A Celtic murder ballad sung above a baleful electronic drone.
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In part, this is down to the escape from baleful ideology.
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At that point, we'll finally be free of its baleful influence.
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But the war's baleful effect has touched even ''la Sainte-Marie.
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In one crate a Weimaraner oscillated between barks and baleful moans.
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Here is a masculinity not of muscular exertion but baleful inaction.
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That may be the new Saudi price war's most baleful legacy.
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But I do worry about this kind of baleful feedback loop.
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All of this has had a baleful effect on the independent press.
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The story might finally slip its leash, but the baleful mood holds firm.
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Deindustrialisation, baleful planning and white flight all hit hard from the 1960s onwards.
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That is the new and baleful ideology of the elite: selfishness, bigotry and hate.
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"The warm, dry, windy conditions around the Bay Area today are baleful," Upton tweeted.
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The Supreme Court, for its part, appears unlikely to challenge the Administration's baleful reasoning.
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There is a spiritual linkage, a baleful bond, between the man and his minions.
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In his account of Sontag's worldly success, Moser shifts to a less baleful register.
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A pearl-necklaced Chihuahua in pale pink gazing at the viewer with baleful, wet eyes?
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The formula: Skeptical, modern-minded innocent visits isolated manse, meets ghost; a baleful destiny ensues.
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These claims about the baleful impact of social assistance spending are not uncontroversial claims about science.
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In this Depression-era noir, America turns its baleful attention toward Hollywood, Jews, unionists and Communists.
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Baleful words with archaic roots rattle in the mouth like loose teeth: plutocracy, kleptocracy, gerontocracy, kakistocracy.
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In "Signs of Madness," Dlugos writes: Recognizing strings of coincidence as having baleful or hermetic meaning, e.g.
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The baleful equilibrium is punctuated, when control of the various branches aligns, by spurts of partisan lawmaking.
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A baleful Jackie Coogan, namesake of "The Kid," anchors a cobblestone street corner in the opening set.
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When they are settled, his wife casts a baleful look at him, and he shoots one back.
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It was shocking: a baleful black chamber the color of new asphalt, or volcanic rock, or Mordor.
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The baleful effect was all too apparent on Wall Street where the Dow ended Wednesday down 0.43 percent.
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If references to Jews' baleful influence on Israel policy become too flip, too easy, things can go really wrong.
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No wonder people turn such baleful eyes on the bloodless lumps of beans and grain brought into their midst.
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THE prudish wording of India's colonial-era penal code of 1860 has long cast a baleful shadow over gay people.
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This is the baleful legacy that Raúl Castro, Fidel's younger brother and successor as president since 2008, must deal with.
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After burning there is still the ash to be disposed of, usually in a landfill, again with potentially baleful consequences.
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That Republicans feel trapped, even under such baleful circumstances, is a bad omen for the next chapter in American politics.
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But it is increasingly popular to indict cultural Marxism's baleful effects on society — and to dream of its violent extermination.
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With her conspicuously burned hand and slightly cowed demeanor, this Mag isn't the baleful, suffocating force that Ms. Manahan was.
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If references to the baleful influence of Jews on Israel policy become too flip, too easy, things can go really wrong.
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What Washington warned would have baleful effects on our Republic has turned out to be an essential phenomenon of democratic governance.
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Mark Peterson's photographs capture the baleful scene, illuminating the protesters' faces and eyes, some of which are joyful in their hate.
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It's part of the baleful legacy that Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell will leave us with us long after they're gone.
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When you enter the theater, it is hanging from the flies, glittering but baleful, like a carapace or an iron maiden.
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Save yourself the effort of decipherment, and simply enjoy Mr. Blaubach's baleful shots of high-rise exteriors and broody, squashed interiors.
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Then came the baleful news that ESPN had lost 7 million subscribers, falling to 92 million, which means a noticeable revenue loss.
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And that's how the stand-up comedian who was hospitalized for bipolar disorder helped bring this baleful and bright series to life.
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Frogs have been revered as emissaries of the divine (because of their regenerative powers) and feared as witches' familiars, noxious and baleful.
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He could do baleful blue-eyed soul, he could do liquid silk smooth italo disco, he could do sandy bottomed balearic incantations.
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For some, looking back, the house with the front porch and the flower beds didn't look quite as baleful as it once had.
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I suppose the colorful reliefs have a baleful relevance for those of us already incensed by the cultural (and human) devastation of Iraq.
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Seventy-one percent of Republicans and 55 percent of Democrats now regard the opposition party as a force that stokes baleful national decline.
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The paintings are laid down over reproductions of their Western models, screened in phosphorescent ink, which glow a baleful green in the UV light.
