Sentence examples for mood of menace from inspiring English sources

The shadowy lighting, designed by Mr. Feld, creates a mood of menace.

The real star is the troubled economy and the mood of menace that the director, Patricia Rozema, conjures from it.

Using ominous percussion, a bit of dance and a stage that's never more than dimly lighted, "Hamyul/Hamlet" creates a delicious mood of menace.

He has no idea of how to establish a mood of menace or to use a setting to evoke an emotional landscape.

Logical explanations, though, are less interesting than the overall mood of menace that Wheatley instils in this ordinary world of suburban discontent – not least, through Jim Williams's abrasively oppressive score.

They are flighty, choreographically quirky and jokey, sometimes deliberately childish and occasionally abruptly violent".Auf dem Gebirge…" (pictured) has no narrative, and is defined more by a mood of menace and mystery.

The careful symmetries help to order and orchestrate the story's mood of menacing aggression.

The journey, which pauses to take in a bank robbery and a meeting of Theosophists, among other picaresque asides, is bookended by the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy, and is suffused with moods of menace and paranoia.

And the deliberately jarring cinematography contributes to a mood of escalating menace.

A professional henchman is supposed to create a mood of latent menace.

The film's most memorable sequence is a chase through the British Museum and across its roof, but Hitchcock builds the mood of encroaching menace throughout.