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Matters were not helped by the presence of Alex, whose totally withdrawn silence and dark, bitter and brooding countenance could be all too easily misinterpreted as balefulness: the von Karajans were not to know that Alex regarded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
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.
Continuous wars brought enormous balefulness to the people giving rise to wide opposition in the small states.