Sentence examples for looming menace from inspiring English sources

Meadows presents a startlingly odd mix of near-treacly sentimentality and looming menace of extreme violence.

That "sense of looming menace" comes to full flower on his blog.

The movie's looming menace offers a glimpse at the essential tragic conflict between sex and society, between a woman's public life and her intimate yearnings.

Appealing in certain roles, Mr. Hinds and his looming menace work better when he's yelling at someone or reacting in shock to one of the film's stabs at horror than when he's throwing moony looks at Lena.

Filming mainly in sequence, Hawks lends the tale of looming menace and impenetrable mystery a loose, jazzy tone — one that emerges all the more sharply in the revised version.

Combining elements of several genres — mystery, Gothic horror, science fiction and the techno-thriller — Mr. Levin's novels conjured up a world full of quietly looming menace, in which anything could happen to anyone at any time.

Hugo Drax, the villain in Moonraker (1979), must have been alerted to Jaws's sterling work in the areas of looming, menacing and murdering when he began casting around for his own henchman – for Jaws popped up again to try to finish Bond off in a thrilling confrontation on top of a cable car.

I expected someone who loomed menacing and mean.

(Fox; Blu-ray, $24.99; G) JOHN DIES AT THE END Don Coscarelli's adaptation of David Wong's novel about a couple of slackers (Rob Mayes and Chase Williamson) who represent humanity's last hope in the face of a looming intergalactic menace.

By sounding the alarm of Hitlerism and the looming Nazi menace--thus saving Western Civilization from a new dark ages--many consider former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to be the single greatest man of the 20th Century.

But amidst the joys of autumn looms a menace: the inevitable start of cold season.