Sentence examples for more baleful from inspiring English sources

The impact on the mind could be even more baleful.

None of them has been more baleful than the belief that artists must make no compromise with the public.

When James got the screenplay, it was a schematic genre piece; his polish brought nuance to the marriage, gave Ben a spine, and made Morse even more baleful.

And hello again to the thought that something more baleful and petty lurks behind this coalition's outward show of wondrous amity.

Theirs is a trust forged a film ago on the set of the 2005 film "A History of Violence," in which Mr. Mortensen played an average American dad, a man who turns out to be something more baleful.

But each variety of Russian roulette can be played only so often, before the adrenaline peters out? "Yes," he said, with that quiet thoracic chuckle that accompanies particularly his more baleful remarks, "and one is merely afraid of being sick on the back of the pilot".

Anyone familiar with Richard Jones's productions will know that such images tend to take on ever-more baleful significance as the evening goes on, and this Boris Godunov is no exception.

So, she has her share of narrow-faced villains, not always more than baleful gargoyles".

The fact that the Lib Dems are largely signed up to his war on the Blob allows him more room for baleful intervention than that enjoyed by similarly ideological driven colleagues.

Although it gathers ominously in mood, "The Line of Beauty" feels more blissful than baleful in its anatomy of the era because it is, among other things, a magnificent comedy of manners.

"One can't work / by lime light," Ryan wrote in a punning poem in her 2000 collection, "Say Uncle": "A bowlful / right at / one's elbow / produces no / more than / a baleful / glow against / the kitchen table".