"I believe what is going on here is a sinister act," said Marilyn Aleman of Orlando.

The story of a young man who returns to the suburban house of his childhood to discover his parents have "moved on," this labored fable presents the nuclear family as a sinister disappearing act.

His later plays "The Shape of Things" and "The Mercy Seat" included more sinister acts; they received mixed reviews.

When she was doing her sinister act, she was scarier than Hogg with a drawn knife-and Hogg wasn't acting.

One day a stranger arrives at the city and after discovering this sinister act he resolves to break this cycle of killing.

Thus in "Charlie in the House of Rue" the Little Tramp meets Poe, and Chaplin's pranks turn into sinister acts of violence.

Before events heat up, though, Lee witnesses a sinister and mysterious act, on which the entire plot will turn.

Undermining the sinister act are body stripes rendered in a color best described as Nuclear Salmon.

We have reached a sorry pass indeed when a sympathetic exhibition about the main author of "The Federalist Papers" is regarded as a regressive, even sinister act.

One of his most sinister acts is sending angels to fall to Earth, making them fallen angels.