Sentence examples for menacing aura from inspiring English sources

Almost from the moment the first atomic bomb was detonated in New Mexico in July 1945, the menacing aura of the nuclear age has inspired visions of a world free of nuclear weapons.

I'm not saying MAD mad, like you would end up yelling to the mountains and breaking up, I'm talking menacing-aura-sweatdrop-induced mini madness.

The photographs by this recent Yale M.F.A. graduate (who recently contributed to this magazine) have an ambiguous aura of menace.

In spite of Amanda Seyfried's big eyes and Gary Oldman's even bigger aura of menace, the balance between the familiar and the uncanny is not quite right.

Whatever the Russian gangsters have – swagger, an aura of menace, intimidating facial hair, emotionally disequilibrating tattoos – most other ethnic groups don't have.

Memories of Jones's Elektra at the Met added an aura of menace to her antics; when she sings, "Off with their heads!," you stroke your own neck a bit nervously.

Unlike Brad Pitt, who managed to conjure up a vague aura of menace while playing an IRA gun runner in The Devil's Own, DiCaprio is about as intimidating as a box of Weetabix.

This country has a history of endowing such men with an almost mythical aura of menace.

The aura of menace on their first US Decca release's cover, was plainly evident live and in person.

Wolcott effectively creates an aura of menace and unease but does so with such quiet authority I almost wasn't certain at first it the sound design was bleeding in from outdoors or part of my imagination -- that's how natural and effective it was.

Menacing face met menacing face.