How To Use Menacing In A Sentence
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Sarah made a menacing gesture with her fist.
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It was surreal and very funny - all I needed was a white cat to stroke menacingly and I was set.
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Mighty and menacing, they have clearly come from a different dimension of geography to terrify the punier among us.
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Actor Patrick Bergin returns to more familiar territory to play a menacing killer.
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It was human in base construction, a platform for large, menacing pectorals and biceps.
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The other, a 28-year-old man, suffered minor injuries and ID'd the suspects, who were busted that day and charged with assault, menacing and weapons possession.
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Overhead, a drone whirred menacingly, and a helicopter gunship cruised the coast.
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be lead to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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The rottweiler has earned a fearsome reputation as extremely loyal and as a menacing guard dog.
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Ozone is especially menacing when it reacts with molecules involved in the functions of living organisms.
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The novel's title is apt - so to speak - since "Salute the Dark" is brutal with the characters who are treated mercilessly as befits persons caught in total war, while the atmosphere is tensioned and menacing almost end to end, keeping me to the edge until the final denouements.
"Salute the Dark" by Adrian Tchaikovsky with bonus first peek at its US cover by artist Jon Sullivan (Reviewed by Liviu Suciu)
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With this new danger menacing him, the young cragsman lay flat down on the rock, and remained motionless, while he offered up an earnest prayer to Heaven that the bird might not discover him.
Harper's Young People, November 11, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly
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At the blatting of my morning alarm, the signal shifted again to bring me the smarmy voice of Rick Santorum, a menacing rumble from the streets of Greece, and a bitter harpy of a chant that said I now have more past than future.
Yakkety-Yak
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An urgent and then melancholy opening was unsettled by dark bass trills and a menacing fugal theme, only to be undone by the second movement's disarming simplicity.
Pianist Till Fellner ends Beethoven sonata cycle with restrained refinement
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Polakow-Suransky pierced the consciousness of Gotham's education community late last year, in the wake of Cathie Black's appointment, assuming the role of deputy chancellor for performance and accountability to buttress his boss' subpar C.V. Dubbed "a data mining administrator" by The New York Times, he was introduced to the locals with the menacing headline, "New Schools No. 2 Wants More and Better Testing.
Susan Ochshorn: Teaching, Learning and Assessment: Getting It Right
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(threatening) and menacing of the said persons, is decerned in twenty merks money; and likewise shall come to the Cross by ten hours on
The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, December 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad
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Respected magazines all over Europe have used on their cover pages menacing images of fiery dragons spewing banknotes or contemporary Maos with imperialistic designs on the continent.
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Burlesque served as a way to counterpoise what these veterans felt was a menacing trend perpetuated by elites - the threat of black equality and a perversion of the war's memory.
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They completed depictions of a mangy but loveable dog, a fire-breathing dragon, a proud lion and a menacing silverback gorilla defending his territory.
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Carter throws me a menacing look, but is unable to follow up with a threatening comment, because the bell has just rung.
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So Mandy and Carole are the last Prætorian guards defending Number 10 against Gordon's advancing legions and the Children of the Night, ululating menacingly at the heels of Howard Dracul.
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The face of the car is friendly but also slightly menacing.
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In the inset picture he is menacingly pointing it towards the camera and staring down both barrels.
The Sun
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In the gleaming darkness, the big metallic rod threw a menacing shadow across our window.
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His voice was quiet and almost menacing.
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But the atmosphere is altogether different and less menacing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Menacing warlords intimidate, the Taliban strikes and the foreigners remain unwilling to risk the necessary relationships they need to develop with Afghans.
Patricia DeGennaro: Mr. President, Take a Firm Lead in Afghanistan
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It's not dangerous, yet togged up in that gear your average enthusiast looks damned menacing.
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He and pilot Russell Phillips managed to survive 47 days on a rubber raft with no provisions amidst menacing swarms of sharks.
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Never on a lead, it waddles beside him as macho, musclebound and menacing as its scrawny owner aspires to be.
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They can be quite menacing and are totally unnecessary.
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The strong dark eyebrows give his face an oddly menacing look.
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Expression is not expelled with menacing pitchfork alla Stravinsky nor repressed like Ravel.
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But there is something unsettling about the menacing threats which have accompanied the protests, a taste of which was unveiled in the unsavoury scenes outside Parliament.
