| The architectonics of the sculpted locks, the author argues, augment their power to fend off sorcery and other malevolent forces. |
| For many years, it saw only the darkest of evil, bathed in the malevolent glow of hellfire. |
| Even more than the words in the previous paragraph, it suggests an evil, malevolent intelligence at work. |
| Can simple coincidence explain these developments, or are more malevolent forces at work? |
| In folklore, zombies are portrayed as innocent victims who are raised in a comatose trance from their graves by malevolent sorcerers. |
| There might even be a prankster, a malevolent force, or a god who chooses to interfere. |
