I peered at the bulky figure lounging aggressively in it, observing its air of incipient violence and the green numbers on its forehead.

The bracing rush of politics gave Nara what others were given by mountain-climbing, or incipient violence, or the pleasure of a first cigarette before dressing.

Michael's poems are interior, fragmentary, and austere, often stripped down to single-word lines; they seethe with incipient violence.

Like "Miami," her 1987 meditation on the Washington-Cuban-contra connection, it purveys a brooding mood of incipient violence.

- the water-skier's instruction to the boat driver in that sublime moment of incipient violence before being pulled out of the water.

Most obvious anxieties concern discipline, particularly in big urban secondary schools, and the incipient violence that goes with bullying and intimidation.

Hodgepile's thin face was pinched with fury, but the moment of incipient violence had passed.

Increasingly abstract works done in sweeping strokes of paint evoke both exultation of natural spaces and more recently an incipient violence within human habitation.

The show feels like an extended autobiographical account of suppressed anger and incipient violence (Cotter).