The water hazards, for instance, are called lagoons, which takes away some of the menace factor.
All this requires societal and political decisions, such as treating metabolic poisoning, i.e., high caloric fat content in food with the same tax penalty approach used for other health-menacing factors, namely cigarettes, alcohol, and carbon emission.
Menacing face met menacing face.
Apart from the fatalism, and a history of poor management of all those trampling feet, Pompeii is menaced by a host of other factors.
And while the scale of the unrest of the past few days does not yet compare with the three-week convulsion in hundreds of suburbs and towns in 2005, a chilling new factor makes it, in some sense, more menacing.
Those very same factors, regulatory weakness and offshore secrecy, also lie behind the hidden menace of tax dodging by big business on a massive scale.
Such factors have led to the rise of drug-resistant tuberculosis bacteria, a menace the world has only begun to appreciate.
Their menacing control of swaths of eastern Congo is also arguably the single most important factor in the continuing conflict in the region despite numerous peace deals.
Was her decision simply prompted by family factors, by gender bias in Dave's Britain, or even by the Ukip menace in her Kentish constituency, birthplace of Viagra?
The streets felt menacing.
