The old Communists had switched from wine to water — the first round of wine was on the house, but now we had to pay — and looked baleful.
Withering looks, baleful silences and slammed doors are not uncommon responses to any inquiry or suggestion, no matter how carefully phrased.
But he said he always paid my legal bills without question, so what could I do?' The portrait is a typical example of Mapplethorpian role-playing: it makes Stout, who is actually a benign jester, look baleful and adamantine.
This prompts a miniature ballet of embarrassment, with Tsar Nicholas Christopher Saundersshiftinging uneasily in his seat, the young grand duchesses exchanging complicit glances and pressing the hands of the stony-faced Tsarina Alexandra (Christina Arestis), and Rasputin (Thiago Soares) looking on with baleful calculation.
It's irritating nonsense from the off, pompous and whingey, and Bardem, sporting a silly ponytail, looks like a baleful puppy throughout.
The two TV presenters broadcasting from the crowd – she in a gold-spangled minidress and rigid curls, him dour in black tie – shot baleful looks in his direction as he carried on honking.
He said: "George, I hope I am not exceeding my brief if I urge you to look at the baleful effects of stamp duty in London, which is stamping on the fingers of those who are trying to climb the property ladder".
Gandolfini could convey multitudes with a look: whether baleful, lecherous, menacing, halfsmiling, impassive.
Nicolas Cage, whose hammy intensity and baleful, unpredictable presence was a godsend for directors looking to bring power and presence to their films, is just one of those actors.
I looked at its unblinking, baleful, amber eye before we released it.
