| 单词 | ominous |
| 例句 | At the domestic level, then, Adams inherited a supercharged political atmosphere every bit as ominous and intractable as the tangle on the international scene. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Dr. Philip Butler of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries has pointed out an ominous parallel in that we may find ourselves in the same situation as the robins. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z When Amari awoke one morning, the sky was thick with dark, ominous clouds. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Three dead trees on the moor below, burned up alive by lightning, are ominous portents. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z It gave the woods a more ominous, brooding feel. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z It was low and throaty, as ominous a thing as he could imagine. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z And somehow, I have an ominous feeling that his endgame involves much more than just messing up some Warcross tournaments. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He emphasized his last remark with a dark and ominous look. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z The presence of the Death Eaters outside increased the ominous mood inside number twelve. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z But when black people even spoke of having rifles in their homes, that was ‘ ‘ominous. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z With an ominous rasp of metal on metal, the Hound drew his longsword. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The massive gate set into the ring wall was already being lowered closed, and it struck the stones with an ominous series of clanks and groans. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Some of the planets sound ominous, like something you’d find in a science fiction movie set in some alien world—“alien world” as in world with aliens, not non-Earth world. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Major de Coverley was an ominous, incomprehensible presence who kept him constantly on edge and of whom even Colonel Korn tended to be wary. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He had begun taking his teaching with almost ominous seriousness these past months. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z “I hope the Changing doesn’t give us real memories—just plants fake ones. Some suspect it—I can only hope. If the world’s the way I saw it . . .” He trailed off, leaving an ominous silence. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Thick gray clouds huddled in the distance, and I added that to the list of totally not ominous things. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The realization sends an ominous shiver through me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Geologists did a hasty survey and discovered that a large area of the park had developed an ominous bulge. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Never cared much for appearance, gave an impression of ominous bad-tempered strength and a kind of slow, even, stubborn, unquenchable anger: a soft voice, a ragged mouth. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The intrusion of this ominous meaning creates an extraordinary tension with the dispassionate investigation of the target’s formal qualities. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Up to now he had encountered and retired progressively more ominous manifestations of Baty. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z His ominous official title would be “Coordinator of Rapid Rupture.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z There was ominous silence—not a thing happened for a minute or two. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Once it emerged entirely, the tornado vanished, dissolving into tendrils of ominous smoke that curled upward. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z A tinted window with spiderwebs of cracks is like an ominous eye, looking at them as it approaches. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The response to this, over at the couch, was a distinctly ominous silence. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z One minute, it had looked like an arm sticking out of the waves; now it was an ominous black-granite mountain surrounded by half-submerged clawlike reefs. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The ominous clouds had moved closer to the island, and a strong wind came up, blowing sand and promising rain. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Her words fell away into a silence and they both looked out at the ominous dusk. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z A large man, larger than Lee, full- bearded, blue-eyed, ominous, slow-talking, crude. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z At three o’clock that afternoon, the current suddenly picked up its pace, and the men again heard the ominous roar of rapids. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z My sleepy eyes strained to make out objects in the dark, but the darkness was impregnable, ominous; the more I stared into it, the blacker and blacker it became. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z That, Barbara Johnson felt, was what made his suicide so ominous. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandad roaring about ominous stories in the Guardian didn’t make them real. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z For a moment, the boys sat there, waiting, knowing that the issue hadn’t been settled, something ominous in the waiting. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z That name the hobbits only knew in legends of the dark past, like a shadow in the background of their memories; but it was ominous and disquieting. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He was also dimly aware of an ominous muttering all around the walls. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z At the same time, the drumbeat of ominous headlines emanating from Europe had begun to grow steadily louder and more insistent that spring. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The sound pierces the dull drone of the aircraft engines, and then there's an ominous pause before the thunder of another explosion. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z But the old man came in a cluster of men, outlined under that dark and ominous sky, the lightning blazing beyond his head. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite the ominous tone, and my better instincts, I’d countenanced enough inmate misbehavior and disrespect to feel invigorated by the thought that this is where it all stops. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There was only an ominous silence from inside her office. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The tidings were mostly sad and ominous: of gathering darkness, the wars of Men, and the flight of the Elves. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I eye the narrow cot, the chair, the cold hearth, the ominous black bureau, the hooks on the wall—for torture, I assumed. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He said it quietly enough that Thomas didn’t think anyone else heard, but it sounded ominous. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean toward each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She feared for her lord father, and wondered at his ominous silence. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Of the noises loose in the room, of the screams, of the words, Bull’s laughter was the most ominous. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They had been in fear of pursuit for so long that any sound from behind seemed ominous and unfriendly. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Age and weather had removed the first letter and the last—an R and an S—thereby coining a somewhat ominous word: OOM. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z My father, like any true waterman, could smell the storm coming up, even before the ominous rust-colored sunset. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Hamilton shared his ominous sense of the situation with John Jay, his part-time collaborator as “Publius” in The Federalist Papers. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z And now he had this amorphous, ominous, legal cloud. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z December . . . orphanages . . . the schottischeI To the beat of this ominous refrain, she trudged up the stairs to the nursery, one heavy footfall following another, like a condemned prisoner climbing the gallows. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z There was the distant rumble of heartburn, the ominous tingle of perspiration. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z He knew he would have to reenter Forest and return by those same dark paths that now seemed so ominous. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z In fact, I know that a little earlier, some guests had actually commenced lunch out there, only to be interrupted by the appearance of ominous storm clouds. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z The Stark words had never sounded so grim or ominous to Jon as they did now. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Since Luria had written me in November not to worry, the absence of firm news by now seemed ominous. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Now dark and ominous it loomed up in the night. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Kira sipped at the strong hot tea and thought again about the ominous stalking sound in the woods. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Now the same rambling streets and stone walls and enormous trees that had signified peace, though, turned ominous. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The creature paced slowly in front of Hibiscus, casting an ominous shadow over his body. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “I’m fine. Besides, it’s not me that we should be worried about. The more pieces of this that I find, the more ominous it sounds.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They began to feel that all this country was unreal, and that they were stumbling through an ominous dream that led to no awakening. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z But up those ominous fourteen steps is a shower. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z An ominous vision of doom depressed him when he looked at Orr. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “I’m not gonna vom,” I say, but as soon as the words come out, there’s this ominous twist in my gut. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z That familiar relentless beat and exotic, yet somehow ominous riff fills the air. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z But if she had heeded Aunt Rose’s ominous predictions about the dangers of the dead, then Ophie would not have befriended Clara. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Every shadow seemed darker, every sound more ominous. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The Mountain standing ominous and alone had looked taller than it was. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Then the development of the steamship in the nineteenth century introduced an ominous source of noise pollution. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I still owed my original debt, but after all I’d been through, a four-talent debt no longer seemed terribly ominous, despite the fact that my purse was largely empty again. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The ominous cloud of fairies had no trouble keeping up with him. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z To her right, the guiamala—now abandoned—trotted in nervous circles until it knocked down the tent’s central pole and the whole structure gave an ominous shudder. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z In a single moment, my job has transformed from a thrilling chase to something much more ominous. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He was so focused on looking down, surveying the ground with his eyes, that he barely noticed the ominous rustling sound behind him. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z He was surprised to discover the place completely empty; everyone was out in the street watching the fire’s ominous glow. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Music that is in a minor key is sometimes described as sounding more solemn, sad, mysterious, or ominous than music that is in a major key. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The reason for the leap in activity was ominous: Japan, Germany, and Italy were signing an alliance pact. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Reader, if you were standing in the dungeon, you would certainly hear all of these disturbing and ominous sounds. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z To Farmer and Jim, the implications of this shortsightedness were ominous. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z By this gloomy route, he was leading them to what he had called their “final testing place,” which struck Reynie as having a particularly ominous sound. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “Because,” the emperor said with the beginning of an ominous roar, “I think you...” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Celia awakes to an ominous pattern of moonlight on her sheets. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Yossarian’s heart pounded with fright and horror at the pitiful, ominous, gory spectacle of the broken corpse. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Beyond the ominous water were reared vast cliffs, their stern faces pallid in the fading light: final and impassable. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z For an instant there was an ominous stillness, quieter and more silent than ever before, as if even the air was holding its breath. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Its walls stretched out gray and ominous for miles, and its spotlights beamed even into the Atlantic. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z All these things—the flags, the pitch pipe songs, the British Empire and the princesses, the war orphans, even the strappings —are superimposed against the ominous navy-blue background of Miss Lumley’s invisible bloomers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z This was the ominous cramp in her belly, the windless cliffs, the bleary sunrise. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The troll lifted massive shaggy shoulders, its retractable claws sliding out with an ominous schiiick. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z I feel there is something ominous in his calm, and shall not forget this night.... Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z She dreamt of footsteps on the tower stair, an ominous scraping of leather on stone as a man climbed slowly toward her bedchamber, step by step. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I fell onto the nearest couch and listened as the words “STORY IN DEVELOPMENT” scrolled across the screen in Spanish and an ominous tune began to play in the background. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z On the fourth day—no, it must have been the fifth— an ominous silence pressed in on the room as the fever penetrated deeper. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z All the things Tessie had accepted as part of the awkward age suddenly seemed ominous to her. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Behind it there hung a vast shadow, ominous as a thunder-cloud, the veils of Barad-dûr that was reared far away upon a long spur of the Ashen Mountains thrust down from the North. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Fresher, and far more ominous, a whole series of victory scars gleamed on his chest, showing all the men he’d broken when he’d been a ring fighter. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Here and there upon heights and ridges they caught glimpses of ancient walls of stone, and the ruins of towers: they had an ominous look. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z And she gasped as the car cracked against a rock and reeled back across the road with an ominous scraping somewhere beneath, but then gathered itself together valiantly and resumed its dogged climb. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z They didn't realize that pus was ominous evidence of a bacterial infection. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Even at the graduate and research level, there are ominous signs. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z An ominous rumble rattled the deck as I crossed the few feet to pick up the little book. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z An owl came, with an ominous, swift whirring of its wings, down on to something in the grass. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z An ominous silence dropped like a curtain around them and, except for the scuffling of their frantic footsteps, there wasn’t a sound. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z An ominous black cloud billowed from the deck. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z All Tyrion could see was something massive rising from the river, humped and ominous. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The marsh stretched for miles on either side of the road with an ominous symmetry. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But even in the new season and in the hills there were ominous signs. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But there is another and more ominous side to the enterprise: it was built in part by slaves in chains, many captured by the pirate ships of Polycrates. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The bombs drew closer until their reports were followed by lower, more ominous sounds—the dull thud of walls collapsing. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Neither member of the Adams team could ever comprehend this historical transition as anything other than an ominous symptom of moral degeneration. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The sunlight that came in through the window seemed too bright for late afternoon, too full of an ominous radiance. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z There was an ominous silence in the store. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The back door gave an ominous thump, then another, followed by the sound of angry curses. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Instead, they make ominous shadows on the wall as the afternoon sun moves, bringing Deval home soon. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z It seems an ominous stretch, and I’m already tired from all my senseless hopping around. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z But Renzo gave him such an ominous look that it immediately came back to him. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z The day L.V. went to the Houston area to get Boobie, he had a beard and was so massively built that he looked ominous. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “From the battle of Bunkers hill to the treaty of Paris we never had so ominous a question.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Smith, his nerves at the breaking point, made an ominous statement implying that there would be no match race, then led the horse out. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Being a suppression, not merely a repression, it produced not frustration, but something more ominous, perhaps, in the long rim: passivity. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The dark patches grew darker, but they shrank; and suddenly he saw, towering ominous before him and leaning slightly towards one another like the pillars of a headless door, two huge standing stones. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The gate was tall and ominous and heavy, set strongly into a stone wall which went off through the trees. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z It was instead that an ominous picture was congealing in his mind of patriot soldiers being fleeced by an army of speculators whose only loyalty was to their own profit margins. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z And in the pockets of her apron were two very ominous things. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z On the appointed day, an ominous hive of an inch or so square popped up on the colt’s coat. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The molcajete’s legs kept thumping against the table, making an ominous rhythmic sound. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Verwoerd declared that those supporting the strike, including sympathetic newspapers, were “playing with fire,” an ominous declaration given the ruthlessness of the state. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This was greeted by an ominous silence, and then loud voices, all chattering at once, as the chili-covered boys stood up. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Riders had returned to their silent ominous vigil. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z But Roosevelt insisted, as they heard an ominous roar in the distance. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z They interpreted their slapdash working conditions, created by chronic underfunding by the AEC, as an ominous sign that the agency’s commitment to Livermore remained conditional. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z All of them looked upward in time to see the crystal chandelier tremble; then, with a creak and an ominous jingling, it began to fall. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Harry had an ominous feeling now; he wondered whether Bill guessed more than he was letting on. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The green light of the forest was strangely at odds with the adolescent laughter, too murky and ominous to be in harmony with the light banter around me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z From the en suite, Stuffing releases another ominous gobble. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z There is something misshapen about the estate that ought to make it charming but instead makes it ominous. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z A few inmates were still out but, much more ominous, Wickersham was now at Robinson’s end gate, talking into his radio. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The sharp sound as the gloves snapped into place against his wrists seemed ominous to me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z When Dryope, terrified at the ominous sight, tried to hurry away, her feet would not move; they seemed rooted in the ground. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z They walked quickly and without a sound, passing long shadows and the ominous snicker of the mischievous duendes who could take your rucksack just as easily as they could steal your memories. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z It was quiet in an ominous way; it was quiet in the way of small, frightening sounds. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z He and his company went on, their weapons clinking, chain-mail jangling, solemn and ominous as drums. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z In answer, there was an ominous hiss, slick as a blade. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The word felt ominous, coming from La Llorona herself, and my body stiffened in response. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The cliffs of blue ice lining our path take on a darker, more ominous color, and the frozen beasts inside them start to look alive. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Her tone was ominous, as though our next meeting would not be happy. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The trees became standing shadows, ominous and tall and pressing. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Zero’s figure is still hovering in my mind, ominous and silent. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Another shiver of panic rattled through her body at the ominous words, and more questions darted through her mind. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z There was just something ominous about the way Deedee had spoken of them. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z And then, turning, I saw an ominous sight. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z But behind that bluff facade some distinct and rather ominous changes were taking place, changes of which I was already dimly aware but which made themselves more evident as time went on. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z As if the daytime trees and flowers and stones had gone to bed and sent slightly more ominous versions of themselves to take their places. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z We heard the ominous quiet of the hurricane’s eye as it passed over us. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z But when Malcolm X said the same thing, it was ominous. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The cans in the galley floor did not look in any way salvable and even in the locker there were some that were badly rusted and some that wore an ominous bulbed look. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Then I heard a low, ominous hum, followed by a piece of music from that film’s score: “Also Sprach Zarathustra” by Richard Strauss. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Every night the sky became for them a strange world of moonlit cloud, the ominous red light of aircraft flares, and too many aircraft for safe flight, all heading for the same target. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He concluded with a warning that was particularly ominous, coming just a month after the Chicago riots. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z As they reached the door, Mr. Pineville called out, his voice low and ominous, “You know that song you was singin’ about trouble? Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z As always, they moved in ominous circles, for if one said “here,” the other said “there,” and the third agreed perfectly with both of them. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z It stands in ominous desertion, as though there’s a minefield around it. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z When I turned the computer back on, the screen flashed to black and a crude graphic of a wizard appeared, accompanied by some ominous sound effects. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It had an ominous feel to it, a feel of impenetrability. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z The ominous developments overseas added to the public’s worries. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z The little man had done his work well and, except for some ominous crawling noises just below the crest of the mountain, everything was again silent. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z The sky now was full of low, ominous clouds, and the air felt murky and thick. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z His words are ominous to me now, and I fight to look unaffected. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z All these things—the flags, the pitch pipe songs, the British Empire and the princesses, the war orphans, even the strappings —are superimposed against the ominous navy-blue background of Miss Lumley’s invisible bloomers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z It closed with the ominous observation that German scientists might have already started working on such a project. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But it is an ominous sign of the direction that a society of people so vulnerable to sexual control might take. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The superpower conflict seemed to take a sudden, more ominous turn: a kind of calculated standoff, in which "winning" now depended on guessing correctly at the enemy's strength and intentions. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In their gray-and-black dress uniforms, their peaked hats adorned with silver skulls and crossbones sitting on their tables, they stood out from the rest of the crowd—neat, severe, and ominous. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It was large and shifting, as though composed of shadow and the ominous stench that pervaded everything. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z There was a time when ominous words like those from Tokyo Rose had made the hair stand up on the back of my neck. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z It looks ominous, like the deep forests of fairy tales. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z It was glowing red and ominous between my eyebrows like the Eye of Sauron, lidless and wreathed in flame. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z With an ominous roar we leaped out of the yard. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z There was something about the chair that gave Harry an ominous feeling. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Before anybody could respond to this ominous pronouncement, the dormitory doors opened again and Mr. and Mrs. Weasley hurried up the ward. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z What did worry him to no end was the ominous fit between Burr’s political skills and the opportunities for mischief so clearly available in a nation whose laws and institutions were still congealing. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z This dead-drop container, however, concealed something specially cushioned, and—to Marti—ominous. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Aphrodite was back of this wretched and ominous state of affairs. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I find it improbable, and ominous: first the retrospective, then the morgue. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z There was also an ominous note to his findings, published in 1868. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z When the choir of two-fisted tenors on the record were “proud to bear the title” Colonel Meecham entered the room slapping the swagger stick in a steady, tautological rhythm that seemed ominous, even predatory. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t seem to notice their ominous surroundings, or if he did, he hid it far better. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He’s got three missed calls from Zahra, one ominous voicemail from his mother, and forty-seven unread messages in his group text with June and Nora. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Al Ulbrickson remained characteristically silent on the topic, but the older boys fretted that that in itself seemed an ominous sign. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Before the rubble of the last war had even been cleared, Stalin feared that a new and ominous threat to Soviet security lay at Russia's doorstep. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Most people appeared shocked, bewildered, some even angered by the evangelist’s ominous message. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The fact that his people were already in arms and the still more ominous fact that the Rutulian Army had encamped before his gates were too much for King Latinus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z When day came at last the hobbits were surprised to see how much closer the ominous mountains had already drawn. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z An immense chimney, relic of a disused mill, reared up, shadowy and ominous. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z One day, however, right before he left, Papá made up a particularly ominous riddle. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The smokestack and the ominous black curl emerging from it, dissipating against the bright blue sky, reminded her of something. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The silence was so unnatural, so ominous, it weighed heavy on us. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It was slightly ominous because of its strangeness—no wolf was so vicious to other wolves—but I half believed they weren’t serious. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The scene left Art with the ominous impression of an extreme, too-silent tidiness. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z They tried to hold her back from that ominous house, but she would not have it; she entered and the doors closed forever on her, too. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Esteban could recall the exact moment when he had realized that his sister was an ominous shadow in his life. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A scenic waterfront home is rendered ominous by the avant-garde string music that an ambiguously hostile neighbor blasts at high volume. ‘Friends and Strangers’ Review: G’day, Mates 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Minutes of a meeting held three days later between Peat and Ward reveal how Peat blended courtly language with what some might take as implied threats, to ominous effect. How the 'meddling prince' and his aides turned up heat on developers 2010-06-17T22:33:00Z “I miss the days of no breaking news,” you mutter, and glance up at the ominous CNN ticker. VIRUS DIARY: In pandemic, seeking solace in virtual worlds 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z There are some good ideas, like the ominous, violent renderings of the ballet in Amneris’s chamber and the Triumphal Scene. At the Salzburg Festival, Riches, Retreads and Notes of Caution 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z It is an arresting moment, one that makes the story seem suddenly both more contemporary and more ominous. Claire Keegan 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z The teaser trailer depicted a tsunami of red liquid gushing out of an elevator; it looked nothing like blood, but was suitably ominous. The Shining has lost its shine – Kubrick was slumming it in a genre he despised 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Whereas Rise devoted an hour or so to the hopeful if ominous domesticity of its daddy-day-care plot, the new movie begins by focusing on an ape Eden. REVIEW: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: Who Needs Humans? 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Certainly, it does seem like a significant clue that, before their murders, all the victims received a postcard with ominous quotations written in ancient Greek from the very texts that Fosca teaches. Review | ‘The Silent Patient’ was a huge hit. Next we have ‘The Maidens.’ Don’t believe the hype. 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z Where Asian landscapes customarily depict nature as serene, these scenes are more ominous and strange. In the galleries: Expect the unexpected as two artists engage in a ‘Surreal Dialogue’ 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z One neighborhood group, Defenders of Teddy Roosevelt Park, offered on its website a model of the current museum, with an ominous red line where the still-sight-unseen center would supposedly devour the allée. Natural History Museum’s Expansion: Part Dr. Seuss, Part Jurassic Park 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Scanning the recent past, she explores how and why both the state and citizens fought this meddling, as well as the ominous forces behind it. Review: Tracking ‘Dark Money’ in Montana Elections 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z There might be an engaging film buried beneath the severe dialogue, portentous music and ominous shadows of “1915.” Review: ‘1915,’ a Ghostly Evocation of Bygone Slaughter 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Nothing can be more interesting and exotic not to mention ominous, because we know the ending, then a look at the beautiful and intriguing, free spirited Weimar Republic. Sex, Drugs and Crime in the Gritty Drama ‘Babylon Berlin’ 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z With a little more shading and originality, “13 Minutes” might have pushed beyond its familiar Nazi tropes to shape something more immediate and infinitely more potent: an ominous portrait of radicalization. Review: From Wooing Women to Plotting Hitler’s Murder in ‘13 Minutes’ 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z The narrator has dreams that are vivid and ominous. The Overlooked Autofiction of Yuko Tsushima 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Small objects and little details about what Kevin is up to take on a more ominous aspect in wide screen. Tilda Swinton shines in perplexing drama 2011-05-12T22:38:55Z “Fortunately, I am really good at making things dark and ominous.” In ‘Afterlife,’ Archie Comics Veers into Horror 2013-10-08T14:54:09Z Redding, however, died in a plane crash in December 1967 – an ominous portent for the new year. In the turmoil of 1968, music failed to seize the moment 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z It may be most successful, though, in its ominous wordless panels — such as those of overloaded boats tipping bodies into the silent, uncaring ocean. Comics of Violence and Nostalgia From War-Torn Syria 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Even in this week’s episode, as Middle-earth is coated in dust and smog, there are striking images: a burning horse, an ominous oversized footprint, the devastation wrought by flaming fireballs, and so on. ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Season 1, Episode 7: Out of the Ashes 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z The Virginia conceptualist’s intent is whimsical yet ominous: The freezer that holds the confections is stocked with a “finite number,” a gallery note warns. Review | In the galleries: Many works in ‘Spring Solos’ form a chorus of concern for the environment 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z If the hiatus in the final season of “Better Call Saul” has left an “ominous lonesome desert footage”-shaped hole in your heart, try this six-part mini-series set in and around the Navajo Nation. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z The biggest chameleons might be Spoon, whose latest effort is the ominous, funky “Can I Sit Next to You,” which feels like Duran Duran filtered through a paper shredder and pieced back together. Why 1987 remains the most important moment in alternative rock 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z In “Wakatt,” the scene turns ominous fast, as nine of the 10 dancers stand before the orange sun and, at a snail’s pace, turn their bodies 360 degrees. Review: A Dance for Our Times Travels to a Dark Place 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z A righteous hangover seemed ominous, but there was no time to contemplate this. Modern Love: Newly Wed and Quickly Unraveling - Modern Love 2012-07-26T21:46:18Z The movie opens with a series of aerial images of nighttime London, the city lights twinkling like jewels on black velvet, an elevated view that soon turns ominous as the camera descends to street level. | 'Heartless': Out of the Dark Shadows, Arty Toil and Trouble 2010-11-19T06:13:00Z Even more ominous, his name doesn’t appear in Appendix 1. Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles is looking a little long in the tooth 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Fingernails screeching down a blackboard signalled an ominous presence in Jaws, while the industrial grind of Eraserhead pummels the viewer into a paranoid wreck. Clip joint: shocking sounds 2010-07-07T15:41:00Z In the face of that ominous possibility, Czapski and his colleagues came up with the idea of delivering nightly lectures, with each officer agreeing to speak “about what he remembered best.” Reading Proust in the Gulag 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z The scene establishes an ominous undertone of simmering class resentment that never eases up. ‘Black Sea’ Stars Jude Law as a Seething Adventurer 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z An ominous, reedy bass sound brings drama from below. Friday Favorites: USF, Sax G Whiz, ????? 2010-08-27T17:09:00Z Indoors, an intriguingly ominous dynamic is unfurling, as two mismatched brothers exchange uneasy chitchat. Two plays deal with betrayal with mixed results 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z The omnipresent score marks time to a marvelously ominous beat. ‘The Crucible’ as you’ve never seen it 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z For now, I am inclined to consider Míriel’s ominous dream just as something that drives the plot. ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Season 1, Episode 4: Strange Magic 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z His health setback in 2008 was an ominous problem that can affect anyone: a cancerous cyst on a kidney had to be removed. For James Levine, Now May Be a Time to Choose 2010-04-12T22:46:00Z “The Aeronauts” is fascinated by the ominous silence of the sky, the creak-crack of frozen ropes scuffing against silk. Up and Away: ‘The Aeronauts’ and Hot-Air Balloons in the Movies 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z This obsession tips over into ominous hints of child trafficking and abuse; the slaves of Nibelheim are here a roomful of identically dressed blonde girls drawing at tables. Review: A New ‘Ring’ at Bayreuth Does Wagner Without Magic 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z The macabre shadow world Grace enters is well realised by Patrick Dineen's production, which flickers with ominous silhouettes and is stealthily haunted by Mike Idris's silent shoemaker. The Red Shoes ? review 2011-01-10T22:15:00Z Son Lux, using a laptop, had staticky, ominous sounds as well as danceable ones, to match bleak lyrics. Less Underground Vibe at South by Southwest 2010-03-21T23:48:00Z Never has a taste test been more ominous as the pre-credit sequence when we finally visit the Madrigal Corporation. “Breaking Bad”: Walter faces the abyss 2012-07-23T02:59:00Z The verdict from the now considerable body of scientific research is not that video games are a new and ominous threat to society but that anything in excess will cause us problems. Are video games really the villains in our violent age? 2012-12-30T00:05:46Z After spending months on his ominous remix, it made it to the final stages of the approval process where the original musicians had to sign off. Movie Trailers Keep Tweaking Well-Known Songs. The Tactic Is Working. 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z As the show develops, it also reveals an expressionist tendency in Ms. Hills: she likes to turn her firmly made-up face to the audience during a particularly ominous gesture. Dance Review: Tango Stars Natalia Hills and Gabriel Miss? in Vail 2010-08-10T22:31:00Z All these films take place in the same strangely symmetrical world of flat surfaces, ominous horizons and eerily multiplied objects. New DVDs: ‘Buster Keaton Collection,’ ‘The Jazz Singer’ 2013-01-06T04:13:01Z This ominous ambience, it turns out, was no accident. Where the Sick Get Sicker and the Sane Are Driven Mad: Behind Bars 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z As Elena and the Turbins' family listen to the ominous Red Army drumbeats, they know that their world is for ever lost. The White Guard | Theatre review 2010-03-24T21:30:00Z Here are some stock Hallmark Christmas movie scenarios that show how easy — an ominous music cue here, a lingering reaction shot of confusion there — the transition will be. All Hallmark Christmas movies are horror films in disguise 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Yet the Boston-based ensemble Liars & Believers strikes intriguingly ominous notes in its showbiz fable, “Icarus,” which sets the familiar story of a child who dreams big in a Depression-era traveling sideshow. ArtsBeat: New York Musical Theater Festival Report: ‘Icarus’ 2013-07-25T21:02:49Z The five-person cast milks it all, turning standard marriage jokes into ominous physical comedy, verging at times on horror fare. Molière, Turning 400, Can Still Surprise 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z Footage from the AMC zombie drama's third season focused on the survivors working together to clear the undead from that ominous prison glimpsed at the end of the last season. 'Walking Dead' third season teased at Comic-Con 2012-07-14T02:34:09Z By the time she gets to the final verse, she wails the words, holding the note of the next to last line for 10 ominous seconds. Nina Simone’s “Strange Fruit”: Inside the Jim Crow childhood of the High Priestess of Soul 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z In 2011, Insidious signposted evil with nothing more ominous than a baby monitor. Mama: why cinema loves a creepy kid 2013-02-23T06:00:01Z In only lasts a second-and-a-half, but there’s one ominous new image in a Star Wars: The Force Awakens international trailer that shows the full might of the villainous group known as The First Order. There's a Brand New Scene in This 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Trailer 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z While acknowledging that Johnson and Tice may seem “radically dissimilar,” he notes that “they share a similar emotionally ominous vision.” The $9,000 short story: Adam Johnson’s tale is no ordinary book 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z Hersey despaired when he heard Truman’s Hiroshima announcement on the radio: He understood the ominous implications for humanity. The Reporter Who Told the World About the Bomb 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z The first movement opens with ominous, grumbling figures in the lowest range of the piano. Music Review: Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival in New Mexico 2012-07-29T20:46:59Z It is an even more ominous development for country music itself, which can hardly address grown-up subjects adequately without having plenty of female voices. No More Country for Old Men 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z An estimated 80 million Americans are thought to be “pre-diabetic,” too—an ominous number, and one that will only climb. Banded, stapled, saved 2012-09-24T22:08:00Z There's still much to admire about this carefully drawn but concise character sketch, especially the strong performances and a unique, affectingly ominous score by folk-rock-gospel outfit Bruce Peninsula. "Small Town" crime drama boasts compelling cast 2011-02-08T01:11:34Z The musical style of "Anthracite Fields" ranges widely, with ominous drone tones giving way to more lighthearted sounds and folk passages, with occasional intrusions of rock music-inspired flights of fancy. Julia Wolfe's Pulitzer-winning 'Anthracite Fields' makes its West Coast debut at Disney Hall 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Then there’s the narration, delivered in urgent, ominous tones. ‘Urban Jungle,’ on National Geographic Channel 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Zagorski comments that "using the Major Arcana as a structure looks like a gimmick at first but in the end the Tarot bestows an ominous gravity on the narrative". The House of Rumour by Jake Arnott – review 2012-06-29T07:00:02Z While I would agree that she is ominous and dangerous, she does not propose cutting pensions for seniors or funding for education. Michael Moore on why America “needs a little time in the timeout room,” and whether Hillary will start a war to prove “a woman can pull the trigger” 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z For example, the Rite of Summer Music Festival opened its third season on Saturday afternoon with a concert reasonably well attended despite ominous clouds looming. Music Review: Bang on a Can All-Stars at Rite of Summer Festival 2013-07-14T21:49:25Z In German, typed and inked on flaking sheets, they looked intriguing if not ominous. In Berlin, Unraveling a Family Mystery 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z Christopher Oram’s evocative design suggests a blurring of reality by positioning a once-grand proscenium arch within the Rice’s family home, and Neil Austin’s lighting casts a shimmer that can turn ominous at will. Review: ‘The Entertainer,’ ‘Unfaithful’ and ‘They Drink It in the Congo’ 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z For Raf Simons at Calvin Klein, the future looks a lot like the past, but with a few ominous twists. The Apocalypse Is Coming. Here’s How to Dress for It. 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z But for more than half of the series, the nonwhite characters’ stories feel thin and familiar — early pregnancies, absent fathers, the ominous presence of silent young men in hoodies. Review: ‘Show Me a Hero’ Focuses on a Mayor in the Maelstrom of Desegregation 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z The opening movement was somewhat pontifical, with ominous, weighty orchestral chords and repeated choral exclamations. Review: Premieres, a Tribute and an Anniversary at Carnegie Hall 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z At least one anti-censorship group described the decision as “hasty” and said that it “set an ominous precedent” that could put a chill on difficult, politically minded work. Artist Sam Durant was pressured into taking down his 'Scaffold.' Why doesn't he feel censored? 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z An eerie swirl of sounds precedes the hard rock guitar and drums that kick open “The Door,” which Jennings takes down a back road of ominous Southern rock. Shooter Jennings, Sammy Kershaw salute George Jones 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z Again, it is driven by ominous inevitability, rather than any promise of relief or redemption, and again, it is unsparing in its portrait of these horrors. Feel-bad TV: why are we obsessed with small-screen tragedy? 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z Then came the last president’s attempts to overturn the election results, followed by a violent insurrection at the Capitol and an inauguration held under tight covid restrictions and an ominous military presence. ‘Oh, we’re still in this.’ The pandemic wall is here. 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z Just ahead loomed the lushly green — and in Andrew’s eyes, ominous — Grand Cape Mount, the last natural landmark between us and the big waves at Robertsport. 2010-01-22T16:52:00Z It’s hard not to read Storey’s words as an ominous harbinger: that by admitting women, they would be therefore causing so much temptation among their male members that harassment or worse would be inevitable. Harvard still has a boys’ club problem: Exclusive all-male club claims the very presence of women would put them in danger 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z The ominous music hurtles forward with an insistent accompaniment figure in the orchestra, as Alfredo, the Baron and Flora exchange sputtered phrases. Toscanini and Giulini Put Their Mark on ?Traviata? 2010-04-04T21:37:00Z With curtains adorned with a pattern of lowering branches and a burst of ominous strings as the house lights dim, the evening promises southern gothic, but devolves into a mix of naturalism and farce. Cat On a Hot Tin Roof – review 2013-01-18T10:08:04Z In this glutted and distractible social-media landscape, a nugget of agitprop can rise to overwhelm actual fact, as long as it’s presented in an ominous enough package. Memes, Myself and I: The Internet Lets Us All Run the Campaign 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z At the Friday showing, the film began with an ominous sign: It didn’t. Is ‘Holmes & Watson’ So Bad It’s Good? 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z The movie’s premise is ominous — an orphan transforms a grim New England town into a kind of antidepressant commercial — but young Hayley Mills makes it work. Review | Hayley Mills became a Disney darling at 12. Her new memoir recalls how it went from there. 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z His name is Gil, and Michael Raymond-James’s portrayal of him injects a sense of ominous unpredictability into this well-made revenge thriller. Review: ‘Game of Silence,’ a Thriller, Grows Out of a Troubled Past 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Yet as the sailor drifted to sleep, the conductor captured the ominous Wagnerian undertow in the orchestra. Review: Met Opera’s Next Music Director Captains a Blazing ‘Dutchman’ 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z And as directed by Carl Brandt Long, with ominous music and sound design by Gregory Thomas Martin, this staging does deliver some unnerving moments, its flat characters and intermittently amateurish acting notwithstanding. Oh, no, not the deserted mansion! 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Fox closes with an ominous warning about the threat fracking poses to New York City’s watershed. | 'Gasland': Josh Fox?s Look at Natural Gas Drilling on HBO 2010-06-20T23:54:00Z Celeste tells her therapist that she is planning to leave Perry the day after the fundraiser once he leaves town for business, and it’s an ominous suggestion that things will not go as planned. Nicole Kidman faces “the monster” in the finale of HBO’s “Big Little Lies” 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z But there are ominous signs that the king’s support is shakier than it seems, and Cromwell does not always read Henry as well as he thinks. Review | ‘The Mirror and the Light’ is a masterful finale to Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell trilogy 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z “Proto,” the pair’s collaborative LP, repeats a highly effective formula, rendering ominous synth surfaces before puncturing them with almost violent percussive blasts. Pop & Rock Listings for Aug. 12-18 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Take a look at this, Eric says, adding an ominous, "Be careful." 'Margin Call' is a timely Wall Street thriller 2011-10-20T20:07:04Z There's an ominous undercurrent to the whole thing. "Westworld" season 4 ending explained 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z But even when the mood in the room he’s playing turns ominous, he knows he must keep moving forward. Joe Morton, 'Turn Me Loose' and the sly comic activism of Dick Gregory 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z As in earlier books by Mr. Twelve Hawks, this protagonist lives in an ominous, technology-dominated world where machines aid or spy on all aspects of life. ‘Spark,’ the Latest Dystopian Novel From John Twelve Hawks 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z It’s that it carries the ominous threat of work as inescapable. Marissa Mayer, morale killer 2013-02-26T19:37:00Z The mountain has its own note, a subterranean C natural: “the note of death,” Mr. Wuorinen called it, part of the effort to restore more of the story’s ominous starkness. Charles Wuorinen Adapts ‘Brokeback Mountain’ as Opera 2014-01-24T19:26:19Z “Liar,” like their other work, is smoothly and craftily assembled, hurrying you past its implausibilities with its style and its ominous, not quite obtrusive music. Review: A ‘Downton Abbey’ Star in Peril Again in SundanceTV’s ‘Liar’ 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z It was celebratory yet ominous, filled with guest performers including Joni Mitchell and Van Morrison. Roger Waters on Reinventing ‘The Wall’ and Plans for a Final Arena Show 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z And the composer Christian Frederickson, playing a stew of ominous hums and buzzes, viola melodies and rock backbeats, is an outsider with greater influence than any other performer. Dance Review: Pavel Zustiak’s ‘Painted Bird’ Blurs Insiders and Outsiders 2013-07-02T21:27:31Z The effect was of a radically slowed-down record on a Victrola, simultaneously cozy and ominous. Music Review: Songs of America, With Beauty and Gusto 2011-05-01T21:21:11Z The words of 17th century philosopher Thomas Hobbes — if spoken by James Earl Jones or Morgan Freeman — would have made an ominous opening voice-over for the new "Mad Max" film. 'Mad Max: Fury Road' an apocalyptic tale as old as man's existence 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z When Edna mysteriously reappears with no explanation, the family confront an unknowing, ominous presence that threatens to possess their rickety house and those inside it. Relic: Australian director Natalie Erika James on dementia, horror and her Sundance hit 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z With his ominous, stylish breakout It Follows, director David Robert Mitchell announced himself as a rare horror talent, squeezing scares from every scene of his high-concept nightmare. No cape required: your guide to the best alternative films this summer 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z Snapshots of greasy fries and slimy grills pump up the unsavory atmosphere, while Heather McIntosh’s ominous, cello-driven score plucks our nerves and stirs our stomachs. Movie Review: Movie Review: ‘Compliance,’ Directed by Craig Zobel 2012-08-17T15:23:01Z Although “The Force of Things” is an unpleasant experience to sit through, it has an ominous elegance that speaks to Ms. Fure’s command of her art. Review: An ‘Opera for Objects’ Makes Music Out of Fear 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z Yet as ominous events begin happening in her seaside town, scenes from her past begin to seep through: Who was that vaguely familiar woman she saw watching the house a few weeks before? ‘The Taxidermist’s Daughter’: From the author of ‘Labyrinth,’ a tale of revenge 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z Their uniforms are mostly black, the better to appear in ominous silhouette as they march before panoramic stormy skies. Theater Review: ‘King Lear’ on an Epic Scale, Starring Simon Russell Beale 2014-01-26T22:47:10Z The town is covered in fog and there’s an ominous sense of foreboding. Small screen queens: how teen angst took over the TV scene 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Isn't that what we need in December, when we keep getting ominous blizzard warnings on our phones? Download this: 'Sophisticated Ignorance' by Kung Foo Grip 2012-12-18T17:29:14Z Kinky, the Mexican band that headlined a Central Park Summerstage concert on Saturday afternoon, was more ominous but no less propulsive. Critic’s Notebook: Calle 13 at the Latin Alternative Music Conference 2012-07-15T22:22:21Z They nab an uninhabited house on the outskirts of town for their honeymoon -- though even that is a little ominous, with some weird, most-likely magical artifact that catches Rumpel's eye. 'Once Upon a Time': Season 4's 'Frozen' saga begins with 'Sisters' 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z The “Dateline” style includes touches like cliffhangers before commercials and recaps after, often delivered in ominous narration. A Prime-Time True-Crime Spree 2011-08-20T19:45:03Z Within this frame, both beatific and ominous, Capuçon’s cello maneuvered: warm, bodily, determined. The Boston Symphony Finds Surprises and Strengths in New Music 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z Gleason Nagy further saps immediacy with an inscrutably stylized approach, interspersing dance steps, ominous bits of processional movement, blackouts, peculiar singing or chanting sequences, and a scene lit only with flashlights. Review | Theater review: ‘I Killed My Mother.’ The audience was an unintended victim. 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z She and others who appear to be immune are brought to a creepy hospital in a desolate part of Kansas, where their health is monitored by a skeleton staff overseen by the ominous Dr. Bek. Laura van den Berg's 'Find Me' captures a memorable apocalypse 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z “I’m not sure I’d want to sleep under the same roof as some of this stuff,” Mrs. Melton said, eyeing a particularly ominous bust of Stalin. It’s No Secret That Espionage Is This Collector’s Passion 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z “Rebecky,” after Daphne du Maurier’s “Rebecca,” with Mrs. Danvers’s ominous ubiquity mocked by her head popping up after the dome was lifted on a silver serving dish. Amy Schumer and Carol Burnett Tell Their Stories 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z There is ominous foreshadowing, too, as when Bruce describes earning his first laugh: “It’s like that flash I’ve heard morphine addicts describe,” he says. Review: Lenny Bruce’s Shifting Legacy, in ‘I’m Not a Comedian’ 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Mortality is much in the air, coloring exchanges that cannily reveal the backgrounds of both men, as well as the ominous historical moment. It's atheist vs. believer in Taproot's 'Freud's Last Case' 2012-03-29T20:02:04Z Now and then a short bass drum roll suggests that something ominous might be stirring. Review: The Quietly Cosmic Sound of Desert Stillness 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Judith attempts to bring the sun into Bluebeard's ominous castle, opening doors and discovering instruments of torture, jewels and flowers despoiled by blood. Cinematic techniques at the Met mingle light and dark operas 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z One visage seems to have merged with a massive butterfly, to ominous effect. Review | In the galleries: A rock-and-roll odyssey through sex, race and religion 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z He delivered the most ominous message of his presidency. Review | Trump has tried to coopt the Army. This new museum shows why that won’t be easy. 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z The narration has the pace and inevitability of a scherzo, even its ominous moments told with a playful fluidity and irony. Tempting Fate With a Season of Romance, Sex, Art and Destiny 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z Clemenceau’s bitterness against Germany helped inspire the postwar reparations that made Hitler’s rise possible, but the Great War figures only as an ominous background rumble, as does the Dreyfus Affair. Hanging With the Wits and Dandies of the Belle Époque 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z This is meant to be an ominous piece, not an enjoyable time. ‘On the Other Side of the River,’ Translated From Yiddish 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z It proves that they can still write bizarre, inventive, oddly moving pop songs, but these are interspersed with passages of ominous drone lasting up to 20 minutes. The Knife: 'Music history is written by privileged white men' 2013-03-23T06:00:00Z You may wonder at first what that rushing, ominous white noise is you hear between scenes. | 'This Wide Night': Edie Falco and Alison Pill as Reunited Ex-Cons 2010-05-17T02:15:00Z The overall vibe is ominous, yet the installation celebrates Clark’s satisfaction in working with her hands — “in defiance,” she writes, of mass-produced commodities. In the galleries: The eclectic art of the Dominican disapora 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Tal Yarden’s sound design envelops the proceedings in ominous atmospheric gloom:a distant howling wind; the cold, mechanical hum of static and feedback; and, finally, the thunderous exclamations of drums. Review: In a Powerful ‘Hamlet,’ a Fragile Prince Faces His Foes 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z In addition to unsettled weather, ominous portents include the groom’s mislaying of the ring, and his first squabble with Dolly, in which he refuses to take her beloved pet turtle on the overseas voyage. Movie Review: ‘Cheerful Weather for the Wedding,’ With Elizabeth McGovern 2012-12-06T21:22:23Z The two women track down the identity thief — a GPS point on Diane’s computer flashes in the middle of a perfectly spiral road — and head to the ominous location. ‘Giving Birth to a Butterfly’ Review: Melancholy and Menace 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z A vintage store in Arizona is going viral for its ominous sign warning guests about wearing masks while inside. Arizona vintage shop praised for 'spot-on' sign mandating masks: 'Love your sense of humor' 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z A self-contained theme in the woodwinds and brasses, like some ominous march, plays over murmuring triplets in the strings. Music Review: London Symphony Orchestra, With Colin Davis - Review 2011-10-20T21:57:49Z Massler said his "dream in life" was to marry Ivanka Trump, but at times his remarks turned more ominous, prosecutors said. Man pleads guilty in NYC to harassing Ivanka Trump 2012-02-10T03:31:04Z But for all of its ominous undertones, this irksome work, which looked at issues of sex and labor, was unmoored. Critic’s Notebook: Trespassing on the Proving Ground of the Next Generation 2013-07-28T21:30:12Z Within the last week, he posted an ominous message on Truth Social that says, "U.S. Jews have to get their act together and appreciate what they have in Israel — before it's too late." "A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting" is a warning, and a message of resilience 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z Three days after this ominous dispatch, the department sent out an internal bulletin announcing a cost-cutting plan to remove air marshals from long-distance flights for the next several weeks. What happens when a whistleblower returns to work after a decade’s fight 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Most of the work is not especially ominous. In the galleries: You’ll definitely use your head at ‘Interface,’ at G Fine Art 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z The performance has plenty of sweep and ominous stirrings. Alt-Verdi: ?Otello,? Differently 2010-12-24T14:54:24Z It was covered with ominous blood vessels, trying to engulf the neighboring organs. The patient I couldn’t heal 2012-11-27T00:00:00Z The only ominous sign is a Star of David stitched into her dress. Witnessing the Holocaust 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Thanksgiving 2020 was an anomaly, I hope, in which potentially ominous consequences disrupted what typically is a joyous gathering. Your Easy, No-Sweat Guide to Picking Wines for Thanksgiving 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z But then how to account for the ominous title track, in which he broods over his bad reputation before growling, “I swear to God I’m moving on”? Chris Brown plays it both ways on long-delayed 'X' 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z Its stylized design heightens the coziness and claustrophobia of a small-town yesteryear—there’s something ominous in the soda-counter scenery, a dollop of David Lynch in the milkshakes. Halloween TV in a Time of Frightful Crisis 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Murder Ballades” is bookended by extravagant energy — the finale is a series of frenetic solos that twist, reach and unravel — but at its center are two duets that hint at the ominous title. Review: L.A. Dance Project’s Tale of Murder, Sprightly and With Sneakers 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z He would have sat Paul down and pounded sense into him while issuing ominous warnings. A Father’s Love, Whether He Says Too Much or Not Enough 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z Lights flicker all over town, and ominous sound and music cues relentlessly pump the suspense. Review: With ‘Dark,’ Netflix Delivers Science Fiction With European Roots 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z An ominous entity known only as the Voice has begun speaking directly, and insinuatingly, to the consciousness of numerous blood drinkers. Lestat returns: In her new novel, Anne Rice revives a much-loved vampire For, in case you missed it, a peal of what may or may not have been the archangel Gabriel’s horn cut through the noise a few days ago signaling, ominous, that it’s time. From Goop to Oprah, this year's gift guides may signal the end of the world 2023-11-04T04:00:00Z The cops in “Southland” still traverse Los Angeles’s sleaziest neighborhoods, graffiti-covered alleyways and ominous parking garages. ?Southland? With Michael Cudlitz and Regina King on TNT 2012-03-16T16:10:35Z Taken to its logical extreme, the cancer cell's capacity consistently to imitate, corrupt and pervert normal physiology raises the ominous question of what "normality" is. Cancer: The new normal? 2011-01-17T17:35:24Z Becoming available to English readers at a time when the media are daily reporting Turkey's potentially ominous border standoff with Syria, Silent House usefully illuminates the recent historical pressures on one combatant. The Silent House by Orhan Pamuk – review 2012-10-12T21:55:06Z Mr. Adams’s score now comes across as a steady knotting of the stomach, gradually ratcheting tension by alternating lush, ominous sensuality and pummeling intensity. Review: ‘Doctor Atomic’ Brings the Bomb Home to New Mexico 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z Led by the Glass veteran Dennis Russell Davies with careful attention to both its underlying pulse and its twists of temperament, the opera opens with an ominous, low murmur punctuated by sharp, syncopated percussion snaps. Music Review: ‘The Perfect American,’ by Philip Glass, at Teatro Real 2013-02-01T16:17:23Z As Miranda prowls the indigo city streets, bathed in ominous whispers and sharp jabs of neon, you might momentarily forget that the movie around her is a tiny bit bananas. Review: Secrets and Lies in ‘Never Here’ 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z Take the murky, quietly ominous opening scene of Act II of “Götterdämmerung,” when we see the tormented Hagen, the son of Alberich, in a moment of isolated despair. Critic?s Notebook: To Seal a Director?s Reputation, Put a ?Ring? on It 2011-07-04T21:00:06Z Right before things heat up, two ominous strangers ride up to Bacurau. ‘Bacurau’ Review: Life and Death in a Small Brazilian Town 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z That sound is ominous, as such sounds inevitably are at that hour, and it sets off ripples of disquiet that are unlikely ever to stop entirely. | Two Plays by Harold Pinter: Essence of Pinterland, a Terrain Both Warm and Flecked With Ice 2010-11-23T05:16:00Z “You create your own merit,” Ezequiel pronounces, an ominous edict that echoes through the series like a sinister refrain. A Brazilian Thriller That Exposes the Sinister Side of Meritocracy 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z At the lower end is a thunderous growl, at once heroic and ominous, that transforms his signature song, “The Impossible Dream,” from sentimental kitsch to an anthem of demonic obsession. Music Review: Brian Stokes Mitchell?s Broadway Songbook at Town Hall 2010-04-18T22:13:00Z Lyrics arrived now and then, hinting at the more ominous undertones of the titles of DJ Spoko’s releases, like his EP “Ghost Town” and his album “War God.” Review: ‘Electronic Africa’ Pushes Dance Rhythms to a Breakneck Speed 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z Filled with red triangles, covered in orange gouache, or underlined with pink highlighter, they evoke theater curtains, and the slightly ominous emptiness of a stage between shows. A Striking Balance of New and Rediscovered at the Independent Fair 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z And plummeting bee populations are an ominous portent for our species as well. Review | In the galleries: Printmakers’ works are anything but two-dimensional 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z “The Clearing” is a study in contrast—majestic and radiant one moment, ominous and weary the next. Listening Booth: Rachel Grimes’s “The Clearing” 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z Since the cobra is a symbol of the Egyptian monarchy, and a motif that kings wore on their headdresses to represent protection, this was a rather ominous sign. 9 Victims of King Tut's Curse (And One Who Should Have Been) 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z The landscape is trippy — ominous and enigmatic — as the dancers, taking their time, slowly round over to pick up jackets placed at their feet. Review: Seven Dancers Step Into the Rhythm of a Moroccan Night 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z But the same technique can produce ominous things. Harmony Hammond’s Art Is Bold and Prickly as Ever 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Looming against the perennially gray sky this brick tower looks utilitarian and ominous, a twin to the 19th century’s industrial smokestacks. ‘The Lighthouse’ Review: Dark Nights, Troubled Souls, Hairy Men 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z “There are some psychological issues that we need to take care of,” says Carell’s character says, in one particularly ominous moment. Watch Steve Carell Get Creepy in the New Trailer for "Foxcatcher" 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z Mother Goose, silent except for her fog-horn honk, is an ominous Godzilla-size bird who swoops down from on high to protect her golden child whom the outlaw partners have stolen from above. Movie Review: ?Puss in Boots? With Antonio Banderas - Review 2011-10-27T21:48:54Z The collaged soundtrack, edited by Mr. Johnson, moves between heavy beats and pop to a more ominous throb, complete with forest sounds. Dance Review: Burr Johnson at Danspace Project 2012-06-03T21:30:53Z As the seafood pizza makes its way to a table, the ominous musical refrain from “Jaws” plays on a speaker. What Does Horror Taste Like? ‘Carnage Asada’ and Bloody Cocktails 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z He paints in ominous terms the president’s conciliatory 2009 speech in Cairo and envisions a foreboding future in which the Middle East becomes a “United States of Islam.” Movie Review: ‘2016: Obama’s America,’ Directed by Dinesh D’Souza 2012-08-12T22:09:29Z Schoenberg’s sumptuous textures elicited beautiful sounds from the players in a performance that, despite its sensuality, moved inexorably toward a finale of ominous ambiguity. Review | NSO program of music from Vienna strikes a chord — from Schoenberg to Beethoven 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z The first movement begins with an ominous, sustained, single note that swells until percussion batters it down and the orchestra fractures into shards and fragments. Music Review: Los Angeles Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2014-03-18T20:43:32Z Least suspenseful moment: For some reason the producers thought they could build drama by pitting consistent frontrunner Ricki Lake against low scorer Nancy Grace and utilizing some falsely ominous long pauses. Dancing with the Stars Week 8 Results: Nancy's Grace Period is Over 2011-11-09T14:00:26Z Do the steadily building beats of bass drum under the choir in one crucial passage represent progress — the choir’s march forward — or the ominous forces pursuing it? Review: At Rothko Chapel, a Composer Is Haunted by a Hero 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z An ominous message—“This is a test of the Long-Range Acoustic Device LRAD”—was followed by an ever louder count to ten. I Got Maced at Summer Jam 2015 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z The ominous sound of doom emanates out of a heartbeat, distorted guitar, and film noir saxophone. In “The Crossing” Alejandro Escovedo has crafted a rock n roll immigration epic poem 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z There are ominous men, kind women, persistent hunger, a desert trek, a breakdown and a grisly accident. Review: In ‘Lean on Pete,’ a Boy’s Survival in the Other America 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Early Wednesday morning, at about 5:15am ET, the moon will turn an ominous shade of red as the earth passes between it and the sun. AstrologyZone's Susan Miller Explains Why You Need To Pay Attention to the Lunar Eclipse 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Musically, the sound is lush and seductive, with swirling synthesizers, edgy swipes of guitar and the ominous, repetitive beat of a drum machine. Golden Gardens’ ethereal tunes come Thursday to High Dive 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z Must he accept a share of blame for the ugly, ominous world he will probably soon leave behind? John McCain: film portrait of an ‘American hero’ skirts hard questions 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z “Female Vampire” is built on an ominous, strobing electronic backdrop, over which the vocals float in a soothing disquiet. The Playlist: Jay Z Sips Lemonade and Adele Divides and Conquers 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z It’s the sound of a throbbing heart that we hear then, and it lends an ominous consciousness of time passing and of the finiteness of human lives. ‘Allegro,’ a Rarely Staged Rodgers and Hammerstein Musical 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z The rush of meltwater may be ominous, but Mullen is also alert to its beauty. Review | In the galleries: ‘Sea of Change’ exhibition sets the voyage on a different course 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z It was ominous and wild, without a trace of caricature. When Bernstein Conducted Stravinsky, Modern Music Came Alive 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z Still, the trend lines are ominous; traditional TV consumption has been slipping among those under 34 for the last two years. Pivot TV Pitches to Young Viewers 2013-07-29T22:06:08Z "And that's your larynx," he says, pinpointing a tiny squiggle with an ominous red arrow. "… which is where the tumour is." When David Lost His Voice by Judith Vanistendael - review 2012-05-25T21:55:08Z The work unfolds in fits and starts, with frenzied episodes, ominous clashing chords, pummeling rhythms and, occasionally, a fleeting melodic phrase like something from a silent-film melodrama. Music Review: Cameron Carpenter Performs on His Touring Instrument 2014-03-10T20:12:51Z In her book, she shares an episode in which Rosenstrach the Writer introduces her 3-year-old daughter not to a new ingredient but to a new word: ominous. “Dinner: A Love Story” 2012-07-26T16:25:00Z The wind moans mournfully while clouds scud sullenly across the face of a moon that somehow remains full night after ominous night. ‘Kiss of the Damned’: Vampire saga offers a bloody good time 2013-05-09T20:49:51Z Peering down from the balcony of his elite New York nightclub, Truth, in the show’s ominous opening scene, he is literally and symbolically on top. ‘Power’ is ending. Here’s how Starz’s most-watched series began. 