To the unmusical hearer a note on the gong means dinner, this perhaps often is menacing enough.
People would come and threaten them. And they would respond by putting the book in the window. Behind that, the publishers, many of whom were menaced and receiving anonymous phone calls of the very menacing kind and so, almost everybody - not everybody, but almost everybody held the line.
I don’t intend to be menacing, but I do think of life as being essentially dangerous. We never know what’s going to happen from one day to the next.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.
I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening.
One of the most dangerously vicious circles menacing the continued existence of all mankind arises through that grim striving for the highest possible position within the ranked order, in other words, the reckless pursuit of power which combines with an insatiable greed of neurotic proportions that the results of acquired power confer.
Trevor was as menacing as he was gorgeous. If he were a vampire, he'd be the dark kind, the kind that sneaks up on innocent girls and bites without a thought.
Oh noes, kitteh haz major angriez!” I said. I turned around to share a laugh with my companions and found them glaring at me. “What?” I asked. Leif shook a finger and said in a low, menacing tone, “If you tell me I have to talk like an illiterate halfwit to fit into this society, I will punch you. ” “And I’ll pull out your goatee,” Gunnar added. “Lolcat iz new happeh wai 2 talk,” I explained to them. “U doan haz 2 be kitteh 2 speek it.
I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism.
In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.
The magician stood erect, menacing the attackers with demons, metamorphoses, paralyzing ailments, and secret judo holds. Molly picked up a rock.
We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.
Want any of this stuff? Jordan?. . . Nick?" I didn't answer. Nick?" he asked again. What?" Want any?" No. . . I just remembered that today's my birthday. " I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.
Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
