#menacing

In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#city #country #darkness #familiar #friendly

With the draft, everybody was involved. Everybody was fodder. When you got to be 21, 22 and graduated from college, for two years your life stopped. If you had been running in the direction of your life, you had to stop and do this other thing which was, if not menacing, just plain boring. ↗

— Philip Roth

#boring #college #direction #draft #everybody

In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#gaze #menacing #street

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#enormous #evil #exist #makes #menacing

Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission. ↗

— Patrick MacGill

#certain #danger #destruction #doubly #engine

We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

#god #hell #menacing #messiah #need

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#aim #alarmed #endless #endless series #hence

I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening. ↗

— Rory Bremner

#fascinated #figure #frightening #i #i am

While we were at work there came nine or 10 of the natives to a small hill a little way from us, and stood there menacing and threatening of us, and making a great noise. At last one of them came towards us, and the rest followed at a distance. ↗

— William Dampier

#distance #followed #great #hill #last