Sentence examples for sinister violence from inspiring English sources

Friday's election, denounced as a sham by many leaders across Africa and throughout the world, was a woeful event in a woebegone nation, afflicted by sinister violence and an economy that has plunged most everyone into penury.

The style is one in which the randomly observed objects of the world -- a broken chair, a stone on the ground, an impetuous ray of sun -- give substance to a darkly erotic and absurdist psychological realism in which a sinister violence lurks nearby.

But what many remember most is an extraordinary sequence in which the woman who pulls the scales from Freder's eyes – Maria Brigitte Helmm), a good-hearted workers' rights agitator – is kidnapped and replaced with a sinister, violence-inciting robot double by evil scientist Rotwang, at Freder's father's command.

But something more sinister — sensible violence?

Children's shows were singled out if they featured "sinister combat violence," and only four did: "Power Rangers" and "X-Men" on Fox, "Project G.e.e.k.e.r". and "Teen-Age Mutant Ninja Turtles" (both since canceled) on CBS.

The "nine Japanese-made stainless steel knives with carved black handles, magnetized against a metal bar above the blond wood butcher block table" are obviously sinister, but violence can also be inflicted by scissors, cushions, bathtubs, even a bowl of scalding spaghetti.

Yes, he made sinister excuses for violence and hypocrisy.

This is a formidable meditation on art's sinister relationship with violence.

Critics who dwell on the exacting, detailed artifice of his fictional worlds often overlook the deeply sinister undercurrents of violence and suicide that they contain.

The emphatic movement of the first half descends into a sinister sort of violence in the second — as Katie Workum thrusts Anna Carapetyan into walls — and finally stillness.

Most compelling is Corporal Filsan Adan Ali, veering between a disintegrating self and sinister flashes of violence, who misses seaside Mogadishu so much that "she wakes with its spicy marine scent in her hair".