Sentence examples for baleful that from inspiring English sources

A mournful "not for long", by which he apparently meant that German population projections were so baleful that its future was uncertain.

They cry for a modern-day Hindu Aurangzeb, forgetting that it was the original's baleful policies that led to the extinction of Muslim rule in India.

Think of the baleful eruptions that terrify Shakespeare's Casca before Julius Caesar is killed: a lion loose in the streets of Rome, an owl shrieking at high noon.

Gambon brings a baleful spleneticism, that wounded beast quality in which he specialises, to the part of the husband who may have a terrible secret to unleash.

After heading a baleful procession that followed Mr. Rahman's coffin through the capital, Hamid Karzai, the government leader, turned a graveside eulogy into an appeal for a new culture of tolerance in Afghan politics.

Her tone has darkened a bit of late, particularly in the lower registers, which in turn has deepened her artistry at its finest: Mephistopheles's sinister recitatives in Schubert's Szene aus Faust had a baleful weight that was unexpected and almost shocking.

To stare directly at Donald Trump's financials with the naked eye is to see the face of God Himself, a baleful light that illuminates all that ever was and all that ever will be and that simultaneously scorches our corporal body to cinders even as it fills our soul with the ecstasy of the celestium.

None of them has been more baleful than the belief that artists must make no compromise with the public.

But for all the strung-out, street-addict look that Cramer affects, there is still something in his baleful glare that pleads "Trust me!" We all know what that means on Wall Street.

Although much was made of the fact that he gave the speech without teleprompter, the baleful influence of that device on modern rhetoric was still apparent.

(CP Snow's baleful lecture of that name was delivered exactly 50 years ago).