| She blinked balefully down her long, greasy nose at me and then grabbed his arm, wordlessly dragging him off to the dance floor. |
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| I looked balefully at the empty restaurant, wondering why we couldn't just sit, but that's against the rules. |
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| A new wall painting by Richard Long and Monet's Waterlilies gaze at each other balefully and the visitor just whizzes through. |
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| Sydney glared balefully, but her resolve crumbled under the power of the almighty puppy dog eyes. |
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| The figure to the right, flame-haired, anguished, stares balefully at his companion with a look of the utmost dread. |
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| Glumly I hitched up my robe and moved down the corridor with the two Proctors looking balefully at me. |
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| But balefully high unemployment across the euro area will continue to bear down on wages, which in turn will keep prices weak. |
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| Irritably, he complies, but when the stewardess moves on, he reclines the chair again, muttering balefully under his breath. |
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| It is such a retro settlement that the working men's club glares balefully across Main Street at the Conservative club, like the post-industrial revolution never happened. |
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| Mr Paisley must be aware that he needs to do more to prepare the ground if he is to escape the accusations of betrayal that he has so balefully levelled at nearly everyone else in the past. |
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| And it is Russia's shadow that has fallen longest, and most balefully. Central Asia was subjugated over the 18th and 19th centuries: it furnished tsarist Lebensraum, cotton and a buffer against the British. |
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| And so Fidel Sánchez found himself being questioned by a bilingual newswoman about his infected home town while Sheriff Joe stood by, arms folded, staring balefully into the camera. |
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| In that instance it was young loyalists who were so balefully xenophobic. |
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| The stormy No. 2 in D minor, Allegro moderato, combines a balefully relentless rhythm with yelping gracenotes and turbulent bass lines, with again a brief Sostenutissimo passage for contrast. |
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