Sentence examples for baleful plot from inspiring English sources

VENGEANCE (Holt, $26), the fifth novel in Black's moody series set in Dublin during the repressive 1950s and featuring a devilishly attractive pathologist named Quirke, is filled with these vivid daubs, lending color to an otherwise baleful plot reflecting the author's persistent themes of family loyalty and class betrayal.

Her creations are baleful, tragicomic, with a bewildering array of targets, running to a frenetic plot which verges on insanity.

Watch this baleful space.

Her baleful stare silences me.

The violence is breathtakingly baleful.

He now thinks this influence was baleful.

A baleful catalogue of police errors followed.

It has no such baleful power.

The editorial tone has been almost baleful.

Wallow fixes me with a baleful stare.

Mao's baleful influence reappears in 1956.