Sentence examples for actual menace from inspiring English sources

For a moment, he had a sense of actual menace".

If the nuisance constitutes an actual menace to health the Commissioner may abate it forthwith.

Yet those very few are an actual menace to French society.

Calculated menace is everywhere; real menace, nowhere.

If they did, they would soon stop trusting the police, and would not take their word for it that a young man whose criminal record consisted of handling stolen goods (£250 fine), possession of cannabis (£30 fine) and driving while disqualified was in actual fact a violent menace to society.

The drama of "Win It All" takes place at the edge of violence; violence looms over the action from start to finish, embodied by the actual presence and virtual menace of Michael, a tough customer who seems to have been among Eddie's more insistent creditors.

A realistic painting merely looks convincing: Caravaggio's art effortlessly mimics appearances but hits us somewhere deeper, making the dramas he creates feel like actual events that fascinate or menace the onlooker as actual living people do.

Sutherland juxtaposes varieties of obviously poetic diction — declamatory, violent, meek, sarcastic — with actual voices of worldly authority, voices that feel menacing in their general tone of understatement.

It's as if they're responding to the sense of menace they felt while young, not the actual conditions of today.

Quite menacing, actually.

In reality, the trace amounts are so small, and the substance so distant from the actual drug, that this whole thing is more myth than menace.