Sentence examples for seen as sinister from inspiring English sources
Well-meaning but badly-expressed messages are seen as sinister, or stupid.
Those who created comic books, penny arcades and rock'n'roll have been seen as sinister figures bent on seducing children into becoming juvenile delinquents.
Once it was seen as sinister – you may remember the Blasted Heath where Macbeth meets the three witches, or Thomas Hardy's Egdon Heath, the dark wilderness at the heart of his Wessex.
When George Osborne told Radio Times the BBC should avoid "suffocating local news", the habitually Beeb-bashing Times (which had earlier seen as sinister a new "find local news" button on the BBC's revamped website) eagerly took up the cry and amplified it.
I'm not sure snooping that deeply into the system is beneficial to morale, since it can be seen as sinister and something akin to stalking.
"The ground is seen as a sinister place for aliens and misfits," Ms. Littenberg said.
For a bleaker view of the British colonial connection, try Tayeb Salih's masterpiece Season of Migration to the North, in which Hussein's optimism about relations with the West is seen as a sinister struggle for influence.
Depending on where you stand, the war can be seen as the sinister culmination of a systematic provocation by a neo-imperialist Russia or as a murderously aggressive gambit by a Caucasian strongman wrongheadedly backed by the West.The truth is somewhere in between.
Steven S. DeKnight, who wrote and directed the episode, felt this was a brilliant role-reversal for both actresses as Carpenter is accustomed to playing the benevolent Cordelia where Darla is normally seen as a sinister vampire.
Seems people are pretty pissed off about the Requisition microtransactions, and while they could be seen as a sinister sign of things to come in future Halo releases, they pose little intrusion to all but the most hardened of completionists.
Mr Wahid's overthrow should be seen as nothing more sinister than a vote of no confidence in a near-blind, ailing and, above all, increasingly incompetent prime minister.Whether or not the country will now be better run is quite another matter.
