Sentence examples for fear of sinister from inspiring English sources

There is much divergence of opinion as to the time of the name-giving ceremony; in addition to the personal name, there is often another one that should be kept secret for fear of sinister designs against the child.

Discovery of a major genetic underpinning for autism will help further allay parents' fears of a sinister environmental cause, such as the link that was proposed by Andrew Wakefield in a paper in the Lancet in 1998.

What we're saying here is that there's the potential to identify children at greater risk and to institute earlier intervention". Discovery of a major genetic underpinning for autism will help further allay parents' fears of a sinister environmental cause, such as the link that was proposed by Andrew Wakefield in a paper in the Lancet in 1998.

For public officials to capitalise on this fear of infirmity is both sinister and cruel.

I don't know whether this amnesia is due to embarrassment or fear of reparations or, indeed, a sinister desire to keep the electorate ignorant and pliable.

Fear of ghosts, fear of witches, fear of the dark, the sinister and the mysteriously terrible — these stay with the adolescent.

This sounds sort of sinister, but it wasn't.

But charm also contains elements of sinister manipulation.

How I love the use of sinister verbs.

Blasts of sinister, churning music (by John Gromada) punctuate the proceedings.

Looks kind of sinister, actually.