Since communism's fall, he has done his best to preserve Russia's menacing self-image as a great power.
His career would, of course, always be defined by his midlife mobster Tony Soprano: heavyset, menacing, self-pitying but with a weirdly sensitive and romantic streak.
In the midst of this visual paradise, Calder's menacing self-portrait is like a sharp little thorn, a look behind the mask of playful accessibility and user-friendly modernism.
This was the power of the people in all its menacing and self-interested glory.
Whether the tone was caressing or menacing, his self-awareness only added to the show's depth.
Mr. Pichushkin's case has caused fascination and revulsion here, in part because of his grisly boasts on national television and his menacing and self-satisfied air.
Is it because so many feel alienated, menaced, morbid, self-hating – and like moping round graveyards quoting Yeats's gloomy bits to like-minded miseryboots?
That's good!" The element of physical menace and self-regarding sensitivity — his feral power, combined with a wounded sensibility and flayed vulnerability (characteristics all on ample view in the public and political spectacle described by Lauren Collins in her consideration of the actor and his public image in the magazine this week) — is the essence of his dramatic persona.
(They also perform together as Run the Jewels, and released a hysterically hyperbolic, baldly menacing, altogether high-strung self-titled album).
Together, they perform as the rap duo Run the Jewels, and released their hysterically hyperbolic, baldly menacing, altogether high-strung self-titled album on the Fool's Gold label for free this summer.
And while the scenes that follow bear the unmistakable visual imprint of Mr. Wilson — the menacing geometric shadows, the self-deconstructing movements, the glamorously menacing figures of eccentrically varied body types — this director's signature style has never felt so unnervingly immediate.
