| Exploitations of various kinds, in several directions, are recounted in a tone both minatory and droll. |
| On first reading, this language no doubt sounds minatory to pro-choicers and pleasing to pro-lifers. |
| The Soviet Union undermined its own objectives by minatory behavior that produced a palpable sense of threat in the Japanese public. |
| These frontier wilderlands are the retreat of a nostalgic whimsy, and the drawing rooms of the nascent American metropolis are now invested with a minatory playfulness. |
| In the first movement, the Lambeg drums are male, minatory, and hostile, in conflict with the main orchestra. |
| Behind both these minatory visions stands a bloodthirsty Father, damning and punishing. |
