Sentence examples for a sinister background. from inspiring English sources

Nixon, who figures in this novel as a sinister background of fathomless conspiracy, was a touching character in Canin's short story "Vins Fins," which appeared in this magazine and presented political drama as it usually is, surreally fighting for our attention in a stew of personal and domestic happenstance.

One of its many fascinating elements was a menacing score from Upstream Color director Shane Carruth, who gives the show a sinister background hum, pushing us to queasily wonder just when the drama will give way to full-on psychological horror.

There we see a black, ominous, sinister background and a pipeline broken, pouring oil into the desert sands.

In each room, screens relay evocative archive footage against a sinister atmospheric background score by Damon Albarn, so that you feel you are a character in some weird movie.

The answer may be simple strong story, enthusiastic word of mouth, and an ingeniously plotted website designed to lure the curious with ever more sinister background to the apocryphal Blair Witch legend.

It also forced me to walk in slow motion and added some very sinister background music to the courtroom.

The presumption of innocence was compromised even before the trial, when the authorities videotaped the journalists' arrest and replayed it on TV against sinister background music from the soundtrack of "Thor: The Dark World".

As usual there is a sinister company in the background pushing its invasive technology, in this case the sweetly named Honeycomb Solutions.

He's rocking a sinister smile as a background track fades.

He's rocking a sinister smile as the background track fades.

"There," I gasped, pointing to a sinister, three-pointed symbol on a yellow background.