Sentences with phrase «lurking menace»

Entered through a trap door, like a zoo cage, the piece instilled a deep sense of lurking menace: Had the animal escaped, or was it still among us?

It's world of shadows and lurking menace is, indeed, gorgeous and unforgettable.

Under the surface lurks a menace that is slowly ripping the ecosystem apart: rats.

Not exact matches

But there lurk mosquitoes, an all - too - familiar menace.

But miles beneath the seedy or splendid glamour of the «City of Angels» lurks an invisible menace: a network of geological faults that, despite having no history of seismic activity, might just end up triggering California's most destructive quake while seismologists» backs are turned.

As with Jordan's villain, there's something real lurking behind Kilgrave's menace — in this case, the insidious specter of abusive misogyny.

Winona Ryder's jealous Beth lurks in the wings, feeding an air of menace throughout, but looming large over the central relationship more than anybody else is Barbara Hershey as Nina's mother, a horrifying font of cruelty and emotional violence.

It also helps that the filmmaker is fond of long, extended takes of brooding menace that allows the idea that danger and death could be lurking in every corner of the frame to be omnipresent once the carnage begins.

It's tempting to adopt that as a metaphor for the entire film — Gilroy's first, by the way, which makes his achievement doubly impressive — but while that is definitely part of the equation, what drives this movie forward is the menace that lurks just below the surface, beneath a calm exterior personified by Jake Gyllenhaal's Louis Bloom.

He seems to want to make friends with the elite surgeon portrayed by a lovably paunchy Colin Farrell, but behind Keoghan's beady eyes and Grinch - curled smile lurks an unspoken menace.

Story Mode «places them in the middle of an exhilarating, action - packed showdown with a menace lurking in the depths,» while Free Fishing Mode lets players take on a variety of challenges in several different environments.

Join Noctis, Ignis, Prompto, Gladio, and other familiar faces in a picturesque virtual reality backdrop en route to a thrilling encounter with the menace that lurks in the depths.

-- Gene Wolfe Gird yourselves for a bloody campaign against the mist - shrouded menaces that lurk behind the Courtyard gate.

Over the last 15 years, Margot Bergman has explored collaborative paintings with unknown partners, over-painting thrift - store finds, but in this new series of large scale works she has gone it alone: inventing intensely vibrant floral paintings, often featuring a repeated diamond motif, imbued with a lurking sense of menace and comic perversity.

Edith Newhall reports in the Philadelphia Inquirer: «Campuzano's paintings convey a sense of potential menace lurking in their background, and each is different from the other and vaguely reminiscent of the works of such painters as Jasper Johns, Frank Stella, Clyfford Still, and Piet Mondrian — enough so you wonder if Campuzano's project is actually about the viability of painting in the 21st century, and whether he has tweaked the «dead man» of the original note into a reference to famously groundbreaking artists, dead and alive....

Clash with the skeletal remains of cursed former pirates and beware undersea menaces that lurk beneath the waves!