Sentence examples for sinister transformation from inspiring English sources
Berlin traced this sinister transformation of the idea of freedom to the totalitarian movements of the twentieth century, both Communist and Fascist-Nazi, which claimed to liberate people by subjecting and often sacrificing them to larger groups or principles.
It is on positive liberty that Berlin focused, since it was, he claimed, both a more ambiguous concept, and one which had been subject to greater and more sinister transformation, and ultimately perversion.
All her neighbors are there, too, in slightly altered form, and the movie is filled with both sinister and enchanting transformations, as when the two portly, retired British music-hall performers who live in Coraline's house burst out of their shells of voluminous bosom and elephantine waist and fly through the air as slender, graceful young maidens.
This transformation became more sinister still in the hands of Kant's German disciples.
American Man draws a parallel between this transformation and the much more sinister processes that underpin today's aggressive masculinism.
It also functions, in its suggestion of something deeply sinister about the old man's benign transformation, as a sly (if unintended) critique of the sweetness that permeates the novellas.
This transformation increased Parisians' natural suspicion of Arnault's enterprise — L.V.M.H. having become, to its doubters, a kind of sinister luxury-goods octopus, a monopoly vender of French brands to ascending Asia.
If the metaphors of physical transformation in Mr. Barney's work about sports are ultimately organic, self-fulfilling and benign, they have a sinister tinge in Mr. Pfeiffer's.
