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Sentence Examples A bendlet sinister extends from the top left to the bottom right of the shield. This is a benign rather than sinister story, and I know that some may be indisposed to accept it. Per pale and per chevron Vert and Azure, in dexter chief two salmon naiant, in sinister chief a broad-axe, in base a salmon naiant, all Argent. What is usually referred to as classic French indiscipline becomes something altogether more ugly and sinister when England are the opposition. The result is a peculiarly U.S. hybrid of industrial boosterism which contributes to anti-environmentalism's decidedly sinister cast. There's even a couple of yellow radioactivity warning lights for sinister effect. But there is one other sinister and unsettling theory that does hold up rather better. Dark, sleek, minimalist and atmospheric bordering on sinister, this is the kind of club where you might see Darth Vader having it large. Maybe the sugar in my coffee is being mixed with other white granules that are rather more sinister. Engineers in sola topis arrived with their sinister instruments and charted their designs on reams of paper. Argent, a tree eradicated and on a chief indented vert a lizard tergiant palewise Or between a snake nowed and a snake nowed to sinister argent. I sometimes think it must be some sinister conspiracy designed just to freak men out with the sheer, dazzling pettiness of it. What saves them is the same sinister atmosphere that pervades the larger works. I thought I'd make the most of it and adopt a more sinister persona for three or four performances. That they cut the phone line as well makes it more sinister and suggests that the idea was to endanger life. And lastly, for some problem youngsters, cannabis is a gateway to other more sinister and dangerous drugs. The actor bites amusingly into his slightly sinister role as a suspicious investigator. Presumably the point would have been to make certain of the sinister police chief's demise, while putting a varnish of legality on it later on. Houses that don't have catch-all closets or rooms in which the inhabitants can dump outdoor stuff always seem sinister to me. Amy Linton's angelic voice still sounds as sweet as ever, but a crumb of sinister darkness has been added. Show More Sentences The most sinister of these is a ventriloquist dummy Joey found in an old abandoned house. They may have staged her stay at the grange with the intention of providing him the opportunity to carry out his sinister plan. The final showdown takes place in the sinister cityscape, which still has its creepy visual charge. But to buy into his sinister conclusions means buying into his level of contempt for the present authority. Elam's portrayals of sinister thugs, gangsters and gunslingers were aided immeasurably by his squinty, wandering left eye. The hysteria familiar to us from our high-school history books and Arthur Miller's Crucible gets its due, in the usual sinister hues. Some of the dissent has taken on a sinister hue, leading to fears that his death could unleash a new wave of anti-abortion violence. A sinister cyclops rises above a herd of carousel horses, freed from their constraints and stampeding out of the painting. He saw him gather five of the soldiers into a huddle and with his subtle, sinister voice began to speak again. She warned us in a well rehearsed sinister tone that we should not be alarmed by the medical equipment Fay had been hooked up to. Then again his sanity was a big question mark so what really happened to him probably isn't that sinister as a paranoid would have you believe. Somewhat sadly, he has worked himself into a niche for eccentric bad guys whose haphazard oddness makes them sinister. And is it me, or is there something sinister and stealthy about that design? It wasn't anything particularly evil or sinister, instead more on the lines of someone who'd just managed to housebreak a small puppy. The attack is a sinister twist to the recent happy slapping phenomenon, where thugs record assaults on their victims. The story is presented by nine choric dancers who, in their dark glasses and black skullcaps, resemble a sinister Gallic mime troupe. As soon as police told McDonalds of the spoon's sinister use, the stirrer was redesigned with a flat end to make it useless to drug pushers. It is not necessary to smash whichever city they are having their sinister and conspiratorial conferences in. I grilled him about how this works, and at least in his case, it's not particularly sinister. David Warner is nicely sinister as Evil Incarnate, and Sir Ralph Richardson, that stately old figure, is a headmasterly Supreme Being. Show More Sentences This remark, delivered in an offhand fashion, suddenly cast a rather sinister chill over the whole proceedings. It is basically a wide stripe that runs from dexter chief to sinister base. He had long, black hair that was supposed to make him look sinister, but the stringiness and greasiness just made him look rather pathetic. The lion is a canting emblem for Leo X, though