Sentence examples for sinister scene from inspiring English sources

He imagined a sinister scene on a cliff.

I was not prepared for the far more sinister scene I encountered in a ravine deep in the Darfur desert.

Melville, coming from a New England abolitionist tradition, did not make an obvious allegory out of Delano's account, and his black slaves are not shown to be particularly sophisticated or subtle – with the exception of Babo who, in a tense and sinister scene, insists on shaving the man he pretends is his master while Cereno, terrified, submits to his ministrations.

As we watch the superbly sinister scene in the 1941 thriller Suspicion in which Cary Grant slowly, but implacably, ascends a spiral staircase towards Joan Fontaine's bedroom, we may well wonder why the glass of milk he's carrying looks so ominous and hyperreal.

They've managed to completely lift up a wall from the sinister scene, and they're hoping to find someone alive beneath it.

These are promising ingredients for a plot, but Phelan undermines them with sinister scenes that create a sense of quiet dread but don't go anywhere.

Once an abstract painter, Mr. Richter reinvigorated his career two years ago with figurative compositions of topical and sinister scenes rendered in a style at once fierce and as dappled as a John Marin pastoral.

The Pythonesque drawing-room absurdity of their leisured existence is in contrast to the brutal toughness of the Bruforts' life and the placid, yet faintly sinister scenes of the bay and the dunes themselves: curving and undulating and hiding horrible secrets.

One knows, for example, that the Deza cold-bloodedly smashing the hand of his wife's lover is no longer the Deza he was before he began stalking the man through the Prado and the streets of Madrid (richly sinister scenes); that however understandable and even necessary his actions may be, a rupture has occurred, and that a reckoning is going to be required.

Lennon's sinister, scene-shifting closer to the White Album's first side presents a wide range of dynamics, but they felt lacking in the new version, which sounded almost as if there was a pillow over the speakers.

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