1.   Belafonte is fascinating as a menacing figure who can tell an elaborate ethnic joke while his henchmen bump off an employee.

2.   A line of menacing figures in uniforms blocks their path.

3.   He is a menacing figure, eyes glaring, the sun beating off his bald head.

4.   He was out there in the mountains somewhere, the tribal chief Bacha Khan, who by all accounts is a menacing figure, but one worth meeting.

5.   Mrs. Rabin, however, remains a menacing figure for Likud, like Queen Margaret in Richard III, a visible reminder of past crimes.

6.   On the basketball court, Martin cuts a menacing figure with his four tattoos, fierce glares, slam dunks, rejected shots and swift sprints.

7.   Rupert Murdoch is often portrayed as a menacing figure, thanks to his conquest of newspaper and TV markets from England to Asia to his native Australia.

8.   She keeps her eyes fixed on the floor and screams when a menacing figure jumps into her path.

9.   The control, the velocity, the menacing figure.

10.   At the Radisson-Slavyanskaya, menacing figures started hanging around the hallways and shops.