Sentence examples for that a sinister from inspiring English sources

It seems that a sinister occult group are trying to get their hands on the Stone.

It was in the Taj that a sinister new element to the attack emerged.

Local legend has it that a sinister Gypsy Man haunts the mountains, setting fires and stealing small children.

But a suspicious liberal could retort that all the God-and-Christ talk and military tributes were proof enough that a sinister Christian nationalism lurked beneath the surface.

It is, for instance, in this context that a sinister genre of direct action has developed around symbolically and physically imposing pork products on Muslims.

It seems that someone had reported that a sinister book, translated from the Russian and obviously Communistic in feeling, was among her effects.

"That's a sinister thing called 'The Priest's Cape,' " he said.

In the movie he is named Insley and is played by Rutger Hauer in a performance that suggests a sinister hybrid of Jim Jones and Timothy Leary.

Cabaret has its place in the elderly mind beside Bohemia and bolshevik, and other vague words that have a sinister significance and no precise definition.

Armed with little more than hard hats and a fancy name, two men posing as building inspectors carried out an extortion scheme that gave a sinister new twist to the idea of civic virtue, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Or you can use plants that have a sinister bent to accentuate the mysterious qualities of a shady garden, like species with near-black foliage, or the popular arisaemas with their cobra-like flowers and supersize leaves.