| 单词 | portent |
| 例句 | She was a most singular portent, a lion in front, a serpent behind, a goat in between— Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, now and then, I received a damping check to my cheerfulness; and was, in spite of myself, thrown back on the region of doubts and portents, and dark conjectures. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z An intensely spiritual young man, Ang Dorje was not one to take such portents lightly. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z It seemed inconceivable that a spectacular streak of milk-white flame, rising and setting with the stars night after night, was not there for a reason, did not hold some portent for human affairs. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Little was I aware that that first bleak Christmas was a portent for many similar ones to come. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The drive to El Puerto was always a pleasant one, but today it was filled with strange portents. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There had been no signs or portents, no secret signals. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Giants and other portents on the borders of the Shire were forgotten for more important matters: Mr. Frodo was selling Bag End, indeed he had already sold it — to the Sackville-Bagginses! The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He spoke of weather portents and the slack wits of smallfolk, and told how his nephew itched for battle. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z This was a portent of the extremely serious situation that has now developed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Maya priests tracked the movements of Venus, which they regarded as a powerful portent. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Yet no ill portents or encounters followed on his working even of the Great Spells of Making and Shaping, which are most perilous. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Jockeys say there is a small, bright sound when hooves clip against each other, a cheery portent of the wreck that is likely to follow. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In many countries it was a capital offense for anyone but the official astrologer to read the portents in the skies: a good way to overthrow a regime was to predict its downfall. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Three dead trees on the moor below, burned up alive by lightning, are ominous portents. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z But what happened to stream fish in an area observed by the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Game is perhaps a portent of things to come. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I won’t dare ask the captain what those dark portents might be. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z To measure and predict these portents requires careful sky watching and a calendar. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Ged doled their food out sparingly, and the portent of this was plain, but both of them chewed their bit of salt fish and wheaten cake, and neither said anything. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z “But we will know as we near the trench, because there will be signs and dark portents.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “Would anyone like me to help them interpret the shadowy portents within their Orb?” she murmured over the clinking of her bangles. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z An epic dystopian portent of the cursed Earth to come. From Blade Runner 2049 to It: Week in geek's top science fiction and fantasy films of 2017 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z All manner of portents set up the full-scale, all-out ghost assault, revenge for a primal sin committed by the town fathers. In ‘The Fog,’ Made After ‘Halloween,’ Seafaring Zombies Arrive 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Given that we know Jimmy becomes a man named Saul Goodman by the time the events of “Breaking Bad” start up, this blow radiates portent. The heartbreak of “Better Call Saul”: Season finale hints the series will be even more devastating than “Breaking Bad” 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z Full of pauses and portents and flights of fancy, the scenes can have a stilted quality. Movie Review: ‘Drunkboat,’ With John Malkovich and John Goodman 2012-07-12T23:41:40Z In hindsight, what he said next was a portent, and serves as a striking reminder of both how young Earl is and how much creative enthusiasm he put into his new album. Earl Sweatshirt stakes claim as a producer on new album 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z The opportunity arises by accident, a moment of serendipity and a portent of future trouble. ‘Birds of Passage’ Review: An Epic Narco Tale That Will Open Your Eyes 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z From dark portent to furious scurrying to explosive clashes, Seattle Symphony's Thursday concert at Benaroya Hall was stimulating, at the least. An explosive 'Doctor Atomic' at SSO 2012-01-06T19:09:04Z 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 She leaves a polite note on the truck, but the pickup continues to materialize, a bright, ugly portent of trouble that soon intensifies. ‘God’s Country’ Review: A Solitary Woman Isn’t Left Alone for Long 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Even the dance music held some darker portents. At Bonnaroo, Looking Inward 2010-06-12T17:02:00Z Recent history has rendered certain aspects of Mr. Ruscha’s career into dark portents, cataclysmic visions of a decadent culture that can’t help but devour itself. Ed Ruscha: He Up and Went Home 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z Many are in touch with signs and portents, when not with outright ghosts. Review: Rebecca Makkai’s ‘Music for Wartime,’ Stories With Echoes of Loss 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z They took it as a portent of some sort, though what it meant remained unclear. The Gonzo Artists Arrive in Cleveland 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z She can put the feelings you want to see from an actor, feelings you experience as a human being, right there on the surface, as portents of other psychological, emotional and romantic depths. Who We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Weinstein 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Readers will wonder about this comic series of portents that Powyss, in his enthusiasm for his experiment, ignores. Living in Extreme Isolation: Is It Possible Without Going Mad? 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z As such, “Booth” has the feel of an oft-repeated family legend — vignetted at the edges, full of portents, omens and mysterious reversals of fate. A Novelist Evokes a Real-Life Family of Actors, and One Famous Assassin 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z The historical detail is well dosed, and the narrative delivers on its portents. A Tale of Soviet-Era Bucharest Probes the Ties Between Writer and Muse 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z The guitar figure is literally dread-ful – not that it's bad but that it contains portents of unpleasantness, "tiny sharp reminders" of what was and might be. New band of the day: Olivia Sebastianelli (No 1,466) 2013-03-06T16:32:47Z “Mad Men” was like a ghost that appeared for three months of Sundays, leaving its witnesses to interpret its portents for a week. Review: ‘The Romanoffs’ Is Elegant but Frustrating 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Yet “Low Winter Sun” is so clotted with bleak cityscapes, shadowy interiors and brooding portent that the narrative sags under the weight of all that mood-setting. Television Review: Killers Who Just Won’t Lighten