He was going all out to give the proceedings an air of genuine menace.

Once a genuine menace as a Soviet outpost, Cuba has power to influence American politics that has outlasted the cold war.

At this point it is not even useful to question whether he is a genuine menace or the product of media hype.

The early morning emptiness gives the area genuine urban menace.

There was a suddenly dangerous stillness in the room again, a sense of genuine menace radiating outward from where the two men stood.

But his testimony that the berserker had been a genuine menace after all rallied most people back to the Conservative side again.

What makes his performance interesting is that he keeps Melvin's psychosis in check and thereby creates a character with an undercurrent of genuine menace.

I believed the Soviet Union was a genuine menace.

He stared balefully at the captain with a trace of genuine menace in his tone.