here, facing to sinister, it is heraldically incorrect. During the Ming Dynasty, the three-story barracks pavilion must have seemed electrifying after months in the sinister outlands. Despite her good deeds, this wizened enchantress's sinister duality surfaces when she senses the threat of a changeling among the Quinn clan. There were dark and sinister things in the Dalewoodian nights, things left to fable and myth. The idyllic scenes and saccharine, sunshiny colors he favors belie the sinister underpinnings of totalitarian rule. Is there something dark and sinister about this clown that we can never really understand? Yet despite the sinister ideological forces at work, an uncanny tenderness suffuses this poem. It's blue, master, with a red stripe sinister, and a yellow emblem on the dexter side. The dog turned around to face the man and growled deep in his throat, a dark sinister sound. All are meant to purvey the same message of ubiquitousness, a sinister blend of reassurance and menace. As they roll the dice, a window in the middle of the game delivers decidedly sinister messages. I find it difficult to believe that he could just switch allegiances as easily as that, there must be a dark sinister plot. He said the motive of the killers was sinister and aimed at destabilising the country. The habitual, gentle and ordinarily longed-for oblivion of the end of the day had morphed into something considerably more sinister. It's ascribing sinister motives to the FBI before anything remotely akin to that has been proven. Perhaps it's a subliminal, sinister reminder that gold is the root of all evil. Such a lopsided result defies the laws of probability and suggests something sinister at work. Show More Sentences However, the Part of Fortune is aspected by a sinister trine from Saturn, ruler of the 2nd, which is good. Frank discovers that the good Reverend may be involved in some shady, sinister dealings when he discovers damning evidence in a wall safe. She and her friends strive to assimilate the vague information provided by their well-meaning but sinister guardians. It's this sinister sparkle that has drawn me to the genre of cyberpunk in fiction, film, and even to an extent in music, for many years. Though Ilantar had little love for the Isaad and their sinister lord, he respected their prowess in battle. Fortunately for him, there are no Machiavellians around to define it in more sinister terms. It takes little imagination to believe that there is in fact something more sinister in the Government's motives. The novel I'd dreamed of for years, the one set in the merry, sinister woods of fairytale and midsummer, was there, waiting for me. His charm, poise and self-confidence are, right from the start, extremely sinister. A sinister, manipulative government and major corporate industries are exposed as the primary culprits. The carriage passed through a dark forest with tall, frozen, sinister trees that seemed to glower and claw downward at them. The figure watched them go and dematerialized into the wind once again with a sinister laugh. He manages to keep a slightly sinister edge to the role, while never losing sight of the awfulness of Sy's situation. A sinister looking retainer, dressed in a dark uniform with a blue sash and blue and white turban opened the rusty gate. A surreal, oddly sinister classic, this expertly mixes a cruel and satiric sense of humour with wide-eyed wonder. Italian fashion brand Miu Miu uses a slightly sinister image of a waif-like model, clothed in a baby-doll dress and perched on a bed. The further the excavation goes, the more events seem to spiral maliciously out of control, growing continuously more sinister. A far more sinister implication is the creation of an intolerant dogmatic approach to complex issues. Teenagers may look a bit scary to us adults these days, but it's fashion nothing more sinister than that. He reveals the type of sinister social manoeuvers necessary to maintain the exclusivity of the aristocracy. Show More Sentences His jerky movements and sinister singing voice complement the familiar musical tunes, which are deliberately cheesy for comic effect. There is a popular anti-corporate, progressive argument that sees market research and advertising as a sinister attempt to manipulate people. But when does joyous, mantric reiteration tip over into something more sinister, or worse, monotonous? He keeps fretting himself into a frenzy on a race continuum, sliding between dynamic and charismatic, sinister and galling. As a painter he is best known for dramatic and sinister architectural views, with figures dwarfed by their gloomy surroundings. Yet we knew a terrible secret far more sinister than Ray Martin's wig or the little green men at Roswell. Shuto screamed an ancient battle cry and charged into the night, the only light in the dark the sinister eyes of his terrible adversaries. This is a political freebooter and scoundrel who is fated to end up in the company of sinister and fascist-minded elements. However, this Capone turned out to be nothing more sinister than a plumber, more used