Sentence examples for sinister move from inspiring English sources

A still more sinister move was the reduction of Naxos, probably in the early 460s.

He said Bolton's references to Libya represented "an awfully sinister move to impose on our dignified state the destiny of Libya or Iraq, which have been collapsed due to yielding the whole of their countries to big powers".

This sinister clique moved as one from the totalitarian left to the corporate right without stopping at any worthwhile point in between.

"I have mastered the art of lurking and slurping my tea," says Parkinson of two of Dot's sinister trademark moves.

In the 1985 introduction to the French edition of the novel Crash, J. G. Ballard wrote about the "spectres of sinister technologies" moving across the communications landscape.

This is a sinister, last-gasp move of gangsterism: when you're losing the game, tilt the table.

There's the streaks of sinister lighting, Cher moving a Sally Bowles chair to center stage in shadow, the casualness of the booth operator asking, "You just going to run this?" "Yes, thanks," says Cher.

Even with the occasional dash of melodic color, it's as dark, sinister, immersive and moving as you could hope for from a fast-developing artist rising from the depths of Berlin's underground.

The camera dwells on his narrowed eyes as he plots his next move with sinister, methodical calm.

ATOM, a grid of light-up balloons that moved with sinister agency, was mindblowing, but is outdone by new work Lumière, getting its London premiere here.

Roger Allam - a transforming and undersung actor - is a perfectly judged Hitler, a man who presents himself as more house-painter than hell-raiser, and who moves from sinister emollience and ingratiating chirpiness to a stooped and cranky figure, one palsied hand clenched trembling behind his back.