menace

The movie is disturbing precisely because it so accurately recreates the environments of the likes of “Pee-wee’s Playhouse” or “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” just with a lot more menace.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

Wardley's hands were low and his punches wild and telegraphed, lacking the menace he had shown in Manchester.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

The herky-jerky, unceasing Children of the Hydra’s Teeth are all memorable menace, their details etched deep into the film stock by the punishing midday sun of the Mediterranean.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026

He’s a menace on stage in the best way possible, almost defying an audience to like him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

It was as if the Forest was slowly emptying; the prey fleeing from the unseen menace.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

EU officials said that as part of the efforts they want to step up the mandatory registration of drones across the bloc to be able to better keep track of potential menaces.

From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026

The book’s most edifying compilations recount the Soviet people’s unconquerable yearning to live, create and love freely, despite the daily menaces of a police state and deafening propaganda.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025

It is a disgrace, he says, that the energy firms can send out "menaces" like that over a problem of their making.

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2025

Slow-moving brackish water, threatening to swallow whatever comes near, menaces in the background.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2024

Speaking from the White House, President Eisenhower said he sent troops because “Mob rule in Little Rock menaces the very safety of the United States and the free world.”

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals

Hawaii was menaced by Hurricane Fausto last month, before the storm weakened and skirted north of the island chain.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

Asian carp have taken over the Mississippi River and dozens of tributaries, where they have menaced native fish by eating much of their food.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

Even when the whole family is menaced, as in “Poltergeist,” the evil entities have a special yearning to possess little blonde girls.

From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2025

Not the craggy summit looking over the Owens Valley 10,000 feet below or the nearly vertical, several-hundred-foot drop that menaced just a few steps to the right.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2023

The villagers remembered Matty as a fun-loving young man who had been destroyed when he fought the evil, unknowable forces that had menaced the village in those harsher times, seven years earlier.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry

The total allotments to the three downstream states could be cut by as much as 40% through 2036, menacing their economies and communities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

You see their runs are really menacing, so I felt they were knocking on the door.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

Recent attacks involved longer-range missiles and drones, the official said, hinting at a menacing weapons upgrade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Alas, “Out of the Further” merely serves up exploding televisions and cut-rate smoke machines, making this seemingly menacing purgatory feel more like a bummer way station.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

The mood inside Ford’s became dark, ugly, and menacing.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson