Sentence examples for was so baleful from inspiring English sources

The influence of the ROH board was so baleful in the 1960s that MacMillan took refuge abroad, creating his masterpiece Song of the Earth (1965), for Stuttgart Ballet.

A mournful "not for long", by which he apparently meant that German population projections were so baleful that its future was uncertain.

THE second half of 2008 was so bruising and baleful in the stock market that few mutual fund managers managed to eke out gains.

The word is so loaded with baleful connotations that it tends to empurple any surrounding prose.

While Melanie launches a healthily aggressive attack on Bettelheim's dangerous "refrigerator mother" nonsense and his baleful influence, I do not agree with her hardline opposition to special schools: "What is so great about a classroom, anyway?

This is one of the reasons that his poetry can be so powerfully concerned with roots -- cultural, intellectual and spiritual -- and with journeyings, both of which are often baleful cliches in so much contemporary verse.

Fixing the passengers with his baleful stare and ironclad voice, he can't relax; he has to assert his authority every second, and he's so clenched and angry that he falls to the level of the material.

So I chased it, and as with many of those, the reality turned out to be as baleful as the rumor.

Petraeus was the baleful, missing figure in the room when Gates and Mullen wielded the knife.

Mortazavi, a stocky man with a jet-black beard, was a baleful figure to reformist journalists like Mirebrahimi.

She was reproachful, unyielding, baleful, slightly sinister – as well as attractive and endearing.