Sentence examples for menace about from inspiring English sources

It has a sense of menace about it, and – since Skyfall is the name of a major location in the film – it has earned its place.

It also gives him purchase on the language of those who are no one in particular like the woman in the pub who speaks with obscure menace about Lil in "The Waste Land".

If ethnic hostility within the empire was less a menace about the year 500 than it had often been in the past, dissensions stemming from religious controversy seriously threatened imperial unity, and the political history of the next century cannot be understood without some examination of the so-called Nestorian and monophysite controversies.

It has an air of oddly deserted, Stephen King menace about it, felt most keenly at dinner the first night when I had the vast dining room to myself.

Keep the message up, and if there's occasional new causes for alarm, I think that serves the purpose of the war on drugs in general, right?" The frequency with which law enforcement trumpets a new drug menace about to sweep the nation, and with which media outlets give those officials a platform, certainly speaks to Hathaway's point.

There was nothing menacing about this message.

There was something menacing about her that threatened that the world was coming to an end.

But there could be something a touch menacing about his face (something open and sweet too), which bunched as tight as a fist, and his towering height (he stood 6 foot 4) at times loomed like a threat.

Let loose on the streets, he becomes an uncaged animal; and when he picks up the table-waiting actress there is something menacing about the way his injunction "to live" is accompanied by a raised fist.

There's something intrinsically menacing about live bird's-eye surveillance video; its ordinariness seems to foreshadow a sudden flash of violence and carnage, or what's known in the trade as a "bug splat".

There was something menacing about Mr. Goodman.