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There was something, too, of the frost-work's evanescent spiritual quality in the scene -- as though at any moment, with a puff of the balmy summer wind, the radiant glade, the hovering figure, the filagreed silver of the entire setting would melt into the accustomed stern and menacing forest of the northland, with its wolves, and its wild deer, and the voices of its sterner calling.
The Blazed Trail
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A white drawing on black paper depicts from various angles a school of the menacing fairy-tale creatures, variously ornamented with stripes, scallops and spikes.
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I finished down an arched spine of a ridge, village in view, and sloe tree scrub and birch, menacing fly agaric funghi, and a flashing flock of goldcrests.
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You must be careful with the drive to avoid two menacing bunkers to the right.
Times, Sunday Times
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Until he was sent off Torres was the brightest player, offering a display that was peppered with menacing movementand muscular surges, with the chested control of Mata's lob after 29 minutes only bettered by the pirouette and finish beyond Michel Vorm.
Chelsea put skids under Swansea – with Lampard then Torres looking on
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The "flics" look as menacing as ever, complete with body armour, truncheons and pistols, even though they are mostly dealing with shambolically intoxicated youths rather than would-be revolutionaries.
France's young binge drinkers upset cafe society with their 'British boozing'
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From 1816, General Aleksey Yermolov set out to subjugate the mountain peoples, building forts south of the Terek and founding the fortress city of Grozny “Menacing”.
The Return
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Dayra stood, menacing as always, and stared down at the crumpled mass lying on a pile of decaying straw in front of her, chained to the wall.
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An elderly man ran at him with a cry of fury and a large earthen pot raised over his head menacingly.
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Soft-toned trumpets and horns enter, menacing minor-key interchanges leading to high flute and muted trombones at the close.
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Then the little beggar, electric with fear to every hair tip, crouches and snarls menacingly and almost at the same time whimpers appeasingly at the storm-monster outside.
CHAPTER XXVII
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Dramatic glints of light and billowing shadows set a menacing tone.
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By the time he looked back, Costa had turned the moment into something truly menacing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their weapons looked menacing even holstered and their spiked helmets with the single eye-sensor oscillating back and forth made him somewhat uncomfortable.
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Yes, this is another horrific tale of roommates gone wrong, with the mousy-voiced Meester (TV's "Gossip Girl") menacing the mousier-voiced Minka (TV's "Friday Night Lights" and "Parenthood").
The Seattle Times
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I peer over one shoulder to see a bank of dark cloud menacingly close, and I can feel the temperature beginning to drop.
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Nine year old Sooz, who sets out to find a hero to slay the griffin menacing her village, is the bestest, brightest, cutest, pluckiest little girl in the whole wide world.
The 2006 Nebula Award: The Novelette Shortlist
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For a while, they indulge themselves in the now-desolate consumer's paradise, but a menacing crew of bikers is about to turn their hiding place into the venue for a bloody confrontation with the undead.
John Farr: Going Bump in the Night: More Prime Halloween Movie Fare
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Way at the front end of the house red light came pouring through the tunnel and showed the lake burnished and menacing.
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Actor Patrick Bergin returns to more familiar territory to play a menacing killer.
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A lean man, smartly dressed, wearing shades, hovers menacingly.
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Some of them avoided republican activism like the plague when there was a risk to personal safety or freedom, but with the Good Friday Agreement found it easy to puff the chest out and ask menacingly ‘do you know who I am?’
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There is something less intense, less menacing, he certainly looks a lot less brooding.
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He is kicking around somewhere, menacingly sawing wood with what sounds like a chainsaw.
Times, Sunday Times
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That helped to nullify Stoke's main threat and, although Jon Walters had an early chance that he dragged wide and Peter Crouch acrobatically volleyed over later in the first half, the home side created little else against a Valencia team that looked menacing whenever they broke forward.
Stoke City 0-1 Valencia | Europa League last-32 1st leg match report
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He was always keyed up, alert for attack, wary of being attacked, with an eye for sudden and unexpected missiles, prepared to act precipitately and coolly, to leap in with a flash of teeth, or to leap away with a menacing snarl.
The Outcast
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All three dogs growled menacingly at the figure.
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Her lyrics are rich with this unresolved duality, as is her music: cabaret-style waltzes come across as both coquettish and menacing, and her slower songs can be both cavernous and hopeful.
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It's hard to imagine that something so enchanting could be in any way menacing.
Times, Sunday Times
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He drew his mouth back into a sneer, revealing his menacing canine eye teeth.
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It was the menacing warning that Liverpool may just have a rare touch of magical invention up their sleeve.
