Might the sinister great-masted vessels be slave ships?
The former Joseph Ratzinger was always going to be a harder pontiff for the world to love: more introverted than his predecessor, less political and peripatetic, with the crags and wrinkles of a sinister great-uncle.
Nobody knows quite what it means and yet it brings together in sinister proximity that great good of the modern age, intimacy, with its great evil, terror.
The Communist Party's great sinister achievement is the Urzad Bezpieczenstwa-the 170,000 security police, or Party spies.
And Dr. Malcolm Bowers Jonathan Cakee) is a watery blend of television's two great sinister doctors: Gregory House on Fox's "House" and Christian Troy on "Nip/Tuck".
The Communist Party's great sinister achievement is the Urzad Bezpieczenstwa-the 170,000 security police, or Party spies.. View Article By Jelani Cobb By David Remnick By Joan Acocella By Jia Tolentino.
Berlioz described his cantata "La Mort de Cléopâtre" as "somber, broad, sinister and lugubrious: a great voice breathing a menacing lament in the mysterious stillness of the night".
There are sinister dreams, retold in great detail, mirrors that seem to give Udo no reflection, voices that come from everywhere and nowhere, and "a silent zone (with raw staring eyes)" surreptitiously establishing itself in the middle of a room.
This one has no hesitation in marking down Wilson as the villain of the piece: a paranoid buck-passer on this evidence, whose thraldom at the hands of the sinister Marcia became so great that his doctor seriously suggested to other members of the prime ministerial entourage that she should be quietly done away with.
An infected wound or case of syphilis or any of the other great many sinister things caused by bad bacteria are no longer things that carry a very real possibility of imminent painful death.
Srebrenica was a major trigger for the Nato operation that put an end to the Bosnian war and the sinister dreams of a "Greater Serbia" that had fuelled it.
