Sentence examples for threatening character from inspiring English sources

"He must have been a threatening character for the powers that be at the time.

It is easy to imagine the conniption fits the Whitney of 1966 would meet if it were being built today; its threatening character spears every tenet of people-friendly cities now held dear.

In a letter Olwyn wrote to me a year and a half ago she returned to this incident, underscoring the threatening character of Plath's silence: It was, I guess, an exasperated telling off.

Its most threatening character is a young man at the controls of a good machine; its best presumably happiest citizen is an elderly Bostonian with a brace of drinks under his belt and one arm around a girl, driving a crazy jalopy down a wet road in the spring.

Despite their threatening character, many TEs have been co-opted for new functions during evolutionary history, in what is considered a form of domestication (Feschotte, 2008; Hoen and Bureau, 2012; Volff, 2006).

Do these (often quite comical, as well as perceptibly threatening) characters represent a type and, if so, does the extent of their monstrosity really matter?

While touching on the challenge of making modern, savvy readers satisfactorily terrified, he expressed the belief that people can still be reliably scared by a narrative threatening characters they've come to love.

Beatrice: We are threatened characters on a page.

I suspect I overlooked the depth of feeling with which Larson wrapped a generation of young, ambitious and threatened characters in a musical embrace.

He still often plays threatened characters like Sir Humphrey: Clarence in the film of Richard III or - as Christmas Day BBC television audiences saw - Malvolio in Trevor Nunn's Twelfth Night.

But to accuse the LSE of threatening a character assassination of Rolet is bizarre.