The phrase "impending menace" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to a potential or looming threat or danger that is about to occur. Example: The dark storm clouds gathered on the horizon, signaling the impending menace of a severe thunderstorm.
The appearance of Japanese bombers buzzing in formation through the bright morning sunshine as housewives tend their clotheslines and children frolic on ball fields is meant to convey dread and impending menace.
Although a mood of impending menace permeates the novel -- it was down in the general Tunica area that the legendary bluesman Robert Johnson reputedly sold his soul to the devil -- it is a riotously funny tale.
Lee was the epitome of almost comically unfettered impending menace at the end of his mark in those early days, conjuring up the image of a cartoon bull pawing the turf with a hoof to signal an imminent charge.
The idea that "strategic depth" of territory can protect the country has also taken a beating from Saddam Hussein's Scud missiles in the first Gulf war, from Gaza's and Hizbullah's rockets, and now from the impending menace of an Iranian nuclear missile.
The Bledsoes say they have telephoned their local Romney campaign headquarters offering to make speeches about the impending menace of the Obama world but so far their calls have gone unanswered.
He doesn't even muster the energy for a new burst of jingoism against an impending liberal menace; maybe the alcohol made him forget.
We knew all along that they could do it, despite the overblown forecasts of impending disaster, including the menace they were instructed by television to dread most of all: traffic jams.
An aging desk jockey and furtive fantasist, a literary man with a poetic radio show, Don Celso Barra is revisited by what he calls the "marbles of time," the memories of his youth (which also involve the fantasies of his youth, involving Beethoven, Long John Silver, and an exquisite tribute to his free-spirited passion for movies) and the menace of impending death.
Jolie Pitt shows both the silliness of the pursuit and the nerve-baring earnestness of the results, and she admirably sustains the sense of menace and impending ruin, maintaining an apt continuity from the Bertrands' unhappy sexual chill to the serendipitously perverse thaw.
Carrie, a few days before she's supposed to leave the research complex, investigates, menaced by an impending storm and interrupted by flashbacks to some bad stuff that went down, earlier in her career, in Miami.
The story of the game depicts the struggles of people surviving in a fictional "intraglobular world" menaced by an impending destruction, mysterious warped creatures, and different factions warring against each other.
