Sentence examples for baleful activity from inspiring English sources

This panoramic first novel about the stormy postcolonial history of Uganda covers 30 years of baleful activity as experienced by three generations of a single family.

Phil., XXIV, II 8 and XLIII passim), who attributes the centaurs' proverbial wisdom to their alimentary regimen, which consists of one continuous meal from dawn to dusk: this deters them from other vain or baleful activities, such as gossip or the pursuit of riches, and contributes to their usual self-restraint.

For Castile, it is perhaps best to see the problem of decline as the arbitristas saw it: in the depreciation by Castilians of economic activity, an attitude that was rooted deeply in Castile's past history but that was particularly baleful in a period of general European economic depression, such as the 17th century.

Watch this baleful space.

Her baleful stare silences me.

He now thinks this influence was baleful.

The violence is breathtakingly baleful.

A baleful catalogue of police errors followed.

Mao's baleful influence reappears in 1956.

It has no such baleful power.

The editorial tone has been almost baleful.