Sentence examples for sinister for from inspiring English sources
To see her power held within Mr. Askegard's astoundingly skillful hands is something; the death he brings her is silken, and all the more sinister for it.
She asks her boss (a hard-smiling Jordan Lage, brilliantly sinister) for a couple of days off to visit the old man.
At Tuesday's opening-night show she delivered "Maggie's Farm" as a servant's simmering expression of resentment that was all the more sinister for its not being shouted.
Most sinister – for conspiracy buffs at least – is an aide's urgent request to get in touch with his boss, General Curtis LeMay, then Chief of Staff of the US Air Force, and the ultimate Cold War hawk.
But that doesn't lessen the kooky — if a bit sinister for the sensitive — charms of the magnificent pencil-and-charcoal illustrations by the Brothers Hilts, two real brothers, Ben and Sean, who collaborate as a design and illustration team.
At the time of the novel's publication, Berger told the critic Richard Schickel what he'd learned from Kafka: "That at any moment banality might turn sinister, for existence was not meant to be unfailingly genial".
And consumer products can be a controversial business; some parents see Disney Princess as having a sinister message for little girls, for instance.
In some crouched burials, however, there is reason for suspecting a more sinister motive; for the limbs are sometimes so tightly flexed that the bodies must have been bound in that position before rigor mortis set in.
But these books are best read for their striations of class, power and faith; for their pervasive sense of the sinister; and for Benjamin Black's fine way of expressing all of that.
So, in the end, the NSA has made it more difficult to resist the clamour for different – and possibly even more sinister – arrangements for governing the Net".
The audience responded with laughter and applause, which the Court of Appeals would later view as potentially ominous: [I]t has not been unknown for laughter and applause to have sinister implications for the safety of others.
