| On first reading, this language no doubt sounds minatory to pro-choicers and pleasing to pro-lifers. |
| Now that he is sending minatory letters to blameless booksellers, this verdict may have to be reviewed. |
| These frontier wilderlands are the retreat of a nostalgic whimsy, and the drawing rooms of the nascent American metropolis are now invested with a minatory playfulness. |
| His depiction of a minatory US foreign policy and its sinister motives is grossly unfair. |
| One of the last bestselling American diet books to adopt a minatory tone towards self-control was Dr Irwin Stillman's 1967 Quick Weight Loss Diet. |
| Behind both these minatory visions stands a bloodthirsty Father, damning and punishing. |