Up 2013-08-08T22:34:06Z Mr. Girerd’s disjointed screenplay, written with three others, features some odd detours, including a visit to a weapons depot where Jekhide ominously stocks up on heavy artillery, a portent of the coming cataclysmic violence. | 'Mia and the Migoo': Seeking a Missing Father and Mending the Earth 2011-03-24T21:43:33Z But to author Stuart Wexler, whose forthcoming book, “America’s Secret Jihad: The Hidden History of Religious Terrorism in the United States,” Roof’s screed is full of signs and portents. Behind Dylann Roof’s race war: The highly motivated secret white supremacy movement working toward “the battle of Armageddon” 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z Even before the season started, there were portents of danger and crime; see the season-debut poster in which NYC beat cops figured prominently. Scary Movie: The Fear Factor of Mad Men’s Season Six 2013-06-18T14:32:02Z The season ended much as it began, in a purple-prose haze of portent, masculine agony and confusion. True Detective, Louie, and the Limits of TV Auteurism 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Loosely based on an 1894 terrorist incident in Greenwich Park in London, “The Secret Agent” offers disturbing portents about the rise of terrorist cells, covert operatives and bureaucratic complicity. Music Review: Retelling the Tale of a Terrorist Plot 2011-03-21T21:35:24Z They scrutinized the dialogue for any whiff of portent or past/future reference. Perspective | Was ‘Game of Thrones’ supposed to mean anything? Only if you wanted it to. 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Draped in a pall of melancholy that more than fulfills the promise of its title, “The Lost Daughter” — Maggie Gyllenhaal’s seductive first feature as director — is a movie filled with portents. ‘The Lost Daughter’ Review: The Parent Trap 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z 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 These, too, merge muscular materiality and metaphoric portent, chaos and control. Iva Gueorguieva's paintings exude simultaneity and sensuality at ACME 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z He saw signs and portents everywhere, beginning with the fact that their official moving day was Sept. 11, 2001. ‘Spalding Gray,’ the Color? It’s a Long Story 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Edgar Allan Poe’s gothic tale of friendship and mistaken burial is a natural fit for Mr. Glass’s music of roiling portent. The Best of Philip Glass’s (Many) Operas After ‘Akhnaten’ 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z 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 “Two Boats” is an episode full of what seem to be signs and portents–the red lights, the pigeons–but unlike in a Lost flashback, it doesn’t necessary to some larger grand design. The Leftovers Spins the Wheel of Fortune 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z The stupid air of mystery and portent surrounding Psycho's presentation strikes me as a tremendous error. Psycho: Archive review 2010-10-22T10:54:00Z 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 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 But when they announce two days later that Mr. Neville is leaving the company, it suddenly seems full of portent. Diary of a Cruise Season 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z The British awards, known as BAFTAs, are considered a portent of success at Hollywood’s Feb. 28 Academy Awards. 'The Revenant' and Leonardo DiCaprio Win Big at BAFTA Awards 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z Throughout the movie the televisions in various scenes glow with portent. Inside ‘Not Fade Away,’ From David Chase 2012-12-05T13:48:48Z Curtis spies portents of apocalypse in the movement of sparrows. Michael Shannon: ‘Actors are just models nowadays. Going to the Oscars is like going to the prom’ 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Over the course of his narrative he’s sensing the portents and omens that are floating around. Stage Is Set. Ready for Your Part? 2011-03-18T19:00:51Z Batman v Superman lunges for greatness instead of building toward it: It’s so topheavy with false portent that it buckles under its own weight. Review: Superheroes Duke It Out in 'Batman v Superman' 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z The woman photographed before a metallic expanse of ocean is a personification of grim portent. June Tabor: watery, not grave 2011-02-10T22:30:01Z The front doors were broken, an employee explained, so that wasn’t necessarily a portent. Bed Bath and the great Beyond 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Harwicz deploys the conventions of horror: nighttime settings, characters glimpsed through windows, animals as portent. Motherhood Meets Lust and Violence in Ariana Harwicz’s “Die, My Love” 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z From the start, “La Valse” was heavy with portent. Review: The Philadelphia Orchestra Returns, With Force 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z In the fraught runup to Oscar night, only a fool would read too much into omens and portents. Riva, 85, poised to make history 2013-02-06T16:48:13Z Memories of suburbia, questions of integrity, thoughts on time passing and portents of decline fill the ambivalent anthems on Arcade Fire’s third album. The Year in Culture: 2010 Anthems: From a Kiss-Off to Jolts of Hope 2010-12-16T19:28:05Z Let us hope it was not a portent for the future. After the volcano, the show goes on at Seattle Symphony 2010-04-23T20:44:00Z On 24 June 1922, in a portent of what was to come, the foreign minister Walter Rathenau was assassinated by right-wing extremists. Peter Forbes: rereading Einstein's collected papers 2013-06-21T09:00:02Z It is a performance that has the same life-or-death gravity Mr. Shannon brought to the role of a man driven half-mad by apocalyptic portents in “Take Shelter.” Movie Review: ‘The Iceman,’ With Michael Shannon as Richard Kuklinski 2013-05-02T22:01:34Z The films, always a mixed bag in terms of quality and appeal, offer portents of the future and snapshots of the present. New Directors/New Films Festival Gives Spotlight to Youth 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z For more than a year, D'Annunzio is duce of it as it descends into darkness and racist divisions, a portent for scenes soon to engulf Europe. The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio – Poet, Seducer & Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett – review 2013-02-04T07:00:01Z The diaries and even history books of the time meticulously record such portents and relate them to great events. A sea of red that evokes thoughts of more than just algae 2012-11-30T13:20:02Z For those who can’t get enough “Star Wars,” this is the official adaptation of the most recent film in the franchise, written with input from the director Rian Johnson, full of portent and force. New & Noteworthy 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z There’s the obvious portent in that word, of course. Smart Watch: "Killing Eve," still slaying in season 2 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z The script features plenty of portents about decidedly unfunny goings-on at the firm. Review: ‘Do You Feel Anger’ Plumbs the Depths of Office Humor 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Well, it’s tempting to read this latest resurrection of the pre-Crash 1920s as a portent of lean times. | Trendspotting: Why Deco Now? 2011-11-22T16:37:08Z Writing a book often precedes a run for higher office, but DeMint said "The Great American Awakening" is no portent of future ambition. DeMint chronicles rise of tea party in new book 2011-07-03T19:16:04Z But for all the portent of that opening voiceover, or the symbolic drama of the great Cornish mansion burning down as the film ends, it's not about a place. My favourite Hitchcock: Rebecca 2012-08-07T10:54:25Z It takes some lifting to get a story going, and often that involves some clunky exposition and, especially in the case of a horror show, thudding moments of portent. 