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There are walkways down to a lagoon enclosed by menacing rocks, and if weather conditions are calm, this open-air grotto is a paradise for snorkelers.
It also had the wit to set a menacing hero against a merrymaking villain--the line between good and evil grew scribbly.
The Wicked Witch, especially, uses terms of endearment ( my little pretty, my fine gentlemen ) when addressing others; but her menacing face and gestures, her vicious sarcasm, her screaming laughter, and her saccharine voice while uttering those polite-sounding addresses and scary death-threats are much more effective and nasty than simple name-calling would be.
There was a time, back in the '60s, when psychiatry appeared to loom over vulnerable minds with a kind of menacing grandeur.
Would Lemann use such a menacing phrase to describe a liberal?