Baleful

Beau’s horror story is both beautiful and baleful.

The baleful list of the names of black men killed or brutalised by police in America is long and too familiar.

For displaced people on the street, the language of the hostile environment has had a baleful and chilling effect.

But the baleful ache in Warren Zevon's voice as he reaches for the high note brings you back, just in time for one of the great self-pity couplets of all time.

The baleful voice-over dialogue, revealed to be emanating from the apparition of Death personified, imposes upon dreamily preoccupied lovers Sven ( Chevy Chase ) and Inger ( Louise Lasser ) who send a not-so-silently jeering Death out for pizza.

To my relief, Kelvin fell fast asleep, but as I came to the important point, I saw the old bird sit up, open an eye, and cock a baleful glance at me!

While the larger part of Gibbon's caustic view of Christianity is declared within the text of chapters XV and XVI, Gibbon rarely neglects to note its baleful influence throughout the remaining volumes of the Decline and Fall.