The latter sounds sinister, while the former, of course, is by now familiar even in advertising [circles].
"Nocturnal Council" is by now traditional, but "Dawn Council" would be a more accurate translation and would avoid the sinister connotations of the former 34.
There, he becomes embroiled in the sinister world of his former friends and confronts the darker aspects of his own personality.
But it makes a kind of sinister sense for a former Walmart to become a detention center ― a cold, soulless place where children are essentially corralled like animals. .
"Freedom" abounds in journalistic touches, some of them slapdash, most obviously when Franzen revisits quarrels over "the Bush-Cheney venture in Iraq" and the sinister role of Halliburton, "whose former C.E.O. was now running the nation".
In "The Double," a moldy, post-cold-war spy thriller that vainly aspires to be a contemporary "Patriot Games," Richard Gere, in his enigmatic, sinister mode, portrays Paul Shepherdson, a former C.I.A. officer who is suddenly called out of retirement.
It worked, and now that the frenzy has ebbed, senior government officials here suspect a sinister force: members of the former Northern Alliance, which did most of the fighting against the Taliban, appear to be unloading huge stores of bank notes they had printed for themselves during their years in the wilderness.
The trip to visit Wolverine's former friend turns sinister and adventure ensues.
Similarly, Eisenhower was outraged when Truman, who made a whistlestop tour in support of Stevenson, accused the former general of disregarding "sinister forces ... Anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism, and anti-foreignism" within the Republican Party.
