really about extinct; not living now to almost any of us, and still haunting with their spectralities and gibbering _ghosts_ (in a truly baleful manner) almost all of us!
Latter-Day Pamphlets
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Politicians rail against the plutocracy and the baleful influence of ‘the top 1 percent.’
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Yet somehow, because of the baleful influence of these few councillors, the place is toxic.
Times, Sunday Times
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Its stultifying and baleful influence is transmitted by the clammy grip of its three main tentacles: the universities; the ‘experts’, and, above all, the media.
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An early - warning this virus in sowing a newspaper is file of a baleful script.
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She wiped at it furtively, casting a baleful glance around to see if anyone noticed.
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Casey casts a baleful eye on the author's camera, striking his most fearsome pose.
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Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye, the day to cheer and night's dank dew to dry, I must up-fill this osier cage of ours with baleful weeds and precious-juiced flowers.
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Look at the baleful example of MPs' salaries.
Times, Sunday Times
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I saw the baleful look she shot me in the dim light coming from the street.
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That baleful glare demanded that you took him seriously.
The Sun
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Before the lustred pots themselves shed a baleful gleam over this narrative, something should obviously be said about Italian wells and why they contain pots.
The Collectors
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If I do not succeed in getting Dionea this place (and all your Excellency's illustriousness and all my poor eloquence will be needed to counteract the sinister reports attaching to our poor little waif), it will be best to accept your suggestion of taking the girl into your household at Rome, since you are curious to see what you call our baleful beauty.
Hauntings
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It is true that real and grave evils have arisen, one of the chief of them being overcapitalization, with its many baleful consequences.
Theodore Roosevelt and His Times
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At night, the furnace fires lit the sky with a baleful pink glow.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is loathsome to think that balefulness of an unknown cause could create such a catastrophe.
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The land bucked and heaved like a terrified horse and a storm of baleful magic raced over the land.
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For my own mother, the baleful daughter of Tyndareus, hath cast me forth from her house to gratify her lord; for since she hath borne other children to Aegisthus she puts me and Orestes on one side at home.
Electra
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Flinging him a baleful glare, I muttered, ‘Your point being?’
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Barbara Jefford as Queen Margaret is white-haired, baleful and beautifully spoken.
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Green's presence is arresting, to be sure, although her chief contribution comes in the form of seductive, baleful, or haunted glaring, which makes her a perfect complement for Bloom's Balian.
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Sandy is played by Cindy Lou, a statuesque and baleful creature with presence and a truly impressive amount of facial hair.
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The girl's indifference could not be real; and if it was not, her good acting only betrayed the depths of her experience and balefulness.
The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight
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Now, as that government turns its baleful attention to the ethnic Tamils it is holding behind razor wire, will we turn a blind eye?
Archive 2009-05-01
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McGowan casts a baleful eye at how football is treated by government.
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He gave me a baleful look.
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The angel looked up again, casting a baleful scowl at the Academy, in all its splendour.
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At this, she looked full upon him, and already she had something in the nature of a surprise for him; for so powerful was the still balefulness of her glance that he was slightly startled.
Gentle Julia
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Here the technique of under-describing, withholding, comes startlingly to the fore, that other great technique for communicating balefulness.
Mieville on Tolkein
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Anne wins her right to happiness only when she shakes off diffidence, trusts her own mind and heart, learns to judge for herself, and to make decisions unhampered by influences no less baleful for being well meant.
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Although her picturesqueness did not swarm on him with images illuminating night, subduing day, like the Countess Livia's, it was marked, it could tower and intermittently eclipse; and it was of the uplifting and healing kind by comparison, not a delicious balefulness.
The Amazing Marriage — Volume 3
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she looked at him balefully
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It rose far above her, untouched by light and staring at her through baleful eyes.
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And it may even be a small sign of the baleful effects of media industry conglomeration.
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But clearly they were seeking protection from something they perceived to be potentially baleful or harmful.
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He regarded Masters balefully, over his half-moon spectacles.
THE SCAR
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WW was a room full of big women and a few big men on rickety folding chairs bathed in baleful hospital light.
The Goal by Matthew Licht
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In 1920, another baleful Armistice Day was looming.
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The few men of worth and consideration who offer you their intimacy on that score, and whose regard is really worth coveting, are too disagreeably counterweighed by the baleful swarm of creatures who keep humming round you, like so many flesh-flies; gape at you as if you were a monster, and condescend moreover, on the strength of one or two blotted sheets, to present themselves as colleagues.
The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works
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With the big day looming, young gun Tommy clashes with a baleful old timer (convincing Frank Harper) and finds himself plagued by dreams that foretell a death by booting.
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The log files , which record the baleful usages, will facilitate the search and locating of hackers.
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Sandy is played by Cindy Lou, a statuesque and baleful creature with presence and a truly impressive amount of facial hair.
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Unfurled in baleful grandeur, like some dark cloud of heaven, surcharged with thunder and the brewing tempest, it rides the air, and bedims the beams of day.
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States as a year wherein all the baleful seeds of disunion were sown, which grew, to ripen, a little more than ten years later, into _disunion_ in fact.
Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865
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Tresco gave him a sideways glance of baleful intensity that was beautiful to see.
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Under the baleful eye of the concierge, I head for the stairs down to the ballroom.
Times, Sunday Times
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Another day, another baleful indicator of looming inflation.
Times, Sunday Times
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It will be a pointing, accusatory finger and a baleful cry of ‘we told you so’.
