Sentence examples for feeling of menace from inspiring English sources

The rules of the establishment forbid intercourse, but this hardly lessens the feeling of menace and potential violation.

There is a subtle feeling of menace on the screen all the time in Hitchcock's low-slung, angled use of the camera.

What is familiar, however, is the feeling of menace that the sea often inspires, the sense that weird and possibly dangerous things lurk beneath the surface.

Meanwhile, a feeling of menace hovers over the capital, even though there has been a lull in the fierce battles between the rebel group, known as the Tamil Tigers, and the government in recent months.

Critics who had begun to think that Moore, the revolutionary sculptor, had been tamed, were proven wrong by the appearance in 1950 of the first of Moore's series of bronze standing figures, with their harsh and angular pierced forms and distinct feeling of menace.

He stands, like a wooden Indian, all but motionless, in front of a fast-food store, arm rigid and palm extended, until someone, out of guilt or compassion or perhaps a feeling of menace, presses a coin or a bill into it.

Egan says that she was "eager to revisit" the story because of the way it conveys "a feeling of intense menace, but mixed with a lot of other complicated humanity, specifically parenthood, and, I think, too, the feeling of redemption that somehow Mary Gaitskill managed to wrest from this very dark and threatening situation".

One which at the same time presents a challenge, upon completing reveals an almost unknown feeling of a menacing satisfaction.

There was no sympathy in the narration, and a feeling of indifference, even menace, hung over this dark moment of remembrance.

"I just got hooked on the feeling down there, the sense of menace in the jungle," he says.

But there is also a feeling of the implicit current of menace, for which Pinter became a byword, assuming more literal forms.