Sentence examples for sinister quality from inspiring English sources

The cheerful "vertical garden city" of the propaganda has a haunted and sinister quality.

Ellet's decision to paint the ship black gave it a sinister quality.

His voice lacked the velvet nap to give the character a rich sinister quality of evil.

The Easter rituals in which their mother trusts have a sinister quality: the hurling of stones; the burning of marzipan to represent the perfidious Judas.

This is disappointing, for as affectionately as Megan Lloyd has depicted the wolves in overalls and aprons, they display a sinister quality befitting another story line.

Recently she sorted through some old school exercise books, and was struck by the sinister quality in some of her first poems: "For a tiny, sweet, mousy little thing there's already this slightly dark stuff going on".

Despite having been told repeatedly that Russians were as friendly and accommodating as anyone in the world, my cold-war childhood left me with lingering suspicions that anyone whose name ends in "ov" or "ova" must possess some sinister qualities.

And these are the things that give the long block between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues a sinister, brooding quality and make it look like a slice of the Bowery.

Take Drake, whose verse on "Stay Schemin" — the hook is borrowed from a unreleased Nas song, oddly enough — is phenomenally sinister, a quality he's not known for.

Ideal casting: Boardwalk Empire's Stephen Graham can shift from cool tranquility to murderous rage in the blink of an eye, while Jason Schwartzman and Joaquin Phoenix both have the required sinister, unnerving quality.

Though these violent markings often give his images a sinister, even disturbing quality, Slota himself has an upbeat demeanor.