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He and his voice have been described as aloof, eerily neutral, silky, wheedling, controlled, baleful, unisex, droll, soft, conversational, dreamy, supremely calm and rational.
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Mr. Ryan's decision left the Republican conference in a baleful mood — and enraged senior White House aides and Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader.
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The second danger of CCU politics is that the entire policy domain is a magnet for fossil fuel companies to wield their baleful influence.
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Nostalgia for a simpler America — an emotion that has had baleful implications for the body politic of late — is here treated with compassion and understanding.
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The author, arguably Britain's leading academic strategist, examines how ideas about how future wars could be fought have shaped the reality, with usually baleful results.
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Conceived in a Russia that was enthusiastically opening to new ideas, my stories would emerge in a different country altogether: belligerent, baleful, bristling with paranoia.
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The drop in shipments of bulk goods arriving in Rotterdam, says Allard Castelein, CEO of the port, is a direct result of this baleful cycle.
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It may also have been because the club was dominated by France, and Charles de Gaulle was bent on keeping out baleful Anglo-Saxon influence.
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The lingo of chemotherapists was like a secret code or handshake; even the capacity to call such baleful poisons by name made me feel powerful.
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I ate quantities of smoked and pickled fish, and visited the Polar Museum, with its baleful dioramas of trapped foxes and hunters clubbing baby seals.
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His voice is deep and dank and baleful, an exotic cousin of Vincent Price's from-the-crypt baritone, and his pronunciation stretches syllables into fluttering shadows.
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The elision of that distinction and the rise of malevolent propaganda outfits such as Breitbart News is one of the most baleful trends of modern life.
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It was feared he would be seriously injured by the baleful slugger Liston, a 7-to-1 betting favorite to retain his title in Miami Beach, Fla.
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She was sandwiched between two canines, Lady Bird, who is large and baleful looking, and Gizmo, a twitchy Chihuahua-terrier mix who belongs to her son, Sam.
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Ironically, Kennedy identified a more likely candidate for concern when he authorized a commission to look at the baleful influence of money on candidates for political office.
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"Hand Covers Bruise," the opening track, which underscores Mark Zuckerberg's scampering between Harvard's redbrick dorms with baleful foreshadowing, might as well be the soundtrack to the decade.
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In yet another baleful sign of Trump's corrupting effect on his enablers, party leaders are basically dispensing with facts and evidence and lying to the American people.
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Though "Mies Julie" is set in 2012 on Freedom Day, which commemorates the first postapartheid elections, Ms. Farber suggests that the baleful spirit of 1913 lives on.
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That extended staring in stillness, with baleful or at least somber faces, is something they've done many times before in this 80-minute work, usually in silence.
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" James is a proponent of M.F.A. programs as a source of literary community—he has encouraged many of his students to apply—but he is baleful about "M.
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Fring shoots Nacho one of his trademark blank and baleful stares as the ambulance pulls away, suggesting to me that the man has instantly figured out Nacho's perfidy.
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It dominates social media and leads to a blizzard of think pieces, which are followed almost immediately by a backlash, as critics warn of the fad's baleful consequences.
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They exercise a baleful influence on political discourse, he maintains, by taking a narrow view of humans as essentially selfish creatures, forever trying to maximise their own well-being.
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A generation ago that baleful title belonged to its neighbour, Colombia, where the drugs trade and peasants driven into slums by the civil war came together to dreadful effect.
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Since opening its doors on December 15, 1969, Alabama's William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Alabama, has been a bastion of violence, fear, pain, and baleful human suffering.
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Wearing an open-necked striped shirt that bulges around his ample middle, and cargo shorts that ride up his thighs, he looks at the camera with a baleful gaze.
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Set in an isolated village in Southern Spain, Lorca's tragedy tells the baleful, simple story of a farmer's wife who prays, insistently and in vain, to be a mother.
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David Cameron called the referendum to appease his party's Eurosceptics, to slow down some of Independence Party's baleful momentum, to push him over into victory in last year's general election.
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With their nearly wordless chorus' and faux-soaring strings and their baleful guitars, Sigur Ros aim for storm-in-heaven ambience, but sound more like a wet weekend in Wigan.
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In Mosul, at night, listening to the gunfire and explosions, my thoughts tended to drift backward and go over the baleful historical montage that had brought us to this point.
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John Maynard Keynes, with his wife, Lydia Lopokova, in the 1920s, as some of the baleful results he warned of in "The Economic Consequences of the Peace" were playing out.
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Mr Najib's implicit embrace of the idea that the government must enforce a dour version of Islam has two baleful consequences, beyond the distress of those persecuted by the religious authorities.
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Or any of the moments when the usually senescent Aunt Maggie Far Away (Fionnula Flanagan) swerves into focus, with visions of those baleful spirits, the banshees, that feel all too real.
