Sentence examples for to baleful from inspiring English sources

Real is a human faultline turned to baleful laughter.

You've grown so accustomed to baleful, baritone voiceovers that the absence of one feels like a trick to fool you into paying attention.

In Ms. Carbone's view, the traditionalism of art in the '20s was not a conservative reaction to European Modernism but a humanist response to baleful developments like industrialization, bureaucratization and consumerism.

During the set Mr. Dylan metamorphosed from jovial codger to mourner in "Blind Willie McTell" and to baleful prophet with songs like "The Levee's Gonna Break" and "Highway 61 Revisited".

Rather it was the judge's electrifying assertion that the whole case appeared to have been subject to a "baleful political influence".

What will turn the trend next year is the nation's continued expansion and an improved trade deficit, contrary to the baleful signals everyone seems to be heeding (click here for story).

Stein crouched on the pavement, jotting down notes for her speech, while eight performers holding hoops festooned with plastic garbage bags to look like jellyfish danced to some baleful polka music and explained how the jellyfish were like toxic assets.

This brings us to "the baleful influence of clerk drafting," to quot Edward Lazarus in his recent book, Closed Chambers.

Maria Misra, a lecturer at Oxford University, compares him to the philosophes, by stating, "his contemptuous attitude to the baleful influence of Hinduism in Indian public life is strikingly akin to the anti-Catholic diatribes of the enlightenment philosophes".

Then the crowd parted to let baleful George pass and mount the steps to the stage.

"Disaster is etymologically a mishap due to a baleful stellar aspect," wrote William Whitney, a predecessor of mine, in 1875.