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Allied to the professional and vocational dreams are fatidic nightmares and menacing riddles.
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Seeing her skills in the movie push I think that she cld accomplish the menacing and sidistic ways of jane.
“Twilight: New Moon” Volturi Pictures Revealed
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Undaunted, you touch an archstone that transports you to a bridge leading to a lonely castle, watched over by vast, menacing dragons and patrolled by a host of moaning, undead gits.
Pocket-lint
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Yellow eyes glowing vengefully, his expression was hooded, dark and menacing.
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One paying guest said: 'The atmosphere is menacing.
The Sun
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I tried to sleep on the hour-long ride, but the harsh, strident sound became louder and the long menacing finger pointed angrily.
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It's hard to have a really menacing antagonist when the antagonist isn't ever really sure what it is he's trying to accomplish.
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They were both wielding large, curved scimitars; they swung them about menacingly, circling them.
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He went from frozen stillness to liquid and menacing movement in the blink of an eye.
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Today the city is illuminated softly from behind grey clouds wafted inland from the Irish Sea and massing menacingly to the north.
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giantism" - since any further and large assumption of added power would bring about one entity of even more menacing size than now ...
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog
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The fact that the leader of the free world used to be a doddering old guy completely out of touch with reality seems more cute than menacing these days.
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He remembered the menacing phone-calls to Nicola and wondered aloud whether some one from a drugs syndicate had been trying to scare her.
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The security guards stared at that crazy fan menacingly.
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Soft-toned trumpets and horns enter, menacing minor-key interchanges leading to high flute and muted trombones at the close.
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You can tell that someone thought this off-putting tale of modern mob mentality and teen occult fascination would make a very menacing, demographically secure chiller.
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On stage, her menacing voice competes with pounding drums and distorted guitars.
Times, Sunday Times
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Doctors Tourniquet and Lancelot retired in disgust, menacing something like a general pestilence, in vengeance of what they termed rebellion against the neglect of the aphorisms of Hippocrates.
The Surgeon's Daughter
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The album begins promisingly enough - a menacing minor chord segues into a fuzzy, goofy faux-dance beat.
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An advance guard of puffy little cumulus clouds gradually billow up into grey and menacing cumulus mediocris.
Times, Sunday Times
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The fearsome figure - astride a buffalo with menacing horns - is Lord Yamadharma, the ultimate arbiter of your life here and hereafter.
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On either side of him the grotesque, clownish faces; set in the brilliant mosaic walls assumed a more menacing, protective aspect.
THE SOUND OF MURDER
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His crouch was a gathering together, an assembling of all the parts of him under the rule of the spirit of him, for the spring upward to meet in mid career this monstrous, menacing thing.
Jerry of the Islands
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Vega, meanwhile, sounds as menacing as before.
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A menacingly black sky loomed upon the horizon - the weatherman had forecast a storm.
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"It is time to end this charade, " she said menacingly.
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The rottweiler has earned a fearsome reputation as extremely loyal and as a menacing guard dog.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cavayé’s breakneck thriller takes the viewer on an adrenaline-fueled ride through the streets of Paris, and stars newly-minted French star Gilles Lellouche as our Everyman Samuel; the charismatic Roschdy Zem as the menacing criminal Sartet; and the magnetic Elena Anaya as the mother-to-be Nadia.
Kristin McCracken: Point Blank: What Would You Do?
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It seems I am now safely in my home, far from the menacing arms of the vicious beast which drove me from the wild!
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the voice at the other end of the line dropped menacingly
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Their eyes, all four of them, rolled and showed white as the harnesses were strapped to them, mindful of the spikes that traveled down their spines, sharp and menacing.
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Other names on the roster include the "menacing" point guard tandem of Mario Chalmers and Rafer "Skip to my Lou" Alston, James Jones, as well point guard as the Miami favorite, Udonis Haslem.
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One afternoon I was sorting out the petty cash when I heard the unmistakeable sound of her intimidating gait as she walked menacingly towards my desk.
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While out on a fishing trip near Plains, Ga., former President Jimmy Carter was approached by what was described as a menacing swamp rabbit.
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They can be quite menacing and are totally unnecessary.
Times, Sunday Times
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Our flotsam was a trick of the fading light on the sea, just where Broken Rocks raised the swell a little; but in the exquisite, the almost menacing, calm of the evening, we leaned on our oars and watched for a while.
A Poor Man's House
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I had hoped to see plenty of pelagics here and sure enough, below us and at the periphery of our vision, a small school of jacks was being circled menacingly by several grey reef sharks.
