balefully

It was a relief to have those things put away and no longer eyeing me balefully from the corners of my room.

Best Change to my Apartment 2009 « Beatrice Writes

(She said, glaring balefully at Hunting Badger on the to-be-read pile.)

Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway

I want to tell you that up front, because Woolf, who died 70 years ago this year, is so often portrayed as the Dark Lady of English letters, all glowery and sad, looking balefully on from a crepuscular corner of literary history with a stone lodged in her pocket.

Virginia Woolf, my mother and me

It glared balefully at Conan and hissed as if to taunt the still naked Cimmerian.

Archive 2010-02-01

"All right, Mister Man," she threatened balefully.

CHAPTER XIII

Dog looks at me balefully, his heavy lids covering the top half of his eyes.

Conversation With Dog

I call it the glass mountain – you can't climb a glass mountain, says Keegan, looking at me balefully.

The Saturday interview: Kevin Keegan

You get five bonus points if they angrily rip the buds out of their ears and threaten to sue you or punch your lights out; 10 if they balefully cry for their mommies and wonder why, oh why the modern world is so unfathomably cruel!

Buds in Ears, Nothing Between Them

But with or without Lord Justice Leveson's inquiry, no proper system of press regulation can carry any sort of authority if four national newspapers sit balefully outside.

How Richard Desmond could learn to love press regulation

The balefully dismissive: "All that is within him does condemn itself for being there" "Macbeth".

John Heilpern