Here the technique of under-describing, withholding, comes startlingly to the fore, that other great technique for communicating balefulness. From Wordnik.com. [Mieville on Tolkein] Reference
Matters were not helped by the presence of Alex, whose totally withdrawn silence and dark, bitter and brooding countenance could be all too easily misinterpreted as balefulness: the von Karajans were not to know that Alex regarded his parents, whom he held in vast respect and affection, with exactly the same expression. From Wordnik.com. [Partisans]
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight] Reference
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 slightly startled. From Wordnik.com. [Gentle Julia] Reference
Regarding politics and the art of government as, equally with arms, their natural vocations, they have never given the Nation a statesman, and their greatest politicians achieved eminence by advocating ideas which only attracted attention by their balefulness. From Wordnik.com. [Andersonville — Volume 4] Reference
Although her picturesqueness did not swarm on him with images illuminating night, subduing day, like the Countess Livia's, it was marked, it could tower and intermittently eclipse; and it was of the uplifting and healing kind by comparison, not a delicious balefulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Amazing Marriage — Complete] Reference
Their pages are scattered with nonchalance and balefulness, which all seem rather out of place now. ". From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
But that their bliss he turned to balefulness. From Wordnik.com. [Among My Books Second Series] Reference
Krugman, as mentioned above, did admit (but only after a few hundred words of general balefulness) that the economy does seem to have been steered away from the abyss; however, he thinks that we're in for a Japanese-style L-shaped stagnant recovery, whereas Roubini, the guy who is the one usually known as "Dr. Doom", thinks that we're about halfway through a U-shaped recession that, while "deep and protracted", will be markedly on the wane, if not over, by this time next year. From Wordnik.com. [Mercury Rising 鳯女] Reference
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