It is a place where melody emerges almost as a surprise from a strangely menacing backdrop of pure atmosphere... It all works, no doubt about it, but there is room to question the quality of the source material.

Something emotionless and yet strangely sad and strangely menacing, halfway between a faint, hopeless sigh and a fainter, icy laugh.

There was something strangely menacing about it that filled me with alarm.

A shadow, huge, shimmering, and strangely menacing, like a gigantic ghostly shroud, hung directly over them.

Crow Wood is set below the north-western flanks of the Cleveland Hills, with a clear view to Roseberry Topping, a strangely menacing peak rising straight out of meadows and woodland.

I picked up a straw doll that looked strangely menacing, even evil.

That the burbs can be a not-too-exciting place for teenagers is conveyed in "Chappaqua NY," a strangely menacing photograph by Joshua Lutz of bored adolescents listlessly hanging out, with their sports cars and SUV's, at a woodsy site removed from home and hectoring adults.

"Touch of Evil" is, among so many things, the other film to find Janet Leigh at a lonely motel under strangely menacing management, and the one in which Welles gave one of his most droll, swaggering performances as a corrupt police captain in an American town on the Mexican border.

It was a design Sulu had never seen before, the angle and the dark, metallic hull giving it a strangely menacing appearance.

The smoke rolled up the hill, thick and black and strangely menacing.