Sentence examples for sinister use from inspiring English sources

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Their father builds a large cage in the backyard, ostensibly to keep rabbits, though another, more sinister use will later become apparent.

The filmmakers place each development in its political context, and they trace the increasingly sinister use of religion to justify self-slaughter and murder.

From the sinister use of 'Stuck in the Middle with You' in Reservoir Dogs to his spectacular find that was the 5.6.7.8's in Kill Bill, music has always been crucial to Tarantino movies.

Just when it seemed the ice pick served no purpose, a Brooklyn organized-crime syndicate, known as Murder Incorporated, found a deliberately sinister use for the otherwise antiquated tool.

Mayer-Schönberger said that Google, whose market share for Internet searches in Europe is around ninety per cent, does not make sinister use of the information at its disposal.

The film focuses on one real man, Kurt Gerstein (played by Ulrich Tukur), a chemist who is horrified to learn that the gas he helped create as a disinfectant is being put to more sinister use.

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Working from photographs, Mr. Knoke draws intense portraits that border on the sinister, using generic ballpoint pens and the fat markers favored by graffiti artists.

But the same technology can be put to more sinister uses, such as forging legal and historical documents and creating false evidence.

The 1978 Ozploitation horror flick, Patrick, had an irresistible plot about a psychopathic but comatose patient who becomes obsessed with a pretty nurse and takes over a sinister hospital using telekinesis.

The violin melody gave the choreography a cantilena flow, which Mr. Belotserkovsky's more sinister elegance used powerfully on Saturday night; at the matinee, Mr. Gomes banked on sheer menace in the amplitude of his dancing.

It cuts to straight to the quick of this most sinister tale, using just two actors on a bare stage to tell of a man divided and torn between his good and evil nature.

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