balefulness

I had never beheld such an expression of balefulness as that which now framed itself upon my master's face.

As Terry, Miles Chapin does not appear to have enough balefulness and virulence to expedite insults.

During this period of time, Neukloster was confronted with impecuniousness and balefulness, but after all, Neukloster endured this time until 1803.

In a sense, therefore, his body provided a cover for the sharpness of his mind, and the cold balefulness of his stare a cover for his crusades.

The poet did not share this sense, he actively disliked it, but he could not escape - not even in Europe - from what he saw as the balefulness of that inheritance.

In "The Painted Cat," by Elisabeth Foucart-Walter and Pierre Rosenberg (Rizzoli), we are given a splendid catalogue raisonne of feline balefulness.

It is a sign of particular balefulness to orcs and goblins, as the greenskin races are believed to hold an ancestral memory of the danger and death Ghal Maraz has meted out to their kind throughout history.

In the nakedness of his self- display, his refusal to look for an existential "out clause," to blame anything but the essential balefulness of human nature (his and everyone else's) for his troubles, he was the most tragic of our great clowns.

Here, shocked by the balefulness (Unheil) of the society he glorifies in his Aeneid, the feverish Virgil resolves to burn his epic, but is thwarted by his close friend and emperor Augustus before he succumbs to his fatal ailment.

Matters were not helped by the presence of Alex, whose totally withdrawn silence and dark, bitter and brooding countenance could be all too easily misinterpreted as balefulness: the von Karajans were not to know that Alex regarded his parents, whom he held in vast respect and affection, with exactly the same expression.