'Fear the Walking Dead' Recap: The World Starts to Crumble 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z Her eyes are always moving, scanning her surroundings for clues and portents. ‘Aftersun’ Review: A Father and Time 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z First Amendment — Americans might well read the shape and extent of Australian public spending on creationist schools as a portent for their own future. The scary future of creationism in America 2014-02-09T17:00:00Z The bombing of Madrid in November 1936 provided a portent of future war. Beauty amid the horror of war 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Too many musings are full of portent, and the simplest everyday moments often lead to shattering epiphanies. Intermission by Owen Martell – review 2013-02-22T20:00:01Z The soundtrack hums with deep, tooth-rattling vibrations and the prairie sky is full of portents. ‘Brightburn’ Review: What if He Doesn’t Use His Powers for Good? 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Washington loads the title line with portent and melancholy as he delivers it, and it still sounds trite. Great acting can only take HBO Max's throwback noir "The Little Things" so far 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z Last night, on MSNBC, the news anchor Brian Williams kept mournfully repeating the phrase “the lawn signs”—as if to suggest we’d all willfully ignored their portent in favor of more optimistic polls. “I’m with Hillary 2016”: A Clinton Campaign Sign’s Final Resting Place 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z Suddenly, in retrospect, the bumbling and angling revealed during Trump’s first impeachment proceedings took on a sheen of portent. The quid pro quos of Gordon D. Sondland 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Dirty Paws, the single, opens gently but bears portents of widescreen drama. New band of the day – No 1,278: Of Monsters and Men 2012-05-29T16:42:57Z Photograph: Tristram Kenton Not only despots and murderous conspiracy but prophecy and magical portents. Julius Caesar; The Physicists; Wah! Wah! Girls – review 2012-06-09T23:08:07Z “Never Too Late,” an Australian production directed by Mark Lamprell, is a sometimes dire portent of what we might be in for if we don’t do something. ‘Never Too Late’ Review: The Vietnam Vet as Lovable Codger 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z And we pull back for his gratifying architectures of form and space, amplified by color and portents of abstraction. David Hockney’s Life in Painting: Spare, Exuberant, Full 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z By that point other signs and portents have dropped. Our big issue with "And Just Like That..." has nothing to do with the 911 debate 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z There’s some depression, and a little fighting, all of it wrapped in a smushy blanket of dreams and portents, floaty music and florid dialogue. ‘Grace and Grit’ Review: You Transcend Me 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z In 2005, in what could now be seen as a portent, Adams had a stroke while Bono and The Edge were in the next room signing their contracts. Spider-Man the Musical: The webbed crusader comes out fighting 2011-01-26T17:31:15Z He’s received higher marks at school, which, in a portent of her later-life ambition, has upset her. ‘Past Lives’ Review: Longing for a Future 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Indeed, it became clear that the very words "Isle of" had a certain portent about them. Where not to spend your bank holiday: a guide to Britain's worst days out 2011-08-20T23:06:23Z But Mr. Zemeckis, who wrote the script with Christopher Browne, spares us heavy-handed portents of destruction. Review: ‘The Walk,’ High-Wire Bravado at World Trade Center 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z 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 But doesn’t the fact of these gargantuan jackpots seem like a doomsday portent in itself? Watching Lottery Drawings in an Age of Plutocracy 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z One is by seeing this as a desperate portent of the Trump presidency, where patience and nuance will be traded for smack-bang kneejerk action. #ImWithHim: why Donald Trump is right to watch all films on fast-forward 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z He had a sense of himself as prophetic in some way, and was troubled by these portents. A life in paintings 2011-03-20T00:08:06Z 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 Lots of signs and portents, carrying Phillip and Elizabeth inexorably to the inevitable Communist collapse we know is coming... ‘The Americans,’ Season 5, Episode 8: The Humanization of Elizabeth 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z 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 But Ledger’s performance, and “The Dark Knight” itself, also offered a dark and unfunny portent of mass culture’s unfolding over the subsequent decade and beyond. We don't need a prestige Joker movie, but "The Dark Knight" made one inevitable. 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z Along the way, there are perils and portents, fair maidens, fantastical deeds and the like.” ArtsBeat: Graphic Books Best Sellers: An Adaptation of Robert Jordan's 'New Spring' 2011-01-28T17:30:24Z The immediate, unnerving intensity that springs up between them is both a portent and a misdirection. ‘Ahed’s Knee’ Review: A Filmmaker’s Agony in the Desert 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z It also immediately burdens itself with the densest element on TV’s periodical table: portent. WGN’s ‘Manhattan’: Hard to build but easy to bomb In the faltering afternoon light the 40,000-square-foot space is gorgeous and full of portent. Music: Echoes of Another Time and Place 2011-02-18T20:45:34Z 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 In “Territory of Light,” Tsushima makes the vaporous seem real, imparting an inner progression to stray signs and portents. The Overlooked Autofiction of Yuko Tsushima 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Ms. Shephard seems to proceed from the fallacy that a steady stream of humorless unpleasantness automatically equals powerful drama, and lays on the portent accordingly. Review: ‘Blame’ Conjures ‘Carrie,’ but Without Telekinesis 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Basilio gives his son one day away from the cavernous prison where, thanks to grim portents that accompanied his entrance on this mortal coil, Segismundo has been held since birth. Vitalist manages to shed light on a heavy European drama 2011-05-18T21:56:00Z “Rumblin,’ ” a song about portents of change, merges a hymn and a burgeoning earthquake. Making Beautiful ?Le Noise? Together 2010-09-26T22:08:00Z 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 As a frayed but still formidable death portent, Mary Ewald displays dazzling control over torrents of fractured, punning wordplay. 'The Skriker': where boundaries between us and the otherworldly are stretched 2012-10-26T18:34:21Z Federico García Lorca's dramas are so loaded with portents and symbols that, once removed from the baking sun and red earth of his native Andalucia, they can be difficult to take seriously. A Blood Wedding in Wensleydale 2010-10-05T20:29:00Z That is why the 10 percent trim in performances for next season is a portent of what’s to come. Review: The Met Opera Found an Audience for ‘Fedora.’ For Now. 