to fitting ballcocks than firing a Tommy gun. When Macbeth is hunched over, scrawny and half bald he does not radiate a sinister charisma. There was also a folly and a burial ground, so all in all more sinister than friendly, in my opinion. The catalogue, indeed, makes out Penone's work to be sad, even sinister, rather than barrenly clever. Their sin is not deicide any more, nor are they are accused of possessing sinister racial traits. But for every case like this, which reveals why FOI is necessary, there are thousands in which nothing sinister emerges. Yeah, I was doing the final copy-edit and some innocuous passages suddenly became sinister. The laugh was deep and jovial, yet any listener could pick out the sinister tone. The Chief Inspector was furious at the melodrama created and the exaggerated, sinister choice of tone. With the house of Bourbon the baton distinguished the cadets, while the baton sinister marked the illegitimates. By the 17th century a baton sinister was also used to indicate illegitimacy. What I love about your characters is the perfect balance of cute and sinister, attraction and repulsion. Show More Sentences In the opera he is led on by a succession of sinister characters, all played in Mephistophelean fashion by the same baritone. It is the perfect watch for a well-honed style merchant on sinister covert missions. When they opened up the sensor that had detected the fire, they found nothing more sinister than a dead fly. Flanking the elevator on both sides stood the Shadow Lord's black-garbed sentinels, his sinister Warrior disciples. The sinister imagery is hard to reconcile with the contemporary city, with its multiracial population and beery, welcoming atmosphere. There was a sound of distant thunder in the sinister skies above, and she slowly glanced up. It believes that offering scenes set in abandoned barns and ivy covered, crumbling conservatories will add a sinister shimmer to the formula. It was one of those rare smiles that had nothing behind it, nothing sinister, malicious or conniving, it was a true smile. A sinister yet plainly demarcated force of evil is ever-present in his films. Above all, it had the dominant presence of Veronica Dunne in the dark mezzo role of the sinister Countess. Periodically, they are visited by a sinister official who inspects their papers and sometimes buys or confiscates a new fiddle. Having robbed her boss's safe in order to get married, she holes up overnight at the sinister Bates motel. Something bothersome about this particular image is the way in which the bend alternates direction to become a bend sinister. A coat, which is fretty, is entirely covered by the interlacing bendlets and bendlets sinister, no mascles being introduced. The other problem, of course, is placing a blue bend sinister on a field divided half blue and half yellow. The sign of the 2nd house is fixed and aspected from the sinister sextile of Jupiter. A more sinister consequence of prolonged sun exposure is the greatly increased incidence of both benign and malignant tumours. The Peledrim Forest itself looked sinister and forbidding, and the trees cast long shadows in the dim light of the setting sun. Ventriloquists' dummies are always slightly sinister, giving one the sense that they might really have a life of their own. He played them brilliantly, without insinuating a trace of sinister charm or humour. Show More Sentences Spitefully, Madame Defarge replies that she has indeed observed Lucie and makes a sinister gesture miming the guillotine. His depiction of a minatory US foreign policy and its sinister motives is grossly unfair. In any case, in its bilious doctrinal carping, the editorial was quite exemplary, a sinister, jargon-ridden spasm of Stalinesque nastiness. The tent contained a collection of herbs and strange concoctions which glistened in the lamplight, lending a sinister glow to the place. From the tawdry reality of the trophy wife to the sinister threat of the smiling clown, the show is underpinned by pathos. Henderson was a master of playful and sinister distortions, cleverly achieved in the darkroom. Behind all its smug hypocrisy and sickly sentimentality are the sinister outlines of the class war. Its decontextualised images and sinister sonic refrains were allowed to retain their unsettling force. He was eerily calm all of a sudden, but had a sinister cast to his features as he smirked. As the group's fantasies become more ambitious, events take a sinister turn. I also note the sidewards glances that one receives from airport security staff when I do my best to look sinister. It takes on a sinister undertone in the incapable vocals of a bladdered bunch of footy fans. He plays the blankly charming hero against her sinister clown with squeaking, Chekhovian shoes. Landscape is indeed the innocent party, and yet can hide the most guilty and sinister of secrets. The sleek, almost sinister appearing, twin jet was the fastest thing in the sky and could outrun a Mustang by over a 100-mph. This is perhaps one of the most sinister of animated characters ever put on the silver