Sentence examples for latent menace from inspiring English sources

Monaco's latent menace did not become reality until stoppage time before the interval.

A professional henchman is supposed to create a mood of latent menace.

It was a gripping game, heavy on technical quality and latent menace from the creative players.

Wales lacked tempo in the first half, when they failed to do anything in an attacking sense, despite Bale's latent menace, but they were slightly better after the interval, when they came to gain footholds higher up the pitch.

But, by the late nineties, the drum machine that replaced its own referent had accrued other, non-musical meanings Southern rap styles such as bounce, crunk, and trap fused its ominous bass with lyrics painting the drug-trade lifestyle in the neon and gold-flashing hues of "Scarface," relaunching the vintage bass sound nationally while upgrading its latent menace.

The payment has been in lives lost or crippled, in trillions of dollars, in prestige and authority dissipated, and in a latent menace to our well-being that the "war" supposedly aimed at eliminating.

Paris, even at its grittiest, is nothing like New York, where the possibility of real violence is never totally unexpected and where, because of that latent menace, an overly intrusive police presence has come to feel like just one more part of the city's configuration.

JG Ballard, 1964 Liminal spaces – abandoned high rises, marooned flyovers – were always central to Ballard's pre- and post-apocalyptic imagination, so it's no surprise that the many beaches that feature in his oeuvre tend not to be places of bucolic retreat, but, rather, as in this story from 1964, sites of seething menace and latent (or not-so-latent) violence.