Sentence examples for faintly ominous from inspiring English sources
The most malevolent thing Ian McKellen managed as lead villain Number Two was to eat a piece of cherry cake with a faintly ominous scowl.
But none possesses the mesmerizing, faintly ominous Lee mystique, which might be described as a refined hybrid: two parts Billie Holiday to one part Mae West.
The performances, especially Ms. Dyrholm's charismatic, faintly ominous Kate, are as impressive as the film's framework, which ultimately closes in around the characters with a chilling finality.
In the lithograph "Clown Alley" (1937), Mr. Riggs depicts clowns somewhat the way Walt Kuhn did, making them look faintly ominous, even imposing.
I might have taken one of the exits for Sausalito — with its glittering bay views and clusters of houses that conjured the Amalfi Coast — but I was struck by what I saw up ahead, looming dark against the sky: the silhouette of a mountain, both beautiful and faintly ominous.
Prominent among these visitors are members of "the saucer crowd": a group that seems like a wacky, faintly ominous blend of the Manson family, the Merry Pranksters and the Heaven's Gate cult (39 of whose members committed suicide in 1997 hoping to reach an alien spaceship they believed was trailing in the wake of the Hale-Bopp comet).
Prof. Richard Dawkins smiles faintly.
Barnes looks faintly harassed.
