Sentence examples for a source of menace from inspiring English sources

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It's nothing but smelly love potions and fiendish devil worship, a source of menace in B movies, an anthropological curiosity.

Turning a notoriously docile, none-too-intelligent species into a source of menace is an impressive, if improbable, feat of filmmaking.

Like psychoanalysis, it presented the inner life as a force of nature, a source of menace and wonder, by turns malignant and benign.

Television has often been a source of menace in horror movies, but if nothing else, "13B" — despite its near-total absence of subtlety, bloated running time and, yes, even the inclusion of a couple of out-of-place musical sequences — does manage to change to a relatively new channel.

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9.22pm BST 79 min: I said Lennon should make a change but I'm surprised at the one he has plumped for: Commons has been the most artful player on the pitch and a constant source of menace, but off he comes, repalced by Boerrigter.

Yet on a sun-bathed Saturday, the street where Agnes was shot was not without charm; a couple of enthusiastic street drinkers were a source of nuisance, not menace.

Above all, they must avoid the police, who are a constant, mostly unseen menace — a minor inconvenience, a source of absurd frustration and also, sometimes, a serious, even mortal threat.

Coconuts, a source of food, fiber and charcoal, become a menace during powerful typhoons.

In Goblin Market, faerie represents both a menacing force and a source of discovery of sexuality and inner strength; and the same is true in the title story, The Ladies of Grace Adieu, in which proper, well-bred Victorian women turn magic to sinister ends one night...and in the process, discover a side of themselves that savors the power that they must relinquish by day.

Its presence, plus its barbarity, constitute a sour suggestion: if mutants did exist, could they wind up, all too soon, neither as our saviors nor as a menace to mankind but simply as a source of entertainment?

A Source of Enduring Confusion.

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