In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.
Quotes about menacing (16 Quotes)
Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission.
Organized charity itself is the symptom of a malignant social disease. Those vast, complex, interrelated organizations aiming to control and to diminish the spread of misery and destitution and all the menacing evils that spring out of this sinisterly fertile soil, are the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents and dependents.......to breed out of the race the scourges of transmissible disease, mental defect, poverty, lawlessness, crime since these classes would be decreasing in number instead of breeding like weeds....such a plan would reduce the birthrate among the diseased, the sickly, the poverty stricken and anti-social classes, elements unable to provide for themselves, and the burden of which we are all forced to carry
The overall tone of her being this kind of Menacing being who would send people out to beat people up, and things of that nature, I just find all of that to be absurd.
1140 p.m. Louisiana's governor declared war on looters who have made the city a menacing landscape of disorder and fear. They have M-16s and they're locked and loaded, ... These troops know how to shoot and kill, and they are more than willing to do so, a
The trouble is, you cannot grow just one zucchini. Minutes after you plant a single seed, hundreds of zucchini will barge out of the ground and sprawl around the garden, menacing the other vegetables. At night, you will be able to hear the ground quake as more and more zucchinis erupt.
WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.
They glanced at one another like tigers taking measure of a menacing new rival.
We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.
The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
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 am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening.
Leslie has the ability to do two things he can be menacing and scary and he can be incredibly stupid and funny, and he blends them both beautifully. He is a consummate actor-comedian.
I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism . . . . I have every confidence that there will be a revival of activity in the spring, and that during this coming year 1930 the country will make steady progress.
In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
While we were at work there came nine or 10 of the natives to a small hill a little way from us, and stood there menacing and threatening of us, and making a great noise. At last one of them came towards us, and the rest followed at a distance.