I can still remember first hearing her voice – half menacing leer, half sugared trick – and knowing I was slipping down a wormhole, taken by the hand and led somewhere dark by some terrible siren.
There are highlights, among them the Foo Fighters' energising effect on a flagging audience, the noise the same audience makes when James Blunt appears - half cheer, half menacing low growl - and Madonna's unexpected duet with Eugene Hutz of thrillingly dissolute gypsy punks Gogol Bordello.
In attempts to legitimate dubious and often cruel policies, successive governments, national and state, utilised the spectre of the "half-caste menace" to support the violence underpinning assimilation.
Harri's surroundings bristle with half-understood menace, most obviously from the alcoholics, dealers, petty criminals and teenage members of the Dell Farm Crew gang who shadow the estate.
It is an immensely complicated, dangerous problem that menaces half a dozen other states in the region.
As played by Raúl Esparza in the current Broadway revival of the play, Lenny is too cute by half, and less menacing altogether.
Playing as a staid old nine rather than anything edgier in the opening half, Müller repeatedly menaced the last defender in the classic style, calling for the ball over the top, linking the play and generally galloping around like a skinny-legged Alan Shearer.
Needing a goal, they failed to test Yeboah in the rest of the half, despite Gilberto's menacing free-kick almost unlocking the door.
Javier Bardem, his menace half-masked by a comical haircut, plays a calm, unstoppable psychopath on the trail of a stolen two million dollars.
In the late afternoon, the battalion, consisting of a giant armored vehicle mounted with a cannon, menacing half-tracks, and machine-gun-equipped jeeps, left Ben Shemen and stormed Lydda.
Tse Rangji fitfully tries shoveling away the waves of sand that menace her home, half engulfing it like some artifact of a lost civilization.
