Sentence examples for threatening characters from inspiring English sources

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.

Early on, the protagonist, Claire Fleetwood, an American forensic photographer living in London, inherits an estate -- named, with portentous irony, Eden Dwellings -- consisting of an old and imposing house and several smaller "almshouses" inhabited by various colorful and/or threatening characters.

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 now many Christians here say they fear that the fall of the police state has allowed long-simmering tensions to explode, potentially threatening the character of Egypt, and the region.

In facing destruction and corruption, and when their survival was threatened, these characters also used violence against the violence inflicted upon them.

The aesthetic clash between country house splendour and grunge production - 'the bow tie meets the video-cam', in Vinterberg's words - threatens the characters' complacency even as it relieves the cast.

Dressed like a sexy Victorian-era magician's assistant, she caws when someone uses the phrase "as the crow flies," says "bang, bang" when guns are fired and, when a typhoon threatens the characters on ship, casually pours the contents of a big bottle of water on them.

"Instead of fighting tooth and nail to avoid responsibility, Airbnb should help make sure their site is not being abused in ways that threaten the character and quality of our neighborhoods".

In our opinion, it is important to increase knowledge of PRS, not only because of its disabling, potential life-threatening character, but also because there is hope for recovery through suitable treatment.