Sentence examples for sinister end from inspiring English sources

In American English, scheme, especially as a verb but also as a noun, suggests a crafty or secret plan to attain a sinister end.

At the less sinister end of the scale, costly qualifications, such as master's degrees, which well-to-do parents can fund for their children, become entry tickets for sought-after careers.

Daphne, who has grown up in South Africa, longs plaintively for England until she actually goes there, and is mistreated by men and rapacious matrons alike; returning to what she must now call "home", she meets the violent and sinister end that seems, all along, to have been her destiny.

He did not use his money for sinister ends.

All these tales furnished Peter Shaffer with a sinister ending to his play Amadeus.

Even Eric is all about the healing; curing Lafayette's gammy leg with his blood, though to potentially sinister ends.

As Jean Genet remarked in Un captif amoureux, the mask of the image can be used to manipulate reality to sinister ends.

Weaver learns that even his own identity has been stolen to serve the organization's sinister ends: a fellow Tourist, a cold-blooded assassin who derives "real pleasure in planning a murder," has employed it to eliminate a nosy reporter in Budapest.

A man manipulating his cultural prestige to sinister ends, a scapegoated woman made to take the fall, literary squabbling and backstabbing galore: the Nobel scandal is truly a story for our times, though details like the flummoxed king and the arcane quorum procedure give it the sheen of fiction.

"Crystal" by Susan Hill, a beautiful and sad tale of a priest with second thoughts about his calling, is just perfect, while Andrew Taylor's "Broken Voices", a Fenland ghost story with more than a hint of MR James, is brilliantly atmospheric, though it might have had a more sinister ending.

This was stimulated by the increased availability of poisons; shops known as apothecaries, selling various medicinal wares, were open to the public, and from there, substances that were traditionally used for curative purposes were employed for more sinister ends.