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The second is the baleful effect of regulation.
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They're sitting on my ‘to read’ shelf next to my desk right now, staring up at me with baleful spines as if to warn me that if I don't read them soon, there'll be trouble.
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He just gives me a baleful look.
Times, Sunday Times
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But by now, it should be clear that apart from the baleful influence of science, and to a degree because of it, modernism has been completely hamstrung by its realism.
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When you were doing searches, did you look for instances where Cashill had used 'baleful'? because I find it hard to believe he really didn't know that word until Obama taught it to him.
Acephalous
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Matters were not helped by the presence of Alex, whose totally withdrawn silence and dark, bitter and brooding countenance could be all too easily misinterpreted as balefulness: the von Karajans were not to know that Alex regarded his parents, whom he held in vast respect and affection, with exactly the same expression.
Partisans
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And, not incidentally, one of the many reasons I feel no hesitation in calling Cashhill an idiot is that he had to look up what "baleful" means; it's not exactly a high-falutin ', obscure, word.
Acephalous
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Local people can still recall the baleful glow in the night as the mill blazed.
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His baleful influence will wane.
Times, Sunday Times
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He just gives me a baleful look.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her companion, however, clutching her friend's waist, looks at the photographer, and us, full face, with astonishing balefulness and hatred, willing us to be gone.
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The one seemed to be a monstrous son of baleful Typhoeus or of Earth herself, such as she brought forth aforetime, in her wrath against Zeus; but the other, the son of Tyndareus, was like a star of heaven, whose beams are fairest as it shines through the nightly sky at eventide.
The Argonautica
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The butter was still immured in the back of the pantry, under the baleful guard of the newly-farrowed sow, but Ian had managed to lean in and snatch a pot of jam from the shelf as I stood by with the broom, jabbing it into the sow's gnashing jaws as she made little darting charges at Ian's legs.
Drums of Autumn
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Yet I think the continued presence of these wrong doctrines has a baleful and divisive influence in Adventism, causing large segments of the denomination to lurch towards legalism and works righteousness.
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The sky was black, blanketed in rolling clouds of smoke that glowed with patches of baleful red, from burning cinders.
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One eye, magnified, glared at her balefully over a rounded blotch of white where a cheek was leeched to the pane.
A MEANS TO EVIL
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Many of the men sprang forward, officiously, to offer their services, either from the hope of the reward, or from that cringing subserviency which is one of the most baleful effects of slavery.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Alexandra blamed herself for her son's illness, and in seeking answers to alleviate her guilt, came under the baleful influence of Siberian monk and mystic Rasputin.
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In Scotland too, holy wells in remote places attracted the attentions of Presbyterian devotees, often despite the baleful stares of ordained Kirk ministers.
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the Florida eagles have a fierce baleful look
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The war has had an ubiquitous and baleful effect on U.S. foreign policy.
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Mrs Barnes gave a tug at the lead that was wrapped around her wrist and the sleeping terrier at the other end of it woke with a start and gave her a baleful look.
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Zack buried his head in her shoulder, pausing in the crying to give me a baleful glance or two, and to lob the occasional ‘I don't like you Daddy, you're a meanie.’
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This is settled but authentically wild, with koala in tall, thick gum trees, shy but visible wallabies and a black dingo, a bush dog that glares balefully at visitors but never approaches.
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Or it could be the empty eye-socket of a cyclopean presence that still manages to hold us in its baleful stare.
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Finally, I disagree with his conception of human nature, inasmuch as I don't believe the baleful features of human life that he refers to are ‘inherent features’ of human nature.
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No dice ... meaning he did not, in fact, know from "baleful" despite being all this:
Acephalous
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Continuous wars brought enormous balefulness to the people giving rise to wide opposition in the small states.
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That baleful glare demanded that you took him seriously.
The Sun
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His baleful influence will wane.
Times, Sunday Times
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The gaze of pale blue eyes fell upon his face fully, a cold glare, baleful, bitter, rough, but at the same time - lonely and easy to hurt.
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A new wall painting by Richard Long and Monet's Waterlilies gaze at each other balefully and the visitor just whizzes through.
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Everything is haunting, from Desmond Shea's baleful trumpet to Chris Mulhauser's baritone guitar, and low frequencies are well catered for.
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So state regulation of marriage, first applied in Hardwicke's Marriage Act, is still with us; and the moral code that flowed from it still casts a baleful shadow over modern society.
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She dumped her bag with her case notes inside on the dark oak table, shucked off her shoes and padded across the ceramic tiled floor to the food bowls and the baleful cats.
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a baleful look
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The baleful effect of overwhelming electoral landslides, usually worse than suggested by the cube rule, has also been underplayed.
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The successful lobbying for deregulation of the electricity supply in California has had baleful consequences that hardly merit repeating.
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Nevertheless, the case has had a baleful effect on this litigation.
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A new wall painting by Richard Long and Monet's Waterlilies gaze at each other balefully and the visitor just whizzes through.
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And it may even be a small sign of the baleful effects of media industry conglomeration.
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He turned his baleful glare on the cowering suspect.
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But when it stopped the environment made its baleful impact.
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The main purveyor is the ferrety Draco Malfoy, who brings a particularly Aryan look to his baleful glare and assorted discriminations.
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Just for a moment you are swept by a sense of doubt - perhaps The Economist, that most sober of journals, is referring to the baleful effects of global warming.
