Sentence examples for a sinister undertone from inspiring English sources

Finally, there is a sinister undertone to all this equivalence talk.

It was, though, the death in police custody of Sheku Bayoh following an incident in Kirkcaldy that has provided a sinister undertone to issues surrounding the culture and attitudes of our national police force.

Altman's professed impatience with "most people" takes on a sinister undertone in the context of his repeated references to the annihilation of human life or its replacement by "levelled up" humans.

But there is a sinister undertone to it all, reviving as it does a long-discredited pseudoscientific basis for racism: the notion that race, ethnicity, and ancestry are revealed in the genes and the blood, and passed down inexorably, even if invisibly, from generation to generation.

As the facts spray out, a smoothly revealed indictment evolves from the carefully, sometimes painfully, parsed words of a community's leadership when some locals find a sinister undertone in a Street Art mural he painted as an invited guest to a local public art festival.

Hay has also drawn procedural audio from the score, so that snippets of music get turned into weird sound effects as you approach important areas, adding a more sinister undertone.

With Edward Snowden's latest dramatic leak that the British GCHQ and the US's NSA are executing a plan – codenamed MTI, or Mastering the Internet – to collect a significant amount of the world's communications, that generous slogan, which applied as much to the web as the spirit of the Games, now has a rather sinister undertone.

This interaction should be entirely normal but there's a distinctly sinister undertone, even though I'm 99.9% sure that the thing inside the box is something I ordered last week, not something Amazon thinks I'll want to order next week.

Forrest Gump is given an interesting and sinister undertone once you read the theory that Gump Jr is not really his son, but a desperate ploy by love-interest, Jenny, to take advantage of his shrimp tycoon wealth – something hinted at after she first turns him down and he decides to go on that famous jog to clear his head.

Ridley Scott was more interested in evoking an unsettling and slightly sinister undertone to this scene, and suggested graphics that feel intrusive and voyeuristic.

The sinister undertone in this discussion is one of fear, and the same old nasty politics.