Sentence examples for there was a menace to from inspiring English sources

Every game there was a menace to it".

While he's certainly got the look right from the short snippet revealed, there's a menace missing from Sheen's Clough; that habit of almost trying to swallow his venom as he spits it out.

"But there was a quiet menace to him that I was just able to absorb while he was on set".

Somewhere there is a menacing rumble as of a train passing underfoot or overhead.

He's rather more polished here than he often looks on screen, with tailored clothing and smart glasses, but there's a lethal menace to that smile now as he plays the avuncular old gent with a stiletto up his sleeve.

But there is a new menace to the English arcadia: the suburb and its handmaiden, the automobile.This clash between deep atavistic structures of English society, symbolised by the hunt, and a modern, relatively egalitarian and largely suburban society, is sensitively explored by the philosopher and conservative journalist, Roger Scruton, in a short but brilliant book, "On Hunting".

There's a slight menace to this melody, and one that could really help scare potential enemies off.

With the models' hair slicked on the forehead, there was a frisson of menace to men in ruched pants or the "torn" effects.

There was a dreadful menace in seeing Nesbitt switch so readily from pink-faced beaming Baptist – genuinely transported, raptured, in swaying song – to keen amateur killer.

"There was a bit of menace there from the FoIs, but the fact that it was so responsibly reported gave us the courage to realise that it was not as bad as we feared," he said.

"There's a dark, edgy menace to it," says Fleet. "There's a certain cruelty in there.