Sentence examples for sinister sweet from inspiring English sources

There is a body of water in evidence, but it's on the television set that conveniently plays "Rebecca," with Mrs. Danvers's sinister sweet talk about the sea, in a handy Hitchcock-Du Maurier reference.

The phrase "sinister-sweet" seems to have been invented for these wintry ballads.

And Mr. Cave's lugubrious vocals offer an appropriate note of melancholy beauty to grace the sinister-sweet closing family tableau, as memories are erased and dark winter gives way to cleansing spring.

Believe – the second to last track on the album – was written one week after former film student and sometime Vampire Weekend crew member Sisson experienced a terrifying ordeal: "Try to lock the windows tight," she sings, although her delivery can't help but seem more sinister-sweet in the light of the terrible events of 2011, in which she and her boyfriend were kidnapped at gunpoint.

Digital Spy's Lewis Corner praised the group's performance of the song at the Hammersmith Apollo, writing, "Striking choreography, tight harmonies and sinister-sweet expressions reinforced their image as the fiercely polished pop vixens they have transformed into since The X Factor".

Others are bowled over by the vivid imagery and a terrific performance by Helena Bonham Carter as the sinister, sickly sweet Red Queen.

The simultaneously sinister and sweet Light Flight is a three-minute encapsulation of acid-folk, and their reworking of girl-group classic Sally Go Round the Roses is evidence of bountiful imaginations.

Ms. Elliott and her technical team whip up a lot of rumbling, sinister atmospherics for "Sweet Bird," but somehow the air remains inert.

All detective stories, I suppose, are unreal because they have strict rules, and each of her books has different rules, depending on the small world it explores – fashion in The Fashion in Shrouds, the magical and sinister countryside of Sweet Danger, the post-war blocks of London flats in The China Governess, the dancers in Dancers in Mourning.

It's often hailed as a sequel to the torrid sounds of Pornography and a rejection of Kiss Me's brighter charms, but I've always felt it couldn't exist without either; that if the Cure hadn't learnt to write those catchier, stadium-sized songs, they'd never have been able to roll all that misery and melodrama into the sweet, sinister ball they do here.

It is surely the oddest movie of the year -- by turns sweet and sinister, insouciant and grotesque, invitingly funny and forbiddingly dark.