Sentence examples for evil poised from inspiring English sources

The characteristic voice of Vietnam literature became the matter-of-fact statement of hallucinatory evil, poised between humor and horror.

The evil lift poised over the shark tank a distant second.

Evil, evil, evil.

What if we are both wrong about Scientology and there really is an evil galactic overlord poised to enslave us all?

That will put the film in a tight race for the top spot against "Evil Dead," which is poised to start off with a solid sum of between $20 million and $25 million.

Admittedly, it can be misused and even be poised to do evil, but it can also be used to love God and others.

But there is a tiny subset of unresolved and evil endings that leave their protagonists poised, helpless, on the brink of cataclysm, with the reader forever conscious, forever appalled and forever powerless to intervene.

Mr. Campbell and Mr. Raimi, the "Evil Dead" director — now better known for the "Spider-Man" films, in all of which Mr. Campbell has a bit part — attended high school together in suburban Detroit, and after "The Evil Dead" got both of them noticed, Mr. Campbell, with his masculine looks and comedic inclinations, seemed poised for a traditional Hollywood action-hero career.

As the play ends, Quentin appears poised to marry Holga, whose struggle against Nazism in Germany embodies his own desire to confront evil.

It seemed poised to usher audiences into an era of imaginative adventure filmmaking beyond the mindless nihilism of "Transformers" or "Resident Evil".

But poised for what?