Sentence examples for menacing signal from inspiring English sources
Cameras are everywhere in public, but one fixed to your face sends a more menacing signal: I have the power to record you at a moment's notice, it seems to declare — and maybe I already am.
Last week, the army leaders sent menacing signals to bolster their demand that Mr. Montesinos be granted permanent haven in Panama.
In nature the territories of members of a species differ in extent but usually seem to be provided with adequate resources, and use of force in their defense is rarely necessary, as the customary menacing signals generally lead to the withdrawal of potential rivals.
The Trump administration's menacing signals seemed a mere sideshow to those who make their living off reefer, or aspire to.
The difficulty with the piece is that -- as played and directed but maybe not as written -- Nate's high-energy, even menacing, presence signals just about everything that will dismayingly affect the incipient Sarah-Sam romance.
There is no thumping score to signal menace or imminent violence; the only music is the sound of blaring car stereos or bar bands in noisy longshoreman hangouts.
He was the master of the overhead shot (to signal menace, isolation or omniscience) and the MacGuffin (a plot device that motivates the characters without needing to make any objective sense).
Like most things in the film (including a mountain lion that drops into Jesse's motel room), this is meant to signal menace, although she may simply be angling for a job as one of those outsized statuettes which stand at the entrance to the Oscars.
Rising tension is signalled by menacing Hammer-horror ostinatos, and moments of heavy-handed satire that evoke the spirit of 1920s Kurt Weill.
It's a difficult show to follow, and not only because much of the dialogue is unvarnished street slang or because there is no thumping musical score to signal imminent menace or a character's inner thoughts.
All of this develops with a muted but insistent sense of menace, which Norman signals by a series of surreal images, such as a bed covered in broken bits of Beethoven records.
