Then, abruptly on the last page, he lapses into a kinder, gentler tone as if wanting to leave us with a less minatory impression of himself. From LearnThat.org.
In metallic black, the car looks minatory and sinister. From Wordnik.com. [A Shapely Visitor From Planet Maserati] Reference
A traffic warden, a lady of a minatory aspect, stood by the car. From Wordnik.com. [William Golding - Nobel Lecture] Reference
Luxford decided to ignore the minatory quality of her expression. From Wordnik.com. [In the Presence of the Enemy]
Widely viewed as outrageously racist, this minatory speech destroyed his career. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Christopher Caldwell’s New Book:] Reference
And then the ironically minatory heading on the Twitter page: "What are you doing?". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
What had been the first word of that minatory speech Lord Lovel did not clearly hear. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Anna] Reference
Behind both these minatory visions stands a bloodthirsty Father, damning and punishing. From Wordnik.com. [Philocrites: 'Sponge for punishment.'] Reference
She checked her laughter and her glance at Julius was at once minatory and conspiratorial. From Wordnik.com. [She Closed Her Eyes] Reference
Obey your parents; obey the tribal elders, especially when they adopt a solemn, minatory tone. From Wordnik.com. [The God Delusion]
“Mon Dieu!” the comte burst out, though he quelled his outburst when Sara turned a minatory stare on him. From Wordnik.com. [The Seduction Of Sara]
Actual participation was too minatory to attempt, a phantasmagoria he managed to ward off throughout his life. From Wordnik.com. [Digging James] Reference
His Lordship yawned hugely, then catching his father's minatory eye, made a belated attempt to cover his mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Drums of Autumn]
I spread the note open on my surgery table, its minatory summons dark and peremptory above the timid signature. From Wordnik.com. [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]
The officer repeated his phrase, trying the conversational, wheedling, and minatory tones in turn -- but it was useless. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918] Reference
From the moment Glover nasally announces, "I invented Hitler studies ..." the darkly funny, minatory novel jangles in the ear. From Wordnik.com. [The New Oral Tradition] Reference
She shook hands firmly with Dalgliesh and gave him a minatory glance as if welcoming a new patient from whom she expected trouble. From Wordnik.com. [She Closed Her Eyes] Reference
Paula Fox is tall and composed and has a warmth about her that one would not expect from her prose, which is cold and precise and minatory. From Wordnik.com. [Paula Fox] Reference
Bench and Table and shook a minatory forefinger at Asquith. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, May 27, 1914] Reference
A heavy and minatory silence seemed to descend upon him; the. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Queen Crowned] Reference
Number 3, Lauriston Gardens wore an ill-omened and minatory look. From Wordnik.com. [A Study in Scarlet] Reference
"What did you really see last night?" she said in a minatory voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Bat] Reference
Office Ground, marked off with barbed wire and minatory notice-boards. From Wordnik.com. [Highways and Byways in Surrey] Reference
But if held over our heads as a minatory measure, to take place within. From Wordnik.com. [Political Pamphlets] Reference
The parson is very brisk when he reaches the minatory clause in his sermon. From Wordnik.com. [Ralph the Heir] Reference
Phantasms of St. Edmund 'on the rim of the horizon,' looking minatory on him?. From Wordnik.com. [Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.] Reference
"You demand States-General?" asked Monseigneur with an air of minatory surprise. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
His features had lost their delicately benevolent aspect; his words were minatory. From Wordnik.com. [The Vanished Messenger] Reference
Goldsworthy explained what was the matter, with scarcely any modification of his minatory air. From Wordnik.com. [Sisters] Reference
No one concerned with the fundamentals of national well-being can ignore anything so minatory. From Wordnik.com. [Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles] Reference
"It isn't as if these things were ours," said Bob, realizing that he had spoken in an unduly minatory tone. From Wordnik.com. [The Rules of the Game] Reference
The law, as antithetic to the gospel, and as the word is employed in the text, is in its nature mandatory and minatory. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons to the Natural Man] Reference
Saint-Antoine and Saint-Marceau, is one minatory mass of clear or rusty steel; all hearts set, with a moody fixedness, on one object. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
Yet '-- and he made his voice minatory --' in these evil and tickle times well it might have been that that letter held delicate news. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Queen Crowned] Reference
We looked up from the cockpit of our dancing pleasure boat and saw the huge misshapen iron monsters towering over us, minatory, terrible. From Wordnik.com. [Gossamer 1915] Reference
The author of the Law of Prairial had forgotten the minatory word of the sage to whom he had gone on a pilgrimage in the days of his youth. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre] Reference
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