sinister

The first sight of the red room was simply weird, it was sinister without depicting overt violence.

What was sinister about proclaiming “Israel’s 9/11” was what happened after America’s 9/11.

All of it translates the outsized role corporations can impose on our waking hours into sinister folly while asking us to ponder whether half a life is worth living regardless of the perks.

The last time the attic received a major overhaul was in the mid-2000s, and that figure, known as the “black widow bride,” had more aggressive, sinister story to tell.

Lynchian, it reads, blurs "surreal or sinister elements with the mundane" - an accolade fitting of the four-time Oscar nominee turned lifetime achievement recipient, whose character was as big as his films.