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Years later, in recollection, her posture was ominous, but it followed a moment that would become legendary. Lorraine Hansberry, American radical: She pushed RFK to make “a moral commitment” on civil ri... 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z It's an ominous final image, but equally, considering how keen The Returned was to show us those other attacks in lurid detail, it feels a little ambiguous. The Returned recap: series one, episode four – Victor 2013-06-30T21:10:00Z In an ominous sign, those figures didn’t change much for second jobs, Dr. Zukin added, suggesting that recent graduates were stumbling from field to field. Recent College Graduates Wait for Their Real Careers to Begin 2011-09-01T00:01:27Z The novel’s new title suggests a final chance at ascending the heavens, or something more ominous: one more bumpy run before the whole operation shuts down. Sex, Secrets and Absent Fathers: It’s the New John Irving, of Course 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z As ominous as this may sound, the unpredictability of Georgia's peach harvest has been predictable since the industry's earliest days. Peaches are a minor part of Georgia’s economy, but they’re central to its mythology 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z Many of her canvases from the 1960s feature ominous swirls and splatters of paint in bloody red or oily black, with such unexpected objects as syringes, gun cartridges and doll eyes affixed to them. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z After Spacey promised to “kill them with kindness,” the video played ominous music as the camera moved to a shot of him continuing to tend to his fireplace. Accuser dies by suicide one day after actor Kevin Spacey posts "kill them with kindness" video 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z The second movement, marked “Doloroso,” becomes ominous, which could have sounded melodramatic and obvious. Christopher Rouse and EarShot Premieres From Philharmonic 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z He makes an ominous statement that Ray should leave "no traces left behind," which probably doesn't bode well for his wife and young son. "Fringe" recap: Two shapeshifters revealed 2010-10-15T12:30:00Z Totally drunk, he wanders off into an ominous tunnel, where he’s set upon by two muggers. Downton Abbey Watch: Endings 2013-02-18T13:00:34Z In the ominous Fox trailer, one owner reveals, “I have cancer in three places.” Antiques: A Bequest of Modernism Enriches Two Museums 2011-08-18T21:59:44Z The 'ominous' is wiped away with four magical snaps -- lights, music, dress, suit -- and a tale as old as time comes to life. 'Once Upon a Time': Season 4's 'Frozen' saga begins with 'Sisters' 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z “Homeland” similarly twists together ideas of the personal and political, beginning with the title, a word that has acquired ominous overtones in the shadow of Sept. Laurie Anderson?s Heart, Politics and Processors 2010-06-25T16:17:00Z There is a similar dynamic in another Sundance entry this year, Drake Doremus's impressive Breathe In, but the interaction here is far more ominous, sensuous and revelatory. Sundance film festival 2013: Stoker – first look review 2013-01-21T15:16:12Z All the while, ominous scavenging birds circle their cabin. | 'Alamar': Father, Son and Egret in the Banco Chinchorro of Mexico 2010-07-13T20:52:00Z In the second season, the pair goes even deeper and more intricate by taking inspiration from the Italian setting to paint ominous hints and clues within their homage to classic paintings and frescoes. Salon's picks for the best TV title sequences of 2022 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z And while the story plays a bit with the notion of the supernatural, the spirit foregrounded here is more tangible: an ominous sense of restlessness and curtailed dreams. Review: A Restless Spirit Haunts a Family in ‘A Season in France’ 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z Whether on the large or small screen, Ms. Davis projects an ominous gravity. Review: In ‘Lila and Eve,’ a Grieving Mother Turns Gun-Toting Vigilante 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Of course, some will sense the aroma of politics even in a play that purports to keep it at bay, in the ominous offstage presence of Israeli authorities. Perspective | A Palestinian play comes to the Kennedy Center, offering a comedic olive branch 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z None are more ominous than the funereal rooms in which cold, gray men move lives like chess pieces. Review: In ‘Bridge of Spies,’ Spielberg Considers the Cold War 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z On the grey day I first visited, these gates were ominous, begging for a clash of thunder and spooky disembodied laughter. A nice place to rest 2012-10-07T20:00:00Z An exploration of every conceivable way of producing sound from a flute — successively ominous, outrageous, menacing, funny and never less than virtuosic — it was the tour de force of the evening. Review | Emmanuel Pahud dazzles at Kennedy Center 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z The decoy contains a message assuring them the next one would be real, alongside an ominous date: 11/10. "The Good Fight" differentiates between who has the luxury of tuning out our political troubles 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z “I can’t interfere, it’s a canon event,” read the captions on the videos, as an ominous audio clip plays in the background. The ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ TikTok Trend That Almost Wasn’t 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z Yet there was an ominous mood and cohesion to the music. James Blake Seduces on Overgrown 2013-04-11T11:00:18Z After an ominous and prescient dream about a storm, Montalbano deals with problems of mounting seriousness. New in crime fiction: Billingham, Furst and the return of Inspector Montalbano 2012-06-06T22:35:08Z Impatiently, she summons council members to an emergency meeting in another room while outside the thudding party music measures the ominous heartbeat of a race against time. Review: ‘The Fool’ Is Yuri Bykov’s Look at Corruption 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z “You Came to Me at Night,” a 2017 painting, features an ominous, faceless figure, head slightly lowered, with dark gray brushwork shrouding the torso and dripping onto the sketched knees and shins below. Tracey Emin and Edvard Munch, Leaning Into Pain 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z The Black Panthers conspicuously carried arms for self-defense and struck an ominous military posture. The Human Rights Watch Film Festival Explores Social Justice 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z This perspective comes across best in hymns performed by members of the church to which Luke’s parents belong, in which tunes of sweet uplift are tugged by an ominous undertow. Review: In ‘Kid Victory,’ Rescued but Not Free 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z Known as the “Ghost” trio for its eerie middle movement, it received an evocative, richly detailed and utterly convincing reading, from the extroverted outer movements to the strange and ominous Largo at its core. Kennedy Center Chamber Players open the season with evocative, varied program And then there are the gigantic oil drums, ominous and puzzling. Farewell to ‘Stomp,’ a Show at the Beating Heart of New York 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z Martin shut himself in the bathroom — an ominous development, if you remembered his supposedly fake suicide attempt in the series premiere — and lay on the floor in pain. ‘The Affair’ Season 2, Episode 4: A Bad Day for Everyone 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z Most of Stevens’s new tracks are thickets of counterpoint, dissonance and noises that can be comic or ominous. Sufjan Stevens’s Cry of Despair and Prayer for Redemption 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z His best-known work was the “Twin Peaks” theme, recognizable from its first three ominous, otherworldly notes. Angelo Badalamenti, Composer for ‘Twin Peaks,’ Is Dead at 85 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z But as the storm gained ominous force, I thought of him alone in his apartment only eight blocks away, and I let myself want him. Modern Love: A Disaster Scenario, Rewritten 2012-12-06T19:38:13Z The mood seems at once reflective and restless, uplifting and ominous. Review: At Caramoor, a Concert Signals Return and Remembrance 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z “It’s scarier, it’s more moody, it’s darker, it’s ominous. You think, ‘Uh oh, this is going to be scary,’ and it does really frighten a lot of people when you enter those doors.” Disney’s Haunted Mansion at 50: The Ghosts Are Still Grinning 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z Characters enter the ominous digs in “Bad Times at the El Royale,” but they don’t always exit. Review: Hard-Boiled Play in ‘Bad Times at the El Royale’ 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z John Lee Beatty’s antique set design, with the main flight of stairs leading up into an ominous darkness, establishes an unsettling mood, strangely removed from the present day. ‘Epiphany’ Review: A Holiday Party, but What Are We Celebrating? 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z That made it an apt partner in Ms. Dinnerstein’s brief improvisation on Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky,” which opened the evening, creating cobweb-and-moonbeam music well suited to the ominous nonsense text of the poem. Music Review: ‘The Story of Babar the Elephant’ at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-11-21T22:50:07Z It's the darkest tune on the air right now, with lyrics about hidden dangers and ominous arrivals. Deck the Hall Ball and Winter Warmth showcase local acts 2011-12-01T15:52:40Z Tony-nominated stage star Brandon Maggart stars as Harry, a downtrodden toy factory worker who spends his spare time spying on neighbourhood children and compiling their names in his ominous book of "Bad Boys & Girls". Six alternative Christmas films 2012-12-21T15:00:00Z But the music is a minor-key dirge, with an ominous electric lead guitar: a come-on delivered as if it were a warning. New Music: Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa?s Collaborative Album ? Review 2011-12-12T23:45:22Z When the slow movement’s untroubled, bucolic aria suddenly takes an ominous wrong turn into the minor key, the contrast is startling. CD reviews: Music that conjures emotionally charged spaces. 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z But from the first bar the violinist barely stops, through the seething first movement and the eerie melody of the second, played over an ominous repeating bass line, to a playfully furious finale. Music in Review: ST. LOUIS SYMPHONY 2011-03-07T21:45:11Z But shortly after the official victory parade ends, an ominous tragedy occurs: Two teenagers fall from gunshot wounds near the Kremlin. ‘One Night in Winter,’ by Simon Sebag Montefiore Though no murder takes place during the reunion, the proceedings are marred by an ominous succession of physical and verbal attacks on female teachers and alums. Taproot woos fans of Dorothy L. Sayers in upcoming 'Gaudy Night' 2012-09-12T23:05:04Z The slick, music video-style opening credits — a staple of this genre since “Seven” — include an ominous box of crayons. Review: In ‘Hangman,’ Al Pacino Trails a Killer With a Unique Vocabulary 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Planting false information, taking advantage of our willingness to believe the worst, diverting our focus with left-field wordplay, investing everyday details with ominous import, making sick jokes that may not be jokes at all. Review: A Criminally Enjoyable ‘Hangmen’ from Martin McDonagh 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z However, I loved Li’s cinematic asides — “ominous drumroll” and “If this were a film, a single card title would now come up onscreen: Four Years Later” — and her well-timed forays into Sarah’s family life. She Stayed Silent When a Producer Turned Sexual Predator Went After a Friend 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z Or you can mix those same ominous words with a rustle of wind and a quiet guitar. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Let's just say that as obvious names for ominous female characters go, that one pretty nearly takes the cake. "Inception": A clunky, overblown disappointment 2010-07-15T01:01:00Z The movie makes it immediately obvious, however, that her husband really is up to something sinister, because he’s always prowling around suspiciously, with ominous music playing pretty much whenever he’s onscreen. ‘Intrusion’ Review: We’re All Trying to Find the Guy Who Did This 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Show after show is filled with visions, horrific flashbacks and ominous flash-forwards. FX’s ‘Legion’ is intriguing, but do we need more characters who are always seeing things? 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z She described his demeanor as civil, even after she received “an ominous card” directing her to show up at a school to be deported to German-occupied Poland. The Nazi Downstairs: A Jewish Woman’s Tale of Hiding in Her Home 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Then one morning in December, bus shelters and bank windows in a large part of Manhattan were covered with large, ominous posters, featuring a pink triangle floating against a black background. Life on the frontline of the Aids epidemic | David France 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z In this ominous, claustrophobic novel, Underdown imagines his pregnant, widowed sister, who sees the malignant forces at work but is powerless to resist. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z A strong, mambo-driven rendition of “Something’s Coming” from “West Side Story” introduced the show’s theme of ominous anticipation, but in a cheerful voice. Barb Jungr’s Jazzy Songs for Troubled Times 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Minutes later, the room plunged into near darkness to the ominous guitar intro of “Paint It Black.” A New Alinea Plans to Serve Emotions as Well as Entrees 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z Ferguson diagnosed “a cramp in the mind of the committed party hack, a terrible need to believe that one’s adversaries are more ominous or sinister than observable reality suggests.” 2016: Obama's America: Dinesh D'Souza Sees an End-of-Times 2012-08-24T19:27:44Z Mixing antsy chimes and a low-slung beat below, “Pillar III” builds in force before collapsing in ferocious shudders, explosions and shivers — and an ominous lullaby coda. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2021 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z You’re right to be suspicious, because the theme ends with another ominous trill in the piano’s lower depths. Anthony Tommasini’s Interactive Quest for Surprises 2014-02-28T15:50:53Z And though dexterous and melodic use is made of piano, strings and wind and brass instruments, the sound that keeps coming to the fore is that of a drum, beaten slowly, with ominous insistence. Theater Review | 'The Scottsboro Boys': Kander and Ebb Revisit an Infamous Case 2010-03-11T05:17:00Z But the tone becomes mysterious and then ominous. From the Archives: The Original Review of ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z “American Dharma” ended with the filmmaker torching the set, as his subject walked off into an ominous future; “The Brink” leaves us wondering where he’ll land next. "The Brink" review: Steve Bannon finally looks like a loser — Sundance 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z “Silk” sounded especially ominous, a precursor to the cold air and steady rain that soon hit the festival grounds. A look at how they lived the Sweetlife (Festival) 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z We were driving home when we received an ominous phone call from Jake: “I’m really sorry,” he said, “but Josh broke the overhead light in the kitchen skateboarding round the table.” ‘There was blood on the walls’: what to do when teen parties go wrong 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z The light here is music, as Johan remembers how the ominous sounds of the freight train in which he traveled started to sound like drumbeats. Review: Notes of Joy and Fear Fill This ‘Fandango’ 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z An ominous breakup song about the 50 states, from the former bard of the 50 states himself. Best Songs of 2020 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z “Burnt Out Star,” from the prolific Australian psychedelic band Pond, is idyllic, then sumptuous, then ominous. The Playlist: Blood Orange’s Fragile Pop, and 11 More New Songs 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z Soon enough, the dramatic lines will blur ingeniously, as their personal preoccupations draw them inexorably into the ominous goings-on at Muldoon manor. Playwrights get last word in delightful ‘Critic’ and ‘Real Inspector Hound’ 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Isolated moments hinted at more dangerous entertainment: the dark cloud of a chord near the end of Ravel’s “Beauty and the Beast” was ravishingly ominous, and the punctuations of Stravinsky’s “Infernal Dance” detonated with force. Review | Melbourne Orchestra brings sense of several places to Kennedy Center 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z It remains ominous and tragic, though, its haunted beauty intact, with air so thick that cigarette smoke doesn’t rise, fog so heavy that the horses seem to exhale extra hard. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z There was the high-impact moodiness of Flying Lotus, whose set was a lurching stop-start collection of galloping percussion, subterranean bass heaves, blippy electronics and ominous dirges, complete with choir and church bells. The Hudson Project, Cut Short by a (Real) Tempest 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z Grooms are rarely part of the equation here, but that’s enough to cue the ominous music and close-ups of the shocked faces of the others present. TV Tonight: Say Yes to the Dress: Bridesmaids 2012-04-20T10:30:05Z Irish readers will hear the ominous undertones of this passage before most Americans. Review | ‘Small Things Like These’ reads like a Christmas classic 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z The true merit of this ominous device is to be found on the inside, where its mechanical marvels reside. For Luxury Watch Buyers, One Just Isn’t Enough 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z And the English band Factory Floor mixed the human and the electronic, with fast, relentless beats matched and elaborated by a very hardworking drummer, in a set that built toward an ominous frenzy. Critic’s Notebook: Moogfest 2014 Unfolds in Asheville, N.C. 2014-04-28T22:13:11Z Whether pursued with perky jollity or ominous solemnity, these shows are playing mind games with their audiences, reminding you that on stage as in life, what you see is not necessarily what you get. London Theater Journal: Mind Games 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z The landscapes are open, the skies are wide and the mood is ominous in this scene from “Nope,” now in theaters. Watch Daniel Kaluuya Face a U.F.O. in ‘Nope’ 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z The draperies dangled listlessly from a broken curtain rod, plastic lampshades had ominous burn holes, and the air reeked of stale cigarettes. ?Jersey Shore,? Reality Versus Reality TV 2011-09-09T18:55:00Z That at-the-time mysterious quote seems utterly ominous now, with the news that Prince passed away today at Paisley Park, at the age of 57. A Prince for every occasion: He created his own borderless genre—and always sounded exactly like himself 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z They have the peculiar ominous quality of the ellipses in National Weather Service warnings: “THREAT … CONSIDERABLE.” For 3 Poets Who Embrace Excess, the Mess Is the Message 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z “Waking Dreams,” a namesake anthem, rode a streamlined quintuple meter; “Indian Hill” began at an ominous crawl and bloomed into a waltz. Music Review | Chris Dingman: Vibraphonist Dazzles, but Without Fanfare 2010-03-19T21:36:00Z In an alienated world, the utterly banal can be ominous. Review | In the galleries: A sizzling exhibit crackles with creativity 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z No more trees? is profoundly upsetting and leaves the parent reading to the child to explain what that mysterious and ominous unless means. Who Speaks for the Trees? 2011-11-25T14:01:11Z The ominous sky resembled a vast limestone cotton ball. A circus tragedy lost to history 2011-05-02T21:49:00Z The ominous clinking sounds carry on; you might imagine that the utensils are blades hacking at Yerma’s soul. Yearning for a child in ‘Yerma,’ at Gala Hispanic Theatre 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z While that may all sound a little fanciful, writes Stephen Holden, it’s grounded by the Tom Hanks, whose “performance elevates an ominous, downbeat reflection on American decline and runaway technology into a subdued absurdist farce.” What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘Veep’ and Anything Prince 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Storm clouds looked ominous, so everyone grabbed an umbrella from a wooden rack and set forth behind our guide, who warned us to “watch out for rabbit holes.” New Zealand’s Hobbit Trail 2012-10-05T16:25:35Z Jeremy Irons narrates all six episodes, and his elegantly purring delivery has rarely sounded so seductively ominous. ‘Life on Fire’: living with volcanoes 2012-12-28T21:55:18Z The elusive score is perfectly suited to the story, a timeless, symbol-laden love triangle about unhappy people trapped in an ominous world of shadow and foreboding. Simon Rattle leads 'Pelleas' in Met debut 2010-12-18T18:31:05Z The pool drew the largest gatherings, though the ominous gray clouds and wind gusts kept most people on dry land. What’s it like to go on vacation during a pandemic? I went to a newly reopened resort to find out. 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z Gulf Coast and ominous full-page spreads of clouds — but it quickly becomes clear that nature itself is in charge. 'Another Kind of Hurricane,' 'Drowned City' take on Katrina 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z The ominous title sequence, the slow pans and zooms, the B-roll of empty rooms and solitary, moody characters are pitch perfect. Review: True Crime? When the ‘Family Jewels’ Are Painted on Cars 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z But “Downton” just wouldn’t be “Downton” if Mr. Bates didn’t turn back to Mrs. Hughes and issue this ominous reply: “Nothing’s over and done with,” he says. ArtsBeat: ‘Downton Abbey’ Recap: A Warning From Mr. Bates 2014-01-27T03:00:44Z The Suicide of Western Culture, an electronic duo from Spain, put an ominous undercurrent under dense, driving marches coordinated to video that merged dizzying motion with messages like “Hope Only Brings Pain.” Critic?s Notebook: Springsteen Gives Keynote at SXSW Festival 2012-03-18T22:27:10Z Sims shines in her deft characterizations, and in the descriptive passages that call the gloomy Northwest skies "stomped-newspaper gray" and the Puget Sound waters "slaty and ominous." New novels by Jane Porter and Elizabeth Sims are steeped in sense of place 2010-08-04T23:12:00Z “Half Past France,” once a wistful ballad, was remade with clouds of ominous orchestral dissonance; “Leaving It Up to You,” once a rocker, became even more queasy when turned into brittle, twitchy funk. Review: John Cale of the Velvet Underground, Still Bristling at 75 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z He then photographs the models, creating images that are unreal looking and thus oddly ominous. Do the Deutsche B?rse prize jury really get photography? 2010-12-02T16:06:00Z With its bleak, rainy nights and ominous, do-NOT-go-down-there basements, “Barbarian,” written and directed by Zach Cregger, is the kind of horror movie that makes you believe you know exactly where it’s headed. These Would Be Our Oscar Nominations 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z The music is beautiful but the message is ominous. Tellings of Armida?s Story, Including Gluck?s at Juilliard 2012-02-03T15:51:38Z A lone, ominous whistle; a searchlight raking the darkness; a throng of tense-bodied men and women looking furtive — such gratifyingly classic notes of noir are sounded before a single word is sung. Review: ‘The Wrong Man’ Sets a Universal Nightmare to Music 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z She flipped through some magazines, read a prayer, and was starting to drift off to sleep when an ominous crash jolted her out of her slumber. 7 facts about "Titanic" survivor Violet Jessop 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z Simpson’s Bronco chase, an ominous detail that adds to the sense of liminality as the show enters its final season. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z It was done in the ominous months around the Gulf war of 1991, when more than half a million western soldiers mustered in the Gulf to attack Iraq. Arabian sights 2010-07-08T14:55:00Z Its bleak, ominous atmosphere derives from its central character. Movie Review: ‘The Iceman,’ With Michael Shannon as Richard Kuklinski 2013-05-02T22:01:34Z Clever songs by Michael Wells are played — on percussion, plinky piano and ominous organ — by Teddy Lytle, Mr. Wells and Nicholas Williams. Theater Review: ?The Deepest Play Ever,? at the New Ohio Theater 2012-03-15T02:00:17Z The block-wide din outside made the hush of the empty Grand Ballroom inside Webster Hall seem even more ominous. In Search of Kanye 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z Or perhaps it was an ominous TV theme song, the kind that could make the hairs on the back of their necks rise. Think the new "Unsolved Mysteries" is scary? The original will freak you out 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z Both also have deep voices that convey an ominous authority. | 'Charlotte Rampling: The Look': ?Charlotte Rampling: The Look? ? Review 2011-11-03T21:24:34Z Admittedly, though, Sutherland hits his stride when he greets the ambassador in the White House — he starts off cordial before dropping his voice to an ominous growl. ‘Designated Survivor’ Series Premiere: Glasses Off 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z During the ominous opening timpani taps, the players seemed poised to follow Mr. Robertson, but then they swept into a rousing rendition of “Happy Birthday,” rocking him back on his heels. National Youth Orchestra Prepares for Concerts 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z The atmosphere grows increasingly ominous as the 1930s progress. Review | A look back at the elegant highs and the wartime lows of the French Riviera 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Who is this ominous “someone”? And, for an even bigger question that won’t be answered until much later: Who was the murder victim? She Got Away With Murder, but Now the Past Is at Her Doorstep 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z Crucially, it's scarier – with some proper creepy moments in a dark museum, and the ominous threat of ruthless Chinese gang culture hanging over the whole thing. TV review: Sherlock, Alan Titchmarsh's Walks of Fame and Come Dine with Me Down Under 2010-08-01T22:00:00Z But after the cast takes its bows — cleverly gliding in and out of the choreography to do so — there is a more ominous moment. Review: Finding a Collective Groove in Church and in House Dance 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z The show’s bestiary also includes an elegant Leonard Baskin crow and a somewhat ominous kangaroo, by veteran D.C. painter Joe White. In the galleries: Mapmaker Michael Francis Reagan goes bold in exhibit at Gallery A It is one of several volcano pictures in the Allen collection, but it is perhaps the most ominous and unsettling. A Microsoft billionaire gives the public a rare view of his art 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z The sounds of nature, combined with a spare and vaguely ominous electronic soundtrack, add enough atmosphere to augment an acute awareness of the great outdoors as a wild kingdom fraught with peril. Movie Review: ‘Hide Your Smiling Faces’ Explores a Grim Childhood 2014-03-27T22:42:29Z But she eventually narrowed her focus to a single emblematic object and put together a small but memorable show, “Convalescence,” comprising four ominous paintings of the Edwardian sanitarium fixture known as the rib cage shower. Ablaze With Art: Thriving Galleries in Lower Manhattan 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z The effect was fitting, evoking simultaneously O’Connor’s keen sense of the ominous, the numinous, and the ironic. Flannery O’Connor’s Manhattan Memorial 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z "When you think of the details around a case like the Golden State Killer, maybe you know about a recording of an ominous obscene phone call," she wrote. "The Ripper" is just another example of how true and scripted crime shows fail sex workers 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z We first laid eyes on Jeff at the start of Season 4, a pair of very ominous eyes staring at Saul through a rear view mirror. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 6, Episode 10 Recap: Sweet Revenge 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z In a way, the tracks merge the glacial symphonic raptures of Bruckner and Wagner with the loops and pulsations of dance music; they can be simultaneously serene and ominous. Pop Music Gifts, All Bundled Up 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Inhabiting Banquo, he stepped, in terror, to his right and left, his movement giving a dramatic suggestion of the ominous forest surrounding him, though there was no set. Sing for Your Life 2011-05-20T16:00:31Z It’s "Metropolis," "The Time Machine" and "The Wizard of Oz" — a mechanized world at once wondrous and slightly ominous. Derring-do in a steampunk world: This Cirque du Soleil show is so 'Kurios' 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z As the opera begins, the mood-setting orchestral music is compellingly ominous, especially in the nuanced, colorful playing that the conductor Michael Christie draws from the orchestra. Review: ‘The Manchurian Candidate,’ Eagerly Awaited, Has Premiere in St. Paul 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Even more ominous is Minda Merinsky’s “Beer With Teeth,” a found teddy outfitted with added dentures and covered in a thin layer of concrete. Review | In the galleries: Doubling down on artworks 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z The beat was ticking and chattering somewhere on the sidelines; there were low, irregular throbs of bass and ominous, staticky crackling, along with a hint of distant sirens. Music Review: Ghalia Benali at French Institute Alliance Française 2013-05-16T21:42:33Z He was captured by a terrible, ominous whirlpool and was later found dead, his costume “torn to shreds.” | Float, Memory 2014-05-06T13:00:33Z He is: an ominous, dreamlike fairy tale for adults. The Week Ahead: Aug. 19 — 25 2012-08-17T20:40:22Z Indeed, newer material served a primary role in shaping the vicious nature and uncompromising attack of a career-spanning set punctuated by ominous warnings, deadly secrets and ruinous relationships. Afghan Whigs uncompromising at Metro 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z Chandler: It’s not just a reunion, it’s “an unscripted reunion”, a phrase only slightly more ominous than “rail replacement bus service” or “untitled Matthew Perry project”. Friends reunited: the one where they try to get along again 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z The ring light has become a signature tool for Deakins and produces something here that is both ominous and calming. The Bright (and Dark) Side of Roger Deakins 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z The memory of its ominous opening scene, the only one that doesn’t occur in the warmly rendered farm kitchen and living room of Rob Howell’s set, lingers all through the play’s three acts. Review | ‘The Ferryman,’ an explosive, exhilarating human drama 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z A number of Western journalists have descended on its capital and returned either with ominous reports about the country’s lurch toward autocracy or with obsequious interviews extolling Mr. Orbán’s conservative values. Reckoning With Memories of Budapest 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z The newest piece at either location, it feels emotional, volatile and even ominous — like these times. Barbara Kruger: A Way With Words 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z There’s still the ominous, dead-raising burial ground in the woods that will upend those hopes. ‘Pet Sematary’ Has a Shocking Change. Yes, Stephen King Approved. 