screen. Normally I am very careful before I ascribe such sinister motives to a government agency. His hair was an umber mass of spikes, and his eyes were like two chips of obsidian, giving him a somewhat sinister look. He never strayed from the sinister, sensitive steps that marked his strange and singular songwriting path. The Church is a dark and sinister place with creepy occult doings going on. Show More Sentences Strange and sinister things sometimes happen on the streets of York at the crack of dawn. Or did something more sinister happen, as Padilla's family and others fear? Noah's piece tends to show that neoconservatism is not the sinister conspiracy he thinks it is, not that neoconservatism is cracking up. Eddie's mother, once a sweet, dotty emblem of elder abuse, has become oddly sinister. The high cheek bones are very pronounced, giving the creatures an impression of a continual sinister smile. Not to be overlooked in the controversy were the paranoid prognosticators who saw grand conspiracies and sinister plots everywhere. There is a worrying conviction growing in this community that something sinister is happening in our justice system. Whether in 2005 or 2025, we need a clearer picture of Cameroon, and less of a merely vague, sinister impression. They have suggested a sinister network where child molesters passed the word around that the schools were fertile areas for their activities. Yet there are more sinister happenings afoot, as Count Dracula himself jumps into the mix, searching for a serum to make him invincible. Christ's presence on earth simply exposed the activity of these sinister forces. What is this if not a sinister project of deadening the senses, so that destruction of life goes on as naturally as life itself? Now that its cover has been blown, we are assured there was nothing sinister about it. Norrell's love of secrecy and Strange's attraction to the wilder edges of magic invoke dark and sinister happenings. A quick Google search reveals that several conspiracy web sites allege sinister motivations behind this conference. Instead it's a candid admission he once lived the furtive lifestyle of a sinister international beer villain. They are put into the custody of Count Olaf, a sinister villain who is plotting to steal their inheritance. In many of his books, the heroes are noble trial lawyers while the villains are sinister corporations and the lawyers who agree to defend them. Credit card fraud attracts sinister people who use the money to fund criminal activity such as terrorism. Pink Floyd and Badfinger are your turns, Steve Wright your host, Ronan Keating your unbidden bringer of sinister ginger wrongness. Show More Sentences In my mind he assumes the proportions of a Bluebeard, all the more sinister for being so thoroughly outwardly respectable. The film continues its sinister loop, covering and uncovering the person or object that is buried. But Terry soon finds there are sinister forces at work in the skin flick trade. There's a sinister tie-in with Social Security, too, that needs puzzling over. Prions, the rogue proteins that also cause BSE, have come to be an ultra-modern bogey, a sinister by-product of urbanisation. Instead of watching a comedy with sinister undertones, we're force-fed a melodrama with no tones at all. The organisations indulging in this sinister activity have had a free play as never before in the history of free India. The most sinister bird is the giant, vulture-like lammergeier that drools upon the banks. More sinister still, a timekeeper was attacked with bolos, the machete-like knife carried by most men in rural areas. Only by unmasking a sinister conspiracy can he prove his innocence. That remarkable ear of his is attuned to the ultra-high frequencies of sinister voices. Time's close up makes Padilla's visage appear far more sinister. Amongst the glowing purples and reds of a Saharan sunset the silhouette of Mount Ktrik, its peak formed from two horns, began to look very sinister. It cuts to straight to the quick of this most sinister tale, using just two actors on a bare stage to tell of a man divided and torn between his good and evil nature. Some have innocuous-seeming URLs like cardpool.com or giftcardgranny.com, which cloak the sinister operations. But increasingly we prisoners of war sensed, from our captors' demeanor and reading between the lines of propaganda broadcasts, a sinister force surfacing. He is a not just a grinning creationist, he is also willing to disdain Darwinism with a sinister pugnacity. But the king believes it really is deep-rooted and sinister, and there are many Arabs who would agree with him. If they don't know he's sinister, so much the worse for them. Ryu was once another man, Takuto, who was killed in an accident with his lady-love Maki, but has been resurrected by a would-be Mephistopheles with a sinister agenda. Show More Sentences I heard drums beating, and the sinister familiar sound of chains. He gives them with a sinister look or two with a leer on his face. I went on to argue that the explanatory deficiencies of ID are