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z 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 Early portents of trouble were dismissed in favor of the entertainment on display as Trump mocked and jeered his Republican opponents. Does the GOP need chemotherapy for its Trump tumor? Sometimes that’s worse than the disease 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z Even his cobb salad —boring! disappointing! sad! — reflects a certain grim apocalyptic portent. “Tell Me How This Ends Well”: Tricky gods, sex slaves and patricidal Jews 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z The way that world looked to them was unimaginably strange, every hill and rock loaded with portent, promise and menace. | 'Meek?s Cutoff': Out on the Frontier, Bringing All That Baggage With Them 2011-04-07T22:33:01Z The grandeur and portent of the cavern are to die for, as several of the crew members soon find out. Prometheus: Alien Minus One 2012-06-05T13:20:45Z An early portent of what lay ahead was a comic he made himself, filled with violence, anger and jokes, and then sneaked into his primary school comic box. Charlie Brooker: 'Happy? I have my moments' 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z The father agreed with Phuntso that spotting one here was of great portent. In Bhutan, Prayer Flags and Birds From Heaven 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Pretty portents of sorrow fill “Kathryn Calder,” the self-titled album by the singer who is best known as the modest team player supplying harmony vocals in the New Pornographers. New Music From Kathryn Calder, Buxton, Nadine Shah, East India Youth and Tal National 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z And the script balances humor, pathos and wish fulfillment as it portrays Alex’s rise from mopey dreamer to confident warrior, without overdoing the mythic portent. ‘The Kid Who Would Be King’ Review: Cult Director Waxes Arthurian 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Lest the reader think these portents of trouble will go unfulfilled, Vida sends an owl, that omen of ill fate, into the house to terrorise Yvonne. The Lovers by Vendela Vida ? review 2011-08-05T21:55:03Z I don't normally like haunted house stories – all bad vibes, creaking doors and crows on the landing – but Lightfields shifted nimbly between portent and incident, and it was properly scary. Child Of Our Time; Lightfields – TV review 2013-02-28T07:00:12Z “These are portents; but yet I hope, I hope/They do not point on me,” says Desdemona in Shakespeare’s “Othello,” before her voice is stifled forever. Metropolitan Opera Showcases Portraits Based on 'Otello' 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z It's much more than a ripping yarn liberally peppered with earthquakes, typhoons, potions, portents, secret scrolls, beautiful courtesans and evil abbots because Mitchell is such a good writer. Sue Arnold's audiobook choice - reviews 2011-07-15T21:55:06Z Rather, it is the way we make sense of these behaviors, the values and labels and portent we place on them, that will evolve.” Online dating isn’t killing marriage! 2013-01-12T23:00:00Z She feels forsaken by God, and her tale is full of portent, both in her telling of life before Masada and as she describes the Romans scouting the mountain. 'The Dovekeepers': Alice Hoffman's novel of the siege of Masada 2011-10-05T23:00:08Z 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 And she explained, repeatedly, that she didn’t want to die, but that she understood her “bone splitting headaches and seizures” were a portent of an inevitable and painful fate. Brittany Maynard’s widower’s powerful People interview 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z A third sign or portent appeared when the author, exhausted by a stretch of 12-hour days and swing shifts, and feverish from a cold or flu, takes a blanket to work with her. Utility Worker No. 6691 on Life Inside a Steel Mill 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z She makes no secret of scanning jewelry and clothing for signs and portents. Patti Smith?s Eye for Fashion 2010-03-19T20:41:00Z Amma and her precocious mean-girl peers flit through Wind Gap on roller skates, with their wheels rumbling like they’re looking for trouble; at times, they flicker into view almost subliminally, like portents. Amy Adams Unravels in “Sharp Objects” 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z It also reminds us that this is a play filled with prophecies, portents, dreams and, incidentally, leonine images. Julius Caesar – review 2012-06-07T00:13:00Z No question that the Depp movie had been plagued with the unhappy publicity of spiraling costs and shooting delays; but those dire portents are not always realized. Despicable Me 2 Makes Minions-Meat of The Lone Ranger 2013-07-07T20:34:25Z Given the doomy portents of the rest of the episode, the scene was a nice breather. Ed Sheeran's dire Game of Thrones cameo: he came, he sang, he ate rabbit 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z As four women in their 70s chatter in a sunny backyard, portents of a darker future unfurl. What’s New in NYC Theater 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z The emotional cast to the writing, the tendency to dangle portents and wait some time before resolving them, the depiction of friendship, the short paragraphs, the philosophical aperçus — these are all marks of Penny’s writing. Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny Deliver a Page-Turner Part Sly, Part Sweet 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z Both are deceptively small-scale domestic dramas with larger portents. Kitchen-Sink Apocalypse: Two Off-Broadway Visions 2012-09-25T14:00:57Z Her script is like the lyrics of Bob Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall”: a simple list of things she’s seen that is full of mystery and portent. ‘About Endlessness’ Review: Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z He had, after all, the Pope and Halley's comet – a portent of great change to medieval folk. Last night's TV 2010-08-05T07:00:00Z For people living in Paradise and other towns in the foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains, the morning of Nov. 8, 2018, was full of portents. How Paradise Went Up in Flames 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Lots of signs and portents, carrying Phillip and Elizabeth inexorably to the inevitable... ‘The Americans,’ Season 5, Episode 8: The Humanization of Elizabeth 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Over coffee and giant glasses of Zinfandel, they gather to discuss the latest gossip and ignore the latest portents. Review: In ‘Hurricane Diane,’ the Perfect Storm Hits Suburbia 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z In the meantime, perhaps those with the Knowledge can read from these portents the fate of the euro, the future fashion choices of the Duchess of Cornwall or the winners of the 2012 Olympics. