Sentence examples for but sinister from inspiring English sources
But sinister soon gives way to pathetic.
It's a witty but sinister play, stocked like a nightmare bodega with adult themes.
The Turkish authorities are drawn in, including an impeccable but sinister agent of Emniyet, the Turkish secret police.
Instead, they're mischievous but sinister, wreaking havoc on the adult world.
The X Files is the creaking door we pass through to leave behind a rationalism that no longer appears enlightened but sinister.
Snakes Elbowss by Deirdre Madden Orchard Books £9.99, pp224 Snakes Elbowss is Irish novelist Deirdre Madden's first book for children, set in the ordinary-but-sinister town of Woodford.
With my father's mentoring, I understood that the world wasn't cuddly and charming, but dark and sinister.
Scholem, a religious but unorthodox Jew, defended tradition in terms that sound not merely unfashionable but even sinister, especially to post-September 11th ears.
His decision was rash and blindly idealistic, but not sinister or traitorous.