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z In the real world — the one in which politicians don’t need color filters to seem ominous and whistle-blowers are merely discredited or imprisoned — conspiracies are common. ‘An Acceptable Loss’ Review: Conspiracy Drives a Nuclear Attack in a Rote Thriller 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z At first it’s tentative — chords and pauses, the clatter of a rainstick — but other, more ominous sounds crowd in: distorted guitar, insistent drums, rumbly low arpeggios. Miley Cyrus and Brandi Carlile’s Raw Duet, and 9 More New Songs 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Mosshart glares at the audience, painstakingly bringing her arm above her head, utterly in a trance as she gets caught up in the ominous vibrations of "Baby Says" and pouty "Future Starts Slow." Lollapalooza Day 1 in review 2011-08-06T06:57:00Z It becomes ominous in ways that go well beyond the calculated shock value of its cover. Books of The Times: ‘People Who Eat Darkness,’ by Richard Lloyd Parry 2012-06-06T20:39:37Z This was an ominous beginning, and I remember feeling saddened that a holiday I had anticipated with the prospect of pleasure in mind should have started so unpleasantly. Once upon a life: Paul Bailey 2011-01-09T00:05:19Z Cavernous drums open proceedings on Suzanne And I, then ominous, twanging guitar lines ring out before Calvi steps up to the microphone. January's best new music from across the MAP 2011-01-15T12:41:00Z He added more discordant notes, transforming the drone from soothing to ominous and expanding toward the organ’s higher and lower range. Music Review: Charlemagne Palestine at Plymouth Church 2014-03-07T22:39:48Z When a dome punctuates the open skies, it’s seen in the distance, through haze that appears welcoming rather than ominous. Review | In the galleries: At two Washington spaces, art of a political caliber 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z It's an ominous introduction to an object that won't pay off until the end of the episode. 'Once Upon a Time': Belle makes a bold move in 'Heroes and Villains' 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z The problem is not that the stock lyric symbolism of the moon and ominous darkness were dominant features of Little Gods; rather, it is that they reappear here to similar ends. The Havocs by Jacob Polley – review 2013-01-04T21:55:01Z Several also played drums, large and small, during scene transitions and moments of heightened tension, creating an ominous sense of armies preparing to do battle. ‘Henry VI’ Is Performed Where Wars of Roses Were Fought 2013-08-02T20:27:03Z Another bilious yellow sky, this time in New York, adds to the ominous portent of a helicopter hovering over the 30 Hudson Yards tower. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z It sounds like a “more ominous” version of the original, he writes — but “just as poignant.” A Jazz Pianist Flips Bach Upside-Down 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z That background informs elegant yet ominous sculptures such as “Thinking the Unthinkable,” a stainless-steel sphere, representing a hydrogen bomb’s explosive core, perched on a granite base. Review | In the galleries: An intimate panorama of video art’s variety and breadth 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z Early Wednesday morning, former CNN host and general disgrace Piers Morgan made an ominous announcement on Twitter: Piers Morgan’s incoherent attack on Nicki Minaj and “Black Twitter” is as racist as advertised 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z The cinematography is darkly lush in an ominous “Twin Peaks” mode. | 'Daydream Nation': Picking Up Extra Credit, and Teacher, After School 2011-05-06T05:30:05Z Among her suspended paper sculptures is a model of the human papillomavirus, intricate and ominous, that hangs over the gallery like a dark star. Review | In the galleries: Artists make use of Asian iconography via paper and sculpture 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z A damp harp patters in the background, adding an air of ominous mystery. “Beatriz at Dinner” brings politics to the table, with no manners and ample humor 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z Some were inspired by the abduction of babies by Argentina’s military junta during the 1976-1983 “Dirty War,” but their theme is as universal — and as ominous — as any Brothers Grimm fable. Review | In the galleries: Exploring the many perspectives of terricide 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z The New York Times said that Kilmer was "bursting with ominous energy." 10 surprising facts about Val Kilmer 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z Amusing, entertaining and, yes, “educational,” as well as ominous, Ms. Steyerl’s film is a substantial, painfully timely achievement. Hito Steyerl: ‘How Not to Be Seen’ 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z And that right there is what’s most ominous and alarming about the NRA’s defiantly more, more, more attitude. Keep your guns out of my school! 2012-12-21T19:54:00Z It hasn’t lost the levitation game “light as a feather,” the ominous snakes or the famous line; “We’re the weirdos, mister,” though it’s recontextualized for a climactic moment. ‘The Craft: Legacy’ Review: More Dull Carbon Copy Than Cult Classic 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Now, along with articulate singing bodies that sweep on and off the stage as if caught in sudden gusts of wind, there is the ominous backdrop of the present. Review: The Sophisticated Simplicity of a Mark Morris Masterpiece 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z "It also makes for a very ominous precedent when one begins to wonder what's going to happen with outdoor dining," he said. New York’s bars, restaurants and distillers say they’re suffering from the abrupt end of to-go cocktails 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z I'm sure it's just as ominous, maybe more so, when presented on stage. Review: ‘Network’ With Bryan Cranston Is Convulsive, Immersive and Still Mad as Hell 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z The designer’s exhibition in Milan, which opens today, includes his fashion designs but also a sculptural intrusion — globular, coiled, ominous. Seoul’s Bumping B-Boy Scene 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z Sullivan evokes this portrait of radical equality not as a utopian ideal, but as an ominous warning. Andrew Sullivan is wrong again: His mainstream liberalism has become scarily anti-democratic 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z This big, black ominous front came rolling down on us, so much so that it began to snow. I?m a ferry boat captain 2012-05-19T14:00:00Z More ominous are the steel drones, available in small, medium and large, and oil paintings in which the metal birds buzz around such vulnerable figures as babies and naked women. Review | In the galleries: Many shades of gray are only the beginning 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z Before Netflix releases its prequel series later this year, check out the formative puppet fantasy that scared Hollywood away from ominous Tolkien-inspired magic and all the way back to Sesame Street. The 7 best movies new to Netflix in May 2019, from "Snowpiercer" to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Keenlyside tacked from sweetness to ominous vehemence; his emotions were precise, but the overall effect remained ambiguous. Music Review: Looking at Schubert and Finding Hamlet 2011-03-14T23:00:13Z With severe cuts to mental health services affecting Arthur’s stability, along with Phillips’s focus on the ominous effects of widespread gun ownership, it seems odd that it’s being hailed as wholly rightwing. 'Incel' violence is horrific, but Joker is complex, and doesn't take sides 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z In 1970, the year the Last Poets began their album with the ominous phrase "time is running out", it seemed to many US radicals, black and white alike, that revolution was imminent. After the Party: Music and the Black Panthers 2010-09-02T21:45:00Z The ominous tones and tense chords influenced film composers as well as underground musicians, who built on his innovations to create evocative instrumentals. John Carpenter goes from behind the camera to center stage 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z Still Ebony Burton’s lighting, which suggests a club in the weary, early morning moments before the work lights come on, and Ben Williams and Elliot Yokum’s ominous sound design provide greater ambience. Review: ‘Marie It’s Time’ Pieces Together a Woman in Fragments 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z It is a powerfully conflicted picture, a black hole of ominous and disturbing proportions framed in an innocuous image of sweetness and light. No closure after Appomattox 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z The overall tone is grippingly ominous, the rhythm tracks clank and whirr like rusting machinery, buffeted by severe elemental gusts of synthesised noise. Hacker Farm: UHF – review 2012-12-20T15:29:01Z The court’s intervention nonetheless is an ominous sign for defenders of affirmative action. High Court takes affirmative action case 2012-02-21T15:43:00Z I had no idea what it was, but I liked how ominous it sounded. My night in Judgement House, the church play about hell that made me a teenage born-again zealot 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z Leaves shivering on trees take on an ominous implication, but so does a tight focus on white cream swirling in sensuous tendrils through black coffee. Best TV of the Decade, from 2010 to 2019 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z But the lyrics are cryptic and often ominous: obsessed with the human body and the natural world, alluding to violence and mortification. Music Review: ‘Purity Ring’ at Webster Hall 2013-01-13T21:06:29Z As the band struck up an ominous tune that wailed like an ambulance siren, the enormous stage curtain rose to reveal a young woman dangling under a mock-up of the Brooklyn Bridge. ?Spider-Man? Starts to Emerge From Web of Secrecy 2010-11-23T23:22:00Z The ominous counterpoint guitars of “Little by Little,” stately piano of “Codex” and somber deliberation of “Give Up the Ghost” provide ballast; they are muted, unsurprising reminders of Radiohead’s past. Album review: Radiohead, 'The King of Limbs' 2011-02-20T05:48:13Z As the men and women made their way around the room, the music throbbed along with their footsteps, building to an ominous crescendo. Balenciaga put engineers, architects and moms on its runway — to make a statement about power in the workplace 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z Entering to the strains of Rachel Platten’s “Fight Song,” she began by striking a unifying tone, a counterpoint to the ominous strings strummed a week earlier by Donald Trump. The Democratic convention has been a slick production — and that’s a compliment 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z The wall was smeared in blood—an ominous Rorschach butterfly above a spattered queen-size bed. My Cancelled Detectives 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z This sets him off on a wayward course throughout Los Angeles, intersecting with real estate developers, the FBI, political militants, local cops, groovy masseuses, ominous therapists and the ever-evolving presence of the Golden Fang. Paul Thomas Anderson takes on 'Inherent Vice' 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Inside an old, standing birdcage festooned on the outside with padlocks and keyrings are three crudely caricatured black male figures, a clock and a crow figurine, Saar's ominous, oft-used reference to Jim Crow. What to see in L.A. galleries: Betye Saar, Tom Knechtel, Kay Sekimachi 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z First, a quintet of banner headlines which might easily have been contributed by The Onion – or even from beyond the grave by a gleefully satirical Steven Wells – proclaimed the ominous truth. Maggoty Lamb takes a dustpan and brush to NME's 'UK riots' issue 2011-08-22T15:28:35Z Before that ominous knock, we see him parked outside a home. 'Better Call Saul' Recap: Of Sound Mind 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z The Cold War may evoke feelings of ominous darkness, Jambol says, so the architecture of the museum is purposefully transparent. The Cold War as a museum: At the Wende, one man's 100,000-piece collection finds a new home 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z Navigating a landscape lined by ominous smokestacks and dilapidated shanty towns, the teenagers must forever prove their mettle. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z One of the film’s most striking elements is sound, such as the ominous beats or a clicking tongue. The story behind ‘Hereditary,’ the Toni Collette horror movie that scared the bejesus out of Sundance 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z This reality has both hopeful and ominous implications. The confused, confusing nationalism behind “Wonder Woman” 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z "The Paper Man" sinks the reader into a world rich with dead mermaids and masks and ominous civil unrest and Michael, a man made of paper. Gallagher Lawson discusses creativity and his debut novel, 'The Paper Man' 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Below these agonized souls, the ominous kicker: “Who Will Survive — in One of the Greatest Escape Adventures Ever!” A Ship Sinks, and a Boy Is Enthralled 2013-08-21T16:31:12Z After the piece builds in force, it finally collapses in ferocious shudders, explosions and shivers before an ominous lullaby. One Composer, Four Players, ‘Seven Pillars’ 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z A former police officer, DeAngelo was fired in 1979 for stealing dog repellant and a hammer — an ominous clue to his many crimes. Joseph DeAngelo sentenced to life in prison for Golden State Killer murders, kidnappings 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z There’s something distinctly ominous in the sweetness of Shiv’s smile, especially when it’s directed at her father’s militantly devoted third wife, Marcia, herself a blood-chilling presence at her most gracious. ‘Succession’ Review: A Family at War 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z And, of course, without him, Los Angeles would be without one of its most ominous cultural myths, "Chinatown." 'Water to the Angels' dives into L.A.'s water history 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Even as the plot grows more ominous, “he maintains a lightness of touch and a visual playfulness that keeps the movie securely in the realm of pop pleasure.” The Best Films of 2022, So Far 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z But the music is ominous — all minor chords, twitchy percussion and detached keyboard tinkling. Beyoncé and Jay-Z: The State of the Union Is Strong 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z The ambiguous overall mood is at once inviting and ominous. New York Philharmonic’s Next Leader Gives a Taste of Things to Come 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z On “Tookie Knows II,” the album’s ominous closer, there’s a resonant apathy that makes death or jail an accepted reality rather than a possible consequence. How Schoolboy Q took it slow and had one of the best years in rap 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z It was lovely and ominous, like a Mark Rothko color-field canvas, and it felt like the right kind of stretch. Music Review: Mining His Vault: Kurt Rosenwinkel at Village Vanguard 2010-06-24T21:21:00Z But no risk is so ominous as the humble tick. A Guide to Safety on the Appalachian Trail 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z But literature takes on a more ominous role when Jamie comes across a history of the American Revolution penned by Claire’s former husband from the 20th century. Review | Diana Gabaldon’s ‘Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone’: Worth the wait? 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z Note that otherwise bland title’s distinctly ominous last word: In the novel Holmes and Watson must discover the perpetrator of an infamous anti-Semitic screed, the notorious “Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” Review | Sherlock Holmes can never die. New books about the great sleuth are making sure of it. 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Yet the calm was deceptive, for just below the surface the ominous stirrings and fitful mingling of inner voices told a deeper story. Music Review: Mitsuko Uchida Plays Schubert at Carnegie Hall 2012-04-12T22:06:00Z Radiohead was in unimpeachable form — ominous, frenetic, mathematical, enraged, edgy, meticulous, desolate, funky — on Bonnaroo’s giant main stage, through a sound system with the clarity and punch of good headphones. The Best Concerts of 2012, as Seen by Times Critics 2012-12-26T23:38:02Z From its ominous opening strains to its ramshackle final bars, “Absolute Jest,” scored for the unlikely combination of string quartet and orchestra, is a funhouse stocked with flashes of Beethoven. CD Reviews: John Adams’s musical jokes 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z In the ominous Conversation, the Twilight Singers' Greg Dulli sings: "I was just as deadly as a bug on the telephone." Readers recommend: songs about eavesdropping ? results 2011-07-14T12:18:29Z There’s an ominous tone to the song, as if she could kill you in bed or turn you into a hopeless addict. White Female Rappers Challenging Hip-Hop?s Masculine Ideal 2011-12-23T14:30:39Z But despite these ominous portents, politics remains in the background like rumbles of thunder from an approaching storm that never arrives. | 'The Imperialists Are Still Alive!': ?migr?s in New York Who Aren?t Outsiders 2011-04-15T00:12:10Z The Late Show host Stephen Colbert responded to North Korea's escalating nuclear threats on Tuesday with an ominous message after President Donald Trump warned of unleashing "fire and fury." ‘We’re All Going to Die.’ Stephen Colbert Talks Trump’s Threats Against North Korea 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Narratively, Megyn’s insistence on calling Trump out for his treatment for women — and then dealing with the ominous backlash — becomes a prelude to the looming crisis with Roger. ‘Bombshell’ Review: Blind Ambition and Blond Sedition at Fox News 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Aptly, a more ominous note sounds in the play’s interstitial sequences — ostensibly online teacher resources — which periodically appear as video projections. Review | ‘Thanksgiving Play’ at Olney Theatre Center takes a carving knife to wokeness 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z The Times’s chief Washington correspondent offers a shrewd, entertaining look at the machinations surrounding Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court and the ominous political divisions his confirmation hearings revealed. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Most of his older songs were remixed along the same lines: all deep, ominous punch as Mr. West shouted nearly every line. Critic’s Notebook: Axl Rose and Kanye West, Heroes of Governors Ball 2013-06-10T21:53:47Z Using as a template the last collection her brother showed, at the swimming pool of the Paris Ritz that July, the designer reworked the Byzantine cross motifs that, in retrospect, seemed such an ominous inspiration. Fashion Review: Donatella Versace Revists Her Brother?s Last Collection 2012-02-24T19:31:24Z If she’s anything like the stray in “The Stray,” a bounty hunter who wanders off mission and gets stuck in a faraway crevasse, the implications are ominous. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 3: Don’t Make Arnold’s Mistake 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z As they arrived at the sandy shoreline, the weather turned ominous. Being stuck at home with the kids is hard. So is sending them back into the world. 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z But before you despair over that ominous title, read what Lemle has to say about the still-mirthful holy man, who may indeed be the last in his line. "The Last Dalai Lama": The spiritual leader gets deep into neuroscience in new doc 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z And gauging from the ominous industrial squalor of the single “Pneumonia,” fans can expect a radical — but by no means less compelling — shift in sound. Pop & Rock Listings for Sept. 16-22 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Airy, soft-spoken ruminations are limned with ominous clouds, wrong-note pangs and themes abruptly cut short; in the finale Mr. Rogerson deftly evokes flickering fireflies and children scampering to catch them. Music Review: Benjamin Beilman and Yekwon Sunwoo at Merkin Concert Hall 2012-03-13T21:27:35Z They represent a wide variety of communication strategies, some threatening, others playful: “Small encounter, great danger,” reads one poster from 1949, which shows a man and woman dancing in an ominous shadow. Pandemics Get Forgotten. But Not at This Museum. 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Noble’s effective staging, with its dark, ominous sets, places the action in a war-torn 20th-century setting, populated by gun-carrying militias. Music Review: Verdi?s ?Macbeth? at the Metropolitan Opera 2012-03-16T22:47:17Z Ah, listen to that ominous phrase, the “Deep State.” A professor’s lesson: “American democracy is now confronting an abyss” 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z “It feels like a failure, and an ominous sign of our inability to sustain any kind of shared stage,” says Spencer Kornhaber, a pop culture journalist for the Atlantic. Worst job in showbiz: why will no one touch the world's glitziest gigs? 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z We were hoping that this time around, director Guy Ritchie would think to include Professor Moriarty as more than just an ominous hand. Five better names for "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows" 2011-02-16T22:49:00Z Like the ominous rumble of Jon Beales's sound design, the looming presence of other people – the children at the top of the stairs, the husband in his office – reminds us of the impending tragedy. A Doll's House ? review 2010-10-26T20:29:00Z The high rollers’ holiday bonuses aren’t secure, cash in hand is getting scarce, and ominous postcards have been arriving in every mail slot, reading: “We Want What You Have.” ‘Capital,’ a Novel by John Lanchester 2012-07-13T18:01:49Z Burt’s message was ominous – “the best things in life were free” – a powerful mantra after Don and Roger convinced an unhappy Ted to stay with the agency in exchange for millions. The Mad Men mid-season finale: so what happens next? 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z It changed even more with the slow, ominous Breaking Bad. Jonathan Bernstein's Aerial View of American TV 2010-08-20T23:09:00Z If there's a curious kind of funk about the slouching, fractured rhythm of Stalker, it's still a stretch to imagine a DJ actually playing or people actually dancing to something this ominous. Fuck Buttons: Slow Focus – review 2013-07-18T14:30:01Z That ominous note sounds like the ring of opening bell on a rag-trade sales day. Goldman Sachs, Patagonia, and the Mysteries of “Business Casual” 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z Its urgent string tremolos unfolded with intensity, and the score’s ominous undercurrents ebbed and flowed in dramatic arcs. Music Review: Riverside Symphony Performs Works by Takemitsu and Honegger 2014-01-26T21:13:20Z Springsteen's struggle with the "ominous, complex issue" of how to musically fill the Clemons void is "a rough one" that Lofgren doesn't envy - but whatever the decision, he backs his Boss "a thousand percent." E Street Band's Nils Lofgren: 'Life is grand' 2012-01-11T10:16:05Z “But even that’s a cliché, you know. And then you’ve got ‘the sun peeped through the foliage’ and ‘the ominous black clouds that betokened thunder’—betokened, right? At the Writing Academy 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Left alone in their apartment, his wife was getting ominous phone calls, with just silence at the other end. A Writer’s Controversial Past That Will Not Die 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z The instrumentation is eclectic — reeds, washboard, accordion — and the effect is both melancholy and ominous, a sort of Kit Kat Club aura without the decadence. Review: ‘Old Hats,’ Mime and Mayhem From Irwin and Shiner 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Not so Edward Gorey, who was almost as eccentric as his ghoulishly humorous drawings, with their mysterious black-clad ladies, long-suffering children and ominous menageries. Review: Peering Behind the Whimsically Ghoulish ‘Gorey’ 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z Throughout much of the program, Mr. Veggetti’s choreography did little more than paint a thin veneer on top of Xenakis’s odd, ominous and sometimes frightening music. Dance Review: A Greek Composer?s Japanese Inspirations 2010-03-02T22:40:00Z It's a creepy place, rife with ominous midnight noises — creaks, clunks, etc. — and full of dark rooms and shadowy corridors. 'Sinister': Shivers come from stupidity of lead character 2012-10-10T22:14:12Z But it is a day when the distant wail of firetruck sirens sound ominous, nerves grow raw and viewers become hypersensitive to the misplaced word or self-serving gesture. The TV Watch: 9/11?s Pain Through the Prism of TV 2011-09-08T14:12:24Z The Haim sisters bragged about bringing some California sunshine to Glastonbury, and the ominous clouds held off just long enough to not make liars of them. The Complete Glastonbury Festival Post Mortem: 30 Top Moments 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Dark stage lighting is penetrated by occasional ominous flashes. Jessica Lang's vision is far-reaching in company's program at Irvine Barclay Theatre 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z But are these welcome innovations, bringing the crowd-sourced world of the internet to bear on physical reality, or ominous developments that let the likes of Mark Zuckerberg get too close to our bodily lives? Like-A-Hug? The Facebook vest that gives you a hug from your friends 2012-10-09T10:34:19Z In the opening scenes of this simple, spare and effective production, by Mr.van Hove, the mountains are depicted in Tal Yarden’s vivid, flowing and ominous videos, filmed in Wyoming. Music Review: Lyrical Cowboys In Love, On Stage 2014-01-29T09:33:49Z It is an ominous image, and also one of the most gender-fluid he ever made, for along the right side of the painting, there is a second drama, of wires crossed and cultural confusion. Review | The wonderfully queer world of ‘American Gothic’s’ Grant Wood 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z This seems ominous, but at the time everybody in Washington is still focused on the urination dossier. Dave Barry’s Year in Review: Russia Mania, covfefe and the Category 5 weirdness of 2017 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Then he puts both bows to the strings, pulling them in opposite directions to create a scratching, ripping sound over an ominous tremor. Review: International Contemporary Ensemble and Others Play in Brooklyn 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Despite speculation on Twitter that Rhoads chose 199 cemeteries for her book because when you visit the 200th cemetery you die, the number is not ominous. Hurry to see a cemetery while you still can appreciate it, says author Loren Rhodes 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z It’s a pretty picture or would be if the ominous music and camera position didn’t seem directed at the man portentously lurking in the background. | 'All Good Things': Assorted Acts of Betrayal Among the Moneyed and Dysfunctional 2010-12-02T22:59:00Z His most memorable line wasn't even a line, but an ominous whistle that said it all. Eli Wallach dies: 10 memorable movie roles from his long career 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z As always in Moss’s work, too, there is an ominous quality, slow uncanny beats from an extra subwoofer or two, mighty but muffled. ‘Summerwater’ Makes an Intimate Study of Social Class Out of a Long, Rainy Day 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z “Hung Up,” a more recent song that was originally catchy enough for a phone commercial, was reworked as something ominous and obsessive. In Newest Spectacle, Madonna Morphs but Refuses to Give In 2012-08-29T10:57:00Z She discovers ominous signs at the California ranch they’ve just moved to. New Fall Movies 2021: Here Are More Than 125 Coming Soon 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Life in Donald Trump’s America is barely underway, and the White House is already wafting ominous Orwellian juju as the president’s spokesmen attempt to dismantle consensus reality with “alternative facts.” The incoherent music of Trumpism 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z Nightfall in the canyon, depending on your mood, can be magical or ominous. A father-son backpacking trip in the Grand Canyon is an introduction to adventure 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z When half the cast leaves, walking somberly off the stage, the remaining dancers remove their shoes, an ominous sign. Dance Review: Megan Kendzior’s ‘Witness,’ a Dance Invoking the Holocaust 2013-12-20T21:26:26Z Ms. Cooke rendered the lines with an ominous aggression that felt almost puritanical. Music Review: Sasha Cooke’s Recital Balances Grandeur and Intimacy 2014-02-05T22:14:23Z But it was his albums, like 2010's soulful "Harlem River Blues," 2017's introspective "Kids in the Street," and last year's shuffling, ominous "The Saint of Lost Causes" that best summed up his man-out-of-time appeal. Justin Townes Earle, Americana singer-songwriter, dead at 38 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z Only a few historical figures appear, fleetingly; actor Daniel London plays Oppenheimer as a slightly ominous, god-like figure. 'Manhattan' traces a culture of secrecy, nuclear anxiety 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Ferry Corsten, also Dutch, made his trance more ominous by dipping into minor keys. Music Review: Electric Zoo 2011, Dance Festival on Randalls Island 2011-09-04T22:47:17Z And visually, the film is brimming: Ancarani depicts bridges agape over canals, forts crumbling in ruin and ominous bricola, or wooden poles, protruding from the lagoon like broken bones. ‘Atlantide’ Review: Restless and Reckless on the Venetian Lagoon 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z The 30-second ad released this week features a breathy woman's voice and ominous music, saying, "America's economy is hanging by a thread ... it's time to take away President Obama's blank check." Advertising blitz seeks to sway debt debate 2011-07-29T21:43:06Z The piece opens with an ominous hum that sounds uncannily like an orchestral cello section playing a low note tremolando. Review: Annie Gosfield Makes Machines Hum in ‘Electric Sweepers and Vacuum Creepers’ 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z By ominous coincidence, its replacement, Neo-Tokyo, is due to host the 2020 Olympics – just like the real city will, assuming it’s still there. From Blade Runner to Rollerball: did cinema's sci-fi dystopias predict the future? 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z It was almost certainly a wave, freeze-framed as something altogether more ominous by the click of a camera shutter. Who is David Bowie? A guide to the V&A retrospective 2013-02-16T19:59:00Z Shine does, now and again, remind us with ominous sound effects that "Threepenny Opera" was the product of Brecht and Weill's anti-capitalist, anti-militarist sympathies, as Hitler's forces of darkness were on the rise. Review: Mack the Knife would approve of Seattle Shakes' sharp 'Threepenny Opera' 2011-02-22T04:48:04Z “The digital dark ages took over our lives … the perfect formula was lost,” one of the film’s human subjects says in a voice-over that sounds ominous indeed. ‘Instant Dreams’ Review: Polaroid’s Too-Secret Ingredient 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z “I think gum was ominous because maybe socially it wasn’t accepted,” said Dr. Alice G. Boghosian, a spokeswoman for the American Dental Association, which has put its Seal of Acceptance on several brands, including Orbit. I Quit Chewing Gum 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z But there are new rules for subsidized tenants—about cleanliness, pets, food storage, unit inspections—and an ominous feeling looms about what such measures portend. The Best Podcasts of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z They don’t share Newt’s pedigree or Credence’s ominous threat; they’re side dishes. ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald’ Review: Apocalypse Too Soon 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Indeed, the Facebook baby was lucky — even if the anonymity offered by the Internet may present an ominous threat in the hands of more savvy criminals. Indian child trafficking on the rise 2013-05-05T12:00:00Z Sometimes a slicing fortissimo chord explodes, and in its wake you hear hushed, ominous, scurrying riffs. Music Review: Vladimir Jurowski and London Philharmonic Orchestra - Review 2011-12-10T00:28:17Z Something ominous is occurring, probably to you, but you can’t quite detect its meaning. Orlando Bloom in The Good Doctor: Malpractice Makes Perfect 2012-08-31T14:30:39Z Her first two features were impressionistic, ominous pieces about unorthodox sexual awakenings, bristling with closeups of clammy limbs and anxious faces. ‘Women's stories are seen as niche’: Eliza Hittman on her new film 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z Ms. Norman was not a fiery singer, though in flashes she could turn ominous. Jessye Norman Was a Diva, in the Best Way 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Its combination of shimmering seduction and ominous aggression will be familiar to those who admired “Written on Skin,” which also used the countertenor voice to haunting effect. Of Countertenors, Medieval Poetry and Capturing a Silvery Tone 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z It’s unclear what’s happening, but the saturated color, the blasts of ominous music and the alarming image of upturned hooves suggest the worst, a mishap perhaps or maybe just a showstopping trick. One Indelible Scene: A Donkey’s Escape in ‘EO’ 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z And there was crackling excitement on the rare occasions where Graf lit into the music, like the second movement’s fugue section or in the finale with the ominous descending scales going at different speeds. BSO offers excitement and maturity at Strathmore The strings pile up discords, first spooky, now ominous. Iamus, classical music's computer composer, live from Malaga 2012-07-01T11:56:51Z As Dave Itzkoff reported at the time, the satire “elicited an ominous message from an Islamic group based in New York.” Emmy Nomination for Controversial 'South Park' Episode 2010-07-08T20:08:00Z Mr. Botstein led a bristling performance; ominous and driven in the opening “Nagasaki, City of Grief” and brighter toned in the ensuing “Morning.” American Symphony Orchestra Samples the 20th Century 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Smith, meanwhile, bounces from steadily driving beats to moments of long, ominous repose, as Berne dances and swarms above. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z The individual parts might be ominous, but at least every skull and dagger is harmoniously placed. In the galleries: The devil is in the details in an exhibition filled with symbolism 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z The movie, visually and sonically, bludgeons its viewers into an exultant submission; that’s why its success is ominous. The Styleless Fakery of “Suicide Squad” 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z Though she’s not taken off the investigation into Caspere’s death, you will have noted: instead she has the dispensation of being a “special investigator”, a title that is sounding increasingly ominous. True Detective season two, episode four recap – Down Will Come 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Working in Thomas Edison’s New Jersey studio, they gave us the first celluloid sneeze, an open-mouth exhalation that was meant to be humorous but today seems ominous. Film Treasures, Streaming Courtesy of the Library of Congress 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z The collaboration by Vladislav Delay and Lillevan, a shared improvisation, was simultaneously lush and bleak, enveloping the room with ominous implications. 