menace

Most of the menace comes from simply listening to these people philosophize about death, fate and the consequences of bad decisions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

On the album’s back half, a few unabashedly beautiful songs stand out like rock formations rising from the desert floor—especially “Deep Time,” which offers a shot of serenity amid all the slow-moving menace.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

In adapting the premise for TV, series creator Nick Antosca dilutes the movies’ naked menace by pouring reasonable doubt into both Max’s profile and that of the Bowdens, the married lawyers behind his downfall.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

Popular culture has often portrayed the species as a dangerous menace, contributing to a reputation that many scientists argue is exaggerated.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 2026

Traveling through the handiwork of the fire for so long made an unseeable menace more terrifying.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

These might be helpful, anodyne retail chatbots; they also might be utter menaces like Google Docs’ Gemini pop-up.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026

The District of Columbia teems with nonprofits dedicated to the proposition that one thing or another menaces the citizenry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

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

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

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

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

They have been menaced for money over dropped passes and missed shots.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 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

Our power and our fear of change help bind these people to their misery and bewilderment, and insofar as they find this state intolerable we are intolerably menaced.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin

The same grin can look menacing or jovial, depending on how Thatcher contorts the rest of her features.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

Emblazoned on his outer forearm is a menacing portrait of Tony Montana from the 1983 film “Scarface.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

At times, all he had to do to dissuade a would-be challenger was shoot them a menacing glance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

In this sense, the Backrooms reveal how digital culture is beginning to reshape experiences traditionally associated with tourism, allowing for the mundane to become menacing.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026

Pax’s every instinct urged him to run from the menacing scent, but he would not leave without Gray.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker