Sentence examples for slightly threatening from inspiring English sources

"The deep divisions in the country are slightly threatening.

My father had become a remote, hovering figure, not unaffectionate but slightly threatening.

Even when people like Heidi Alexander or Seema Malhotra would approach us they'd get slightly threatening calls from the leader's office, and their offers would be quickly retracted.

Bangladeshis are moving out of Tower Hamlets and their share of its population is falling slightly, threatening Mr Rahman's power base.

Although he doesn't do anything as simple as divide the cast into baroque and modern styles, there is a different kind of formality and weight to the steps of the "historic" dancers, which makes them remote and slightly threatening.

Constantly refashioning her appearance through one era after another, Crawford was also the prototype of the modern celebrity (Madonna is the obvious heir) who places herself at the vanguard of current erotic taste and thereby becomes attractive and slightly threatening at the same time — a combination that no one can ignore.

It's like being in an underground car park, one of those liminal spaces where you feel slightly threatened and on your guard.

Google's view is a post-Internet ideology, and Apple, confused and slightly threatened, is falling back on an argument about privacy.

Trayvon Warren remembers his first big bullying incident took place when he was elementary school and a slightly older kid started threatening him.

Its slightly sloping floors threatened to pitch you back 100 years, and the wintertime drafts were so chilling that Mr. Weprin wore silk long johns to work.

10/15 Miley's 'Wrecking Ball' swing is parodied A bearded, nude, slightly overweight man threatened to out-viral the singer with an alarming parody of her video.