overwhelming, extending far beyond bad and sinister design. Having achieved the single most sinister moment on television this year, Gordon bares his teeth, flares his nostrils and pulls his face back into a rictus of a smile. It was yellow, and not just any yellow, but sinister yellow. The sinister instructions can include a virus or a keystroke logger. Another standout track is Extreme Ways which alternates between sexy and sinister, all the while challenging you to sit still and not dance around the room like a loony. While some critics say it took too long for the president to come to this bottom line, others say that he seemed to rush the proposal out with a sinister motive. Only a man with a dodgy moustache, a sinister glint in his eye and a sackful of puppies in the boot of his car is likely to raise their suspicions. For instance, in the opening moments, a sinister flock of birds takes flight and a hearse-like limousine crosses the path of a fire truck backing out of a station. As sinister and well-resourced as it is, it may be the weakest link in the chain. Others mutter of sinister hidden agendas such as back-door price-fixing, which cannot be ruled out, but by what authority could he possibly engage in such activities? At first it's difficult to shake the feeling that it's kitschy schlock that they're radiating, rather than the sinister malevolence they may be aiming for. I had the distinct sensation that I was a puppet of an addictive manipulator, that there was a kind of sinister hand which was forcing me in directions that I didn't like. And the use of reverberating metallic sound effects to imbue every other moment with sinister portent gets tedious after awhile. Berliners for the most part simply lived with it, incongruous and sinister as it was. This bar sinister probably needled your attorneys, most of whom are fine fellows with curly black hair, double-breasted suits, etc., into attempting to enjoin us. The mutter of sinister threats and portents was already to be heard. Quiet settlements and sealed court records are not necessarily sinister. It's 30 miles upriver to the falls and, as we tunnel deeper into the Devil's Canyon, the river becomes slowly more sinister, wreathed with mist olive green. Show More Sentences Collectively, they're as sinister as the Kray gang and their molls. Many are certain that China will unleash something sinister in the territory this week if the protests continue. Most sinister of all is Pablo's ultimatum to you signifying his intention to move in and help the revisionist minority overthrow the majority in your party. Children across Bradford will be enjoying spooky shenanigans for Halloween tonight but police are urging that everyone takes care to make sure nothing more sinister happens. Her early work gave way to more chilling visions that echoed fairy tale evils, sinister forests, cunning wolves, and grandmothers ready to eat you. Bound in the flayed skin of 100 saints and penned with the blood of virgins, this sinister and forbidden occult text is an item of incredible power. As Carroll used it, there was something sinister, hidden and destructive in the nonsense word from the beginning. Democrats, for their part, have invested Norquist with sinister dark powers of obstructionism. His brother Davey is a jack-the-lad who dabbles in coke-dealing for the smart set but who dies after a brutal encounter with a sinister car dealer. They had been told that this lake was animated by a sinister spirit which brooded unsleepingly, malevolently, over the three great arms of that majestic water. And of course then you've got all that sinister branch stacking going on. Even the house sparrow's song sounded harsh and sinister on the day. The music and eerie sound effects add to the sinister atmosphere. Is it because of their design, or the brooding, sinister atmosphere? The sinister, murky world of espionage is laid bare in this revised and updated edition of Philip Knightley's powerful book about spies and spying in the 20th century. Even for those not aware that it refers originally to Vivaldi and his carroty hair, there is the vaguely sinister implication of subversive politics at work. The cracks in their marriage begin to show when Tom's sinister past catches up with him and the pair set off an escalating spiral of suspicion, greed and betrayal. When the building is evacuated, she stays behind unnoticed and overhears a conversation of sinister portent in her native Ku tongue on the microphone system. The novel sets out to over-write the bawdy, lusty Chaucerian England of popular mythology with a landscape that is sinister, threatening, and politically unstable. Once there, things go from lousy to worse as Emily starts staring blankly into the surrounding woods and palling around with a sinister invisible friend called Charlie. Show More Sentences There's something palpably sinister about the film's subtext. You managed to do a good deed, defeating the most sinister of dictators, who destroyed the country, killed our compatriots and wasted the wealth of the fatherland. The drug is like crack, only