2010-02-06T05:36:00Z In the years after Rothko's death, as the cultural rebellions of the '60s waned, pop's once radical agenda began to reflect contemporary values in more ominous ways. Mark Rothko and Selling Out in the Art World 2010-03-26T20:43:00Z Despite the dancers’ showbiz smiles, sequined overalls and clapping hands, “For Four” has something ominous simmering beneath its surface. Exploring the Dimensions of Black Power at Alvin Ailey 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z As Edward Rutledge of South Carolina, Alexander Gemignani brings a rich baritone and ominous purpose to the show’s most lush-sounding and perversely beautiful number, “Molasses to Rum,” in defense of slavery. Review: ‘1776,’ a Musical Portrait of Squabbling Politicians 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z "Private Number" begins as a haunted-house flick in which phones inexplicably ring at 2:44 a.m. every day and an ominous voice on the other end asks, "Remember me?" Collection of scenes in 'Private Number' don't add up 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z And set against that ominous backdrop is a tender, touching, personal story of self- discovery. TV review: Christopher and His Kind 2011-03-20T21:04:00Z Certain ominous cues, including a heartbeat, seem belabored. Review | The park setting of ‘In the Middle of the Fields’ is compelling but can’t make up for the sliver of a plot 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z An ominous, almost haunting melody pierces quiet strings as a vessel cuts across the sky. Movie Trailers: ‘Rogue One,’ ‘Fantastic Beasts’ and the Franchise Challenge 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z We hear the beginning of an earthquake—deep and ominous tremors—and it’s powerful listening. “The Big One” Podcast: Anticipating a Devastating L.A. Earthquake 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z It was dark, and the air hummed with something ominous. Dance Review: Fog Blurs Vision, and Lines, Between Performer and Audience 2011-06-26T22:17:56Z Pale and unsmiling, his black hair framing his white face like mourning crepe, he has always suggested Laurence Olivier’s Richard III, an ominous thought with children in the vicinity. | 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2': Childhood Vanishing in Swirls of Smoke 2011-07-14T01:03:02Z The mood of the piece was ominous and unsettled, but also darkly alluring, with a use of glassy dissonance that registered as richly luxurious. Review: A New-Music Concert by the Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z There are several ways to read that, but given the political tendency to authoritarianism that prevailed in many Latin American countries during this period, it sounds ominous. MoMA and the architects of a Latin American design revolution 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z There are cameos by notable Cold War figures, including Winston Churchill, George Kennan, Isaiah Berlin and, indeed, Stalin himself, who is less a character than an ominous presence. Review | A writer reimagines the life of Joseph Stalin’s daughter after she defected to the U.S. 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z Here he is, responding to the hunter's ominous "Welcome to Potter's Gulch" by whining: "Population, us." The Frankenstein Theory - the Blair Witch of monster movies 2013-02-20T16:47:00Z They are captured in flight, blurred and ominous, and at rest, perching on telegraph wires, trees, fences and chimneys. Masahisa Fukase's Ravens: the best photobook of the past 25 years? 2010-05-24T12:14:00Z The settled and cultivated land seen in the “east” half of his Oxbow painting doesn’t seem terribly ominous by contemporary standards. Review | Did America’s great landscape painter fear progress and hate democracy? 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z When we first meet the young woman in Milly Thomas’s solo play “Dust,” her entrance is preceded by an ominous, tectonic rumble that suggests a terrifying underworld. Review: In ‘Dust,’ the Measure of a Life After Suicide 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z In their stead, police walk the stage wearing their ominous black leather jackets. Protests against 'tsar' Vladimir Putin reach new operatic stage 2012-05-31T17:38:59Z Using ominous percussion, a bit of dance and a stage that’s never more than dimly lighted, “Hamyul/Hamlet” creates a delicious mood of menace. | 'Hamyul/Hamlet': Hamlet as Eager Korean Prince 2011-06-28T21:30:33Z And then, there’s something a bit more ominous: the advice that is widely believed…but doing you zero favors. 5 Career Myths Women Should Stop Believing 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Even when she announces that she will live only for him, Michel ignores ominous warning signs. Review: ‘Alleluia’ Follows Partners in Crime, but Not Necessarily in Love 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Yet “Homunculus” also reads as an ominous product of its historical moment. Serial Gems Are Painstakingly Restored for the Screen 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z In ominous portent, a dinner party with friends and business associates is interrupted when a bat strays into the house and wreaks havoc. Movie Review: ‘Brief Reunion,’ Written and Directed by John Daschbach 2013-01-17T22:37:51Z Whether the upbeat and inspiring “Main Title” theme for the original Star Wars or the second movie’s ominous “Imperial March,” Williams has crafted every musical moment for all six Stars Films. Music to Our Ears: John Williams to Compose his Seventh Star Wars Score 2013-07-30T09:45:22Z Within them were stop-start bass tones and ominous, interruptive sounds: gunfire, echoes, the scrape of a handheld microphone over his table full of cables and gadgets. 2010-02-06T05:36:00Z But in this case, the relationship Dean and Missy have with their docile black maid and groundskeeper has a more ominous energy. A horror movie for our time: “Get Out” is frighteningly topical 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z There’s an ominous sort of understatement, even minimalism, to his performance as Bowman – a constant sense of danger bubbling beneath the rigid crust. My streaming gem: why you should watch Pit Stop 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z “Correspondances,” from 2007, uses friendship as a frame, specifically the sisterly bond that many girlfriends share — imagine an ominous “Sex and the City” — to comment on how culture mixes in with race and gender. Dance Review: ‘Voices of Strength,’ Modern African Dance 2012-09-20T21:57:32Z When France instituted lockdown rules at the start of the pandemic, Hacker and Naïr — both Paris residents — preserved a sense of community by writing a renga to capture the ordinary and ominous days. Newly Published, From Sea Stories to Trauma’s Impact 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z At night, the racket of construction abates as the workers and the families depart, and an ominous silence descends. 'El Velador': Beauty, despair captured in expanding graveyard 2012-07-05T20:51:04Z Those curt pulses suddenly relax, though not without an ominous tinge, into something suaver, like a tango, before the movement ends hard, loud and pummeling. Jeffrey Kahane Conducts New York Philharmonic 2014-03-21T22:19:16Z “Madman’s Eyes” is set to an ominous, Middle Eastern-tinged modal riff and buttressed by a moaning, swooping string orchestra, as Matthews howls, “Don’t sacrifice another child!” Dave Matthews Band’s Grown-Up View of Love and Dread 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z All of the group’s albums, typically recorded live in reverberant spaces, are titled in sequence, and “13” — just out on the stylish Norwegian label Smalltown Supersound — has enough ominous tension to justify numerical superstitions. The Playlist: Danny Brown and the Weeknd Serve Up Twists and Turns 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z As a normally taciturn veteran’s spouse, my own outspokenness mirrors a larger shift in public discourse: When the political direction of this country grows ever-more ominous, do the old rules still apply? Don’t speak for my military family: A veteran’s wife on Colin Kaepernick and the Nike boycott 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Nearly every frame reminds us with that we are in the realm of the uncanny, the ominous, the dangerous. Early on, 'Intruders' gets swallowed by the dark 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z “What I found really interesting in this film is that it presents the opposite view of everything else: birds as ominous creatures,” Ms. Huisman said. From Aristophanes to Hitchcock, Celebrating Birds and Culture 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Compared to that, van Hove’s staging is, even with the ominous wisps of smoke hanging around, a breath of fresh air, featuring an excellent cast and conducted with unexaggerated vitality by Nathalie Stutzmann. Review: At the Met, a New ‘Don Giovanni’ Has a Stark Vitality 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z The video then goes on to show scenes from the various kingdoms of Westeros as ominous music plays in the background. Watch the New 'Game of Thrones' Season 6 Trailer 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z Other notable selections include the disc’s namesake aria, “O Solitude, My Sweetest Choice,” expressively sung here, and the ominous “Cold Song” from “King Arthur.” Andreas Scholl and Christophe Dumaux Play Purcell 2011-02-06T02:08:04Z It will all end in tears, of course, and not just because Hitler is making ominous noises over in Germany. Review: In ‘Lempicka,’ Blond Ambition Is Set in a New Key 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z The most breathtaking moment in the new trailer for “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” trailer doesn’t involve explosions or lightsabers or ominous references to the Dark Side. “Star Wars” lets Princess Leia age realistically: Is this an alternate Hollywood universe? 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z The objects of her gaze are America’s refusal to own and atone for its history, the ominous changes to our climate and the coronavirus pandemic and its politicization. Review | Amanda Gorman’s ‘Call Us What We Carry’ is as powerful as ‘The Hill We Climb’ 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z “Last thing I said was ‘I love you,’” Earle sings, over acoustic guitar and ominous, droning feedback. The Album Steve Earle Never Wanted to Make: A Tribute to His Son 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z Performers were shot in silhouette or in pinprick lighting, making the audience feel claustrophobically close in an ominous or intimate scene. - The Washington Post Their budding friendship turns sinister as ominous notes hint at bad intentions. What to read in 2021 based on what you loved in 2020 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z Feathery phrases, alluring in texture, bobbed and broke apart, more like ominous clouds breaking sunlight than waves breaking on the shore. With a magnificent Piano Spheres recital, Mark Robson resonates in the new year 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Shot from behind, we see his perspective: a hazy mass of people underneath chandeliers in between an ominous series of statues inside the Symphony Hall in Boston. John Mulaney Punctures His Persona in ‘Baby J’ 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z The mysterious opening section, with the magic chords and hazy textures, seemed genuinely ominous. Music Review: Lionel Bringuier Leads Philharmonic by Himself 2013-06-14T19:16:12Z Though standard for any health club, it felt strangely ominous when I looked at the weeklong schedule we were given. My Week at the Biggest Loser Fat Camp 2011-12-30T16:41:36Z A lost traveler clutches the bow of his dinghy, while an ominous hooded seaman navigates at ease nearby. Atoms for Peace, Thom Yorke’s Side Project, Isolated and Lost on Amok 2013-02-28T16:23:24Z And it turned a Low song about ominous passion, “Monkey,” into a howling maelstrom of reverb with an extended crescendo from Mr. Miller. Music Review: Offering a Range of Songs, While Prizing Spirit Over Style 2011-01-31T23:59:58Z But it is perhaps an ominous sign that she physically recoils after saying that. ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 4 Recap: A Coronation Demolition Derby 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z Newly restored, the sculpture buzzes in a far corner like an altar to some neon god, at once ominous and magnetic. New York’s Poet of Light and Letters 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z “Universal Theseus,” one of the most haunting in the book, consists of formal lectures delivered in an ominous auditorium. ‘The World Goes On’ — and So Do the Sentences 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Around her, a string orchestra provides cushioning, cinematic expansiveness and sometimes desperate turbulence, while electronics add flickers of rhythm and startling, ominous swaths of noise. The Best Albums of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Bertlmann's work delves deep into the female psyche, while merging the erotic and the ominous to suggest how the female body has been fetishised. PhotoEspaña 2013: the 1970s feminist avant garde 2013-06-14T15:50:00Z This play, like many of Axis’s productions, mostly serves as a pretext for David Zeffren’s tenebrous lighting and Paul Carbonara’s ominous sound design. ‘Worlds Fair Inn’ Review: You Can Check Out Anytime You Like 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z They usually don’t, but that controlled tension and the sparse lighting and chilling soundscapes she favors add to an ominous atmosphere that Ms. Yin punctures with quick, precise gestures or paints with melting bodies. Dance Listings for March 21-27 2014-03-20T22:42:32Z From the moment of that ominous knock, strange and unseemly events start happening. Review: ‘Fondly, Collette Richland’ Offers Open-Eyed Dreaming 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z "In a dress as white as her dead tree branches she wandered through a cursed forest throwing clawing, ominous shadows up the walls," Blankenbiller wrote. The significance of the Bidens' conspicuous holiday cheer, especially for the Lunar New Year 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z Frank Kimbrough's piano flickers along the center of the album's title track, and "Nimbus" expands from an ominous, almost gypsy-like melody to a series of stormy, unfettered runs by Steve Wilson. Makaya McCraven's 'In the Moment' captures the spirit of Chicago jazz scene 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z But the timing and pacing were poor, and much else — marionette stiffness, slow motion, ominous transitions, suggestions of it’s-all-in-his-mind and even of rock as dangerous or evil — was all too serious, in the silliest sense. Pierre Rigal Imagines a Pop Concert at the Joyce 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z And there’s an ominous link that applies to our current climate crisis: Us. A Fossil Museum Uses the Past to Reimagine Climate’s Future 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Regus is as seductive as he is ominous, a frightening mix of outwardly pleasant and subtly menacing, a balance that Waltz has perfected over the years. Christoph Waltz Has Some Thoughts 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z The Juilliard musicians illuminated the many intriguing timbral touches in “Ceres,” including the ominous rumblings from the lower strings, the climactic percussion outbursts and deft use of clarinet and trombone. Music Review: The Juilliard School’s Focus! 2013 Festival 2013-02-04T23:28:52Z The videos show ominous encroaching branches and strange images of gigantic deer. ‘Bluebeard’s Castle’ and ‘Iolanta’ Open at the Met 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Is Milan fashion for summer 2012 steeped in nostalgia — or an ominous precursor of hard times ahead ? Special Report: Fashion: The Jazz Age and Milan?s Summer 2012 Collections 2011-09-23T17:57:36Z The first movement, a relentless and ominous march, was hard-driving and heavy-footed, fortified by a pulse in the low strings that was more a rumble than an articulation. Mariinsky Orchestra Makes Mahler Russian 2010-10-18T16:07:00Z But there is a superb double from James Laurenson as a Ghost who describes his murder with ominous quietness and as a Player King who, conversely, relishes rhetoric. Hamlet 2010-10-07T23:28:00Z Those owners complained of physical ailments — hair falling out, hives — but the dybbuk box of details a far more ominous consequence: demonic possession of a little girl. Six movies that will make you never want kids 2012-09-08T16:00:00Z Here it was recast for a small ensemble and a black, billowing cloud of a choir, an ominous drone with tinges of Romanticism. A Long-Lost Composer Is Raised From the Dead 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z I just can’t get past the title — “Honey in the Horn”? — and its rather ominous meaning: “from a line in a square-dancing tune.” Gillian Flynn: By the Book 2014-05-08T16:21:40Z But that was a good 10 minutes before Lynch went full “Eraserhead,” transporting us to an otherworldly dimension wherein an humanoid figure belches out a viscous stream of ominous ovoid shapes. ‘Twin Peaks’ Season 3, Episode 8: White Light White Heat 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z A shift takes place halfway through the stanza: Read those final three lines on their own and they seem to be about something much vaster and more ominous than a potentially invasive backyard plant. A Poet Who Looks at the Stuff of Daily Life and Sees Looming Apocalypse 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z In another, a married woman’s ex-boyfriend dies in her bed, setting off a chain of comic, ominous events. ‘Super Deluxe’ Review: A Tamil Film, With a Cosmic Indie Vibe 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z The transitions of mood between sections were seamless; there was ominous urgency even in quiet passages. Music Review: Program by the Book: Orchestral Colors? Check. Solo Showcase? Check. 2011-03-27T23:30:19Z “No Way Out” begins with an ominous overture far from Alexandria, though. Walking Dead Recap: OMG This Show! 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z But countering that mood are ominous elements, like a bare octave that keeps intruding. Richard Goode Plays Bach and Schubert 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z A fascinating idea that’s frustratingly underdeveloped, “Violet” is a sometimes uncomfortable watch, its ambition stifled by gimmickry and its ominous tone an unfulfilled promise. ‘Violet’ Review: In Two Minds 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Their respective partners, Smith and Dunlow, are more one dimensional, the latter being the racist villain whose thoughts and words appear like ominous theme music. A novel about police brutality in 1948 Atlanta that sounds eerily relevant today 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z I don’t remember much about the trip except for an overcast day when we made an obligatory visit to the Pantheon, which initially seemed like another dark and ominous monument. Crowning Glory 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z These ominous, if nonsensical, communications are set to YouTube clips, news, and amateur footage, where everything from shots of birdhouses to people strolling by a lake seem part of a sinister masterplan. This week's new exhibitions 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z Gunda Rated G for gentle scenes and one very ominous truck. ‘Gunda’ Review: A Remarkable Pig’s-Eye View of the World 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z In the book, the warning signs about Oppenheim start out small but ominous. In ‘Catch and Kill,’ Ronan Farrow Recounts Chasing Harvey Weinstein Story 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z The troubadours are played by the band, while Young plays the ominous “man in the black hat.” When Daryl Hannah, Neil Young and the son of Willie Nelson made a Netflix movie in three days 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z On the surface the mood is ominous, even threatening. Review: An Ambitious Project Returns at the Philharmonic 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z Rather than a few changes of underwear and a couple pairs of jeans they find a bloody blond wig and a vintage ViewMaster with a reel of ominous photos and/or clues in place. "The Flight Attendant" recap: Episodes 1 & 2 of Season 2 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z The ominous notes continue, with an abrasive synthesiser counter melody. Jon Savage on song: The Screamers ? 122 Hours of Fear 2010-07-27T14:54:00Z In the equally ominous “Woman Peering Into Atomic Nuclear Illusionistic Space,” a heroine wearing goggles and a full skirt bravely approaches a cubelike mushroom cloud. Art in Review: SHANNA WADDELL 2011-03-10T21:45:03Z The music and upward-looking shots suggest the point of view of someone small but also looming, ominous power. ‘Vox Lux’ Review: An Apocalyptic Star Is Born 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z The skies are gray by day, and pierced by ominous searchlights at night. Review: With Allied, the Old-School Wartime Melodrama Enters the Modern Age 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z So I scrapped a Western ski trip and fled north over ominous, blizzard-crazed thoroughfares, undertaking a New England version of British Columbia’s famous “Powder Highway” pilgrimage, which passes through that region’s deep-snow country. ‘Snow Snow Snow’ at Jay Peak, Stowe and Stratton in Vermont 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z As an ominous, pink neon countdown hit zero, Gaga stormed the stage promptly at 8:55 p.m. to the crunchy chords of “Diamond Heart.” Lady Gaga treats fans to expansive, smart hit-filled set 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z The photos weren’t particularly bloody, but they were ominous, frightening — even a child could tell that in almost every shot, something horrifying had just happened, or was about to happen. I took my dead father to a Red Sox game 2013-03-09T15:00:00Z It looked a bit ominous as we strapped on our leashes and hopped from the boat, the swirls of barely submerged rocks clearly visible in the break zone. In Northwest Colombia, Whales, Waves and a Dancing Bird 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z Still another reads one of the papers, which shows a map of the surrounding area encircled by arrows and ominous words of warning in English. Review: ‘Dunkirk’ Is a Tour de Force War Movie, Both Sweeping and Intimate 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Before she won, Germans had fretted for years over dreadful song contest results and the more ominous question of why they seemed to be so disliked in the rest of Europe. Germany's Lena wants 2nd Eurovision Song Contest win 2011-05-13T12:00:06Z "Push Play" features more than 30 artists of remarkably varied gifts, engaged in sometimes ominous games with their medium. Eye-popping ceramic art at BAM, the Henry and beyond 2012-02-29T23:57:05Z And that is the most ominous element in this deplorable project: that somewhere, in that alternate universe where life is ugly and nothing is funny, more Tammys await. REVIEW: Melissa McCarthy and Her Hammy Calamity Tammy 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z But it's the dread missing here that can make this a wide-awake nightmare — as a boy's distress, and his mother's inability to comfort him, grow increasingly ominous. 3 late-October plays: grief, trauma, loneliness 2011-10-13T20:15:08Z It would be tempting to look at Caroll’s death as a sort of sign of the times, a marker that the clouds are getting darker and more ominous, unable to be swept away. Big Bird was my pen pal: Here's what I learned from Caroll Spinney 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z An Orwellian shiver passes over the crowd as one employee shrieks upon exiting the room, suggesting an ominous undercurrent that the rest of the scripted subplots involving staff members largely ignore. | 'Lush Valley': Lush Valley at Here Arts Center - Review 2011-09-12T02:01:00Z That order turns out to be every bit as ominous as it sounds. 'The Strain' recap: Vampire plague hits in 'BK, NY' 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z At 25, with an ominous sense that ‘‘there was some serious possibility of becoming deranged,’’ he biked past an art gallery and happened to glance inside. A Fine Italian Hand 2010-10-11T18:30:00Z But Mr. Vu has more subversive designs, which become clearer on the album’s three originals, notably “Child-Like” and “I Shall Never Come Back,” which develop like ominous weather systems, with sculptured distortion and drones. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-02-28T23:15:55Z To complement the stormy symbols and driving bass line, Mr. Kinney, the director, shows us snowstorms, lightning and a steady ominous rain. Review: ‘Reconfiguration,’ a Theater-Concert Hybrid With the Band Other Lives 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Depicting mankind in the ominous moment before the biblical Fall, the painting's ownership battle, too, points to a period in human history fraught with uncertainty: a 20th-century Europe ravaged by war. Nazi-looted "Adam" and "Eve" paintings to stay in California 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z That James Corden’s show is not being replaced with a talk program is an ominous sign. What if ‘The Daily Show’ Used Guest Hosts Permanently? 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z After intermission, Tania León, 76, presented her first-ever piece for the full Philharmonic, and rose to her belated debut with music of unsettled understatement and quietly ominous power. Review: A Tale of Two Women at the New York Philharmonic 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Deep-sea thuds and gurgles lent an ominous tone. James Cameron’s “Deepsea Challenge 3D” Premiere 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z “A Report on Our Recent Troubles,” detailing a small town’s sudden embrace of “Meaningful Death, ” is equally ominous. Millhauser’s ‘Voices in the Night:’ short stories by a master 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Sleater’s appearance is accompanied by thunder, which seems a bit ominous, as does a question Margaret asks him: “how did I end up here?” Boardwalk Empire Watch: The House Is on Fire 2012-10-22T12:01:24Z The sender offered the Times and Post an ominous choice: If they published his manuscript, he would stop harming people. How publishing a 35,000-word manifesto led to the Unabomber 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z He tells his stories with the same louche, ominous disdain of the M.C. in “Cabaret.” Review: ‘A Wild Swan,’ Michael Cunningham’s Scabrous Antidote to Happily Ever After 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z The ship, meant to be ominous, looks kind of cheap. In Met’s ‘Manon Lescaut,’ Classic Love Story Gets Noir Twist 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z He died in 1981, never seeing his most ominous predictions come true. ‘Network’ in an Age of Fake News and Fury 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z He moved like a zombie and sometimes bellowed, but he brought vocal power and ominous shadings to his performance. Music Review: Britten’s ‘Billy Budd’ at the English National Opera 2012-06-25T22:16:47Z Suggestive use is made of the sampled, amplified sounds of horses’ hooves, water dripping and ominous spoken passages from ’30s radio broadcasts. Review: ‘Ainadamar’ Turns Lorca Into Death-Haunted Opera 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z Though in one scene, an orchestral passage depicts the fleeting, ominous appearance of Ivan the Terrible, he is not a character in the opera. Bolshoi Opera Brings ‘The Tsar’s Bride’ to Lincoln Center 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z So “Leave” follows its trajectory toward a searing dénouement, studded with memorably ominous details along the way. Books of The Times: Of Home Fires Burning, Or Burning Up Homes 2011-01-10T20:47:21Z The first trailer for the much-anticipated second season of Killing Eve was unveiled in February and featured more black comedy and at least one ominous shot of a kitchen knife. Phoebe Waller-Bridge 'empowered' to see violent women on TV 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z About two-thirds through, solo lines with elusive melodic contours appear, played by various instruments, eventually including an ominous contrabassoon. Simon Rattle Conducts Schumann With Berlin Philharmonic 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z The prose maintains a fine-tuned ominous mood, but the most impressive aspect of the novel is its structure. Smith Henderson’s ‘Fourth of July Creek,’ and More 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z An ominous line can be drawn from here to the French Revolution. Volcanic splash 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z “War” is a U.K. drill song, ominous and sneering and full of deeply studied slang. Drake Was Isolated (at the Top) Way Before Quarantine 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z This magnificently photographed movie includes shots in which the characters are mere specks in an ominous landscape of ice, rock, wind and fog; it is an environment in which people can easily go mad. Film: New Directors/New Films Offers ?I Am Love? 2010-03-30T21:33:00Z The film's new trailer is noticably more macho than those for the first two films, featuring ominous music, armies of vampires and werewolves and nary a lingering, romantic embrace. Getting male audiences to cheer for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse 2010-06-25T15:45:00Z But the sticky web of repetitions and parallels in these stories grows increasingly ominous and, yes, ghoulishly funny. David Mitchell’s ‘Slade House’: A ghost story that began haunting Twitter 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z The men are left to battle it out — for her, presumably — to ominous, operatic Vivaldi. Pilobolus Packs a Lot Into 2 Hours at the Joyce Theater 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z A teaser, from the mix by Benji B, features a grand scroll of desert and coastal landscape, made to feel just slightly ominous with an ambient electronic throb. The Playlist: New Songs From Prince and Garth Brooks, if You Can Find Them 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z In another, a bucolic scene of swimmers yields to the ominous rows of barracks in the distance. Contested art and artifacts from Japanese American internment camps go on view 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z The atmosphere of the original film, starring Harrison Ford as the troubled hunter of android replicants, was “dark, ominous, always raining, but this world is brutal,” she said. The ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Look: Sci-Fi Brought Back Down to Earth 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Holy Other's debut album, Held, is filled with emotional highs and lows, from euphoric rushes of sound to an ominous dark chording – not really a place for compromise. This week's new live music 2012-08-24T23:05:00Z His performance here combines ominous strength with heartbreaking fragility. ‘Joan of Arc’ Review: The Saint Is Revisited in Song 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z Perhaps most ominous, the company’s well-regarded young artists program will produce a concert rather than a full opera production during the coming season. Critic’s Notebook: U.S. Opera Companies, Notably in Seattle, Face Money Trouble 2012-08-08T22:30:39Z It doesn’t matter when the ominous rumble of traffic or inevitable siren punctuates the performance; in Shakespeare’s tragedy, the intrusion always seems intentional and perfectly timed. Review: A ‘Macbeth’ at Ease in the Dark and Noisy City 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Wedding bells don't usually sound as ominous as they did at the start of the second movement, characterised otherwise by Viktoria Yastrebova's velvety soprano and a violin tone plush enough to lose oneself in. BBCSO/Bychkov ? review 2011-03-22T19:31:01Z Rated PG, this second Disney version of “Alice in Wonderland” has some dark and ominous undertones, both in its look and its story line, that were absent in the cartoon version. Film: Drinking Blood: New Wonders of Alice?s World 2010-02-27T02:58:00Z It sounds ominous, but aren’t all life partners also lifelong patients in a sense? New in Memoir: Lessons in Falling in Love, and 2 Accounts of Its Horrors 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z The drama revolves around their mission to save the camp — based on Showalter's own Camp Mohawk in the Berkshires — from a totally ominous, totally impossible government conspiracy intent on destroying it. Michael Showalter on the Mature Side of Wet Hot American Summer 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z At night, in ominous old Thornfield Hall, the shutters clatter threateningly, and a soughing wind slips through the cracks like a ghost's vengeful moaning. Jane Eyre: Mamma Mia, a Star Is Born! 2011-03-11T06:45:00Z As the day progresses, the tone becomes more ominous. Doug Aitken Has an Eye for Dystopia 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z These slightly ominous motifs are depicted not with Dali-like rigor, but in a painterly expressionist mode. In the galleries: The stars and planets align for ‘hyder flares’ 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z The horseman’s advent is signaled by ominous clip-clopping of hooves and flickering lighting from one of the corners of the Signature’s thrust space, but we never actually see the bogyman himself. Critic?s Notebook: ?The Boy Detective Fails? and ?The Hollow? at Signature Theater 2011-09-30T23:30:21Z Swiveling from past to present and back again, the writer and director, Lee Su-jin, drops ominous clues — a bruised boy; a mysterious infection — that only slowly coalesce into a larger tragedy. ‘Han Gong-ju,’ a Drama About Sexual Violence in South Korea 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z The future of "Live With Regis and Kelly" did not come up, though Philbin did mention getting "fired" from Disney World parade-announcing duty, which now seems ominous since Disney owns the "Live" franchise. Regis, Carson, Letterman, Conan ? late-night wars chronicled in new book 2011-01-27T00:53:04Z Amid all those horrifying images from Japan of death and destruction and the ominous threat of a nuclear reactor meltdown, viewers hunger for a glimpse of hope and miraculous rescue. The TV Watch: Pillar of Relief Coverage: Americans Reconnected With Anxious Families 2011-03-16T00:33:31Z The stage, just as ominous, revealed scattered pairs of gleaming red shoes, a hanging skeleton and a deer carcass. Dance Review: Lyon Opera Ballet Dances a Work by Christian Rizzo 2014-05-08T20:54:15Z Terk Lewis Waters, a dancer who displays flexibility but little more, crosses the stage with an ominous air. Review: Complexions Contemporary Ballet Recycles With ‘Chronicle’ 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Which is varied by ending a section on a half-cadence, pointlessly ominous: “I used to love ghost stories.” He Can’t Remember His Name. Maybe He Doesn’t Want To? 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z When you think of the details around a case like the Golden State Killer, maybe you know about a recording of an ominous obscene phone call. HBO's "I'll Be Gone in the Dark" is a haunting tribute to Michelle McNamara and meditation on grief 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z That book has an ominous undertow and a certain greatness. ‘Summerwater’ Makes an Intimate Study of Social Class Out of a Long, Rainy Day 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z There is also something undeniably ominous about the final scene of "False Positive," in which Lucy's aborted female fetus appears to come to life and drink her breast milk. In Hulu's "False Positive," the real monster isn't just a shady fertility doctor 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z The kitchen's been changed – it's less stark now, darker and more ominous. TV review: MasterChef 2011-02-17T07:59:01Z Then there’s the amoral, demanding “Audience,” always capitalized and often ominous. Imagining the Unhappy Life of Stan Laurel 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z OF affiliate Vince Staples is the only MC who truly keeps up with Earl here, his ominous verse on “Hive” even better than anything on his new Stolen Youth. Earl Sweatshirt Takes the Odd Future Lead on Doris 2013-08-23T13:00:08Z As the throngs burgeon, the movie’s tone grows ominous. ‘The Kingmaker’ Review: The Power and Vainglory of Imelda Marcos 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z The chemistry between them is real, but it’s also confounding, embodied with a charming and slightly ominous bewilderment by both performers. Review: In ‘Boy,’ a Man Deals With Gender Cards He’s Given (Not Born With) 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Not knowing makes the threat only more ominous. Readers recommend: songs about the internet – results 2013-02-28T14:00:00Z I've stood at the stove as the waves of 7 p.m. cheers floated into the city streets, and sobbed into my morning coffee at the endless, ominous drone of sirens. My year of obsessive, indifferent baking 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z The track’s haunting and percussive chord progressions provide a perfectly ominous backdrop for De La Soul’s reality-rooted lyrics. