Among the the techniques: using dark colors, harsh sounds, sinister music and strong words, particularly "liar," to paint a threatening picture of an opponent.
With their deep, dark coloring, blackberries have a hint of the sinister about them.
The back cover is a maritime landscape, modified to appear as the continuation of the picture on the front and similarly tinted in sinister black and grey colors.
Looking at these old sci-fi covers, with their jewellike colors and cryptic, sinister imagery, made me remember the weird thrill I felt when I first saw them as a teen.
What else to make of a Mattel marketer's sinister assertion "We own the color pink"?
A quirky sense of fun can bring to the stores smiley faces, hearts and explosions of color; or there are more sinister effects such the menacing tentacles of a sculpted octopus and vitrines of stuffed taxidermist animals and birds.
The whole ordeal has tea partiers across the country obsessively fingering the buttons on their Electoral College calculators again and again, convinced that math -- like the media, science, letters, colors and shapes -- must have a sinister liberal bias.
One of its many fascinating elements was a menacing score from Upstream Color director Shane Carruth, who gives the show a sinister background hum, pushing us to queasily wonder just when the drama will give way to full-on psychological horror.
The logic of this approach is straightforward in a society which has shed sinister racist ways yet where race constantly -- consciously and subconsciously -- colors public life.
Tucker Viemeister, of the hip design firm Razorfish, saw the color palette as ripe with potential, most of it sinister.
