Sentence examples for sinister type of from inspiring English sources

"We are dealing with a far more sinister type of activity because it permits the enemy to guide and shape our policy".

"We are dealing with a far more sinister type of activity because it permits the enemy to guide and shape our policy". The claim was baseless, scurrilous — and plagiarized.

However you choose to approach it, telling your child that they are fat and therefore need to change is going to plant the seed of a sinister type of tree in their mind.

"Across the world, we're seeing more sinister types of jelly blooms, in oceans that have been under pressures from our own mismanagement and our own pollutants," said Yanagihara.

These sinister types seemed to be part of a cabal whose plan was cajoling Brian to commit the knifing.

Soon sinister types converge on the stage, and a pattern of male domination begins.

In 1928 and 1929, the society adopted a bend sinister gules, a type of diagonal red line borrowed from heraldry.

Some names sound smooth and pleasing, while others sound cold and sinister — depending on the type of music you play, you may want to choose to use softer or harsher sounds in your name.

Tropes can be ignored or upended, and chilling child patterings and mysterious stains are an enticing part of what Henry James called "the strange and sinister embroidered on the very type of the normal and easy".

Prayer (Quercus, £18.99), Philip Kerr's first standalone novel in a decade, is a rum beast that uses the cosy familiarity of the thriller form to buttress a fantastical supernatural plot – "the strange and the sinister embroidered on the very type of the normal and the easy", as one character puts it, quoting Henry James.

James, of course, wrote ghost stories, too, and viewed the supernatural forces at play in stories like "The Turn of the Screw" as an embodiment of the anxiety that underlies the stuff of daily life, "the strange and sinister embroidered on the very type of the normal and easy".