Secret and malign forces throbbed about us; forces against which we had no armor.

If there is some kind of malign mental force over there, what could it do to a fetus?

Whoever eats it will not be affected by malign forces.

Was the man making it all up or were there really these malign forces at work behind all this innocent fun?

Until the mysterious malign force surfaced again, there was nothing she could do.

Though not without some sympathy for the British, he included their imperialism among the malign forces which had distorted the 1919 peace settlement.

Whatever malign force it was that had blighted her life with terror, it still stood between them.

The malign force in "Wickedness" is less subtle about making itself known.

Edward felt that he and the malign force were fairly evenly matched.

In her previous novels, Gordimer has written powerfully about the effect of malign forces on private lives, but she is less successful here.