Sentence examples for threatening place from inspiring English sources

Wolf Winter eminently repays reading for the beauty of its prose, its strange, compelling atmosphere and its tremendous evocation of the stark, dangerous, threatening place, which exits in the far north and in the hearts of all of us.

It is useful for this market if women in war are glamorized, as in the Katy Perry video I analyzed, and bad for growth potential if it starts to get a reputation as a dangerous, sexually threatening place for a woman to work.

In hard times, the future looks a threatening place.

But Swedish voters do not want to think of the world as a threatening place.

For those who are listening to such a message, the outside world must seem a very threatening place indeed.

To the United States, Syria may be a threatening place, where terrorists are welcome and democracy is not.

Yet the couple persists in looking, and the movie turns into a convoluted and, to my mind, largely improbable detective story, with Patrick developing into a supersleuth who steps into claustral, threatening places and takes enormous chances.

Withholding, passive-aggression, threatening, placing blame and inducing guilt are other behaviors that are used to manipulate and control another.

Then he was asked if turning Oceanside into a resort and bringing in Starbucks would threaten places like the 101 Cafe.

The Giuliani administration tended to remove or threaten places that held licenses as punishment for a range of violations, from inadequate exits to drug use by patrons.

And because a warmer world means the continued melting of glaciers and polar ice, it leads to rising sea levels — which threaten places prone to flooding, as well as places vulnerable to sea surges during hurricanes.