How To Use balefulness In A Sentence
- 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
- Under the paternal demeanor all anyone ever detected was a terrible waste balefulness. Pioneers of Alienation and 50s Sci-Fi at Thing Street Asylum
- 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.
- Edwards portrays Scrooge with zest and an appropriate balefulness that immediately casts a shadow on the opening scene.
- It is loathsome to think that balefulness of an unknown cause could create such a catastrophe.
- 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
- 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
- Here the technique of under-describing, withholding, comes startlingly to the fore, that other great technique for communicating balefulness. Mieville on Tolkein
- 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
- Matters were not helped by the presence of Alex, whose totally withdrawn silence and dark, bitter and brooding countenance could be all too easily misinterpreted as balefulness: the von Karajans were not to know that Alex regarded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
