Sentence examples for sinister sense from inspiring English sources
They stir a sinister sense of recognition, for who has not heard of the banality of evil?
The return visit conjures up a sinister sense of abandonment and encroaching nature, telegraphed to the street by the gallery's exterior.
Both senses came along years after Holliday joined Sheriff Earp to gun down the Clanton Brothers gang, who were, in a more sinister sense, there for him.
Emmet Gowin took an aerial photograph of an aeration pond at a toxic water-treatment facility that has a peculiar and slightly sinister sense of order.
The sinister sense of deceptiveness was then transferred, according to a 1914 slang lexicon, to "a female confederate" of "genteel grafters".
Dashiell Hammett kept that sinister sense in his 1929 "Maltese Falcon," introducing a verb form: "You could have blipped them both".
The novel is a balm for anyone attracted to the half-soothing, half-sinister sense that everything was better just before it got bad.
Not sinister in the sense that a demandeur d'emploi troubadour might knife you in a dark corridor, but more that it is solid with a sense of failure.
This in turn triggers a sinister process without any sense of proportion.
Even if many outsiders (notably the Israelis) sense something sinister underneath, he has sold himself to the Iranian people as a pragmatist and a negotiator.
The Knife Silent Shout (2006) The mind-blowing and singularly disquieting sound of a band pushing themselves to the limits of pop, Silent Shout is dominated by a sense of sinister dysfunction.
