no doubt exercised some baleful influence

Whether all this academic influence is baleful or not

The party’s shift after Lenin’s death, from that plaintive, embattled sense that there had been little alternative but to strive in imperfect conditions, to the later bad hope of Socialism in One Country, is a baleful result of recasting necessity as virtue.

It hung on its hanger, this baleful garment that no one would ever wear because of the hatefulness of the cloth and the cut and the straps and the stitching

discussions of that freedom are not linked to the baleful conditions created, in part, by the universities themselves

The baleful 1969 decision to 'go IBM' was worthy of any corporate capitalist boardroom

The sun was a baleful orange colour over the yellow dusty expanse.

in order to deliver this baleful, Kierkegaardian news