Sentence examples for perceived as menacing from inspiring English sources

They were both outsiders, menaced and so, therefore, perceived as menacing despite their commercial and critical success; they knew power could be positive and effective but was ultimately illusory, fake.

Schools perceived as stronger blocked the way.

Employers were perceived as greedy.

But he said people have a legal responsibility not to menace anyone with those weapons — or to be perceived as being menacing.

Below them occurs a roundish, blurry haze of little nothings that could be perceived as vaguely menacing.

Watching over them is a third figure (Sacha Pitoëff), as menacing as a Hitchcock hoodlum.

Where Don Quixote saw and attacked an advancing army, Sancho saw only a herd of sheep; what Sancho perceived as windmills were menacing giants to the questing knight-errant.

No longer perceived as a menace to China's national unity, Taiwan's value as an example for China began to emerge, particularly when it came to market reforms, popular culture and press freedom.

However, the House of Saud never permitted the organization to establish a branch within the Kingdom, as it was perceived as a menace to the country's Salafist order.

In her later years she became concerned with what she perceived as the menace posed by Bolshevism and joined the Conservative Party, and was selected as a Conservative Party candidate for Stepney in 1927.

They say that when we are holding a firearm, even if our paperwork is legit and we're not doing anything wrong, we might still be perceived as a menace and targeted for state-sanctioned violence.