Sometimes a woman comes to a place of apparent refuge — a house that seems to offer security and love — only to discover, once she is there, creeping menace or hidden evil.
Even without any clear release, it is in this sense of meditation between opposite forces in the same land that we are carried, turned and turned as if in winds that have blown somewhere not far off in our world, one where the textured silences might hide as much menace as the loudest wailing.
In writing, designate a location in the classroom where the teacher will instruct the students to hide, should a menacing intruder be spotted in the room or hallway.
But the bigger menace may actually lie hidden, in the form of other financial institutions outside the banking system, including insurance firms and pension funds that are suspected of holding substantial amounts of bonds from troubled European countries.
This Red menace was obscure, however, hidden away in the tenements; what really alarmed conservatives was a strong showing by the Socialist Party in the municipal and state elections of 1917.
A sense of things not understood, matters hidden under the surface, begins to loom; even, somehow, to menace.
Still waters run dark in these bright yet eerie novellas, whose crisp, almost guileless prose hides unexpected menace.
The music provides the tension while the dim lighting hides the menace.
The Independent praised Spacey's portrayal as a more "menacing" character, "hiding his rage behind Southern charm and old-fashioned courtesy," while The New Republic noted that "When Urquhart addressed the audience, it was partly in the spirit of conspiratorial fun.
