Sentence examples for with sinister designs from inspiring English sources

In the present, descendants of the missing crew track reports of the ship as it reappears throughout history, while they themselves are tracked by an all-seeing enemy with sinister designs on the Mary Alice.

Mary herself was foolhardy enough to sanction sinister designs made on her behalf.

Theresa May may well have sinister designs of her own for the UK's hospitals, and is therefore aware that the best person to carry out such reforms is a man with a reputation for being a bastard.

The paper prompted a swift backlash in India, with one politician suggesting that it was part of a "sinister design" to stymie the growth of the country's medical-tourism industry.

He is especially pleased that David's mother, Mary — note the name of Barrie's wife — is "culpably obtuse to my sinister design," the design being "to burrow under Mary's influence with the boy, expose her to him in all his vagaries, take him utterly from her and make him mine".

But, just to keep the anecdote flow going, a recent experience I had with a marketing promotion makes me think that incompetence, or what you could call bad design as opposed to sinister design, is often a remarkably powerful force.

We've gazed at the intricate, sinister design of the wreckage there.

Dr. Willner sets out to hedge the school with sinister new regulations, ostensibly designed to protect the students.

It is a site with sinister associations.

Christmas lights shone with sinister menace.

Drew and Annabel are deceptively pretty songs with sinister undercurrents.