Sentence examples for overt menace from inspiring English sources
He takes the overt menace out of such lines as "I'm a busy man, I got no time to be going to anyone's funeral".
The slightest imprecision in his portrayal of Connor — too much overt menace, or too little — would have thrown the film off balance.
Nick Sandow's production goes for the jugular, but whenever it abandons its overt menace it taps into a satisfying undercurrent of dry comedy.
Her stubborn quiet only fuels the clamorous sorrow of the public, which lays thousands of bouquets before Buckingham Palace, gestures of mourning that turn into a veritable barricade as overt in menace and purpose as the upturned paving stones of the French Revolution.
But that's no obstacle to stop overt practices that menace free speech.
Good people would not deny a patient's suffering; it is, however, worth questioning the implied or overt angst about the menace of the modern world.
The element of the marvellous the latently menacing seethe of the everyday has been replaced by the more vulgar excitement of overt peril.
Menace, menace and menace".
