Perhaps it is a tired analogy, but it is starting to look like the decline of the Roman Empire, which fell not from outside menaces, but because of corruption and decay from within.
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When it stops growing, there's a sense of crisis amplified by the fact that Europe was long sold to citizens as a protection against a menacing outside world," Mr. Lamy said in an interview.
Early Friday morning in the high desert outside of Palm Springs, menacing Baltimore synth pop band Future Islands was responsible for a memorably challenging, if ultimately victorious, sold-out gig.
All that we got was a sinister, over-the-shoulder shot of the one-eyed murderer, looking menacing outside the walls of the prison Rick and company call home.
Once we left the menacing outside world, Joey opened his computer and showed me the place he truly lives, his Tinychat room, which he's been running for three years.
Everything coming from the outside world was a menace, a potential source of contagion.
To anyone who saw "Fatal Attraction," for instance, where the menace from outside was acknowledged, met head on, and slain, allowing domestic peace to reign once more, this lack of payoff is not just a disappointment; it's a cheat and a con, depriving us of our basic right to melodrama.
I'm getting more and more of an "X-Files" feel with this looming menace just outside our vision, but we at least had a face we could hate on "The X-Files" in the cigarette-smoking man.
It's got all the hits: pretty girls, faintly grotesque girls, excruciatingly slow pacing, mysterious places outside of space, glitchiness, menace, doubles and, finally, two people switching lives, to the extreme confusion of both.
Outside, two bodyguards keep menacing watch.
