Sentence examples similar to sinister- from inspiring English sources

In Cambridgeshire, he is diabolical and sinister and those who encounter him should look the other way, since his appearance is said to warn of a death in the family.

We should laugh at her. She's both absurd and sinister, and laughter is a powerful weapon.

Now I see this campaign in a more sinister light.

That appalling arrogance was bolstered by an even more sinister knowledge.

I never read any Sam Pig or Little Grey Rabbit (for the same reason that I never read any Beatrix Potter either – when I was very small, the sight of animals in clothes seemed so sinister that it used to give me convulsions. Use all the misty watercolouring you like, it ain't right, and I ain't going near it, I used to think).

In an obvious sense the Real IRA's threat to start murdering bankers is a sinister development.

I've now learned it also invites sinister spirits to your gathering.

He complained to Johnson about the "waves of invective over the years from parts of the Medical and Scientific Establishments" (capped up as if a single and somewhat sinister body).

Threatening reporters with the Official Secrets Act was a sinister new device to get round the protection of journalists' confidential sources.

The festival will alsofeature a sinister sound sculpture by Janek Schaefer, who lived as a child on the outskirts of Milton Keynes.

However, the climb was nowhere near as creepy as the 2,350m top of the Gemmi – a dramatic high-altitude plateau with a sinister edge.