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Piano 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z The film’s final act takes place on Aug. 8, 1969, the day of the slayings, a tragedy that Tarantino appears to be hurtling toward with ominous time stamps and a sudden increase in narration. ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Has a Wild Ending. Let’s Talk. 2019-07-28T04:00:00Z And then there is perhaps the most ominous development of all, when a woman standing behind Cory sneezes and the episode ends with a thud. ‘The Morning Show’ Remakes Itself. Again. 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z This prodigal son seems to have a lot of unfinished business in the City of Brotherly Love, most of it mysterious and at least some of it ominous. "Night Catches Us": A "Casablanca" for the Black Power era 2010-12-03T01:30:00Z Hours later, as the sun set, the sky took on its nightly ominous feel. The human heart of the matter 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z It seems ominous at first, a warning of the great deluge of images made possible by cellphone cameras and digital photography. Review | Museums wants 2 show u memez now. They shud be careful. 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z At first it’s an ominous sight, these rotating dervishes in bathrobes, but soon their chests pitch forward and their robes open. Review: Fighting for the Right to Dance Giselle 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z It’s draped in an ominous, gray cloud of sonic energy, an overcast atmosphere that seemingly exemplifies Chicago at its bleakest. REVIEW: Common Speaks to Chicago on New Album Nobody's Smiling 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z Published in 2014, it follows the life of Harry Sanders, a foreign service officer, from his posting in Southeast Asia in the ominous early 1960s on to Africa, Scandinavia and the Mediterranean. Ward Just, 84, Dies; Ex-Journalist Found Larger Truths in Fiction 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z “Thoroughbreds” opens on an ominous, murkily lit scene — a girl, a horse and a worryingly sharp knife — that telegraphs just how ugly things are going to get in this movie. Review: Meet the Peewee Nihilists of ‘Thoroughbreds’ 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z The woman tends a terrifying sore on her body, creating a strong, ominous sense of the inevitable. ‘Aga’ Review: A Little Yurt in a Big World 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Such precision is necessary when moving with a machine, but the robot’s elegance gradually turns ominous. Dance Review: Compagnie 111 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2012-11-13T23:46:35Z Visually claustrophobic and sonically ominous, it adds to the sense of desperation. Have you been watching … The Fear? 2012-12-06T15:04:20Z The film’s on-the-ground approach is impressive, including a visit to a radio station, where a worker must put up with ominous, anonymous cellphone calls. ‘Last Hijack,’ a Documentary With Animation 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z The theme that immediately follows — a nervous, oscillating two-note motif — was all the more ominous for his subdued, weighty rendering. Review: In ‘Pelléas,’ the Met Opera’s Music Director Takes Charge 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z There’s something ominous about the three figures on stage. 'And in the end …' Shia LaBeouf's latest performance art project asks the big question 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z The man pours her a glass of water — here the music, by Fleshquartet, gets ominous — and the water eventually seems to kill her. Malpaso Review: From Cuba, a Repertory Group in Search of Itself 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z The costumes are black, the score is ominous and the movement is fittingly fragmented and slithery. Dance Listings for June 13-19 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z The Dead Space remake uses an artificial intelligence program that employees named the Intensity Director, which can inject stress by generating enemies or creating ominous sounds when players’ actions suggest they are feeling comfortable. Scare Me Once? Great Game. Scare Me Twice? Great Remake. 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Once again, we watch a lot of time-coded surveillance footage, looking for ominous shifts in small objects and doors that swing open and shut on their own. Paranormal Activity 2: This Time, It's Impersonal 2010-10-22T18:20:00Z “Symmetry” is more ominous, envisioning natural and interpersonal disasters just ahead — “My whole life is in that space/After the cut, before the pain” — yet fighting back with airy vocal harmonies and odd-meter drive. Wye Oak Delves Inward and Opens Up on ‘The Louder I Call, the Faster It Runs’ 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z A rhapsodic Air begins with an ominous piano solo, thickly chromatic and dissonant, roiled by heaving outbursts. America’s Quintessential Maverick Composer, at 100 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z Rather than being treated as a great showpiece, it became dark and tense, even a little ominous. In Vadym Kholodenko, talent and tragedy mix 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z The play presents the world of bored adults playing party games as divided from the more ominous one of their children. Hannah Bos, Paul Thureen and Oliver Butler of Debate Society 2012-09-30T04:20:07Z “Alone With You” is often canny in its creepiness, layering ominous oddities atop each other before the jump scares emerge. ‘Alone With You’ Review: An Anniversary for One 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z Michael Fischerkeller depicts graffiti, ominous figures and international landmarks such as, presciently, the Eiffel Tower. In the galleries: Photos that take twists and turns at Civilian Art Projects 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Mr. van Hove’s signature style — skeletal, shimmering and ominous — is as distinctive as Mr. Bowie’s, and in many ways, a perfect match for it. Review: David Bowie Songs and a Familiar Alien in ‘Lazarus’ 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Much of the first episode is devoted to efforts by Jeannie and Marty to remember what happened when they went off together on a celebratory binge after thwarting the ominous merger. Television Review: ‘House of Lies,’ With Don Cheadle and Kristen Bell 2013-01-12T01:06:57Z All thoughts of romance leave me once the lights dim and the ominous music kicks in. 13 Hours: Michael Bay's Benghazi movie and 'the American Way' 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z She provides an ominous warning if she pursues her accusations. Military sexual assault is focus of YouTube series 2012-08-12T23:46:04Z Brittle, sarcastic woodwinds characterize the first pantomime, to which Weill adds ominous strings for the second. Music Review: Kurt Weill Festival: One Man, Many Different Beats 2011-03-08T13:00:06Z The set, designed by Paige Hathaway, sounds an intriguingly ominous note right from the start. A battle of wills and wits in Forum Theatre’s ‘The Pillowman’ 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Unsurprisingly, the keep-Austin-weird crowd frets over whether this new celebration of highbrow dining is part of an ominous new trend. Choice Tables: Beyond Brisket and Burritos in Austin, Tex. 2013-12-03T21:04:26Z Both are ominous portents that set up the interview’s second surprise: today, Bale is affable, chatty, relaxed. Christian Bale: 'I was asked to do a romantic comedy. I thought they’d lost their minds' 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Moody, surreal, funny, ominous, it captured the goal Bernard Foccroulle, the festival’s director, set that year for Aix, and for opera in general: to be a “mirror of the world.” A Calmly Daring Operatic Leader Says Au Revoir 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z He’s a beautiful and raw masculine specimen, with a loose gait, an ominous scar under one eye and a nose that sits on his sculptured face like the prow of a ship. ‘Martin Eden’ Review: Reading and Writing His Way Out of the Pit 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z The opera begins with an ominous prologue that takes place in a realm between heaven and hell. Review: Rubinstein’s ‘Demon’ Is Redeemed in a Rare Staging 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z The impressive, ominous, and austere memorial designed by Michael Arad opened almost three years ago, in time for the 10th anniversary of the attacks. The 9/11 Memorial Museum doesn’t just display artifacts, it ritualizes grief on a loop They’re also ominous, given what we know about the close-knit, gossipy nature of the town. Tana French’s Irish Western Features a Retired Lawman and a Missing Boy 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z The recurring imagery in the exhibition is both texturally beautiful and ominous at once, laden with double meaning. Julie Weitz's 'Touch Museum' tweaks time and space 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z The resulting piece, which had its premiere at Washington National Opera in January, is simultaneously luminous — as glassy as the window that’s a central plot device — and ominous. After Two Hit Operas, a Composer Takes on the Bleak Prairie 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z The novel is considered one of the best of the 20th century; the title has become a shorthand for ominous technological advances and futuristic controls. Happy birthday, Aldous Huxley! 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z The ominous role of “the decision-maker” who rules on all of the support cases seems to drive home the era of neoliberal austerity when things we thought weren’t possible are now regular. Working class hero: Ken Loach’s “I, Daniel Blake” is a must-see in the era of Brexit and Donald Trump 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z Later in the trailer, the ominous hooded villain, Doctor Doom, is revealed between seconds of high-velocity action. 'Fantastic Four' Trailer Gives First Glimpse of Doctor Doom 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z Zhang and her teammates adopted an ominous tone in “Dream Apocalypse,” an hourlong immersive experience that used A.I. to imagine a world where society has crumbled. An Art Professor Says A.I. Is the Future. It’s the Students Who Need Convincing 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z Instead, the video begins with an emotional montage of past scenes featuring each potential victim, ending with an ominous shot of Lucille. Watch the New Walking Dead Season 7 Trailer for a First Look 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z The dancing at Orpheus and Eurydice’s wedding, a hint of pop music glimpsed through ominous shadows, is a little jewel. Review: The Met Opera’s ‘Eurydice’ Tries to Raise the Dead 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z On the title track, rapping against an ominous hum of trap synths, he wastes little breath before setting the scene of a skirmish with the police, or other opposition: New Music: Common Has a New Album and Audra MacDonald as ‘Lady Day’ 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z What can be more ominous than the proximity of two people who are supposed to be in love but may have murder in mind? Gone Girl Plays a Fatal Game of Love and Marriage 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z In her hands, Leonard Cohen’s ominous, sarcastic “Everybody Knows” sounded bitterly prophetic. Review: John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey Compel at Café Carlyle 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z His clothes are sealed into brown paper bags with the ominous word “evidence” stamped upon them. Theater Review: ‘Macbeth,’ With Alan Cumming at the Barrymore Theater 2013-04-22T02:00:49Z A lengthy scene of Alvin setting up camp and hanging in a hammock is scored to increasingly ominous music, but with no payoff. Sundance film festival 2013: Prince Avalanche – first look review 2013-01-24T16:55:49Z Another began with creaky violin trills that spread into buzzing gestures, as the piano played rap-tap rhythms in its high register and ominous thick chords down low. Review: John Zorn Brings Avant-Garde Style to the Stone 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z It sounds ominous and clinical, like something catchy, something you protect your littles from as Curry did for the early part of Parker’s young life. She took her daughter to see Michelle Obama’s portrait. Now they need a publicist. 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z In what may be an ominous sign, NBC said it was delaying the scheduled Oct. 19th season debuts of the comedies "Whitney" and "Community." Encouraging ratings start for NBC in new season 2012-10-09T19:52:10Z The line from "The Two Towers," which struck me as ominous even as a bookworm child, goes, "There is always smoke rising from Isengard these days." "The Rings of Power" are here to fight climate change 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z As our car crunches up the gravel driveway, we pass an ominous charcoal-gray box on wheels. Modern life too much for you? Maybe a tiny box in the woods is the cure. 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z The works were “very polished, dark, ominous, mechanical,” Ms. Gladstone said, likening some to Darth Vader, the villain in the “Star Wars” movies. Walter Pichler, Architect and Reclusive Artist, Dies at 75 2012-07-29T01:44:32Z And while my lower jaw doesn’t approach Giuliani level horror, when I pull down my bottom lip, you can hear the jokes about ominous banjo music being cued. "You want a rich lady mouth": Could fixing my teeth fix my life? 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z The movie’s vaguely ominous tone is established by the opening images of a restless crowd in an unidentified location. Review: ‘Dreams Rewired,’ a Futuristic Look at the Past 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z At the time, Trump wasn’t even a joke Presidential candidate, so there was no ominous music playing in the background, foreshadowing the tragedy to come. Lessons from Playing Golf with Trump 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z The violence in the film is fast and bloody, and full of haunting images, such as exhumed bodies, and ominous symbols of birds, locusts, and jaguars, as well as folks hellbent on revenge. Six new films that could be Oscar contenders for Best Foreign Language Film 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z What was it that the Eagles sang about the ominous Hotel California? Review: In ‘The Last Hotel,’ a Pair Weighs Whether Someone Checks Out for Good 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z “Big, yellow, a menace to our economy,” the ominous voice-over intoned. Stephanie Cutter Is a Messenger Who Does the Shooting for Obama 2012-10-13T00:12:59Z Nanny Rated R for ominous images and brief nudity. ‘Nanny’ Review: A New Job That Swallows Her Life 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z Joel asks in his ominous anthem to his native shore, which he also refers to as Zombietown. Billy Joel Parking Lot 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z Over the events in the , this other, untold and latent story casts an ominous and uneasy shadow. The Infatuations by Javier Marías – review 2013-03-01T17:30:01Z He is then approached by an ominous suited figure who proceeds to pop the cap of the vodka bottle into the unconscious man’s mouth. Theater Review: Calixto Bieito Adapts ?Camino Real? at Goodman Theater 2012-04-06T22:42:23Z Even more impressive, though, are the myriad ways in which he transforms the arching lines of that main melody, fragmenting and poisoning them as the mood turns from triumphant to ominous. Music Review: John Williams Birthday Concert at Tanglewood 2012-08-19T21:48:18Z We abandoned the stupid skis by the side of the road, arranged in the ominous X that indicates emergency. Ski safari in Utah 2010-12-18T00:07:45Z The concert also rearranged the order of pieces on the album, which ends with the tense, ominous “Dead Strings,” to wind up with “Platinum Rows” instead. Music Review: It All Comes Through in the Mix, Even the Kazoos 2011-03-08T23:21:59Z In the opening act, the hut in which Sieglinde lives is a lonely cabin of ominous newness, as if a band of survivalists had recently constructed a hideaway. Review: The Met Opera’s Next ‘Ring’ Will Be a Sea Change 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z In the opening of the concerto, which begins with a series of ominous chords that grow in sound and intensity, Mr. Lugansky voiced each one to highlight harmonic intricacies. Music Review: Finding the Soul of Russia Everywhere 2011-04-15T23:00:14Z Every time Shiv tries to turn the conversation to things like Menckenite obstructionists in “victory vans,” Roman shouts, “False flag!” and rebrands the ominous vehicles as “fun buses.” ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 8 Recap: The Will of Some People 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z But some of the girl's simplest actions put him on edge as they recall ominous childhood memories. Spanish thriller dredges up dark childhood secret 2012-02-11T20:08:24Z His political convention was held at the White House, in an ominous fusion of executive power and politicking. The presidency has been swamped by the Trump Aesthetic 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z Among friends, says Denise, there was an almost ominous expectation that she was bound to be constantly on the verge of tears. Can a parent get over the death of a child? 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z And the first transfer of the scarf, to Michael Apuzzo, is intriguingly ominous: He and the dancers who join him seem like a sinister cleanup crew, working some dark magic on the now-sleeping first group. Review: The Paul Taylor Company Returns With a New Voice 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z In “Lost,” the presence of a ferocious beast or beasts is suggested by an ominous movement in the trees. Filmmaker J. J. Abrams Is a Crowd Teaser 2011-05-29T01:23:02Z That, in part, may explain some of the of ominous power of one of the images that circulated widely Wednesday, taken by Getty Images photographer Win McNamee. Perspective | The dystopian Lincoln Memorial photo raises a grim question: Will they protect us, or will they shoot us? 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z An altered ecology in a landscape now deserted by humans reveals those less domesticated, but, for Clare, not ominous, birds, the raven and the crow. Poem of the week: Autumn by John Clare 2012-10-29T11:36:25Z Distorted guitar riffs were a staple, but the best songs of the evening — the ominous “My Song No. 5” and hip-shaker “The Wire” — were propelled primarily by keyboard riffs and layered percussion. Haim causes sonic explosion at Paramount | Concert review 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z Inside the sanctuary, the mesh of metal lattices casts shadows that seem both eternal and ominous: Are we seeing interlocking strands of Stars of David or prison wire? Book review: ‘Sacred Spaces,’ a report on Modernism in religious buildinghs 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z This moment replicates the opening image of the production, when, through that Grosz curtain, we see the jester treading home as the orchestra plays the ominous prelude. Review: Amid Omicron, the Met Opera Opens a Weimar ‘Rigoletto’ 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z In this ominous environment, Ms. Taymor moves the actors around like chess pieces, always threatening or defending. Review: In ‘Heroes of the Fourth Turning,’ a Red-State Unicorn 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z The orchestral accompaniment is both playful, with lots of drizzly irregular pizzicato, and ominous. How the Philharmonic’s New Home Sounds, From Any Seat 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Inching outside and using his headlamp to guide the way, he discovers that the lights have been turned out throughout the mall, where ominous piles of clothes lie scattered about like omens. | 'Vanishing on 7th Street': Disappearing People, Leaving a Lot of Clothes Behind 2011-02-17T23:09:46Z An ominous voice from the chorus chimes in, “No matter who got hurt.” Review: ‘Informed Consent’ Tests the Ethics of Genetic Research 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z Architizer tours Hitchcock's greatest architectural feats, from the neighborhood he built for Rear Window to the magnificent Victorian mansions that serve as ominous plot tools. Links We Love: What We're Reading This Week 2014-01-10T05:00:00Z It’s a gloomy, claustrophobic version of the original, full of synthetic voice modulations and ominous background detritus. Desiigner’s “Timmy Turner”: A Viral Freestyle Finds Full Form 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z They would be the ones in the Huey, the ominous military chopper used in the Vietnam War. Modern Love: About That Rustle in the Bushes 2011-06-16T19:38:02Z Feverish and often plastered, he is in bad shape, and so is his world, with its ominous faces, soupy gloom and rowdy human comedy. ‘Petrov’s Flu’ Review: Roaming a Grim, Rowdy Underworld 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z First came the Times' ominous promise that "the game would initially remain free to new and existing players," emphasis mine. Wordle was fun while it lasted 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z But what happened under Obama set an ominous tone for reporters who were trying to do their jobs of informing the public. Perspective | Shocked by Trump aggression against reporters and sources? The blueprint was drawn by Obama. 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z The fact that Cave feints an encore before that very tune, declaring "goodnight Glastonbury" and going off for one minute before the ominous knell of Red Right Hand chimes. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds at Glastonbury – review 2013-06-30T21:18:09Z We’re so intrigued by the rambunctious antics of a baboon troop that we fail to notice the ominous clouds; the sky opens with a torrential downpour and we high-tail it to camp. In Rwanda, mountain gorilla treks spur country’s renewal effort 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z The Doors induce chimerical feelings of ominous sunshine, primordial serpents and peculiar creatures communing in Laurel Canyon. The Doors defined California cool in the ’60s. How does their legacy stack up 50 years later? 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z One of the most memorable signs of the 2017 Women’s March read, “Don’t forget: White women voted for Trump,” punctuated by an ominous scrawl of red marker. ‘In This House’ Yard Signs, and Their Curious Power 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z Even at his most prosaic, on a track like the growling, ominous Voodoo, his work is crisp, powerful and insidiously sonically unpredictable. Bozzwell ? the enlightenment 2010-12-27T12:32:54Z It is less demonstrative than “furious,” more ominous than “miffed.” On TV, a Near Epidemic of Frowns and Clenched Jaws 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z I know we worried about a particular varsity soccer player; I know we debated whether another guy’s submission to the literary magazine was creative or genuinely ominous. Perspective | We need to talk about why mass shooters are almost always men 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z Check the airline’s Web site for weather bulletins or storm waivers when forecasts are ominous. Practical Traveler: You Can?t Weatherproof a Flight 2010-03-03T16:17:00Z Each was preceded by an ominous email from my agent— reporters have been asking for statements regarding the ‘Andy Wachowski gender transition’ story they were about to publish. Another Wachowski comes out as transgender — and hits back at the tabs 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z The jungle provides an ominous setting for some spooky scenes. Review | Michael Crichton’s classic thriller ‘The Andromeda Strain’ gets a deadly sequel 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z The D.C. artist’s Gallery Neptune & Brown show, “Weltschmerz,” features ominous vignettes such as “Purple People Eater,” in which a large-mouthed beast awaits those unfortunate enough to happen upon it, one level below the street. In the galleries: City life, and the possible menace that lies beneath 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z This is the body as raw flesh and jutting bone, perhaps as unfeeling as the low, mechanical voice that later delivers an ominous excerpt from Mr. Krasnahorkai’s text. Jaro Vinarsky’s ‘Animalinside’ Explores Masculinity 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z As the orchestra, conducted by Leonard Slatkin, played the quietly ominous, eerily pungent music that opens Act I, a crackling thunderstorm erupted. In Santa Fe, an Early Look at a New Opera 2010-07-23T19:50:00Z The trailer for Wakefield’s film opens with ominous music as the words “Are our children safe?” appear through a spiral of billowing smoke seeping from a syringe. Robert De Niro steps into autism vaccination row by screening film 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z That first wave of flakes, ominous as it was, seemed to electrify the East Village. A Weekend Out with Jonas 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z We climbed a hill to discover a magical mise-en-scène: a field of purple lupine, brilliantly lit from rays of sunlight that broke through the ominous gray clouds. An airline’s brilliant marketing campaign has made Iceland a must-see stopover 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z The whisper of the wind past an open sliding door and the balcony beyond, the blue sky ambivalent above — it’s all as ominous and malevolent as anything we’ve seen. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 9: Lessons to Be Learned 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z Caracas, as seen in the film, is seedy and ominous, although not nearly as run-down as it is today, amid Venezuela’s collapsing economy. Review: ‘From Afar,’ a Tale of Desire and Repression in Venezuela 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z “Assassins” now has an entirely different and ominous quality to it because of what’s going on with guns and violence. ‘I Was Skeptical.’ How Sondheim Agreed to Change ‘Company.’ 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z Holding still in silence, the M.R.I. seemed to take eons to complete as the machine heated up and emitted ominous loud beeps and crackles. U2’s Music Shaped My Life. Then It Helped Save It. 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Hundreds of rumpled sheets of paper assemble into rows of leafy black bushes, at once inviting and ominous. Review: A Powerful Opera of Eastern and Western Allure 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z But we also hear a lot of trite background music, alternately bouncy and ominous, the kind familiar to fans of “Monk” or “Murder, She Wrote.” Television Review: Jackson Brodie Mysteries on PBS - Review 2011-10-14T23:14:58Z I’m not sure I know what that means, but it sounds ominous. Dance Review: When Crowd Has Power of the Purse 2010-11-21T23:04:00Z The refrain is simultaneously inclusive and ominous, as it’s repeatedly howled over a sinister bass line. That Zac Efron E.D.M. Movie 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z “Why are they in that warehouse? Why is the music so ominous? Why are they sitting there with piles of cash like mini-dictators. Such terrible people, all of them. It’s riveting.” Cillian Murphy: playing a blinder 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z An ominous dream is at the core of the second part, which focuses on the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. A Salzburg Festival Rich With Dreams and Power 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Not when the Philharmonic performs Bernard Herrmann’s lush, ominous music for Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” as audiences watch that strange, hypnotizing study in erotic obsession. The Philharmonic’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z Its ominous but propulsive score ranges from the chamber-operatic to the electronic and semiabstract. Review: Missy Mazzoli’s Unsettling ‘Vespers for a New Dark Age’ 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z But she also sings about being “on the run” and “strange and wild,” about longing for someone, and then there are also those ominous chemtrails overhead. The Blockbuster ‘Drivers License,’ a Possible Reply and 7 More New Songs 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z Beefy, ominous Russians loom large, as does a case of amnesia. In Praise of Agatha Christie’s Accidental Sleuths 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, an ominous cloud inches toward the school, edging the kids into bad moods — Sachar’s lone acknowledgment that, yes, this book was written in modern times. Louis Sachar returns to wacky Wayside School more than 40 years after ‘Sideways Stories’ 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Thom Weaver’s lighting is the great technical asset, romantically moody in the early stages of Sandra and Luca’s relationship, then suggesting the ominous chiaroscuro of film noir when the plot thickens. Review: In ‘Sandra,’ a Search for a Friend Leads to Self-Discovery 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z On the slug line were these two simple, ominous words: "Your Mother." Solving the mystery of how my mother died: Was it murder, suicide or death by cosmic joke? 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z When the clouds and colorful marks build up, they’re more convincing — as paintings and as ominous tumult. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z Her music shivers and glimmers but never lacks forcefulness; lush and often ominous, veiled in dark mystery, her pieces evolve with the muscular sinuousness of snakes. Kaija Saariaho: 11 Essential Works 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z Larry’s comment was as a perfect pull quote and we ran it on the center spread, in stark white type, against an ominous Albert Watson portrait of Kramer. Bill Clinton’s LGBT shame: Where was he then? 2014-02-01T17:30:00Z Walking toward the viewer on a sun-swept village street, they seem like witches harboring ominous intentions, like figures from a Goya nightmare. Art Review: Danish Paintings Show at Scandinavia House 2013-12-05T22:25:09Z Or try the lauded new production of “eL/Aficionado,” a Robert Ashley opera driven by ominous synthesizer and a sense of powerlessness amid shadowy Cold War forces. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z The show even has an ominous, voice-over preface: “For the men and women of the Detroit homicide unit, every life counts, and every murder tells a story.” Television Review: He Treats His Partner as Badly as He Does the Suspects 2010-09-20T23:36:00Z And occasionally an amplified voice spouts ominous and lyrical statements about holes without end and dark alternative universes. Review: In ‘Bianco,’ Muscle-Bending, Air-Swimming and Fire-Eating 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z It shows an Asian emperor addressing his followers against an ominous background of dark clouds. Art Review: A Jewel Box for Translucent Treasures 2011-12-15T22:59:09Z For much of the work’s duration, the timpani keep up a low, ominous rumble. Review: A Rediscovered Symphony Radiates Cosmic Grandeur 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z The loudest sound you’re likely to hear is that of gusting winds, which have inspired the area’s ominous but thankfully exaggerated nickname: Tornado Alley. A Design Duo's Country Escape 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z So is a human head, along with a tureen of gushing blood and several ominous slow-motion shots of buckled hats and shoes designed to leave viewers giggling into their pumpkin pie. The Best Thanksgiving Movies to Stream 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z “Soon after the orchestra struck up those thundering, ominous organ chords, I found my expectations upended, my jaded armor melting away,” Isherwood wrote. ‘Phantom of the Opera,’ Broadway’s Longest-Running Show, to Close 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z The final act contains some stunningly dark and desperate music, with a funerary chorus, ominous drums and a bravura aria for Parisina, “Ugo è spento,” in which she veers between shocked grief and vindictive rage. Review: The Opera Orchestra of New York Shares a Story Inspired by a Byron Poem 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Even “Parkett/Parquetry,” which shows nothing but a sun-dappled wood floor, begins to seem ominous, the spiky shadow of an unseen tree becoming downright spectral. Thomas Demand undercuts what we think photographs show us 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z Besides the explosions, the soundtrack is punctuated by ominous squeaks, groans and creaking noises that convey the strain of all the mountain machinery. ‘Force Majeure,’ a Dark Swedish Comedy 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z The chief exceptions to this solitude-is-scary rule are zombie and pandemic tales, in which gatherings are ominous and even loved ones might be carriers. The Horror Novel Lurking in Your Busy Online Life 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z AncestryDNA beckons with the slightly more ominous "Every family has a story" and the sort-of-clever "Know your story from the inside." 23 and Not Me: As an adoptee, I'm not even remotely tempted to take a DNA test 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z “Train” is like an abstraction of missionary-driven westward expansion; an ominous drone is punctuated by ripples of percussion as the Hosts teach the Arrivals words and skills. Review: An Opera Erases and Rewrites the American Myth 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z What is new, apparently, are the ominous yet ambiguous pronouncements of Dennis Davern, captain of the yacht on which Wood was last seen alive with husband Robert Wagner and her "Brainstorm" co-star Christopher Walken. Review of Natalie Wood's death ignites curiosity 2011-11-19T05:26:17Z The environmental and economic ripple effects on towns and cities are ominous. Recycling in America Is a Mess. A New Bill Could Clean It Up. 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z It was at once charming and ominous to see the window through which Don Giovanni serenades Elvira’s maid depicted with a series of linked arms by the grim figures. Music Review: Chalky Chorus of Specters Who Dance and Crush 2011-08-05T22:45:16Z An ominous stream of blood dribbles down her face as the overwrought soundtrack tells us what we already know — it can’t be good. It’s official: This is the worst movie ending of all time 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Hours after closing on the two-acre property, Mr. Pizzarelli and Ms. Molaskey opened the door to their new house, heard an ominous rumble, then the crash of glass: the front picture window had blown out. Away: Jessica Molaskey and John Pizzarelli Unwind in Carmel, N.Y. 2010-04-08T21:17:00Z The Every is what results when the already ominous tech company of Eggers’s 2013 novel, “The Circle,” finally acquires Amazon. In Dave Eggers’s New Novel, the Problem With Big Tech Is Us 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z It often retreats into a low, ominous throb, reminding that what lies beneath isn’t necessarily to be trusted. Dance Review: Marking Time in Spirals, Pretzeling Through Space 2010-12-16T23:01:20Z Ms. Bassett delivers these monologues not in the ominous style of some otherworldly oracle but in the matter-of-fact, common-woman manner of her character. Review: In ‘Escaped Alone’ Fears Small (Cats) and Large (Apocalypse) 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Suddenly there are low tremolos indicating rumbling thunder, and ominous roiling chromatic riffs in the bass, like the brewing storm music near the end of Verdi’s “Rigoletto.” He Was Born Into Slavery, but Achieved Musical Stardom 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z But knowing this ominous genetic makeup offers little assurance or comfort when the diagnosis is made. A dying mother’s memoir is this year’s ‘When Breath Becomes Air’ 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z The burden of that knowledge shades her every triumph and makes every defeat feel even more ominous. She’s running: "Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win" is the essential political novel for the 2018 mid... 