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Shooting mostly indoors and at night, the cinematographer William Babcock conjures lighting that you'd typically find in more expensive features, adding a baleful glaze that distracts from the story's soft spots.
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To that long list add another baleful consequence: by coddling farmers, agricultural tariffs encourage them to have more children and to educate them less, hampering economic growth for decades into the future.
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These and other installations have some surface parallels with the sculpture of Cady Noland or Isa Genzken, though those artists' fashion-conversant cynicism is miles from Ms. Wilkes's baleful, historically minded sincerity.
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The threatening atom bomb casts a baleful shadow over the serious young people who inhabit "Guns of the Trees," the first feature made by the hugely influential filmmaker and activist Jonas Mekas.
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The bleakness is relieved by the rituals of tension—spot the many dogs that stray into view, and listen for the smashing of glass—and by Mungiu's baleful pastiche of a happy ending.
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Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by a substantial margin—more than two and a half million votes—but, under the baleful metrics of our Electoral College, the outcome was not especially close.
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Yet in this time of dank living spaces, poor hygiene, forced religiosity, and baleful delight in the macabre, the Masters of Defence, elite swordsmen with a passion for improving martial arts pedagogy, arose.
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Savile Row tailor Anthony Sinclair's beautifully structured suits, which Sean Connery's Bond wore, are placed in a hilarious room of mirrors reflecting a plethora of glitzy chandeliers suited for Trump Tower-type baleful haughtiness.
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If you want four tracks worth of scurrying, baroque, mutated, wonky, blissed out, baleful, beatific, grime-cum-R&B-cum-club-music-cum-ambient-cum-whatever-the-fuck-this-is then you're in luck.
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JON PARELES "When the last tree has fallen and the rivers are poison/You cannot eat money," the Norwegian songwriter Aurora warns in "The Seed," an environmental anthem that seesaws between hopeful and baleful.
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In 803, 37,600 Americans were newly infected with H.I.V. That number has declined only slightly over the last decade, as America's epidemic has settled into a baleful equilibrium of slow growth and rising costs.
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He attributes this in part to the baleful effect of the online behemoth Amazon, which does not seek to profit from the actual delivery of goods, thus creating the conviction that deliveries should be free.
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Ms. Farber's visual flair remains second to none, and she is elegantly served by a collaborative design — Tim Lutkin's baleful lighting, especially — that makes something spectral and haunting out of what could merely seem opaque.
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To be fair, the beginnings of this baleful state of affairs preceded Mr. Trump's historic TV debut, and it is doubtful that the President had any idea where his reality star status eventually would lead.
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The naturalness of Mr. Macdonald's stage movement in such a confined space (to say nothing of Peter Mumford's baleful lighting and projection design) is central to the containment of energy that makes the play thrilling.
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Goldman's fellow anarchist Prince Kropotkin; the German socialists Karl Kautsky, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht; and the American writer and editor Max Eastman all rejected the "promise" of this baleful new creed right at its birth.
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Swimming alone in a deserted cove in the Virgin Islands or getting teary eyed solo while a Portuguese crooner wails out a baleful fado ballad at a tiny Lisbon bar are blessings that call for immense gratitude.
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Today, there are fully seven adjectives in the entries that are certainly uncomplimentary, maybe even a little baleful, to the point that I wonder if anyone on the team ever came a-cropper in a platypus encounter.
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In interviews on Friday, European analysts envisioned a number of baleful results from the killing of the general, who was a national hero and potential political leader in Iran, and whose death Tehran has vowed to avenge.
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It is also a style of acting that clashes so violently with that of the others onstage that you wonder why people don't realize from the get-go that there's something dangerously wrong with this baleful young woman.
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They not only claim that life itself matters in spite of its inevitable individual and collective end, but also that there is an "ethics" that explains how to save the beneficent uses of memory from its baleful abuses.
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Just as in his somewhat literal understanding of violence, Pinker simply cannot see something so straightforward as class rule, which has been massively reestablished in our time of inequality, with all the baleful effects it has had on politics.
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In contrast to the baleful appearance of "Dead Furrow," Mr. Oppenheim's later works tend to project cheerful moods, as does "Architectural Cactus Grove" (2006), a group of six jaunty, cartoonlike cactuses made of industrial stainless steel and plastic elements.
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It's a group led by by a man who stands in front of an American flag and, wielding preternatural charisma and commanding the baleful force of his loyal soldiers, preaches on faith, freedom, firearms, and the end of the world.
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But, in the process, The List, as the newspaper called its 22015-page tally of the lost, cast a baleful light on a tragedy that runs in parallel to the deaths: Many of them died in anonymity, particularly in recent years.
