Sentence examples for most baleful from inspiring English sources

It ranks as one of the most baleful prognostications of the human fate since Malthus.

He is widely regarded as one of the most baleful of the many evil military figures who under Western patronage strutted across Latin America in the last century.

His teenage sweetheart, lifelong partner and most baleful influence, Mirjana Markovic, whose partisan mother had been tortured to death during the war, was also from Pozarevac.

Now 74, the former R.S.C. mainstay appeared earlier this month for four performances of as many Beckett monologues that went by the collective name of the most baleful of the lot, "Old Earth".

This double bind is distressing to contemplate, but, as Malthus advised his unhappy readers, "The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing".

She also thought how Mary had had a most baleful influence on her Scottish subjects, how she had been an instigator of civil wars and the cause of several murders.

The most troubled and baleful character in the novel, desired by all, desiring none, is the schoolboy wrestler Kittredge.

Most people, with baleful memories of the ten-year war between Brown and Blair, would think that a bad thing for the Tories (and a good thing for Labour).

He became one of the most powerful and baleful influences on American foreign policy, repeatedly preventing his country paying its UN contributions, voting against virtually all arms control measures, opposing international aid programmes as "pouring money down foreign rat holes", and avidly supporting military juntas in Latin America and minority white regimes in Southern Africa.

Then finally, and most dangerously, a baleful whitewash of high oil prices.

But their efforts have brought them into conflict with most Iranians, and have had baleful results.