Sentence examples for note of menace from inspiring English sources

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But even in the celebrations a note of menace lurked.

"Step back and look — there's a skull!" he whispered with a note of menace.

Campbell wrote vigorously extroverted verse that often sounded a note of menace.

Who are the people behind it?" That note of menace is uncharacteristic, and Bracken was uneasy with the form of censorship at which Churchill appeared to be hinting.

The scene strikes a background note of menace and coercion that sounds throughout the film, as the threesome's journey takes them through unexplained military checkpoints and past scenes of soldiers guarding handcuffed peasants.

Creed and his team get the tone right: while the juxtaposition of styles and forms of audience address sometimes feels playful, there is an underlying note of menace, particularly in the treatment of women.

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The novel ends unresolved, but on a note of suspenseful menace.

And while Chris Martin remains vague as ever, vocally hes done away with the limp-lettuce falsetto for a more palatable lower register, and even conveys a note of hitherto unthinkable menace on the Depeche Mode-redolent title track.

Anime News Network's Zac Bertschy called Hiruma the "most fun" character insofar, making note of his "brash, menacing and ultimately passionate" personality and that "in a sense, Hiruma turns the 'kindly old coach-come-mentor who helps the hero along' cliché on its ear".

You can generate a sense of menace with one note, it's in the sound itself, not the melody or lyrics".

And if "In Utero," Nirvana's last studio album, sounded, even before Cobain's death, like so many drafts of a suicide note, the menace pulsing in almost every song was also directed insistently outward.

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