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One reason may be the baleful influence of IS which, in its formative years as al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), deliberately aimed to kill Shias, the country's largest group, with the intention of polarising the population and driving Sunni Muslims into its arms.
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While a political settlement is the only solution to the Afghan conflict, the potential for a deal between the Taliban and the Russian-Chinese-Pakistani axis could lead to a baleful regression for Afghans in human and women's rights, education, healthcare and more.
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With Lia Williams in piercing form as a baleful Klytemnestra, a woman at once the perpetrator and victim of murder, Mr. Icke's modern-dress staging possessed the urgency of a thriller sustained across three highly filleted plays and three-and-a-half riveting hours.
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Yet, for all the baleful consequences of Mr Sharif's sacking, it would be an even bigger disservice to democracy to suggest that the courts should not pursue corruption cases for fear of the political fallout, or that the government should ignore the courts' rulings.
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I have tried so hard not to rule them from the baleful matriarchal domestic throne — not to make an awful kind of power out of powerlessness — that I sometimes wonder whether I have done something much worse, which is make myself of no importance.
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That caricature has slowly given way to a more nuanced picture of a generation profoundly shaped by the events of its time—2400/22015, the Iraq War, the Great Recession, climate change—and baleful socioeconomic trends: growing income inequality, staggering levels of student debt, stagnant wages.
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In the current political landscape, liberals are being forced to reexamine the systemic nature of the crisis, which means finding blame not just in a baleful individual (Trump) or even his party (the Republicans) but also in the larger social forces that made the crisis possible.
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Cory Stearns, so handsome and stylish a dancer but still unable to sustain his longer classical roles as if in single, coherent thoughts, is often at his most incisive in a character role; the baleful necromancer Kostchei in "Firebird" is a part in which he seems released.
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A financially struggling painter hides her Gesellenstück — a fusty monstrosity, technically perfect and fashionably moribund, a "baleful garment that no one would ever wear because of the hatefulness of the cloth and the cut and the straps and the stitching" — in a wardrobe in her studio.
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But there's quite a bit of imagination at work in "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" and in "SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical" It ain't just the category, but how it's filled that counts, even when the category is (and I do agree) essentially a baleful one.
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The ones who didn't even have skin in the game but who wanted representation for those who did were correct to be fanatical in their pursuit of a more perfect country—and, more important, they were right about the baleful and regressive consequences of moderation in the face of extremist and reactionary unreason.
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The last page of "Winter" bears a baleful reference to President Trump's hideous speech to the Boy Scouts in West Virginia, and the book contains a fair amount of family strife; yet the novel ends more like a Shakespearean comedy than like a political tragedy, with an air of optimistic renaissance and familial unity.
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The potential for gene-editing techniques to engineer biological weapons of unprecedented power—coupled with the familiar shape-shifting ingenuity of nature itself, in which baleful bacteria and viruses mutate with such speed and vigor we just can't seem to figure them out—will pose a significant challenge to the values and ethics captured in the BWC treaty.
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Guttural and operatic, baleful and inconsolable, spiritual and earthy, polyglot and wordless, nuanced and unhinged — Diamanda Galás was all of those, and many more, in her concert on Tuesday night at the former St. Thomas the Apostle, a deconsecrated neo-Gothic church in Harlem where the Red Bull Music Academy Festival booked her for three nights.
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In "The Imperial Presidency," published in 1973, Schlesinger argued that Richard Nixon's tenure was the baleful result of a drift of state power away from Congress that had been abetted even by chief executives he revered, like F.D.R. and J.F.K. In his 1991 book "The Disuniting of America" (see Page 17), he hammered advocates of multiculturalism for viewing American history through the lens of racial oppression and clashing ethnic identities.
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When one of Dustin's patients, a police officer on medical leave, begins investigating the seemingly accidental drowning deaths of a series of drunken college men, Dustin is unwittingly reeled into the drama, grateful for the distraction from his own realities: his wife's terminal cancer; his ineffectual status as a husband and father; the probability of losing his rapidly maturing sons, Dennis and Aaron, to whatever baleful destinies they choose.
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This is not something to be taken lightly; the New Yorker profile of Hunter Biden details how conservative author Peter Schweizer and Steve Bannon worked together on Schweizer's book Clinton Cash, which surfaced allegations of corruption involving the Clinton Foundation and the sale of uranium that proved to have no direct evidence behind them only after the rest of the mainstream media had made a baleful of hay out of the allegations.
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Unable to consistently lead a Republican Congress, President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE has succumbed to the baleful precedent of Barack ObamaBarack Hussein Obama85033 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 Obama's high school basketball jersey sells for 0,000 at auction Dirty little wars and the law: Did Osama bin Laden win?
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