Lawrence put his money on the islanders: 'In the end, the strange, sinister spirit of the place.will smash our mechanical oneness into smithereens.'

It may be one of the other, much more sinister spirits that I strongly suspect now manifest themselves there.

"Also you spoke of other, more sinister spirits."

Emerson soon discovers the oil lamp is one of three items (à la bell, book, and candle) that are keeping a sinister spirit at bay.

He becomes a street racer and stumbles upon a sinister spirit on the road.

But the only real reference to the sinister spirit of exploitation is the theater owner's declaration to his audience that "we provide the best in colored entertainment."

I have the Ghearufu, the sinister spirit retorted.

His speech was decorous, his expression respectful, but it was only a mask through which gleamed the violent and sinister spirit of the man.

Patjook was believed to have a special power and sprayed around houses on winter solstice to repel sinister spirits.

The sky and all those things that are commonly clear seemed overpowered by sinister spirits.