Whether the tone was caressing or menacing, his self-awareness only added to the show's depth.
But they weren't marching or menacing the great state of Oklahoma.
Last year, 2,000 people were prosecuted for sending electronic communications that were grossly offensive or menacing.
But most often the police are not looking for them as missing-person cases at all, just responding to complaints about loitering or menacing.
The transcript did not specify, but he appeared to have given Mr. Bloomberg a turtle, and made a comment that could be viewed as friendly or menacing.
At a time when most science fiction focused on scientist-heroes who were either saving or menacing the world, Sturgeon wrote about ordinary people under stress.
A judge, she said, does not always have the answer when family anxiety turns into tussles and shoves, and then into charges of assault or menacing.
After that, Reilly found roles that brought vital energy or eccentricity to a film – as a bright-eyed monk in We're No Angels, or menacing Meryl Streep in The River Wild.
It can be playful (Michael Smith's alter ego, Baby Ikki, wears a diaper and bonnet) or menacing (in 1974, Joseph Beuys flew from Düsseldorf, Germany, to Kennedy Airport, where he was shrouded in felt and driven to a gallery to spend three days with an uncaged coyote).
But unlike James's original novel or the films it has inspired, notably Alejandro Amenábar's marvellous The Others (2001), which starred Nicole Kidman in perhaps her greatest role, as a young neurotic mother who lives alone with her two small children in a large house on an isolated estate on Jersey during the war, it is not sufficiently allusive or menacing.
