Yet something in her shadow was not right: a jagged distortion, a menacing quality.

This one, though, this Ellery, he had a different look, a more menacing quality.

The silence in that room now had a menacing quality.

Even through the distortion of the glass his voice maintained its peculiar menacing quality.

Dean also commented on the particularly menacing quality of the assassins' chorus in the opera.

Tiny noises in infinite variety assumed a menacing quality despite the slightness of sound.

Public pronouncements from victims take on a slightly menacing quality, in which, somehow, the line between victim and bully seems to blur.

Besides, there had been a menacing quality in that silence, an unspoken threat.

The silver had taken on a menacing quality.

There was a menacing quality to the place: "I always felt like I needed eyes behind my head."