Sentence examples for menacing pose from inspiring English sources

Mourning retaliated by throwing a punch, Johnson raised his fists moments later, and the two squared off in a menacing pose.

His eyes glaring, his biceps bulging and his mouth open, Marcus Fizer offers a menacing pose as he dunks a basketball.

In the one scene in which we see Oscar strike a more menacing pose (toward the store manager who has apparently fired him some time ago), we can only wonder how time in the organized menace of the prisons now weighs like burden on his own sense of humanity.

Aging commanders of the anti-Soviet jihad supplied money and guns to young men, who struck a menacing pose by wearing the "pakul" hat of the great Tajik fighter Ahmed Shah Massoud, rather than the "karakul" hat favored by Hamid Karzai.

His status as a reluctant dictator is well known; Patrick Seale describes Assad as having little or nothing of the menacing pose of a traditional Arab dictator – "his tall willowy frame has none of the robustness of a fighter, while his gaze, questioning and often perplexed, has none of the certainties of a man born to power".

The menace posed by Britain's imperial rival, France, helped keep the colonies in line.

The menace posed by ISIS is undeniable, the danger of inaction great.

The menace posed by ISIS is undeniable, the danger of inaction great.

And the menace posed by the elderly can only get worse, as ever more of them sink into debt.

He showed me a newspaper picture of wild boar running down a Genoese street; he described the menace posed by starlings at airports and in vineyards.

And although he frequently railed against the menace posed by Islamist militants, his government failed to stem the tide of Taliban violence.