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Seeing Patterns in a Nuclear Cloud 2012-06-19T17:57:24Z That the T-shirt bears the legend “When in Rome” is a smirking portent of decline and fall. In “Brexit,” Benedict Cumberbatch Is a Peculiar Man Who Wants to Upend the Order of the World 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z In this song, that summer feeling is global warming, a portent of environmental disaster. The Playlist: Twenty One Pilots Jolt Awake, and 12 More New Songs 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z The thrilling jam "No. 99" sounds futuristic and old school, with turntable scratches and refrains that recall classic New York collective Native Tongues, a positive portent if there ever was one. Under-the-radar pop albums to watch for this year 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z There are echoes of Malamud and portents of “Da Five Bloods” as it tracks the misfortunes of a baseball phenom drafted into the Army. These Radical Black Thrillers Fantasized About Dismantling the Police 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z His letters from Cuba, written while living rough, were a portent of his formidable journalistic talents. Winston Churchill, war correspondent: His early military years shaped his political ambitions 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z “Klara and the Sun” takes place in the uncomfortably near future, and banal language is redeployed with sinister portent. A Humanoid Who Cares For Humans, From the Mind of Kazuo Ishiguro 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z The moment is a portent of decline; later that day, after brusquely reversing a plan to cede his post to his most ambitious son, Logan suffers a brain hemorrhage. “Succession”: An Irresistible Family Power Struggle, Told Through Soap and Satire 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z The grandeur and portent of the cavern are to die for, as several of the crew members will soon find out. Prometheus: Alien Minus One 2012-06-05T13:20:45Z Is it a sign of hope or a portent of doom that the opening-night feature of this venerable film festival is destined for streaming? The New York Film Festival: Movies for Art’s Sake 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z But after the elation of achieving this goal, looking down at this bay with this massive iceberg in the middle of it, you realize the portent of that event. A Netflix Nature Series Says to Viewers: Don’t Like What You See? Do Something About It 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z When she mindlessly swats a fly on her neck at the end of that same episode, it's a portent of the terrors in store for humankind. Pence vs. Harris: Amid lies and side-eyes, a garbage pile of a debate attracts a fly 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z But perhaps celebration is always rimmed with portent — then as much as now. How to Eat Dinner Like the Last Citizens of Pompeii 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z The woes of a provincial family amid portents of sweeping political change are a familiar subject to fans of Richard Nelson’s Apple and Gabriel family plays. The Best Theater of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z She encountered a portent of things to come during her first romance, with Glenn Davis, the famed "Mr. Inside" of the Army football champions. Elizabeth Taylor was prolific as a bride 2011-03-23T15:05:13Z The notes, scrawled in pencil, drip with portent: “Don’t look ... or it takes you.” Video Game Review: Slender: The Eight Pages, Video Game Review 2012-09-11T16:17:45Z Sometimes that line comes back to underline an expression of ardor; in other moments, it can be decked out with harmonic portents of danger. Stream an Operatic Rarity by a Black Composer (While You Can) 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z 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 It is, perhaps, a portent of economic recovery or something. The Saturday interview: Bill Bailey ? 'It's genius, evil genius' 2010-12-18T00:16:00Z Third, IS’s proclamation in 2014 of the restoration of the caliphate—in Islamic prophecy, one of the portents of the apocalypse—proved to be a masterstroke. Inside account 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Shadows and portents slowly rise on the paper, hinting at what the final work will look like. ArtsBeat: Charlie Brown and the Gang Take Shape 2014-01-27T20:23:17Z Despite that grim portent, a gracious hostess greets you in the foyer. Madison Park Conservatory: Simple and divine pleasures at new neighborhood treasure 2011-04-07T23:47:05Z The magnitude of the north American crisis may be unrivalled, but there are nevertheless worrying portents for Britain. Why opioid deaths are this generation’s Aids crisis | Mary O’Hara 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z It seemed like a gloomy portent for the weekend to come. Easing back into group travel with a multifamily camping trip 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z Its probably full of portent but the acting isn't up to it. New world disorder at Artes Mundi 2010-03-22T22:30:00Z Given the book’s warning that this is a portent of global disease outbreaks to come, it would be good to know what this mistrust might mean for future pandemics. Can You Make a Page-Turning Thriller Out of the Ebola Crisis? 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z A quarter of an hour into the first episode, Lady Mary informs her parents, with all the gravitas and portent of Chamberlain declaring war, that she is "going upstairs to take off my hat". Downton Abbey: The secrets of series five 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z But the problem had become undeniable, adoption of facial recognition software was on the rise, and Donald Trump had just become president, issuing to many a grim portent of the potential abuses of such power. Column: She set out to build robots. She ended up exposing big tech 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z Another positive portent for Asian markets on Friday: the VIX gauge of implied S&P 500 equity volatility - Wall Street's so-called 'fear index' - registered its lowest close on Thursday since before the pandemic. Morning Bid: Ebullient markets nervously eye China data dump 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z He described the vast spaces surrounding the orb and bands as “regions of metaphysical portent … the realm of gross human experience, and that infernal concussion only a single event.” Artist and curator Hideo Sakata, a force in the Los Angeles arts community, dies at 87 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z The rain that day might have been a portent of doom for what was to come in Japan. McInally misses out on Scotland World Cup squad 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z There are portents aplenty packed into the hold of the ill-starred ship of the title in “The Last Voyage of the Demeter.” ‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’ review: An ill-fated, if easily predictable, final journey 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z But it doesn’t quite work, any more than the plot’s occasional references to Carol’s fate — especially after early portents fizzle into anticlimax. A troubled SoCal surfing family rides the monster waves of history in new novel 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z Nolan conveys that warning with somber gravity, if not, finally, the cathartic force that our current headlines, full of war and nuclear portent, would seem to demand. Review: Christopher Nolan's gripping, despairing 'Oppenheimer' ponders history and the future 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z With its genre-adjacent premise, barbed character interplay, sharply chiseled performances and portents of meteorological disaster, “Afire” might be Petzold’s most accessible work in some time. Review: Few of this summer's movies burn as fiercely as Christian Petzold's 'Afire' 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z Slate's Alexander Sammon warned that Thursday's vote "is a chilling portent of the future of Republican governance and the state of democracy nationwide." We are "just beginning': Tennessee GOP boasts in fundraiser after expelling Democrats 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z The cable anchors overseeing coverage of Trump’s trip Monday tried to invest the event with grand portent. Trump’s white Bronco moment? Networks go live for an uneventful trip. 