Sentence examples for seems menacing from inspiring English sources

As a face of the lingering insurgency here, the son hardly seems menacing now.

Playing a sadistic, murderous thug to Ms. Tomei's beleaguered young blind woman, Mr. Tarantino seems menacing to nothing except possibly Mr. Knott's script.

So that when someone comes knocking at the door (today it is the clerk asking for some more brandy), the force of the wind rushing in as you pull the door open is almost too much, enough to knock you over, and the clerk, who is a small and honest man with a humble gait, suddenly seems menacing, huge, and it is all you can do to go and get him his brandy.

It is instead a kind of fear gone wild, a generalized sense of dread about something out there that seems menacing — but that in truth is not menacing, and may not even be out there.

You immediately look around, and the first person you see seems menacing; fear and paranoia assail you.

Freddy seems menacing, but so does everyone else even Calvin, the nice jail guide, reveals himself to be unhinged when he throws a scalding hot-water/baby-oil combination on Naz.

His "dying" dad and defeated mum were, it seems, menaced into a slightly elaborate scheme to wipe the cylinder of information by taking a photo with a rigged camera.

Of course immigration seemed menacing.

The hives do not seem menacing.

But it was all just too ridiculous to seem menacing.

I may have misunderstood the message, but it seemed menacing.