Sentence examples for menacing stillness from inspiring English sources
Cheadle has always been the most agile of actors, tough to keep up with as he switches from menacing stillness to a snapping wit; in short, he is made for Davis, and there's no doubt that he nails his hero, down to the raw rasp of his speech.
Berlioz described his cantata "La Mort de Cléopâtre" as "somber, broad, sinister and lugubrious: a great voice breathing a menacing lament in the mysterious stillness of the night".
His eyes are bloodshot, he has dragonish spikes and is tremendously played by Jay Simpson with a core stillness that conveys menace and a voice of intermittently terrifying gentleness.
It's a frame which, like the whole show, has a delicate combination of stillness, majesty and menace".Sebastião Salgado: Genesis" is at the Natural History Museum in London until September 8th 2013.
David Birrell brought an eerie stillness to the menace of the barber and if one struggled to be convinced of his murderous potential at the beginning there was little doubt by the gruesome finale that this was not a man you would want inquiring whether you required a little bit more off the top.
In keeping with a recent vogue – termed "post-horror" by one writer, to much online outrage – it forgoes jitters and jump-scares in favour of stillness and simmering menace.
There was a time when a new work from the French film-maker Bruno Dumont could mean only one thing: extreme cinema, shocking cinema, cinema that had something of Bresson's stillness but also violence and menace.
There was nothing larger at stake here than a few songbirds, there were no land mines on the hillside, and yet the blazing stillness had a flavor of wartime menace.
