Sentence examples for sinister children from inspiring English sources

"Sinister children," he called them.

Her initial mature paintings — portraying nerve-racked women or vaguely sinister children — somewhat recall the suavely decadent symbolism of Francesco Clemente, only with considerably less polish.

Small pieces suggesting weapons and sinister children's toys fill the compartments of two low cabinets; antelope horns spill beaded wires that look like scourges; doll-size pieces made with fake hair or jammed into upturned containers look cuddly and repellent.

Wherever you look there are lying politicians, crooked bankers, corrupt police officers, cheating journalists and double-dealing media barons, sinister children's entertainers, rotten and greedy energy companies and out-of-control security services.

Is this bank heist actually a plot hatched by some sinister children?

There is a group in the foreground of pale-skinned people who in some ways represent the flight into Egypt – a woman with a swaddled baby, a bearded Joseph figure, a sinister child with a bow and arrow, and an even more sinister child battling a nasty goat next to a spilled water vessel.

"I wanted to explore the sinister child of childhood as well as the fun," Mr. McQueen once remarked after a show in which models made up as clowns perched on carousel horses ended up entwining themselves around maypoles and grinding lasciviously.

Like the sinister Child Catcher in "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," whose trap is disguised by ribbons, flowers and pinwheels, Curran has outfitted his home with purple-painted shingles; year-round Christmas decorations; an indoor swing; and a menagerie of reptiles, rodents and birds flying (and excreting) freely inside to demonstrate that in his private Neverland the usual rules don't apply.

A glance into the endless and void-like stares of some of Sinister's children relays that feeling of grief while still holding onto elements of naiveté.

It could be a perfectly legal file, like a Linux distribution, or it could be something more sinister, like child pornography (more on that later).

A dark-suited nemesis, a sinister stealer of children, he is sometimes described as having black tendrils that extend from his back, but always as having a white, eerie blankness instead of a face.