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z His line readings sound as if they come straight from the crypt, making Harold’s pronouncements disproportionately oracular and ominous. Review: Jim Parsons and Zachary Quinto Enter Sniping in ‘The Boys in the Band’ 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z He recorded a song that night filled with ominous synthesizers. Finding Songs Hidden in Britain’s Thankful Villages 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Seen from land, it was vaguely ominous, or at least vulgar. I went on a freaking cruise 2012-12-09T13:00:00Z They are, however, acknowledged in a variety of increasingly ominous and finally tragic ways. Book review: ‘J,’ by Howard Jacobson, is a chilling tale of our anti-Semitic future It’s an ominous statement, and one that belies what follows: a remarkably enjoyable, and sometimes very funny, documentary about a frightening topic. Review: ‘Boom Bust Boom,’ a Pythonesque Look at Financial Crashes 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z The score recalls Debussy and nicely conveys the oblivious ball guests, dancing to swirling, waltzing music, spiked with ominous undercurrents. NY Phil Biennial Opens With ‘The Raven’ 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z That includes the ominous black valises that figure prominently in the show’s set and the many obstacles and alterations this musical has experienced on a 13-year-long journey to Broadway. Review: Chita Rivera Stars in Kander and Ebb’s ‘The Visit’ 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Any time that the niceties of tone and facial expression are replaced with the ominous thrum of efficiency, something is lost. Office Help Is On the Way, Virtually Speaking 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Sense8″ follows the adventures of 8 people from different cultures and different parts of the world brought together by the same fatal, ominous mental vision. Netflix cancels “Sense8,” arguably the most progressive scifi show ever 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Schubert’s gravely beautiful “Death and the Maiden” sounded Mahlerian and starkly ominous, with Mr. Goerne, his voice dark and expressive, backed by a string quartet and bass instead of a piano. Review: A Baritone Ends His Residency With a Poetic Homage 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Even on those series, though, there is a tendency to be didactic about the Internet—and a related tendency to reflect online life with a fun-house mirror, to make it ominous and overblown. The Eerie, Mundane Thrill of Being Watched on the Internet 2016-07-30T04:00:00Z He is attempting to re-imagine even the most loaded cultural signs, in an ambiguous imaginary world that can feel both liberating and ominous. Artist of the week 79: Andreas Hofer | Skye Sherwin 2010-03-18T13:04:00Z In a competition that is swathed in sound, with many of the films punctuated by strident music, “Sleeping Beauty” seems to be accompanied by a slight, ominous hum. Film: At Cannes, Women With Diverse Visions 2011-05-17T11:30:06Z Almost all current trends look ominous for Britain’s first four broadcast networks. The revolution will not be televised: 2016 was the year TV turned upside down 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z An ominous camera sits in front of the stage. | 'The Speaker?s Progress': ?The Speaker?s Progress? in Brooklyn - Review 2011-10-08T00:55:17Z Instead, they suggest an ominous stasis, an unstable stillness. Notable Performances and Recordings of 2015 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z Filmed in the Jordanian desert, “The Last Days on Mars” portrays the planet as an uninhabitable wasteland shrouded in haze and susceptible to ominous, rolling dust storms. Movie Review: ‘The Last Days on Mars’ Was Adapted From ‘The Animators’ 2013-12-05T23:07:49Z You can feel it in the supercharged air of the Eisenhower Theater, hear it in the ominous hum that suffuses the stage, see it in the guarded, anxious grimaces of the actors. The 1955 play topical as ever: ‘View From the Bridge’ revival storms into D.C. 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z The monthly series is drawn by Francavilla with dark, ominous illustrations boasting artistic nooks and crannies. In ‘Afterlife,’ Archie Comics Veers into Horror 2013-10-08T14:54:09Z But Trump’s antipathy toward the media and his willingness to take punitive action against his critics within the government have caused Democrats to see his push to get Pack appointed as particularly ominous. How Trump’s obsessions with media and loyalty coalesced in a battle for Voice of America 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Not that its Nazis are likable; they are an ominous lot, but at least they are human. | 'Winter in Wartime': Teenager Encounters Adulthood and Nazis 2011-03-17T23:08:53Z At night the racket of construction abates as the workers and the families depart, and an ominous silence descends. Movie Review: ‘El Velador’ (‘The Night Watchman’), Mexico’s Drug War Cemetery 2012-06-13T21:43:01Z Insert ominous music – Steve Carell is leaving The Office; insert zooming closeup of everyone in the world making a collective wail of despair! To Kill a Mockingbird: the backlash 2010-06-29T19:30:00Z I have not been as jolted, before or since, by a shift in a book’s tone, by the ominous awareness that things are going to turn very, very bad. Their Inner Beasts: ‘Lord of the Flies’ Six Decades Later 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Given what we’ve just seen of the Bible’s “values,” these are ominous words. Oh God! The lord’s my sex guru: Pious perverts, quasi-incestuous misogyny and the twisted world of religious sexual repression 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z Together they slapped the ground with their jackets, accenting the ominous rhythmic score, then turned the violence on themselves, slapping their own backs. Review: A South Korean Troupe’s Physical Risks and Daunting Tasks 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z The content of this abstract, ominous reflection on gender roles and ethical responsibility can be forbidding, too. Carmina Slovenica Sings the Haunting ‘Toxic Psalms’ 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z “An Ant,” the fourth section, depicted that tiny creature with scurrying sounds and solemn gestures, while the ominous whirlwind of “Hurricane” concluded the suite with dramatic intensity. Music Review: Contemporary Solo Piano Music at Le Poisson Rouge 2010-05-31T19:17:00Z “Wakanda Forever” revolves around grief, loyalty, vengeance and territorial security, and its music — both the “inspired by” album and a separate “Original Score” album by Goransson — is largely somber, even ominous. ‘Wakanda Forever’ Forges International Alliances on a Somber Soundtrack 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z Not even an actor as gifted as Mr. Pierce, who mines his unlimited repertory of grimaces, both comic and ominous, can connect these personalities; no actor could. | 'The Perfect Host': A Welcome to His World Is Accepted at Your Peril 2011-06-30T22:13:04Z In a year pockmarked by sexual scandals, even familiar items took on an ominous cast. The Year in Stuff 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z Bells start ringing; dozens of ships head toward them in the harbor under an overcast sky; ominous music plays. “Game of Thrones”: The Things We Do for Love 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z It’s winter when the story opens and snow blankets the area, creating a soothing hush that can also seem ominous. ‘God’s Country’ Review: A Solitary Woman Isn’t Left Alone for Long 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z It was more fitful than elegant; in “Prelude,” set to ominous music by Galen Bremer, Ms. Zuerner was choppy and emphatic: a body turning into a storm. ‘Light House’ Keeps Dancers and Audience Moving 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z The dance music on the radio turns to static, there is a rumble of ominous thunder, and the couple's bright smiles are stretched to breaking point with anxiety. Imperial Fizz 2010-08-13T14:46:00Z The Archfiend is by turns genteel, seductive, ominous, despairing and cranky as channeled by Kyd, who adapted the script from a centuries-spanning body of texts. One-man show ‘The Devil in His Own Words’ offers an up-close look at the evil deity Here's the ominous thing about Rebecca Black -- she's just the tip of a horrible iceberg called Ark Music Factory. What's behind the "worst music video ever"? 2011-03-14T15:15:00Z So, if you hear or sense anything ominous in your father-in-law’s interactions, pack up your children and leave quickly. Why Is My Uncle So Mad About Student Debt Forgiveness? 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z The whole time I was making “The Fighter,” we would shoot in Lowell, Mass., and everybody around Lowell regards it as an ominous place. David O. Russell: In Conversation 2013-12-11T10:00:15Z Although Girls have not responded directly to Owens' announcement, the band posted an ominous – and possibly related – tweet on Sunday. Christopher Owens to leave Girls 2012-07-03T10:36:26Z Then the lights dimmed and ominous music swelled. The Knife – review 2013-05-11T23:05:48Z Beginning with an ominous shot of a Mercedes abandoned at roadside, “Coming Home” picks up with a family of four in a different vehicle. ‘Coming Home in the Dark’ Review: No Picnic 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z This sets off a chain of mostly comic events that are, by turns, ominous, bloody and cosmic. ‘Super Deluxe’ Review: A Tamil Film, With a Cosmic Indie Vibe 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Science fiction typically uses spaceships, death rays and time travel as devices to offer ominous warnings about the ways humanity can go awry. Why Aliens Are So Important to 'Star Trek' 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z But these pieces look less to the past than to an ominous future. Review | In the galleries: Extraordinary images from ordinary settings in ‘Places We Find’ 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z These ominous portents are borne out by the production itself, which is baffling in its ineptitude. Not kerCHING, just thud 2011-02-14T21:35:14Z The jovial figures in Bingham’s 1846 “The Jolly Flatboatmen” are in high spirits, yet they are dancing precariously on the roof of a Missouri flatboat, under which the cargo space looks cramped, dark and ominous. Perspective | On a last walk through the National Gallery, I’m reassured by images of an uncertain future 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z Into this autumnal idyll walks an ominous stranger: a man named Ed Fitzpatrick. A Stranger From the Past Confronts Roddy Doyle’s Latest Hero 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z We accompany the twosome through dense thickets, and some clunky dialogue, ornamented with ominous portents. ‘Significant Other’ Review: Backpacking Is a Trip 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z The first movement of the Symphonie Concertante begins with ominous, sputtering tones in the basses and timpani and misty sustained chords, over which a deceptively breezy melody is played on the piano. Music Review: Philadelphia Orchestra Plays Carnegie Hall 2010-04-14T21:59:00Z “The Handmaid’s Tale” is dystopian sci-fi, but it plays like horror, from its constant sense of menace to its ominous score. Review: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 2 Moves Into a Dark Future 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Its soundtrack begins with the ingenuous “Peppermint Twist” and ends with the ominous, nearly inarticulate grunts of the Sex Pistols. Movie Review: ‘Not Fade Away,’ Directed by David Chase 2012-12-21T00:07:53Z The names of many former mines and locations have become an ominous shorthand for all that can go wrong. Can Montana’s Smith River Survive a Nearby Mine? 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z “We’ll kick back somewhere else after we make our money,” he decided, changing the radio station to a news program with the usual ominous reports from around the globe. Don’t shoot me! I’m just picking mushrooms! 2013-09-08T13:30:00Z Are ominous associations conjured by a sound connected with home movies? Poem of the week: Autobiography Without Pronouns by Tiffany Atkinson 2013-04-08T10:09:25Z The name of his Côtes du Rhône translates as “the time has come,” which sounds a bit ominous, so I prefer to think of it as French for “It’s 5 o’clock somewhere!” For the equivalent of $6.25 a bottle, this Chilean cab will be the life of the party 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z At first, the orchestral music unfolds with alternating chords, bright yet ominous, packed with pitches, yet somehow lucid. Review: ‘De Materie,’ of Matter, Spirit and Sheep 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z His restrained bedside manner is pitch-perfect, casually launching into parables with an ominous psychosexual charge and mysterious symbolism, which builds to fever point on unsuspecting ears. Artist of the week 203: Sung Hwan Kim 2012-08-16T09:38:07Z Quite how Farage and Robinson will fight it out in these ominous times remains to be seen. The dark stars of the far right compete to bask in the glory of Tommy Robinson 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Even the offstage sound effects — a plane flying overhead, the chirping of crickets — are heightened and ominous. Kitchen-Sink Apocalypse: Two Off-Broadway Visions 2012-09-25T14:00:57Z A countdown website entitled “Emma You are Next” surfaced after Watson’s speech, labeled with a 4chan logo and featuring an ominous ticking timer. Emma Watson Asked Men to Support Women And Here's How They Responded 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z REYN: The great adventure that is marriage, my dear friend’s job, Hillary Clinton, an eternal tussle with ambition, the beautiful and ominous city that is Moscow. Life of an author on the internet: “Someone on Goodreads took the time to write out ‘Meh’ as their whole review” 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z And yet, the comedy of it all softens the ominous undertones. Review | A local author turns suburban drama into smart satire 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z Even a seemingly happy situation holds ominous undertones. Soccer Mommy Summons a ‘Tidal Wave’ of Feelings 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z At one point, Tom compares it to a spaceship, and indeed it gets bigger, closer, and more ominous as the night and the book progress. “The Verificationist”: Donald Antrim’s unsung masterpiece 2012-06-17T16:00:00Z Beneath a deceptive calm, it uncovers a core of fear and loathing as ominous as the backwoods world of “Winter’s Bone.” | 'Small Town Murder Songs': Violence Close at Hand Shakes a Bucolic Setting 2011-06-30T22:03:06Z “With a feeling of ominous foreboding based on the cliffhanger ending of the last book,” Mr. Barry begins “Fangs of Endearment,” a wall-to-wall riotous parody. Beach Books: New Books by Tommy James, Dave Barry and John Grisham 2010-05-27T22:12:00Z But the show does perform one intriguing flip: The rural scenes are often more ominous than the urban ones. In the galleries: From destruction, a call for transformation 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z I scanned that and enlarged it and put that texture in the background to give it that feel of a smoke bomb or some sort of foggy night, to make it more mysterious and ominous. ArtsBeat: Behind the Poster: 'The Bad and the Better' 2012-05-30T17:38:10Z Whereas most blockbusters rouse, Alien has always been a tune played in an ominous minor key. Alien: Covenant – why Ridley Scott's facehuggers and chestbursters will never die 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z Hawkins adds, though, that the arc of the film remains the same, that there was always an ominous sense of concern around Manning, “an impending doom” that Manning herself mentions in the film. Chelsea Manning doc debuts with its subject imprisoned again 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z The show seems to be setting up a robot uprising, which is perhaps why so many of the references are ominous. The Complete Guide to All Westworld's Many References 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z There is little of the painting’s stillness in the busy, well-crafted score, which sounds both mysterious and ominous. Review: At Seattle Symphony, a winning night from opener to encore 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z But the influence of German expressionism is absent, there's no hard-boiled narration, no angst-ridden hero, no distorted camera angles, no nightmares, no ominous shadows, no flashbacks. The Big Sleep ? review 2011-01-02T00:05:12Z But what I found so ominous about this warning was that I was not told to watch for pickpockets or scammers or even violence from the anti-government protests that were in full swing last summer. Women Alert to Travel’s Darker Side 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z The piece begins with an instrumental — ominous strings — then offers some language apparently borrowed from E.P.A. For These Shows, Take a Hike 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Evans offset Allen’s murky reshapings of the melody with thick, ominous chords that broke bluesy in the song’s bridge, Allen topping him with a dark but surpassingly gorgeous coda. Pianist Orrin Evans and quartet shine at Bohemian Caverns There’s something so ominous about men with decades of experience being proven not just wrong but extinct by a whiz kid with a computer. The Carpetbagger: My Oscar Picks: Sarah Vowell 2012-02-23T20:24:02Z Here Levit created the mysterious sense of a foggy, ominous morning in a British fishing village. Igor Levit, the best Russian pianist you haven't heard...yet 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z Images of water, the colour red and broken glass repeatedly intersect in a kaleidoscope of ominous foreshadowing. Don't Look Now: No 3 best horror film of all time 2010-10-22T10:52:00Z Yet this squall warning is less ominous than transcendental. Review | In the galleries: Glenn Ligon exhibition draws on Baldwin, Stein and Warhol 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z A blackout follows — the play is marked by many, accompanied by ominous, thundering music — and then the lights rise on a concrete bunker in a desert, nearly buried by piles of sand. Review: ‘Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, America, Kuwait,’ as Grim as It Is Cryptic 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z With their skeletal forms occasionally emphasized by internal lighting, Davis’s constructions appear both whimsical and ominous. Review | In the galleries: Images focus on the future of the planet 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z For the sisters, “it’s three clarinets, mostly in the low register, which creates a kind of sinister but not heavy ominous sound, like if I would use brass or dark strings,” he said. The Carpetbagger: ‘Philomena’s’ Composer: Turning a Secret Into a Score 2014-02-17T15:37:25Z Tool harnesses rock aggression to apocalypse, while Puscifer favors electronics and often blends the ominous and the sardonic. Music Review: A Desolate Croon That Seethes and Hints at a Band?s Next Phase 2011-07-15T22:44:06Z The merry tidings get a wry, ominous undercurrent. The Playlist: 18 Holiday Songs, 1 Surprise Mixtape and a Dark New Nine Inch Nails EP 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z Tooze follows these fluctuations with such remarkable narrative zest that, despite the ominous presence of multi-columned charts, the whole thing proceeds with fluid and often elegant momentum. Book review: ‘The Deluge, the post-World War I global order, by Adam Tooze 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Even “Airbag,” which has a consistent theme of rising from the ashes like a phoenix, feels ominous, because rebirth happens after a series of horrible, violent events. At 20, Radiohead’s “OK Computer” becomes an album for the Trump era 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z Yet his adventures ensnare us in that cobwebbed state of mind when even the most innocent exchanges between strangers can acquire an ominous tone. War Wounds: Crime Novels From All Kinds of Battlefields 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Japan’s infamous “Suicide Forest” provides the ominous setting for a young woman, played by Natalie Dormer, whose search for her twin sister brings her to the ghost-filled wilderness. 11 Spooky Movies to Stream This Halloween 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z And it’s true of “Princess’ Dance,” in which one of Velázquez’s Habsburg infantas is accompanied by the ominous shadow of a male figure, arm outstretched. Art in Review: JOHN O?REILLY: ?Recent Montage? 2011-06-30T21:24:36Z Tracks like the lush yet ominous "Manhattan Skyline" or the derivative yet catchy "Salsation" blend in beautifully with the rest of the songs. How deep is our love for "Saturday Night Fever," which changed how John Travolta and disco were seen 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z A much-need moment of clarity arrives on the eerie, ominous “Another Girl,” and “Backslider” provides a delicious taste of payback. Album review: Wild Belle, 'Isles' 2013-03-08T19:21:00Z It was decidedly ominous, as was the subsequent gamut of long lines and tiny elevators. Getting the Most Ballet (View) for Your Buck 2011-02-03T23:08:37Z This elegant, quietly ominous pavilion consists of an inner ring, inaccessible to viewers, fenced off by hundreds of soaring arched steel struts. From China’s Artist-Activist, a Citywide Great Wall 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z The July 31, 1914 edition of The Los Angeles Times also reported the ominous signs: “Austria will declare war against Russia tomorrow.” Gertrude Stein meets the Great War with a zeppelin air raid 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Because, sure, the ominous march of the White Walkers was terrifying. Ed Sheeran's dire Game of Thrones cameo: he came, he sang, he ate rabbit 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Barr’s subsequent elevation to attorney general is an ominous development that hangs over the second half of Stewart’s book. Two Candidates, Two Investigations, One Deeply Flawed Agency 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z In the 1950s, even as the good times rolled economically, America’s nuclear fear created something historically new and ominous — a thoroughly secular image of the apocalypse. America’s psychic numbing: Why we’re so obsessed with “apocalypse” 2014-02-26T13:30:00Z An ominous sign, “Next services 240 miles,” warned us as we set out that we were on our own. This 414-mile road to the Arctic Ocean is one of the world’s most remote highways 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z What’s lost in surprise is made up by new details noticed, the gothic juxtapositions of colors or the ominous tracking shot underneath the swing as a victim approaches the killer’s house. In ‘Texas Chain Saw Massacre,’ Sympathy for the Devil 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z Two hours from our destination, ominous noises started emanating from the LeBaron. T Magazine: On the Road Again 2012-11-12T22:00:41Z The central identity parable of "Mad Men," which seemed like a simple act of deception in the first few seasons, has deepened into something richer and more ominous. "Mad Men" finale: Hello darkness, my old friend 2010-10-18T12:38:00Z King — who’d grown up in the Pentecostal church, whose father believed in messages from God, and whose mother often talked about premonitions and spirits — began to see ominous signs and symbols everywhere. Marcus King, a Bluesy Rocker Who Stared Down His Own Crossroads 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z For 150 pages she immerses readers in the charming, perplexing, ominous daily life of Maycomb as seen and narrated by Atticus’s daughter, Scout. Review: A Broadway ‘Mockingbird,’ Elegiac and Effective 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Set against globe-hopping backgrounds, the trailer is all cool tones, ominous music and hardcore action. 'Point Break' trailer: Luke Bracey goes to extreme measures 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z As audio, the song is more ominous, scalloped with sudden dissonant crescendos and menacing gaps, with the singer quietly commanding, "I need you to trust in me." The Playlist: Calle 13’s Residente Goes Globe-Trotting and Slowdive Cruises Back 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z On “M&M,” the Jamaican producer Rvssian serves up an ominous synth that sounds like a video game console on its last legs, tinny and fading. Cécile McLorin Salvant Branches Out, and 7 More New Songs 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z This is a place so ominous that the sun never seems to shine even during the day, leaving the gray streets and people washed in an icy blue light. Movie Review: ‘Broken City,’ Directed by Allen Hughes 2013-01-17T15:07:31Z Run Through the Jungle, an ominous warning about America's gun culture, is as relevant as ever. John Fogerty: 'I had rules. I wasn't embarrassed that I was ambitious' 2013-05-29T11:58:15Z The brutality of the training, which culminates with an ugly fight that’s a frenzy of slamming bodies, ominous growls and bloodied muzzles, isn’t for the weak of heart. Review: In ‘White God,’ Man Bites Dog, Dog Bites Back 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z But then again, the ominous warnings could easily have been because the long-timers were attempting to scare away the newbies, or prep them for the reality of the what could be. Burning Man on its last legs 2012-10-14T14:00:00Z Yet it was as a writer that he found renown, and it is around his words that “Roadrunner” constructs its ominous, uneasy shape. ‘Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain’ Review: Salt, Sugar and No Fat 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z And this is not even to mention the even more ominous developments in the military application of robotics and drones such as in the U.S. "Blade Runner" and the lesson Roy Batty’s Replicant rebellion has to teach us 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z As ominous as it is, there’s also a sense of hope in the photo, the way the actors’ faces are lit. A Sky Tells a Story for ‘The Few’ 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z The tone of “In Certain Circles” is consistent — wispy and vaguely ominous — but Muhly is able to tell a three-part story with it. Review: Nico Muhly’s Moody Concerto for Two Pianos 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z A White police officer played by Gabriel Ebert applies an ominous air of violent possibility to the proceedings. Broadway’s relaunch now set for Aug. 4 with the scalding drama ‘Pass Over’ 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z So it doesn't surprise me that the gravitation toward a show like "Is it Cake?" is happening at a time when more ominous deceptions lurk in the media landscape. "Is It Cake?" feeds viewers visual catharsis for uncertain times 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z A few songs sound heavier, more ominous and premeditated. Off! Sings of Unfairness and Treachery in Asbury Park 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Ultimately, they may not win; Rhaenyra's ominous introduction hints the tale may lurch that way. "House of the Dragon" and the question of queens 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z Los Angeles’ relentless sun blares, turned ominous by those dire shadows. If you love L.A.'s vintage signs, this show's for you: One artist's retro take on sun-bleached neon 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z It opens with ominous, distant horns, like some primordial fanfare, that evolves into spiraling figures and fleeting motifs. Music Review: Atlanta Symphony at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-11-06T22:13:48Z “SHOW ME A HERO”, a new series on HBO, starts with a victory speech: an ominous sign. Down and dirty in city hall 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Stepping off the gondola at the Revelstoke Mountain Resort in British Columbia, skiers and snowboarders pass an ominous sign with red lettering that reads: “ATTENTION.” The search for pure, untouched powder at three Canadian ski resorts 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z An ominous mix of opulence and dread is heightened early one morning when a phrase appears written in acid across a window in the lobby: “Why don’t you swallow broken glass.” Review | Emily St. John Mandel’s ‘Station Eleven’ was a huge hit. Now she’s back with a different apocalypse. 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z His music sets the mood throughout: elegiac, jaunty, ominous. Dance Review: Catherine Galasso?s ?Bring on the Lumi?re!,? at Joyce SoHo 2012-01-31T23:19:58Z The grieving parents make their devil's bargain, getting their daughter back, but there's something more ominous than playful lurking behind Alice's newly darkened eyes. How to make a better "Pet Sematary" 2011-07-09T15:01:00Z From that perspective, the rest of the year appears ominous for studios, with sequels to "Twilight," "Mission Impossible," "Happy Feet" and "Alvin and the Chipmunks" all set for release. Box office heading toward record despite economy 2011-08-17T18:03:09Z There’s a sense that whatever action is taking place throughout Harvest finishes before the former’s end, leaving the latter as this ominous underbelly. Boards of Canada Create Moody Sci-Fi on Tomorrow’s Harvest 2013-06-11T12:00:51Z The Doctors A self-proclaimed "food addict" gets an ominous glimpse into her potential future. Friday's TV Highlights: 'A Capitol Fourth' on PBS 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Moreover, the institutions of American democracy are beginning to check and counterbalance ominous actions and attitudes emitting from the Oval Office. Stalin, Hitler and the Temptations of Totalitarianism 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z The members of the chorus pace restlessly around the stage, periodically halting in ominous formations. ‘Toxic Psalms,’ in the Prototype Festival, Explores Ethical Choices 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z When the villain appeared, there were ominous string tremolos and thumping piano themes. Music Review: Keaton?s ?Sherlock, Jr.? With Stephen Prutsman Score - Review 2011-09-25T21:53:27Z The opening shot of “What Keeps You Alive” is a mouse’s eye view of tall ominous trees. Review: In ‘What Keeps You Alive,’ a Couple, a Cabin and a Crisis 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Its ominous, erotic subtext refers obliquely to the epidemic and the fear of infection, but in a spirit of sexual defiance. ‘Test,’ Set in the Year H.I.V. Screening Arrived 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Such geographic references are common: Sunday’s set included “Rome,” “European Oils” and several invocations of an ominous “America.” Review | Destroyer’s wordy, brooding songs reach full potency at the Black Cat 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z Much like the ominous mood that bestowed season one, the posters transport viewers to this year’s scorched California setting by using .gif-style animations with eery themes. HBO's 'True Detective' Releases Hauntingly Brilliant Posters 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Just listen to the ominous music: If this were a different show, Rupert would be holding a machete. ‘Ted Lasso,’ Season 3, Episode 9 Recap: Colin’s Moment 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z Jeremy Irons sounds the ominous lines — “This is the dead land” — in the velvet of the trained English voice. Jeremy Irons Breathes New Life Into ‘The Poems of T.S. Eliot’ 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z As such, her encounters with men first seem — via camera work, ominous lighting and the fact that we’ve all seen television before — incredibly dangerous. Perspective | ‘The Queen’s Gambit,’ a period drama that erases sexism from 1960, is the best fantasy show of the year 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z The conductor Michael Hofstetter led a grave, ominous account of the score. ‘Don Giovanni’ at the Met Opera and in Two Other Stagings 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z Tuesday’s episode of “The Americans” was quiet, dark and ominous. ‘The Americans’ Season 5, Episode 2 Recap: Enjoy the Silence 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Acting as a rather neat precursor for the darker direction the Sheffield four-piece would take on Humbug, ’505′ closed their second album on an ominous and brooding note. 12 Amazing Songs With Just Three Chords 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z And what’s more ominous, there’s a shadowy network of secret societies where toxic information is swapped and important deals are cut. Review | Jake Tapper’s new political thriller is at its best when it’s most bonkers 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z The juxtapositions selected by the curators are often inspired: Bourgeois’s ominous bronze sculpture “Avenzza,” from the 1960s, for example, fits right in among Goya’s unsettling depictions of witches and insane asylums. In Transit: In Madrid, Disparate Art Collections Collide 2011-05-09T10:01:01Z Sophie sees the ominous things that happen to her, like the cat bite, as “portents that lit up the dark at the edge of her own existence,” and she’s not wrong. Rereading Paula Fox’s “Desperate Characters” 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z They ignore the chain barring entrance to the closed state park, as well as ominous signs like a pile of abandoned sneakers. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Zombeavers’ and Other Midnight Offerings at Tribeca Festival 2014-04-17T22:08:08Z Other episodes turned frantic, with dizzying outbursts from the violin — trying to escape, it seemed, an ominous, enveloping orchestra. Review: The New York Philharmonic Plays a Piece Inspired by Night 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z It was as ominous a moment as any in the history of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Oscars Watchdog Monitors Foul Play in Stores, Online and on Red Carpet 2011-02-26T00:14:51Z It's ominous how the final scene transitions so suddenly from the sitcom setup with just Neal and Allison as he attacks her, to the dark drama setup, when Patty swoops in to save Allison's life. "Kevin Can F**k Himself" boss talks finale, future & the ending you didn't see 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z That the video finds Kehlani as a bride without a groom, though — praying, smoking, sipping from a flask — lends the tale an ominous air. Gerard Way Sneers at the Apocalypse, and 12 More New Songs 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z Its ominous canvas is darkly paranoid, dotted with scurrying figures and slashing gestures that evoke knocks on the door. Music Review: A Breathless Boccherini, an Unnerving Shostakovich 2010-11-23T23:40:00Z They’ll encounter an ominous dragon bone yard in a land where dragons are lured to unpleasant deaths by a Siren-like song. Review: ‘Dragons: Race to the Edge,’ a Dark Animated Series on Netflix 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z Then, at the concert that opened Jaap van Zweden’s tenure as music director of the New York Philharmonic, came “Filament,” a slyly ominous drone of a fanfare. The Best Classical Music of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z The teen and his younger brother, shovel and bucket in hand, observe the ominous scene from the doorway as if it were utterly ordinary. ‘Rules of Summer,’ by Shaun Tan The beautifully choreographed scene in which the gang approaches the cottage from the field, heads bobbing in and out of view, is as witty as it is ominous. Review: ‘Slow West,’ a Wry Twist on Classic Frontier Fables 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Nerves were further set on edge by the board’s ominous email to state directors promising “no immediate license termination” for the 22 petition-signers. It’s not just about bikinis: Inside the battle for the future of Miss America 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z But the Lido2Paris’s production, in English with subtitles, is a dry, ominous showstopper. A Paris Cabaret Makes Way for ‘Cabaret’ 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z “Request Denied” blows in like an ominous cloud, followed by stampeding drums. Album review: El-P, 'Cancer 4 Cure' 2012-05-21T01:44:00Z The whole tone of the cemetery is ominous, a warning that life is short and to be pious and religious before your hourglass runs out and your soul flies away to the great beyond. Manhattan’s art of the dead 2012-07-12T21:18:00Z The Huffington Post reports an "ominous Facebook post" that preceded the shooting, and local news station WJZ-TV says police and students describe teachers as tackling the shooter as he fired the first shot. Motherlode Blog: Shooting Reported on First Day of School in Maryland 2012-08-27T18:51:43Z Even the famous “24” interstitial graphics — the multi-screen panels that juxtapose different plot strands under ominous countdown sounds — have become a much-borrowed cliché. 