Sentence examples for palpable menace from inspiring English sources

It's even better than I remember, especially the scenes with Michael Madsen, whose  slick, intelligent presence, not unlike Vince Vaughn's, is spiked with palpable menace.

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.

He concludes, flat out, that the evil that threatens the children "is channeled and communicated by the governess," who presents us with "an unforgettable image of psychological projection — the inward fears of the governess transfigured by imagination into a palpable menace".

Through stealthy camera movements and an abrasively jumpy soundtrack, "Enough" does a better job than most movies of sustaining a mood of palpable physical menace, then confirming your worst fears.

And unlike the film and TV adaptations of my favourite (western) comic books, which then were infested with slightly out-of-shape actors in too-tight spandex giving knowing winks, these dark adventures had a palpable sense of menace.

A palpable sense of menace, made all the more potent by the claustrophobic setting, is sustained throughout in a way that recalls one of McDonagh's great influences, Harold Pinter.

Even when he smiles and fascinates, however, an air of palpable danger and menace surrounds him.

But a palpable hint of menace lay beneath the veneer of gentility.

For example, a line spoken by Hyde in episode one was changed from "Who the fuck is Mr Hyde?" to "Who the hell is Mr Hyde?" James Jackson of The Times rated the first episode four out of five stars, calling Nesbitt's performance as Hyde "as entertainingly [over the top] as a dozen Doctor Who villains, with a palpable sense of menace to boot".

Although I spent much of the second half staring into my lap while listening to a cacophony of screams and shop tools, I processed enough of the first to appreciate Roth's sinister evocation of a Slovakian provincial town (the roaming kids' gangs are a great touch) and his talent for informing an American tourist's disorientation with a palpable sense of menace.

He often endows these roles with a louche yet vulnerable complexity, with a sidelong menace, with palpable but diffuse intensity.