The Daily Telegraph took a similar line, reporting that the operation to reconstruct Smith's face had "left him with a somewhat menacing stare".

A few minutes later Huruska approached Cugel's table and stared down at Cugel with a somewhat menacing grin, while Maier stood anxiously a few paces to the rear.

I have always found its brownish-purple cowl-like hood somewhat menacing and in my youth often expected a sinister, small monk to emerge from it.

Overall, this version is much darker than "The King" and somewhat menacing.

"This declaration has a somewhat menacing tone."

Their presence is larger in volume than the air they displace and they are somewhat menacing.

Over all this the clouds shed a uniform and purplish shadow, sad and somewhat menacing, exaggerating height and distance, and throwing into still higher relief the twisted ribbons of the highway.

That might explain why the shadows radiating from the wardrobe seemed both somewhat emphatic and somewhat menacing, as well as accounting for some of the fascination of the picture as a whole.

The first movement is cold, quiet, and somewhat menacing, with transparent strings and distant though ominous timpani motifs.

These nature sounds move through a crescendo and into a somewhat menacing guitar solo, the backdrop for which is a cacophonous musical passage that serves as a replacement for the natural cacophony that preceded it.