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z Ellie’s reluctant guardian is a broken man — and an ill portent for her future. Review | HBO’s ‘The Last of Us’ stays true to the game, and hits just as hard Foraging once more in her garden of memories, Hogg turns up dark tendrils of suspense and quasi-supernatural portent. Review: Tilda Swinton meets Tilda Swinton in 'The Eternal Daughter,' a wondrous ghost story 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z But it was precisely the sort of telling, seemingly minor and idiosyncratic act that poets and playwrights since time immemorial have locked onto as character portents of destiny. What's behind Elon's Twitter disaster? A fundamental misunderstanding of "free speech" 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z What if, sometimes, a congressional campaign is just a congressional campaign — reflective of local political realities but not a harbinger, or a portent, or an indicator? Opinion | The seven what-ifs of a surprising election 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Now, just beyond the next hill, the Bolt Creek fire has been burning since early September, an unnerving portent of west side fires to come as summers become increasingly severe and unpredictable. Has this iconic Northwest tree reached a tipping point? 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z Yet there is one positive portent right now: the calendar. The Market Usually Rises After the Midterms. Will This Time Be Different? 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z As climate change causes more events like this one, Pakistan presents a devastating portent of things to come. Diseases Explode after Extreme Flooding and Other Climate Disasters 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z Yes, Parks calls these Black characters Lincoln and Booth, with all the lethal portent that a clash of those identities connotes. Review | Broadway’s ‘Topdog/Underdog’ pits two fine actors in blistering battle 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Still, the symbolic portent of declaring food a national treasure may be just as powerful. Does Korean Cuisine Belong to Korea? 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z There were portents of doom on social media the second the team was named. Resolute & relentless Scotland deliver national feelgood again 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z That bet has never looked more catastrophic, though the portents were evident 15 years ago. The Olive Oil Capital of the World, Parched 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z With no further updates after the midday statement that her doctors were “concerned,” there was a mounting sense of portent as the day unfolded. Queen Elizabeth’s Death Comes at Moment of Great Uncertainty for Britain 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z The mysterious deaths of vast numbers of honeybees earlier this century was a portent to human civilization. Bee genocide may have been caused by insecticides that make bees unable to walk in a straight line 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Whatever the economic portents show, try to be nimble. Why You Should Be Wary of Wall Street’s Upbeat Stock Forecasts 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z In 2012, USA Swimming's decades-long cover-up of Washington, D.C.-area coach Rick Curl began unraveling, with portents both ominous and global. When abuse scandals hit, colleges hire "independent" investigators — and the cover-up begins 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z Other portents bode ill for how our new ’20s will roar, even without the pandemic. The pandemic changed us forever. Or did it? 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z It said the forceful dispersal “could be a portent of things to come.” Marcos Jr proclaimed next Philippine president with huge win 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z In an early portent, Global Forest Watch reported earlier this year that boreal forests lost more than 8 million hectares in 2021, 30% more than in 2020, with wildfires mostly to blame. Climate change could expand forests. But will they cool the planet? 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z A white squirrel may not be as mystical as a white buffalo — as freighted with magic and portents — but there is something cool about seeing one. Perspective | Franklin Square was once home to white squirrels. Not anymore. 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z The old saying about bullpens being volatile from season to season doesn’t have to be a portent of doom. This is the year the Mariners’ playoff drought ends. No, really. 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z When we watch the video of Endurance, we are seeing an artifact of the past, but is it also a portent of the future on our ailing planet? The Discovery of Shackleton’s Wreck Is as Disquieting as It Is Amazing 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z It is a portent of things to come if the court overturns Roe v. Opinion | A sample of what’s to come if ‘Roe’ is overturned 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Tokayev has not only issued a shoot-to-kill order but also cast blame on what he called “supposedly free media outlets,” portents of a coming crackdown on peaceful dissent. Opinion | The uprising against dictatorship in Kazakhstan is about Russia, too 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z Instead, he wanted to spread the gospel of volcanism to the masses that think of them only as portents of doom. Review | The importance of volcanoes, on Earth and beyond 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z But there’s just too much portent, exposition and bad writing where engaging characters should be. Review | ‘Game of Thrones’ was not a perfect show. ‘The Wheel of Time’ makes it look like a masterpiece. 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z "This revealing and chilling document deserves to be read not as a historical curiosity, but as a terrible portent of what could be in store if Trump wins another term," Boot writes. New "revealing and chilling" memo by a Trump loyalist is "cause for considerable alarm" 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z For the bulk of human history, dreams were understood to be full of messages and portents. Did Covid Change How We Dream? 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Oscar Wilde’s life reads almost like a perfectly formed work of art — one in which each early success bristles with portents of tragedy to come. Review: Oscar Wilde's life was a tragic work of art. A new biography sketches it perfectly 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z But in Jalalabad, the grief-stricken father of the 10-year-old boy killed in Sunday’s blast described the recent attacks as an ominous portent. IS bomb attacks on Taliban raise specter of wider conflict 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z And in another ominous portent of renewed gender discrimination under the Taliban, its Education Ministry ordered male teachers back to work and said secondary school classes for boys would resume on Saturday. Taliban Seize Women’s Ministry Building for Use by Religious Police 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z The poem is about death and is also a manifestation and portent of it; the fate of everyone at that wild party has been chiseled onto a tombstone before we ever meet them. A Cautionary Tale for the New Roaring Twenties 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z The portents, you might say, are not good. Scotland must show substance at last 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z Eventually, the portents gathered steam and, at the height of Wilde’s fame, knocked him down so hard he never got up again. Review: Oscar Wilde's life was a tragic work of art. A new biography sketches it perfectly 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z It was a chilling portent of the harsh repression that the Taliban imposed on women and girls the last time they ruled Afghanistan. Biden Sticks to Afghan Deadline, Resisting Pleas to Extend Evacuation 