Sentence examples for menacing set from inspiring English sources

The game kicks off to a rattly cheer and then settles into a windblown, teeth-chattering affair of awkward bounces and the occasional menacing set piece.

From the outside, the venue glinted like a gigantic glitterball of flashing lights and Hollywood glamour, but inside Cave and his band whipped up a stormy, menacing set which showcased their stately and sinister 15th album.

In the half century since Pakistan was born from the partition of colonial India, no Pakistani leader has faced a more menacing set of challenges than Gen. Pervez Musharraf confronted in his speech tonight.

A rare athlete with remarkably soft hands and great reach, he will be a terrific red zone target and, combined with AJ Green and Jermaine Gresham, gives Cincinnati quite the menacing set of options of offense.

In The State of Martial Rule: The Origins of Pakistan's Political Economy of Defense, Ayesha Jalal notes that the Pakistani government has faced a menacing set of challenges on the domestic, regional and international fronts that have tipped the balance in favor of the military and civil bureaucracies which were not elected democratically.

(Mimi Lien designed the vaguely menacing set, a layering of object and pattern like a kitschy, worrying Bonnard painting).

For many faculty members on Rutgers's Newark campus, being situated amid urban decay was viewed at best as an inconvenience and at worst a journey into a menacing setting.

GEORGE LUCAS' berhyped Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace set box office records last month but generally underwhelmed critics and fans.

That fusion of history, slapstick and menace sets the trajectory for the rest of this lovable novel.

Having come off the bench to score winning goals against Everton and Leicester, this time he was provider and all-round menace, setting up the third and fourth as Watford threatened to turn what was already a dispiriting occasion for Fulham into a humiliation.

The island setting lived on: one of the earliest post-apocalyptic novels, John Wyndham's 1951 The Day of the Triffids, concludes with survivors of the vegetable menace setting up home on the Isle of Wight, and the climate change refugees of Megan Hunter's 2017 novel The End We Start From seek safe haven in the Hebrides.