Its weighty, slightly menacing muscularity is an exciting alternative to the skillful refinement to which clay more often lends itself.

"Just follow my finger, Michael," lan murmured, his voice low and slightly menacing in the stillness, "and you will go-to-sleep."

The man's tone altered, became slightly menacing.

But if that sounded like an appeal for conserving ammunition, there was an intriguing, slightly menacing, counterpoint.

The bartenders, mostly women, and waitresses stick to a nocturnal, slightly menacing look of black spandex worn in daring ways.

A slightly menacing smile edged his lips.

The women appear as slightly menacing and rendered with angular and disjointed body shapes.

"That's when the doves went from being quite adorable to slightly menacing," he said.

Thus an age-old New York phenomenon repeats itself: hipsters spot an underused, slightly menacing neighborhood and move in.

At night its character becomes slightly menacing, and the park should be avoided.