Sentence examples for sinister overtone from inspiring English sources

It also has a sinister overtone, suggesting a dark rain, burdened with soot, streaking downward.

The poet Elizabeth Barrett's 1846 letter to her beloved, Robert Browning, gave it a sinister overtone: "I cannot watch, being afraid of the overwatchers".

With the fall of Granada, and the eventual forced baptism of all Spain's remaining Muslims, any perceived retention of traditional "Moorish" lifestyles might take on a sinister overtone of disloyalty and resistance.

As a compound gerund, the metaphor took hold with a sinister overtone in 1965, when an ad in The Times described the book "The Great Discount Delusion" as including "baiting-and-switching" and "creaming and cherry-picking".

"Sinister overtones," Mr. Fybish said.

James Lasdun can attest to the word's more sinister overtones.

Like most fairy tales, this one has sinister overtones.

What at first seemed like a minor mistake rapidly assumed more sinister overtones.

It trivialises the very issues that require debate but can have more sinister overtones.

." is the favored phrase, used to connect with sinister overtones any two personalities within the web.

In his series, "Fables," two of whose images can be seen here, Slota captures many of the Grimms' sinister overtones.