Sentence examples for ambient menace from inspiring English sources

Michôd creates ambient menace and Pearce has a simmering presence.

Michôd creates a good deal of ambient menace in The Rover; Pearce has a simmering presence.

His prime visual trope is the unforeseen eruption of violence that intrudes from offscreen, suggesting a boundless universe of ambient menace.

Mann's film reflects the political paranoia, the ambient menace of violence, the incommensurable divisions that wracked the republic on the eve of the Civil War — and Mann's direction audaciously reflects the inner state of fear and tension.

Ying's decision to avert the filming of violence in favor of a drama of legal maneuvering and personal grief fills the calm and contemplative frames with the ambient menace of ubiquitous power.

For that matter, the nuclear drama of "Kiss Me Deadly," from 1955, with its quest for the tiny "great whatsit," suggests not just the ambient menace of catastrophe but the oddness of its arising from infinitesimal causes.

For the past eighteen months, the twenty-seven-year-old Quinn has received a cavalcade of similar threats, which have created an ambient hum of menace in her life, albeit one that she has mostly been able to ignore.

His rage is quiet; its destructive menace is ambient.

These scenes continue for more than a minute, until the ambient noise is punctured by menacing screeches.

A lot of it is available at soundcloud.com/justsza, which draws a broad sample from the cool present: menacing trap beats, ambient echoes, blurry atmospheres, pleasure-pain dichotomies.

When the younger Woody Allen made death-obsessed films, there was something funny about his sense of ambient darkness at life's high noon; now, even his comedies, at their best, offer a deeply moving shiver of ultimate menace — which, perhaps, some critics still wish they could laugh at, as in the old days.