Wat (wie) is BALEFULLY - definitie

1. But there is another side to Britain – one that the Lonely Planet has balefully ignored.

2. "Push us into the light and the light blinds us." He smiles, balefully.

3. On the morning of Porto‘s Uefa Cup victory, he reported that he awoke ‘with my cardiac frequency stabilised‘. His fizzy temper is unspontaneous, since its eruptions are triggered by a balefully thought–out game plan.

4. You see this straight off in the balefully tragic Riders to the Sea where, as CE Montague once wrote, "you step straight through a door into darkness". The opening image of Hynes‘s production is of a young girl kneading dough with hands raised above her head like some Aran Island, Medea; the final picture is of Marie Mullen‘s black–clad Maura stoically accepting the death of her six sons while keening women beat the cottage walls.

5. "Is my hon friend aware," he asked balefully, "that in the 1'70s and in a lot of the 1'80s, we would have thanked our lucky stars in the coalfield areas to have growth of 1.75%? "The only thing that was growing then were the lines of coke" – I confess that I assumed Mr Skinner was about to denounce the stockpiling of fuel by Margaret Thatcher in order to beat an NUM strike – "... the lines of coke in front of Boy George and the rest of them ..." At this point he strode forward and shook a dramatic finger towards young Osborne.