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The track is immediately set apart by the awkward opening sounds of seagulls and a garbage truck in reverse gear, before it launches into a menacing guitar riff.
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He also claims to diffuse any rising panic with what seems a painful rigmarole - setting an alarm to go off hourly three hours before he is due to rise, to try to confront his nerves head - on before they grow to menacing size.
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Actor Patrick Bergin returns to more familiar territory to play a menacing killer.
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It was as if they had landed on an alien planet, his fear that of awakening the denizens, giant and menacing.
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The youngest children were always afraid of him, for he looked so odd and menacing with his one eye, crooked back, hooked nose and black cloak.
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A menacing person
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He wagged his index finger, beckoning in a vaguely menacing way.
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Sarah made a menacing gesture with her fist.
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In the claim that “the security of the American people is inextricably linked to the security of all people,” they hear echoes of the universalist logic that led to the disaster in Vietnam and see a sweeping foreign policy that the rest of the world finds at best meddlesome and at worst menacingly imperialist.
Globaloney
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Reading itself, which "loomed for a Shillington child as an immense, remote, menacing, and glamorous metropolis," is a remarkably recognizable Brewer, with its depiction over the Rabbit series offering a nearly perfect rendering of the actual city's respectable past, attempts at renewal and hardscrabble present.
Keystone to Updike's Imagination
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Show us a gun, and we picture a muscular ne'er-do-well in a balaclava menacing an elderly sub-postmistress.
BBC News - Home
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In Nanxuzhou Pearl came close to taking the conventional missionary view that pictured Chinese people not as individuals but as a menacing, faceless horde, morally obnoxious and numerically overwhelming: “hard-featured, envious, curious, unsympathetic and ungracious,” as the head of U.S. Presbyterian Missions put it on a tour of the Yangtse basin, “they flock to a foreigner and close him in, like ants to a piece of bread.”
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA
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He is kicking around somewhere, menacingly sawing wood with what sounds like a chainsaw.
Times, Sunday Times
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“Music” follows an archetypal private eye through Oakland and San Francisco as he delves into the murder of a prominent urologist in a futuristic world that includes supersmart children, erotic nerve-swapping and a menacing kangaroo that works for the mob.
Adriana Barraza Joins THOR; Javier Rodriguez to Pen GUN WITH OCCASIONAL MUSIC – Collider.com
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In apparent compensation, De la Cruz in particular was determined to shoot on sight, one 25-metre missile bobbling menacingly in front of the home goal before dropping just wide.
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Wild, 55, pleaded to third-degree menacing, a misdemeanor in exchange for a conditional discharge.
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But the burger chain must not try to cash in by making him'something more menacing '.
The Sun
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And yet we have no knowledge of how war this time around might look; only that the soft preamble is somehow more menacing than sabre-rattling.
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Some saw the irrational spectre of money illusion lurking menacingly in the wings.
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Alongside these menacing words is a call for self-sacrifice, in order that democracy should prevail.
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Neill turns on the boy, and in low, menacing tones, he demonstrates to the child how a prehistoric nasty would mangle and devour him.
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A comparable effect can be found in the Brothers Quay's latest, In Absentia, where light plays menacingly over a doll-house-size madhouse.
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The knife he slid towards her and into the butter had a menacingly long shadow blade.
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Waiting for him were a menacing group of government officials and a policeman.
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Mr. Nishimura will be joined by actress Eihi Shiina, who plays an evil zombie queen in the movie but is best-known as the seductive, menacing Asami in Takashi Miike's cult classic "Audition.
Asia Fantasias and Other Tales
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Outside, the sky was muddled with the darkest blues and somber blacks, though it did not look menacing.
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A authoritative, though not particularly menacing voice was heard, speaking through a megaphone.
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He's got the menacing physique and the even more bone-chilling voice required to scare any bail-skippers and debt-ridden lowlifes right out of hiding and directly into a prison cell.
Once Alec Baldwin Quits Acting, What Jobs Should He Pursue? » MTV Movies Blog
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The symphony is played tautly; the introduction is broad and menacing, but the first movement proper (no exposition repeat) is done with grim fire.
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‘There is an expectation that somebody, somewhere has got some dirt on him,’ said one senior MP menacingly.
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There is little that can credibly be called queenly about these creatures, least of all when they display their menacing teeth.