more addictive, more sinister, and pipeless. The third fact of the matter is that it's not some sinister conspiracy. As necessity dictates, there are sinister reasons behind all that unfolds, and at the end the scene is set for an even darker and gloomier continuation. There is nothing disreputable or sinister in this, quite the contrary. He had a sallow pockmarked complexion with little sinister eyes. Cue a sinister clap of thunder and a foreboding flash of lightning. That would be formalism, which is either arid or else, in some kind of complicated, sinister, paranoid way, connected to the oppressive operations of a mysterious power group. On five separate occasions, between July last year and March this year, she sent sinister letters, some sexually explicit, franked by the prison and on prison notepaper. There is something a little sinister about it, amid that green and fecund landscape, with its skirting of pine and silver birch and the furze and bracken above. Security experts explain how the web has now entered a sinister new era in which e-gangsters have linked up with computer geeks to follow our money online. This element of mystery may sometimes suggest the sinister, and there is likely to remain a touch of the sinister in great music, even the least programmatic of it. Let's start on a dark note, with intrigue and sinister goings-on. However the situation soon descends into something more sinister. So there's a sinister cabal of egalitarians who have infiltrated the higher echelons of the Government, all wanting to give equality a go, but too scared to tell anyone. We still talk about the British conquering India, but that phrase disguises a more sinister reality. The biggest mystery facing them is why the sinister government man wants them to drop everything and look into it. Morris dancing yokel Cuddy Banks provides much amusement when he befriends the devil dog, oblivious to his sinister powers. Of course, there is an even more sinister explanation for the glitchy Healthcare. Show More Sentences They were descended from the Earls of Halifax and Scarbrough but, as the bar sinister in the Savile coat of arms suggests, illegitimately. Oniomania, retail therapy's more sinister sister, is the medical term for the compulsive need to shop. However, some Inuit believed that the lights were more sinister and if you whistled at them, they would come down and cut off your head. And yet in those opening scenes Aberystwyth has never looked so dark or sinister, so uninhabited or hard. He scorns to undermine another's interest by any sinister or inferior arts. He was not influenced by sordid considerations.... Had she been merely of illegitimate birth, he would have overlooked the bar sinister. They wore sinister balaclavas, frog-eyed goggles and gloves neatly scissored to expose trigger fingers poised on fearsome automatic weaponry. On the opening track, a mournful shamisen wails over a sinister insectile buzz. This clearly shows their double talk and it clearly exposes their sinister plans to divide Maharashtra. The Iroquoians no longer made friendly visits or peddled fish and game, but prowled about in a sinister manner. A powerful performance, too, from Pete Gallagher as the sinister farmhand, Jud Fry. The less sinister aspect of the impanelling of special juries is represented by the desire to obtain a jury with a particular expertise. If you've been anxious that this lump was something sinister, the pain you're experiencing could be psychosomatic. Here she's greeted by a splendidly sinister Pauline Collins as the Proprietrix and her receptionist-cum-medium Sybil. I would ask your vet to make sure there is nothing sinister going on and, if it is epulis, perhaps get it trimmed back. Yet, there is nothing sinister or even unusual about a firm engaging in price discrimination. Trwbador steer clear of such labels with the sinister electroclash punch of opener Carpet Burns, where dirty mouth and mind border sleazy. Warburtons' response to Hovis' time-travelling epic is a vaguely sinister head trip reminiscent of late 90s cult favourite Being John Malkovitch. Few actors' eyes dart with the sinister drollness of Neill's, and veteran character actors Czerny and Northam are likewise entertaining to watch. The sinister big-money forces will bankroll his entire campaign if Pryce selects Texas Sen. Show More Sentences Chris Pine is a bundle of manic mood-swings as a rich sociopath, Christoph Waltz hammily sinister as his tycoon father. Spader is magnificently sinister as the slightly bloated, cold fish who causes problems for both the good guys and the villains. During the day he may be involved in strong-arming some thug or some sinister plot. The initially irascible and slightly sinister Doctor quickly mellowed into a more compassionate figure. A more sinister explanation is that they were to stop the dead from rising. This, despite the fact that there was no evidence that the tractor-trailers had ever served such a sinister purpose. But the young guns who have taken their place want to make a name for themselves and have formed