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z This disastrous summer is yet another portent of what humanity faces in coming decades if the world does not take dramatic steps to protect ecosystems and curb use of fossil fuels, scientists say. Amid summer of fire and floods, a moment of truth for climate action 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z Even when he loses his narrative way or gets bogged down in metaphysical portent, his visual command seldom abandons him. Review: M. Night Shyamalan's 'Old' isn't so bad, except when it's terrible 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Britain's reopening is at least several weeks ahead of the region, and Milburn views it as a portent of what lies in store for European business activity. Analysis: The great British reopening: how investors are picking their bets 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z Circuses do, however, show up in operas from time to time, mainly as a portent of nasty business. How Philip Glass turns the circus into opera that's magical and profound 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z As the staffers headed to their posts, there were other portents that Washington was returning to normal. Ready or not, D.C. restaurants are returning to full capacity. Here’s how the first night went. 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z “It’s a portent of the truly extreme drought and climate-amplified risk that will likely emerge later this season,” Swain said. Warning Shot for California: A Los Angeles Wildfire in May 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z Chapter titles like “A Scorched Earth” and “Bad, Animals, Bad” lend a sense of heft and portent to Ritchie’s bloody modern legend, executed with a brawny, muscular élan. Review: Guy Ritchie, Jason Statham, guns and mayhem are lethally reunited in 'Wrath of Man' 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z For the most part, though, these portents are being muffled by the profit making. Now That Everyone Is Bullish, Be Cautious 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z They are right about the imprecision, but some portents of inflation did appear in 2019. The Biden Economy Risks a Speeding Ticket 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z That intrusion into the Statehouse now looks like a portent of the assault halfway across the country months later at the United States Capitol. ‘Its Own Domestic Army’: How the G.O.P. Allied Itself With Militants 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z Amateur prognosticators, freelance seers, searchers for signs and pursuers of portents may regard Friday, which started the new year, with special scrutiny. First day of new year unusually chilly, unusually wet 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z Images of Italian nurses and doctors, exhausted as they briefly removed their protective gear, became a grim portent of what would happen to their colleagues in Spain, France, the United States and elsewhere, months later. New Year comes to COVID ward, with hope for end to nightmare 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z The polarisation that has been intensifying over previous decades has been described as a portent of the US’s second civil war. Counted out: Trump's desperate fight to stop the minority vote 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z They’re effective at dealing with Japan’s current bear problem, but these “wolves” may also be a portent of a possible future for the black bears if a better solution isn’t found. Robot wolves prevent Japanese bear attacks, are also very creepy 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z The poem captures the disconnect between the bleak physical setting, the portents of conflict, and the clear, beautiful birdsong: An Open Letter to Joe Biden 2020-11-07T05:00:00Z Sometime later, you could blink and miss the shot of a bottle falling from Mank’s grasp, a glibly funny “Kane” allusion that becomes both a portent of death and an affirmation of life. Review: 'Mank' is a gorgeous dive into film history — and a sharp reflection on our political present 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z The skull felt like a portent, but also a turning point. Opinion | The Radicalization of a Small American Town 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z At this time of year, a low temperature of 45 degrees in Washington may be regarded as a chill portent of what awaits us, as the sun sinks ever lower in our skies. Saturday was the coolest day all season, yet still quite fine 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z To many, the dam isn’t just about electricity, but a portent of a glorious future. Africa’s largest dam powers dreams of prosperity in Ethiopia — and fears of hunger in Egypt Record turnout for early voting — including 11-hour lines in Georgia, where both Senate seats are up for grabs — is another worrisome portent for Republicans. Opinion | The best thing Senate Republicans can do to save themselves on Election Day 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Trump’s effort to marshal the National Guard to his side was in some respects a portent. How Trump amassed a red-state army in the nation’s capital — and could do so again 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z If Italy was the harbinger of the first wave of Europe’s coronavirus pandemic in February, Spain is the portent of its second. ‘Here We Go Again’: A Second Virus Wave Grips Spain 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z Some New Yorkers fear that the disheveled parks are a portent of something far worse than litter: a city spiraling toward decline. Trash Piles Up in Parks, Just When New Yorkers Need Them the Most 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z The boss, whose firm has a healthcare division, said that he saw it as a portent of economic recovery; a chance for his firms to sell more, according to a person privy to the comments. Vaccine leader China already inoculating workers 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z As the nation flounders ahead of a possible second wave of infections, the study serves as both a portent and an opportunity, MacInnis said. Genetic data show how a single superspreading event sent coronavirus across Massachusetts — and the nation 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z But that hasn’t stopped the president and his allies from making the Clinesmith case a portent of future prosecutions against FBI brass and “the Obama-Biden Administration” for spying on his 2016 campaign. Op-Ed: The 'Russia hoax' probe netted one guilty plea, but it won't put away Trump's tormentors 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z Diminishing remittances are both an outgrowth of the crisis gripping the world and a portent of more trouble ahead. They Crossed Oceans to Lift Their Families Out of Poverty. Now, They Need Help. 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z Generally, I do not believe in omens and portents. Perspective | Baseball’s back, but the questions won’t end, and the answers won’t get easier 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z These sources are replete with observations of extreme weather and hazards such as flooding, given their often severe human impacts, spectacular effects and religious significance as portents or vehicles of divine retribution3. Five centuries of human observation reveal Europe’s flood history 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z Rights groups took the announcement as a sign of deep-seated discrimination––and an ominous portent of retaliation to come. UN: Migrants in Yemen are blamed for virus, stranded, abused 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z The slip in status could be a portent of further trouble to come. New York hails comeback from Covid-19, but hidden dangers lie ahead 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z Neither the teacher nor I realized what a portent this was. A Master Storyteller’s Advice for Graduates: ‘Be Brave. Be Kind.’ 