Usage examples (9)

• Here the technique of under-describing, withholding, comes startlingly to the fore, that other great technique for communicating balefulness.
• Matters were not helped by the presence of Alex, whose totally withdrawn silence and dark, bitter and brooding countenance could be all too easily misinterpreted as...
• The girl's indifference could not be real; and if it was not, her good acting only betrayed the depths of her experience and balefulness.
• At this, she looked full upon him, and already she had something in the nature of a surprise for him; for so powerful was the still balefulness of her glance that he was...