Sentence examples for is baleful from inspiring English sources

But the effect of that rule is baleful.

Redon's eye is baleful: not to be trusted.

And indeed the evidence is baleful and familiar.

At the same time, he makes clear that any religion that gives priority to ritual or creed over morality is baleful, and poses one of the greatest dangers to a decent and peaceful society (TMS 176 7; cf. WN 802 3).

He now thinks this influence was baleful.

The expression in his eyes was baleful, aloof, and slightly suspicious.

Inside the country, however, the role of the KGB was baleful.

There has been no noticeable official or public endorsement of Mr. He's baleful call to arms.

Her creations are baleful, tragicomic, with a bewildering array of targets, running to a frenetic plot which verges on insanity.

The giant rats and mice who invade the house on the stroke of midnight are baleful and sinister, James Streeter playing their king with dark piratical swagger.

She is and remains a pallid figure, as do the other characters (Russians excepted), apart from one or two who are baleful cartoons.