2010-01-15T04:09:00Z “It is more ominous than any oblivion, to see the world as it is,” the poet Carolyn Forché wrote in “Blue Hour.” Kristen Radtke Considers Another American Epidemic: Loneliness 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z Much better ominous creaking and banging than that bandstand stuff. K19: The Widowmaker - live! 2010-10-06T10:48:00Z Most ominous is Roberta Matthews Bernstein’s series on toxic plants, pretty but potentially fatal. In the galleries: An early spring is always welcome 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Bee said that, despite the inherently comedic tone of these late-night shows, they could still offer a constructive platform to address such an ominous topic. Late-Night Shows Are Teaming Up to Tackle Climate Change 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z That line gets to the heart of Lynch’s work, which reflects the dark, ominous, often bizarre underbelly of American culture — one increasingly out of the shadows today. David Lynch’s chillingly prescient vision of modern America 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z In the aggregate, they amount to an exhibition both whimsical and ominous; silly and sober — precisely the complicated metaphor Mr. Chiappa was aiming for. Christopher Chiappa’s Latest Obsession: The Amazing Egg 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z You’ll often hear them deploy a fragile, organic timbre over something synthetic and ominous. Playlist: New CDs: Albatrosh, Trio M, Charlie Haden and Hank Jones 2012-01-06T17:00:00Z Less dangerous but disturbingly ominous was the dead pigeon that fell onstage at a Hollywood Bowl performance of Haydn’s “Hunt” Quartet with the Emerson String Quartet. Critic’s Notebook: Chamber Music Society Gears Up for Naumburg Bandshell 2013-08-20T21:02:07Z After some ominous foreshadowing, they find themselves stalked by a family of doppelgängers dressed in red, armed with scissors and determined to brutally eliminate their counterparts. "Us" is a good "Twilight Zone" adaptation, but it's not as good as Jordan Peele's "Get Out." 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z I also cheated whenever an especially ominous choice was presented, going back and changing my answer if I didn't like where I ended up. Sohla is over small salads (you should be, too) 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z She can be downright ominous, especially when her character is angry. Movie Review: ‘Winnie Mandela,’ Starring Jennifer Hudson and Many Outfits 2013-09-05T21:38:48Z The album begins with a rush of ominous synths on “Professional,” which concludes with a steep crescendo and intense background percussion that amplifies the overall sense of dread. The Weeknd’s decade of dystopia 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z The ominous remark made him want to honor the animals’ role in their community. The Artist Nari Ward on the the Goat as a Symbol of Democracy 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z In that sense they were a fitting complement to her ominous vision of this music. Review: Yuja Wang Plays Dazed Chaos, Then 7 Encores 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Towering over the region, the Pitons create the effect of two wildly different movie sets: By day they are jaunty and playful; by night, they’re ominous shadows, shrouded in stars. A Chocolate Tour of the Caribbean 2012-11-09T19:17:51Z His early poems were ominous, high-pitched, and starchy; when he broke with them, he broke for good. The Final Prophecy of W. S. Merwin 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z She plays with stereotypes of the Appalachian south –rednecks, white thrash, the ominous backwoods – while simultaneously portraying a place – and a community – where the often alcohol- or drug-fuelled violence and poverty are very real. Myth, manners and memory 2010-10-02T23:05:00Z “There was enormous anti-Semitism. Nobody knew what was coming, but it was genuinely ominous. So what, in that moment, when you feel at risk, do you put out into the world about who you are?” For Paula Vogel, a Once-Banned ‘Beautiful’ Love Story Inspires Her New Play 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z In a gripping final scene, charged by Stravinsky’s piercing, ominous music, we see the despairing emperor dying. Music Review: Stravinsky?s Tales, Dunked in the Spin Cycle 2011-03-02T22:59:11Z Peele could have used an ominous score to underline this violent scene: the audience would know what to expect when the dark chords chimed in and would brace themselves for violence. Mood music: how a jaunty pop song can ramp up movie terror 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z This time Kuleshov cuts away to nearly motionless images of menacing objects and ominous details of landscape to create an atmosphere of slowly mounting tension. DVD: Landmarks of Early Soviet Film Come to DVD 2011-10-09T03:23:03Z But in many ways, Scorsese is emulating her jarring cry in the ominous aesthetics of “Killers of the Flower Moon” itself, and of his 2019 feature, “The Irishman.” From ‘Goodfellas’ to ‘Flower Moon’: How Scorsese Has Rethought Violence 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z Learning that Anna is going to London for two days, Bates asks Carson for the day off to go to York — and earns some ominous music for saying the reason is, “This and that.” Downton Abbey Recap: Comings and Goings 2014-02-17T03:15:42Z The season just past was without question particularly ominous in this regard. Theater Talkback: When Stars Take Over the Tonys 2010-06-24T16:55:00Z "Its removal from LifeWay's shelves sends an ominous and, we think, unbiblical message: Christians need not only to be 'not to be of the world', but also must be sheltered from the world's realities." Retailer's decision to drop The Blind Side upsets Christian faithful 2012-07-17T16:14:12Z The album, part of the subgenre of rap known as horrorcore, captivated listeners with its dark references to death and murders, eerie beats and ominous vocals. Gangsta Boo, Memphis Rapper Formerly With Three 6 Mafia, Dies at 43 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z VanderMeer’s latest ecological thriller is a narrative puzzle box with the ominous hum of climate change in the background — until it advances, terrifyingly, onto center stage. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z A Classic, Outrageous Still This year marks a century of ominous springtime shudders. | Dance: A Classic, Outrageous Still 2013-08-16T19:17:53Z And then it happened, as suddenly as one of those ominous illnesses that signal a character is about to be written out of a soap opera. I was the one on your plane with the flu 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z Will Davis’s production is best when conjuring an ominous mood constantly overshadowed by death — foretold, remembered, alluded to, imagined. Review: In ‘California,’ a Road Trip and a Detour Into Darkness 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z As it opens, a subdued, ominous bass motif stirs and slowly crests, breaking into fractured brassy fanfares and choral proclamations. Review: Julian Wachner Celebrates Ginastera’s Centennial 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z A review in The New York Times called it ominous but enjoyable. Terry Jones of Monty Python Has Dementia, His Family Says 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Once again, Lee brought an ominous gravitas to his role, while also pulling off flowing white robes, mane and beard. Christopher Lee dies: Six of his sinister villain roles 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Called "Burning Bridges," it captured in one line an ominous vibe currently drifting across the city: "The loveliest flowers will die in the drought," she sang. Moses Sumney, Lucinda Williams hit the pier at Way Over Yonder fest 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z China's growing ambitions coincide with an ominous industrywide slump in Japan. China making anime push as Japan hits slump 2010-03-29T02:46:00Z But when the music turns more ominous, the gaiety shifts, provoking a question: Are they just friends hitting musical marks — or more? Pacific Northwest Ballet Presents ‘Debonair’ 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Because the characters are borderline-believable and the filmmaking style all but invisible, accentuated by the ominous strings of Heather McIntosh’s score, Compliance is an ordeal for those watching no less than those performing. Compliance: Sundance Torture Porn 2012-08-17T12:30:26Z “All my efforts the past week have paid off,” says Mr Garrison, as ominous music swells. South Park spoofs the US election result: 'What have you done? You maniacs!' 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z We saw a piece in which an ominous, air-inflated 25-foot cube of parachute silk — imagine an inexorable marshmallow — ingested and then disgorged dancers. Stockholm, and the Strangers Who Brought Me There 2012-06-15T18:37:54Z A child’s tricycle becomes ominous when you put a Geiger counter near it. Review: In ‘The Children,’ the Waters Rise and a Reckoning Comes Due 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z While The Lord of the Rings is all ominous portent and epic adventure, the earlier book has a homely, fable-like quality that means its worth has often been overlooked in favour of the sequel. Is Peter Jackson planning Lord of the Hobbits? 2010-12-09T13:41:00Z Just as blandly ominous were Arlene Sierra’s music and Lucy Thurber’s libretto for “Faustine,” a feminist retelling of the Faust story. Critic?s Notebook: At Vox Festival, Future of City Opera Sounds All Too Familiar 2011-05-16T21:55:57Z For those who recognize it, “I’ve been to the zoo” is at least as ominous. Review: Is Edward Albee ‘At Home at the Zoo’? You Bet He Is. 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Dark skies, a rainstorm and a muted color palette all suggest something ominous lurking just offscreen. The New ‘It’ Trailer Is Here to Give You Nightmares 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z But it's a distinctive, ominous and hypnotic work of cinema. "Animal Kingdom": Granny's evil crime empire 2010-08-14T00:30:00Z The Andante introduction to the first movement, in which the ominous theme of fate is pronounced in brassy flourishes, was incisive and ferocious — rigidly so. New York Philharmonic’s Next Leader Gives a Taste of Things to Come 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z In an ominous recurrent image, a crop duster strafes a corn field like a bomber delivering poison gas. Review: In ‘Runoff,’ a Rural Family Hits Desperate Times 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z “Wind howled like a banshee through its branches,” he writes, “and ominous bangs and thuds echoed up from deep inside the timber.” Review | He has the job every kid wants: He climbs trees for a living. 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Freeman, the show’s host, says in his ominous introduction. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Through the Wormhole’ Considers Mind Reading 2013-07-01T21:55:16Z The moment echoes events at the end of the episode, when Jimmy confronts the box of his new office, and that ominous on-off switch. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 2 Premiere: No Seriously, Call Saul 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z His performance elevates an ominous, downbeat reflection on American decline and runaway technology into a subdued absurdist farce with dark geopolitical undercurrents. Review: ‘A Hologram for the King’ Is Elevated by Tom Hanks’s Portrayal of an American Everyman 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z He showed slave traders, fascists, corrupt policemen and factory bosses victimizing the poor and other innocents, in tales with ominous titles like “Gods’ Man” and “Wild Pilgrimage.” Antiques: Motown Piano Restored - Postcard Books - Film on Lynd Ward 2012-03-22T20:50:46Z A slow, moody piano line was punctuated by a soft, ominous drumbeat that turned by the end of the mournful piece into a vaguely martial rat-a-tat. Review: Tectonics Festival New York Takes Wing at a Church Setting 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z And time travel, like the art of fiction writing, affords the possibility of imagining ominous alternate futures and amazing and harrowing alternate worlds. Review: ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Explores the Power of Time 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Ms. de la Salle took a more tempestuous approach, vividly characterizing extremes of tumult and introspection, as in the Ballade No. 2 in F, which begins with ominous rumblings in the left hand. Music Review: For Liszt?s 200th, a Youthful Tribute 2011-02-22T00:00:09Z A similarly fast second movement, however, begins a process of tonal darkening, with double basses producing an ominous unpinning to the pianos. L.A. Phil explores Minimalism to maximal effect at Disney Hall 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z The quieter songs, like “Sadie,” inhabit an ominous airspace, while an anthem like “Let Spirits Ride” recalls the plunging extravagance of Led Zeppelin in full Viking mode. Playlist: Whether Jazz, Rock Or War Anthems, A Vintage Harvest 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z Written after the murder of Robert F. Kennedy, “Long Time Gone” seethes with bitter frustration, from its ominous organ chords to Stephen Stills’s gnarled guitar fills. David Crosby’s 15 Essential Songs 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z He cleverly folds state-of-the-classroom messages about the education system and ominous assessments of how corporate dollars control and subvert scientific progress inside raucous party songs and catchy melodies. Album review: The Coup, 'Sorry to Bother You' 2012-11-05T17:11:00Z Clean orchestral textures, meanwhile, allowed us to hear molten woodwind gurgles and ominous pizzicato throbs that we usually miss. Prom 13: Verdi Requiem - review 2011-07-25T10:04:41Z Less common and more ominous are a bottle and a bone, both broken at one end. Review | In the galleries: A revelatory exhibition by D.C. artist Jonathan Monaghan 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z The acrid air choked the city and an ominous black cloud spread over the mayor’s new hope: plastic garbage bins. Rome in Ruins 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z They're playful yet ominous, both satirical and primal and, in their elaborate technique, simultaneously makeshift and sophisticated. Primal meets parody in Tim Roda photo show at Greg Kucera 2012-03-01T20:58:03Z Both the audience and performers are on a room-size mattress, which feels cozy until ominous lighting and sound begin to intrude. Theater Listings for Aug. 26-Sept. 1 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Arda’s squad responds to a call for backup at an ominous mansion that was once an Ottoman police station. Review: ‘Baskin,’ From Turkey, Blends Style and Gore 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z They are not, however, concerned about the ominous threat of stranger danger. A “free range” family fights back: “The police coerced our children into the back of a patrol car” 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z Both films have moments of battles won, and an ominous sense of a longer war. Steve McQueen unveils an anthology of racism and resistance 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z Even as the vibe shifts and the atmosphere grows more ominous, he maintains a lightness of touch and a visual playfulness that keeps the movie securely in the realm of pop pleasure. ‘KIMI’ Review: Sure She’s Paranoid, but Something Really Is Out There 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z An extended scene of Ali and two police officers pummeled by a drenching rain while lost in the woods distills the film’s ominous mood. | 'The Hunter': ?The Hunter? by Rafi Pitts - Review 2012-01-03T23:01:40Z Davis’s perfectly placed and balanced phrasing, with his spare and involuted tone, create a sort of highest-order mood music, a passionately contained romanticism reflecting the ominous elegance of vast power held in reserve. Miles Davis’s Boldest Heights 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z "It's strange to see him like that because he looks really ominous," she explains. 2010-02-09T09:57:00Z An impossible proposal for writers of the River Plate: avoid the adjectives “ominous,” “inveterate,” and “execrable” for ten years. Andrés Neuman crosses boundaries across the Americas in 'How to Travel Without Seeing' 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z The album’s darkly mysterious nature set an ominous tone for the year to come. In the turmoil of 1968, music failed to seize the moment 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z Each depicts an empty chair and an ominous figure or a bird of prey. Rethinking What It Means to Be a Philadelphia Artist 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z Later, as the haze from Western wildfires blew across the Northeast, the sun turned an ominous red, spectacular above the swaying marsh grass. In Massachusetts, a seacoast city that feels like home 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z An ominous letter writer who stalks a wealthy family in their suburban New Jersey home is the latest true crime case to receive the Netflix treatment in Ryan Murphy's limited series "The Watcher." “The Watcher”: The real-life stalking case behind Netflix’s seriocomic mystery thriller 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z But the way music is now distributed allows drill to be especially personal and ominous. Amid London’s Crime Surge, Authorities Take Aim at ‘Drill,’ a Bleak Style of Rap Music 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Both she and Ms. Simmons, who was training her lens on an ominous doll cosmos, were doing new things with photographs, namely, lending them the dramatic scale and color-rich palette traditionally associated with painting. Recalling Sarah Charlesworth’s Photographs 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Repeatedly, she returns to the dark, ominous forest where he apparently disappeared like some fairy-tale casualty; at times, she dreams of him and his caresses. Review: A Husband Vanishes in ‘Claire in Motion.’ Mysteries Multiply. 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z There are ominous soundtrack noises, depictions of the tenants' nightmares, intimations of the not-too-distant colonial past. Neighbouring Sounds – review 2013-03-21T23:10:01Z Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian Wandsworth prison is an ominous place with its dark brickwork, iconic gates and perimeter walls topped by billowing rolls of barbed wire. Wandsworth jail reading group: 'Here, they don't have to be prisoners' 2013-01-15T15:30:01Z Two album-side-length instrumental compositions featuring percussion, flute, synthesizers and many untethered frequencies, “Visitations” is a soothing listen, but underneath the floating tones are ominous textures that add tension. Throwbacks: Vinyl and digital reissues of note for winter-spring 2015 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Advertisement Advertisement Mr. Millepied keeps up a constant flow of ingenious combinations as a third and fourth musical movement offer slow, mysterious strings shading into slightly ominous terrain with harsh trumpet interjections. Paris Opera Shows Off Its Brilliance 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z These words inaugurate Coppola’s masterpiece and set the ominous, funereal stage for what will soon come. ‘The Godfather’ Explained in Seven Quotes 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z When Sky pulled out – principally, I understood at the time, over casting choices – that was an ominous sign. Why AMC's 'Humans' Is A Safer Bet On British Sci-Fi Than 'The Prisoner' Was 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z These are ominous questions to ask in a column about blind dates. Date Lab: He knew how he felt almost immediately 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z Perhaps most ominous, the company's well-regarded young artists program will produce a concert rather than a full opera production during the coming season. Opera companies, notably in Seattle, face money trouble 2012-08-09T00:41:03Z Unsettling, even ominous corners are everywhere apparent under the serene veneer of medieval French music and literature. Music Review: Anonymous 4 at Corpus Christi Church 2013-05-13T21:59:59Z Audience and performers alike are on a room-size mattress, which feels cozy until ominous lighting and sound begin to intrude. Theater Listings for Aug. 19-25 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Even though they wear those ominous gold hoods, it still looks like cheerleading. Dance Review: Keith Hennessy’s ‘Turbulence’ at New York Live Arts 2012-10-09T21:59:44Z It’s ominous, urgent, and dire: Martinez’s approach is antithetical to what so many film composers strive to accomplish. How a Red Hot Chili Pepper Gave Drive Its Pulse 2012-02-01T13:59:49Z By then, bullets have been fired and blood has splashed across the floor, developments that are nowhere as ominous or tense as watching Leonard and Roy have a polite little talk in the back. ‘The Outfit’ Review: The Violent Measure of a Man 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Melisandre and Varys also meet up on the ominous people section of a cliff, and it looks like the discussion topic is possibly scheming. Jon Snow Finally Arrives to Meet Daenerys in New Game of Thrones Photos 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z Reagon has toured the world, spreading Butler’s ominous message through the opera and other platforms. Apocalypse Nowish: Singing the Prophetic Warnings of Octavia Butler 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z In the months leading up to Jan. 28, 1986, the day the space shuttle Challenger exploded and everyone aboard was killed, there were ominous portents. Review | ‘The Burning Blue’ is a compact, suspenseful chronicle of the Challenger disaster 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z "What do you do?" somebody asks the main character, a vaguely ominous young man with a toothpick dangling from his lips like a forgotten cigarette. A stylish, ultraviolent 'Drive' with Ryan Gosling 2011-09-15T20:53:04Z This stuff is ominous and ambiguous; we suggest not show. In knockout thriller "Catch the Fair One," a boxer infiltrates a ring of human traffickers 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z In the back of my mind I was wondering how much time we had before there might be an ominous knock at the door. The way we left Cuba 2012-12-31T18:00:00Z The sequence starts in black with ominous music on the score, then the flurry screen saver, a common one on a Mac, comes into view. How ‘Searching’ Uses Tech Devices as Narrative Devices 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z But on my first morning of a week spent working in a Champagne vineyard, the clouds hung low and leaden, an ominous dark mass biding its time. Harvesting Grapes in France, With Champagne as Reward 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z It was one of those moments "when everything changes," Laurie Anderson sang, in a voice that sounded like she was narrating a documentary: Slightly detached, pleasant in its lilting enunciation, yet ominous. Laurie Anderson 9/11 concert at Park West revisited 2013-09-11T21:15:00Z In later years, his popular, Emmy-winning nature series turned increasingly grim and ominous. In ‘Becoming Cousteau,’ diving into the depths of Jacques 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z The fluttering woodwinds that break in came across like rustling, slightly ominous sea birds and mists. Review: She Returns to Lead the Philharmonic. For Real, This Time. 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z Now he needed to figure out something smaller but crucial: how to apply the organ stings, ominous monotones and other instrumental plot thickeners that would underline the satire and keep the audience on track. Where Do Theater Artists Go to Ask Questions? Poughkeepsie. 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z The play concludes with the ominous suggestion that — well, perhaps I shouldn’t say any more. Review: Nathan Lane, You’ve Got a Part (This Time) in ‘White Rabbit Red Rabbit’ 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Schultz had a laid-back personality that perhaps enabled him to roll with his benefactor’s eccentricities but may have blinded him as well as they went from quirky to ominous. Review: ‘Team Foxcatcher’ Looks at a Millionaire’s Descent Into Murder 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z When an ominous porcupine figure appears — its needles shimmer dangerously — the group reacts with fear and then overpowers it. Review: ‘Kreatur’ Wraps Its Dancers in a Succession of Skins 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z And blue-collar brooder Rumors begins like the house band in a bar on the edge of town, and ends with the sort of ominous prog piano segment rarely heard since Supertramp's Crime of the Century. Josh Ritter – review 2013-07-24T17:40:43Z Once inside the memorial, visitors descend through four long corridors, arranged at right angles, and the monuments begin to form what looks like an ominous carillon of silent bells suspended overhead. Review | A powerful memorial in Montgomery remembers the victims of lynching 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z Yet the humorously bizarre touches begin to add up, becoming increasingly ominous. 'The Beautiful Bureaucrat' a mind-bending, thrilling page-turner 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z As the central quartet suit up for some interdimensional travel, the music turns ominous and the voiceover warns, "But with every new discovery, there is risk, there is sacrifice, and there are consequences." 'Fantastic Four' trailer glimpses younger, darker superhero revamp 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z Visible well above the stage is a drummer, Tom Penn, who keeps ominous pulse with the roiling emotions of the play, as if to amplify yet further the damaged psyches on view. Review: Paul Mescal Electrifies in a Revelatory ‘Streetcar’ 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z An ominous, rumbling score adds menace, suspended chords and electronic creaks suggesting a descent into some Stygian world. Citizenfour review – Edward Snowden documentary is utterly engrossing 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z Onstage, with Mr. Finn’s pedals restored, it became an ominous, reverberant prison. Music Review: Neil Finn Plays a Career-Spanning Set at Town Hall 2014-04-09T21:28:16Z For long stretches, they develop a doomy, ominous mood, only offering release with some explosive guitar. This week's new live music 2011-04-08T23:07:52Z The first movement began with subdued sustained tone, with an ominous, questioning, fragmented phrase in low strings underneath. Review: The Philharmonic Puts a Young Composer’s Twist on Bruckner 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Tribal Widow blends a rattling rhythm like twigs clattering against a window with sleek, ominous synth hits and far-off, cut-up bursts of a male choir. This week's new singles 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z But soon after the orchestra struck up those thundering, ominous organ chords, I found my expectations upended, my jaded armor melting away. ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ Retains Its Luster 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z In the opening scene of the new film Mudbound, two bedraggled white men are digging a hole, ominous storm clouds overhead. Meet the new hotshots of American film-making 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z The effect is at once alluring and ominous. Music Review: Ran Dank and Soyeon Kate Lee Performed Days Before Marriage 2013-09-04T18:56:21Z Each act had its own arc and mood, yet he located the ominous door-knock rhythm from the introduction constantly, even in the most seemingly lyrical passages. A ‘Rusalka’ Shows Two Sides at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-01-24T10:13:05Z Mr. Williams, reduced on his own show to introducing Ms. Vieira’s segments and then interviewing her about her interview, supplied ominous teasers about the tarnishing of the Kennedy image. ArtsBeat: Prime-Time News and the Ghost of JFK 2012-02-09T19:00:34Z The snow-covered, forested landscape of the convent is photographed to suggest an ominous frontier that offers no refuge from marauding outsiders. Review: In ‘The Innocents,’ Not Even Nuns Are Spared War Horrors 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z In another an ominous tower looms on the left; in still another the tower shifts to the right. ‘René Magritte: The Fifth Season’ Review: Where Day and Night Meet 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z In a story recounted by Di of Charleston, S.C., who served as a cook in her master’s kitchen, a black serpent is imbued with ominous portent, becoming an excuse to evade work. The Haunted Past 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z As if to temper the ominous associations of “Guards,” the Navajo artist and composer Raven Chacon organized a performance of “Drum Grid” on Oct. ‘Drum Listens to Heart’: Images, Words and Sculptures, Bound by a Beat 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z In the background, Steen painted an ominous hourglass, femur and skull piled onto a corner shelf. Does My Family Own a Painting Looted by Nazis? 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z Other paintings are filled with images; they are busy and ominous, or funny and surreal. Joan Mir?: at home in exile 2011-04-08T23:05:56Z There are far too many ominous birds skittering around. Review | With ‘Real Life,’ Brandon Taylor twists the traditional campus novel 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z In “Northeast from Flagstaff Mountain, Boulder County, Colorado,” 1975, an ominous shadow across the bottom of the picture underscores a denuded mountain, which overlooks featureless housing developments that extend drearily toward the horizon. Sunlit Apocalypse: The Imperiled World of Robert Adams 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z The mezzo-soprano Sara Murphy sang with poise and emotive force in the ominous third movement, her words underpinned by an insistent ostinato. American Symphony Orchestra Samples the 20th Century 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Here, Gotta Be Above It seems to be a musical depiction of an on stage panic attack, with its whispering voice, jumpy drums and ominous electronics. Tame Impala: Lonerism – review 2012-10-04T14:29:01Z Ms. Kelly dodged him twice and made a beeline for the door — at which point, she writes, he asked her an ominous question: “When is your contract up?” Review: Megyn Kelly Tells Tales Out of Fox News in Her Memoir, ‘Settle for More’ 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z As far back as Halsey’s first single, “Ghost” in 2014, their ominous, echoey electronic production drew comparisons to Nine Inch Nails; in a way, the new album is a visit to the source. Backed by Nine Inch Nails, Halsey Connects Past and Future 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z Instead, Janine Jansen, the Dutch violinist, was turned slightly backward, gazing at the timpanist who produced the work’s first, ominous notes. A Violinist as Riveting in Silence as in Sound 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z He and the masked nu-metal survivors of Slipknot will have to work extra hard to make anything about this beachfront show feel similarly ominous, but few artists are better suited to the challenge. Pop & Rock Listings for July 1-7 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Hired to choreograph an ominous ballet scene inspired by “The Nutcracker,” she stayed on as a movement consultant, developing signature physical vocabularies for the characters’ dueling selves. At the Whitney Biennial, Flood Preparation as Social Dance 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z For someone who describes her childhood as "isolated" and whose awareness of the world was getting broader, she says it felt "important and ominous" to be understanding this music the way adults did. Kathy Valentine of The Go-Go’s on her Beatles love and bass player parallels with Paul McCartney 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z As the horde starts to rush toward them and we hear the ominous percussion and strings of the opening theme, your adrenaline starts pumping uncontrollably. The Walking Dead season six: show serves up gore, but we want brains 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z The brass played with panache, the fanfares more sardonic and ominous than victorious. New York Philharmonic, Led by Jaap van Zweden 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z The saga begins when unsuspecting passengers notice the ominous "Imperial March" playing over the loudspeaker. Disney cruises to celebrate 'Star Wars Day at Sea,' but it's not for casual fans: 'There's no getting away from it' 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z It’s in the fact that there is a phrase for it, that this bruising feeling is so universal and ominous it can be packaged in sarcastic memes, named, dissected. Declutter so you can reclutter – Kondo has a new master plan 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z At night the hardware store’s parking lot has turned ominous, as Walt issues his aforementioned warning to his competitors. Four years later, “Breaking Bad” remains the boldest indictment of modern American capitalism in TV history 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z The second movement turns ominous, with sustained pedal tones pierced by quizzical, fragmented melodies. Music Review: Salonen and the Big Sounds of a Small European Nation 2011-03-11T23:45:17Z Stewart showed clips of cable news coverage using ominous music and frightening graphics… Hide your kids, hide your wife, cable news warned, Ebola is coming for you. Jon Stewart slams media for Ebola fear-mongering 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z The slower second movement begins with a mournful dialogue for viola and second violin, punctuated by restless bursts and ominous sustained tones from the other instruments. Review: At Summergarden, a Steamy Evening of Exploratory Sounds 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z All three songs, but most especially "Murder Most Foul," grow darker and ominous as each verse makes way for the next. "Murder Most Foul": Unpacking Bob Dylan's new epic, from Dallas 1963 to the pandemic of 2020 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z Graffiti in street scenes appears as ominous as the writing on the wall in the Book of Daniel. Walk Through This Exhibition With Dread. You Know Where It Leads. 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z A young woman named Honeysuckle observes an ominous thunderhead over Denver. Cloudy with a chance for terror in Joe Hill’s ‘Strange Weather’ 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z These posters are cool enough—detailed, attractive, ominous—to spread online in ways that a more traditional movie poster likely would not. 'The Hunger Games' Releases Propaganda Trailer, Posters For 'Mockingjay' 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z But Keating, wisely continuing his collaboration with the marvelous cinematographer Mac Fisken, designs an effectively ominous world of mist-wrapped trees and a frothing shoreline that shades into a baleful gray horizon. ‘Offseason’ Review: Shuttered Island 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Her next words were far more ominous: "They're going to eat me alive, if I stumble." Made in America Festival makes debut at downtown L.A.'s Grand Park 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z Let them cite the ominous trend for labels like Burberry and Gucci to combine men’s and women’s offerings into consolidated presentations. New York Men’s Fashion Week: Bruised, but Still in the Ring 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z This was nearly as confusing as it was ominous. Cuba’s forgotten champ 2012-09-07T23:30:00Z The headings became increasingly ominous as the stories turned darker. Anne Bilson 2010-06-03T21:20:00Z The theme is set by Robert Morris’s mural-size charcoal drawing, from his “Firestorm” series, and its frightening accompanying text, which, especially, makes everything in the gallery click into ominous alignment. MoMA Upends Its Collection to Celebrate Late Careers 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z |
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