This time there was no sinister presence bringing up the rear.

How, then, has Strauss come to be viewed as a sinister presence in contemporary politics?

The crook had instinctively felt the sinister presence.

Now, coping with its sinister presence has become a fact of daily life in the fashion world.

They remain a sinister off-screen presence, their political goals undefined.

Anxiously, Wolf stared about him as though fearing a sinister presence which still might be within this room of death.

The Taliban remains a sinister presence, not least because this year they seem to be better financed and equipped than in previous years.

Every now and then, one of the tall waves thundering in from the open ocean carries within it a dark sinister presence.

A great dark ship lay at anchor in the cove, without a single light to mark its sinister presence.

Within seconds, there was no trace of its physical form or the sinister presence within.