Sentence examples for strange menace from inspiring English sources

Thank You, meanwhile, is built around the improbable idea of injecting the warm, slick sound of Magic FM-friendly 80s AOR with a strange menace.

This could be a description of his work: emotionally charged, strange, sometimes menacing.

It tells sophisticated jokes straight-faced, straight-up, simply as part of the story; it presents its magnificently strange, often menacing landscapes deadpan.

I can't quite believe that this strange, saturated, menacing, sad fantasia airs on network TV, but the mere existence of "Hannibal" -- let alone its strangely effective ingredients -- are yet more proof that we live in unpredictable times.

The statement is a strange mix of menace and confusion: the S.E.C. appears to be saying that tweets such as Hilton's could break the law or could be perfectly fine.

"Also enjoyed are scenes of Holmes in confrontation with a strange man being menaced.

It is parodic, detached, strange and sometimes menacing to traditionalists who do not understand it.

Also enjoyed are scenes of Holmes' confrontation with a strange man after being menaced.

He was a strange dichotomy of creativity and menace".

The three central female characters are an ageing widow, Kawsar, bed-bound after a brutal assault at the local police station; Deqo, a street urchin from a refugee camp who is cared for by prostitutes; and Filsan, a young soldier from Mogadishu, a "neat beret perched to the side of her pinned-up hair", who has a "strange combination of femininity and menace".

A trademark oddness – the strange mixture of lightness and menace, the glancing tone that convinced Froud that Bainbridge had nothing to say, the obsession with brittle cruelty – can be seen in both kinds of novel, but also speaks to something unnervingly fugitive in her work.