Sentence examples for sinister appearance from inspiring English sources

The meshed hoods have an eerie and rather sinister appearance once put over the head of their targets.

"Despite his sinister appearance and spooky voice, he was a very open and courteous person in his later years.

He presented a sinister appearance on the course with his dark glasses (tinted prescription lenses) and dark attire, then was nowhere to be found in the evening.

His Excellency was wearing dark glasses, which gave him a no doubt unfairly sinister appearance but were presumably donned in the vain hope that the sun would break through the thick grey cloud overhanging the bleak Essex estuarial landscape.

Dickens paints the master of Dotheboys Hall in panto-villain colours - "He had but one eye... and the blank side of his face was much wrinkled and puckered up, which gave him a very sinister appearance" – and his establishment as a kind of Dantean abyss where the "pale, haggard, lank, bony" boys are served bowls of brimstone and treacle and subject to cruel and capricious punishments.

Especially low brows like those of Michael C. Hall (a.k.a. Dexter Morgan) can create a sinister appearance.

Sinister in appearance and villainous by nature, Silas first plans to marry Maud to his oafish son, Dudley (who is, it emerges, already married).

Cage also took to wearing a bandage around his head during filming, which when removed gave him a sinister, sickly appearance due to the resulting acne and ingrowing hairs.

For a stretch, Mr. Armstrong played recordings of live sessions from the show, including ones by Nas and Ol' Dirty Bastard, followed by a sinister 1995 appearance by Jay-Z and Big L — the recording features Mr. Garcia's laughing ad- libs — that received one of the night's biggest responses.

At a mathematical conference, the appearance of sinister figures drives the panicky Nash from the lecture stage and precipitates a wild chase across campus.

Sealed off by police barricades, after the protesters had been removed it had a spooky appearance, like a sinister, floating island.