A Formula So Old It's New Again
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Lagos bigwigs have long paid on-duty local cops to speed them through jams by riding shotgun with machine guns and menacing other drivers with bullwhips.
Traffic Drives Nigerians Nuts, but a Trip to a Shrink May Go Too Far
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There are the menacing lorries and tipper trailers that are parked on the roads, and there is daylong hammering and tinkering and revving of engines for repairs.
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It's hard to imagine that something so enchanting could be in any way menacing.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Livingston attacks were now far more menacing and they drew level two minutes later.
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However, because he's played by the typically affable Rogen, the cuddly-physiqued stoner star of "Knocked Up," he's also -- initially, at least -- presented as somewhat lovable, even with an institutional Curly Howard crewcut that gives him the appearance of a menacing baby and a brow as knitted with confusion as Lon Chaney Jr. 's in the throes of lycanthropy.
California Chronicle
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He wore a bowler hat, white shirt, trousers and braces like the main character and would become aggressive and menacing when he played the film music.
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I much prefer it when he strides purposefully through the office with a menacing glare.
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Circuits in computers and other control instrumentation can likewise act as unintended receivers, menacing the operation of whole manufacturing plants.
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I stood on the front porch watching horizontal sheets of rain sweep up the driveway as the clouds boiled menacingly overhead.
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Also: menacing scarecrows, constructed from pumpkin heads and cornstalk bodies, and a mobile of flying bats hanging under the White House portico.
Halloween at the White House: Some healthy eats with the tricks and treats (photos)
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It was doing, instead, something far more menacing.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Church of Scientology has appealed for religious tolerance after its $12 million bid to redevelop its Sydney headquarters sparked fears from neighbours of an increase in “menacing” and “aggressive” recruitment tactics.
Australia: Scientologists hit out at criticis
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By the time he looked back, Costa had turned the moment into something truly menacing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Gone is the twinkling, airy melody of the original, replaced by a menacing, sparse, grungey arrangement.
The Sun
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I felt I had finally penetrated William's menacing mask and gained some understanding of the workings of his mind.
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While he's speaking, an RCMP officer in a black suit checks my press credentials menacingly.
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The struggle here -- and elsewhere in Pinter's plays, or in THE PRISONER -- is in the undercurrents of dominance and submission of antipathic combat, in a gibberish that is unmistakeable as menacing, hectoring, shouting, frothing, spitting, pausing ... anger and disgust.
Archive 2008-09-01
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We were carded and banded by a couple of menacing, ghetto looking bouncers.
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I smiled menacingly and she quickly averted her terror-stricken gaze.
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You can just imagine the menacing yet horror-stricken look on my face when I found my wedding gown in pieces at my second dress fitting.
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The sky is definitely looking menacing with its gray overcast.
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Their gesticulation is menacing, both to the Court and the bystanders, and an equal portion of all they say, is distributed to every part of the hall.
Is That Legal?: February 2007 Archives
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He had his sword in his hand, though he was unsure why until a hooded figure stepped out of the shadows and laughed menacingly at him.
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At Morrinhos armed citizens in a menacing attitude were dispersed by the police ... in other localities other riots or attempts (_sic_) at disorder were immediately repressed, and we can now say that the State enjoys perfect peace, save the municipality of Douro, which is threatened by bandits from Bahia.
Across Unknown South America
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The puppet is quick-witted and charming but also consistently menacing — which reminds us, of course, of Gibson the very bad boyfriend and tabloid star.
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His entire body swivels around and he advances menacingly like a stray dog snarling over a piece of meat.
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He does not interpret the role as a menacing villain, but as a confident, tireless, self-satisfied trickster.
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He should have been less scared because they didn't look menacing.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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There's no loony-haired maniac gurning in a murky tunnel this time around; no prowling cat's eyed gargantuan ripping out raps menacingly.
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On stage, her menacing voice competes with pounding drums and distorted guitars.
Times, Sunday Times
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In a pre-emptive strike against the menacing spectre of boredom, I had decided I would write a letter to someone conducting themselves meritoriously.
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A group of men suddenly emerged from a doorway and moved menacingly forward to block her way.
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The uneven pavement was constructed of badly cracked flagstones and potholed by menacing holes where black water festered from past rain showers.
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There will be the usual posters of film stars and starlets looking alternatively menacing and pouting.
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A big cat leaps through a flaming hoop, but not without snarling menacingly.
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As the reader perceives, slang in its entirety, slang of four hundred years ago, like the slang of today, is permeated with that sombre, symbolical spirit which gives to all words a mien which is now mournful, now menacing.