sinister splinter groups. The stories were sometimes sinister, sometimes wryly comedic and usually had a twist ending. He was attractive, in a sinister yet compelling way, but taciturn to the point of monosyllabicity. I do not shy away from the sinister horseshoe crab, nor do I shrink from the slimy foot of the moon snail. The Kremlin likes to portray these as sinister Western conspiracies. This sinister purpose, explained the report, was effected by crosscutting between a general's party and a buck private on KP duty. In this story the quintessential 1940's shamus must navigate twists and turns in order to untangle the sinister web of deception. The Allegro Scherzando was outstanding with both players obviously relishing the music's mordant wit and foregrounding its sinister qualities. I always thought allotment owners grew nothing more sinister than King Edwards, Savoy cabbages or rhododendrons. A raft of thrillers, sci-fi movies, and sinister dramas followed. Satan is very devoted to his cause, although that cause is evil but he strives to spin his sinister aspirations to appear as good ones. When you display your right side in a mirror, the image shows its left side back and you know how sinister left-handedness is. For supporters, she used the crowned lion of England on the dexter side, and on the sinister, the wyvern Vert of Portugal. That includes Ali Hakim, a comic bogeyman, and the sinister, smouldering Jud. Show More Sentences Conspiracy theorists are often thought of as folks who see sinister plans at every turn, who think things are rigged or designed in a way that others just don't realize. Against the background of the systematic efforts undertaken by the then human resource ministry to communalize education, these stray events sounded all the more sinister. But they're actually being used by a sinister organisation that buries subliminal messages in their records to persuade kids what to buy, to eat and to listen to. Their sinister boss, Mr Colubrine communicates with staff at their weekly tribal gatherings via a video link beamed from his far-distant tax haven. Lest Rockwellian nostalgia blur reality, segregation of the races was the law and my earliest recollections of its sinister consequences remain strong to this day. Edgar noticed that Clyde was wearing a necktie with a driblet design. The little figures made him think of paramecia, sinister organisms with gullets and feeding grooves. When we see him lying atop a table, peering down at the figure crouched underneath, it could be situation comedy or something altogether more sinister. This film is the first of four projects on which Cary Grant worked with Hitchcock, and it is one of the rare occasions that Grant was cast in a sinister role. As the assorted weirdos and wannabes stood drinkless in that grim, empty house surrounded by sinister giant insect wallpaper, it bordered on depressing. At any rate no bar sinister appeared on the imperial escutcheon. Once more I was a man in a myth, incapable of understanding it, but somehow aware that understanding it meant it must continue, however sinister its peripeteia. Tonight, still searching for his son, Raven finds work in a Honolulu nightclub, where he is drawn into a sinister web of crime which he has to sort out, karate chop-chop. The pockmarked spherical body and pointy-petaled seedpod in Aurlia Gouthroii Blastula and Aurlia Gouthroii Blastula are decidedly more sinister in ambience. When he is finally arrested, he is subjected to a sinister form of aversion therapy that brainwashes him into being physically unable to use violence. Lowe soon learns that Jagger may be even more sinister than Blackbeard. While Family Plot was based on the Victor Canning novel The Rainbird Pattern, the novel's tone is more sinister and dark than what Hitchcock wanted for the film. He stars as a local mortician concealing a rather sinister secret. His cicatrice, an emblem of war, here on his sinister cheek. Examples from Classical Literature Thus a bend proceeding from the top of the left side of the shield is called a bend sinister. To dimidiate two coats of arms, the dexter half of one shield was conjoined to the sinister half of the other. All these families bear the arms described by your correspondent, but without the bend sinister. Is it, thought I, the shadow of a sinister catastrophe that already projects over and awes, appalls him? Mark, Albertine, that my name makes some effect, said Marat with a sinister laugh. He bore in his hand a branch of ocote, or candlewood, which lit up his thoughtful face, and gave it a sinister expression. The anticlerical press of Paris was insisting that the cardinal's stay in the French capital was of sinister import. It was emblazoned with the arms of the lords of Orley, without a bend sinister. If I had him near at hand, and of my own blood too, though with the bar sinister, is not here the question. A coat which is fretty is entirely covered by the interlacing bendlets and bendlets sinister, no mascles being introduced. Find more words! 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