The rules of the establishment forbid intercourse, but this hardly lessens the feeling of menace and potential violation.
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.
I think ad puppets are spooky in the same way that clowns are: they're ostensibly childlike and fun and innocent, but there's a subliminal feeling of menace, the sense of a rotten core underneath the sugar-sweet surface, which makes it twice as bad.
Elegantly paced, slickly executed, and properly thrilling – "A feeling of menace swept over her like a cloak," Lagercrantz writes of Salander at one point – the best compliment I can pay the author of The Girl in the Spider's Web is that I forgot his real identity, slipping straight back into Larsson's world of Millennium, computer geniuses and righteous retribution.
He said: "Do you notice a feeling of menace in the air tonight, Mr. Tilley, as though anything at all might happen?" Although thoroughly frightened, we tried to calm him by telling him that we felt no special electricity in the air, but after he had gone our anxiety mounted.
One which at the same time presents a challenge, upon completing reveals an almost unknown feeling of a menacing satisfaction.
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".
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