Les Miserables
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But as they go on mindlessly, menacing, mumbling the propaganda prayer: "remember 9/11 -- murder every moslem residing in THEIR land atop OUR oil" -- we begin to see that lie is all they're living for, self-consumed inside the myth of false reality, and we can only feel the saddest lonely sorry for them in neurotic hell, in heads and lives a hollow shell of empty television, nine-eleven nightmares, and their Bush betraying them.
Straight from the top (Jack Bog's Blog)
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But there is something unsettling about the menacing threats which have accompanied the protests, a taste of which was unveiled in the unsavoury scenes outside Parliament.
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Doctors Tourniquet and Lancelot retired in disgust, menacing something like a general pestilence, in vengeance of what they termed rebellion against the neglect of the aphorisms of
The Surgeon's Daughter
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Howell has switched the knight over to a menacing square, but Short's counterplay through the middle was strong enough and the game finally ended in a [email protected]
Chess: Working the variations
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What could easily be a menacing portrait of a stalker becomes something altogether more insouciant.
Times, Sunday Times
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Far to the north, a much more menacing species looms – the Portuguese Man-of-War, a floating, violet-coloured sack with long tentacles.
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I would suggest, however, that today's communist pinups are attractive women who display a menacing demeanor similar to their ancestors.
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I frowned, glancing from his face to the sawed-off shotgun gleaming menacingly in his hands.
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The mariners spent the night in such shelter as they could find from the 30-knot winds, drenching squalls and menacing waves.
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Alex reached in and extracted what looked like a crocodile head that was gnashing its teeth together menacingly.
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Menacing clouds of reverberating discord give way to toy piano chimes synchronized with chirping melodica, booming bass drum, and mournfully wheezing harmonium, all oddly juxtaposed with Steinke's warm guitar melodies.
Bill Bush: Distinct of a Decade and Definitive of an Era: This Artweek.LA (June 27-July 3)
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He is kicking around somewhere, menacingly sawing wood with what sounds like a chainsaw.
Times, Sunday Times
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As though in answer, and from an entirely different direction, there was a fanfarade of trumpets, menacing, warlike.
Dwellers in the Mirage
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We were lucky enough to see a cheetah striding menacingly towards its lunch in the distance.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the lake was more menacing; water was a barrier to most magic, a thing not easily controlled or understood, a void that could swallow even a great wizard in a single, unremorseful gulp.
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However, because he's played by the typically affable Rogen, the cuddly-physiqued stoner star of "Knocked Up," he's also - initially, at least - presented as somewhat lovable, even with an institutional Curly Howard crewcut that gives him the appearance of a menacing baby and a brow as knitted with confusion as Lon Chaney Jr. 's in the throes of lycanthropy.
California Chronicle
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His face was heavy and jowly, but at the same time menacing.
“Wyrd” Progress Update XI « The BookBanter Blog
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Rather quickly though, the desperate looking teen recovers and then decides to glare menacingly at me as if registering my presence in the room at last.
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You must be careful with the drive to avoid two menacing bunkers to the right.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nature is menacingly intruding on civilisation.
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The book features a series of foldout maps depicting the distribution of “color” throughout the world and warns, “Colored migration is a universal peril, menacing every part of the white world.”
The End of White America?
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The other, a 28-year-old man, suffered minor injuries and ID'd the suspects, who were busted that day and charged with assault, menacing and weapons possession.
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Another page shows a menacing masked figure brandishing a huge knife.
The Sun
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The fearsome figure - astride a buffalo with menacing horns - is Lord Yamadharma, the ultimate arbiter of your life here and hereafter.
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These aliens were roughy 500% LESS-MENACING than the Daleks, or the Cybermen, or even that massive demon that Jack had to die fighting at the end of Torchwood series 1.
REVIEW: Torchwood: Children of Earth
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A camisado, or shirt-tumult, every where: stormbell set a-ringing; village-drum beating furious generale, as here at Clermont, under illumination; distracted Patriots pleading and menacing!
The French Revolution
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It was as if they had landed on an alien planet, his fear that of awakening the denizens, giant and menacing.
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He went from frozen stillness to liquid and menacing movement in the blink of an eye.
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his tone became menacing
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Her icy gaze and menacing snarl turn on a dime to sparkling warmth and dazzling smile.
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The opening track's menacing buzz may suggest some broad departure, but the warm, familiar fuzzes fasten the fate of the rest of the album as comfortably as Velcro.
