Sentence examples for instead of menacing from inspiring English sources

Its angles end up looking awkward instead of menacing.

Instead of menacing the Qaddafi soldiers, the back blast and long trail of smoke made by these weapons would lead the Qaddafi soldiers' eyes directly toward those who fired them, giving away rebel positions and making clusters of rebel fighters easier to maneuver against and kill.

Instead of menacing halls populated by judgmental peers, I witnessed love, support and bursts of purple.

Like Sugar Ray, Uncle Kracker was lovable instead of menacing; his songs may have had risqué moments, but they encouraged warm emotion.

Steven LaBrie (is the man really named for a cheese?) was suitably menacing as the agent of the Secret Police; I assume that Peter Kazaras had something to do with his portrayal, which was ingratiating in an oily manner instead of menacing... and thus both more effective and more chilling.

Instead of menace that rides into town, or violence that we encounter when we dare venture outside the borders of the civilized world, Haneke's brutality is bound up in the lives of everyday people.

When a young man named Seaweed, played by Corey Reynolds, flicks opens a switchblade in a moment of crisis, it's with a Boy Scout spirit of resourcefulness instead of street menace.

JJ Abrams directs the new Star Wars movie — the one which many believe is the project George Lucas could and should have steered to the screen 16 years ago instead of Phantom Menace and the whole prequel trilogy.

Instead of snarling menaces I found devoted moms caring for impossibly cute little devils who've survived an epic fight from the moment they're born.

Suddenly, the sharp-edged mini tart pans stacked on open shelves and the tacks sticking up from the worn parquet floors seemed menacing instead of charming.

Too much food a menace instead of too little!