Sentence examples for sinister interest from inspiring English sources

But others take a more sinister interest.

After the settlement is raided by police, a sociologist from the local university takes a somewhat sinister interest.

Forced to live with a tracking device on his ankle in a shantytown of social outcasts in South Florida, the Kid draws the attention of a sociologist who takes a sinister interest in his ramshackle community.

It's an ambitious book with a pair of unlikely protagonists: a young sex offender, the Kid, who lives under a Florida causeway with an enormous pet iguana; and the Professor, an obese sociologist from the local university, who takes a curious and possibly sinister interest in the youth.

But this is still a terrifically enjoyable and exciting summer spectacular: savvy, funny, ridiculous in just the right way, with some smart imaginative twists on the idea of how dinosaurs could be repositioned in a consumer marketplace where they are almost commonplace, and how the military might take a sinister interest in weaponising these scary beasts.

Mr Restrepo acknowledges that the policy could be "risky" for those who make claims for land against "sinister" interests.

Women and gays are now hearing what Jews have heard for years: your complaints are just a cover to advance your sinister interests.

Only those with sinister interests could oppose such reform.

The members of a "class" are united by shared (and usually selfish or "sinister") interests.

In Bentham's mind such actions were representative of the "sinister interests" typically ranged against beneficial schemes of reform.

Based on the arithmetic of interests, aimed at limiting the sinister interests of those in positions of power while promoting the interests of those without power, Bentham's scheme advocated a comprehensive set of reforms.