Sentence examples for outright menace from inspiring English sources

The HGV blind spot is potentially deadly, yes, but what turns it from moderate risk to outright menace is human behaviour, not the vehicle's physical design.

And Bourdain, in an interview with TV Guide published last week, branded her an outright menace to America, scolding her for "telling an already obese nation that it's O.K. to eat food that is killing us".

Fashion feeds on the outrageous, the marginal, even the outright menacing.

This hasn't stopped those determined to find something not just annoying but outright menacing in Oprah's Book Club.

The Amazing Snakeheads' brutalist rock'n'roll seems to teeter on a knife-edge between palpable menace and outright violence, an intimidatory experience akin to walking into the wrong pub in the wrong place at the wrong time.

An explosion at a nuclear power plant on Japan's devastated coast destroyed a building Saturday and made leaking radiation, or even outright meltdown, the central threat menacing a nation just beginning to grasp the scale of a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami.

Werewolves can look menacing and outright scary if they're angry.

That cane will be used as an instrument of menace and of outright torture before the evening ends.

In confronting the grotesque, the menacing and the outright evil, Mr. Sleator's protagonists simultaneously confront their own identities and their relationship to their families, especially to brothers and sisters.

Our common threat today is the growing menace of violent extremism and outright barbarism," Zarif said.

Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Iranian foreign minister, in a video posted on YouTube, said that the world's "common challenge" was the "the growing menace of violent extremism and outright barbarism", as he called for an end to the "unjust economic sanctions" placed on Iran.