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z The youthful crowd clashed with police, who deployed tear gas and pepper spray in a portent of the months of protest that lay ahead. Hong Kong’s increasing divide portends a tumultuous future 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z It’s also a portent of what could happen in today’s warming world, where more powerful thunderstorms sometimes “overshoot” the troposphere and inject moisture into the dry, cold stratosphere. No asteroids or volcanoes needed: ancient mass extinction tied to ozone loss, warming climate 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z It was a portent, this shattering of expectations; it would happen again and again over the course of the marriage. I lied about living in New York to fit into the literary bubble - not anymore 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z That journalist ought to have noticed the evidence of intransigent racism clearly visible alongside portents of change. Review | In Lincoln’s Second Inaugural, human suffering and human sympathy 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z He drops tartar sauce on his shoe, a portent that the advancing plot might not go as planned. The lost art of deep listening: Choose an album. Lose the phone. Close your eyes. 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z On social media Wednesday night, many saw Palin’s rendition of the novelty ’90s hit as a portent of doom on a day that already seemed like heavy-handed dystopian satire. Commentary: Don't cringe at politicians doing late-night TV. In a crisis, it's reassuringly normal 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z There are few portents more troubling for a team than home defeat to West Ham, and that is exactly what happened to Southampton in mid-December to leave them third-bottom. Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z “Joker,” indebted to the sweatily atmospheric New York crime pictures of Martin Scorsese, is a bleak and brooding character study, thick with doomy portent and disturbing psychological undercurrents. Review: 'Birds of Prey' lets a Joker-free Harley Quinn shine 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z And recent Seattle restaurant closures, big-name and smaller scale, feel full of portent. Is Seattle’s booming restaurant scene showing signs of slowing? 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z The Chinese surge, however, is flipping that script, offering an ominous portent for one of the United States’ most reliable exports. The Chinese film business is doing the unthinkable: Thriving without Hollywood 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z Is this a portent of the future or a mirror to the present? Review: Welcome to Max Hooper Schneider's disturbing dystopian extravaganza 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z The speeches had been full of dark portents—there were references to Pearl Harbor, Pontius Pilate, and Vladimir Putin—but the mood seemed to lift when the voting began, around eight-fifteen. The Art of the Democratic Deal 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z A portent of the future or a mirror to the present? The week ahead in SoCal museums: 'Fiji: Art & Life in the Pacific' at LACMA and more 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z Does Everglades National Park offer a portent for other parks? Opinion | Our National Parks Are in Trouble 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z Other events were taken as portents of civil war. Secret chats involving Republican lawmaker reveal fresh evidence of plots and paranoia 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Some good portent for England fans here, maybe. England v New Zealand: Rugby World Cup 2019, semi-final – live! 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z And he sees portents that his blinkered party would be prudent to notice. Opinion | ‘Texodus’ bodes badly for Republicans 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z The dark portent is not that Trump will inspire a reënactment of the central conflicts of America’s past. Why Trump, Facing Impeachment, Warns of Civil War 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z A portent of things to come, no doubt. Georgia v Fiji: Rugby World Cup 2019 – live! 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Homer remarks in the Iliad how “Sirius rises late in the dark, liquid sky / On summer nights…an evil portent, bringing heat / And fevers to suffering humanity.” "Dogwood Winter," Meet "Curb Appeal" 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z The president won the ninth district by 11 points back in 2016’s general election and its loss will be seen as a portent that Republicans are losing support in previously reliable heartland districts. North Carolina: Republican backed by Trump wins fiercely contested House seat 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Two-headed animals are considered in many cultures to be a portent of disaster, and they have frequently appeared in mythology. Rare two-headed snake nicknamed 'Double Dave' is found in US 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Among those who control money, portents of further trade hostilities between the United States and China, the two largest economies on earth, have proved an impetus to sell with abandon while amplifying talk of recession. Trump Can Battle China or Expand the Economy. He Can’t Do Both. 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z An inverted yield curve may be a recession portent and evidence of generalized market chaos, but it’s no reason to cut and run in equities. Yield curve may signal recession — but don’t dump stocks, experts say 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z “Proud Mary” is a communal singalong; “Bad Moon Rising” feels, in hindsight, like a portent. How to relive Woodstock: What to listen to, watch and read this week 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z We exited that night, father and son, mumbling of portents and talking of hope returning next season. As Wins Pile Up, Mets and Their Fans Soak in the Moment 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z But in a portent of the wider web’s dark side, it has been abused by criminals. Craigslist's Craig Newmark: 'Outrage is profitable. Most online outrage is faked for profit' 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z Later, she sees a seal that seems, “with its head of a primitive sea-god, like a portent”. Iris Murdoch at 100: ‘Her books are full of passion and disaster’ 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z They belong to the New England intellectual tradition of looking for signs and portents in thickets of happenstance, but they usually stop short of facile meaning. The Last Poems of James Tate 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z We scoff at the ignorance of our elders who searched comets for portents of The End. Opinion | There’s no scientific consensus that humanity is doomed 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z The hornlike formation protruding from young adults these days, a scientist told The Post, is “a portent of something nasty going on elsewhere.” Opinion | Kids growing horns on their heads? Don’t panic. 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z One suspects this is a far tougher assignment than Jürgen Klopp would like so soon after a gruelling and dispiriting game at the Camp Nou and the portents are not great. Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z The portents are there in the recent Israeli election campaign, a campaign that returned Benjamin Netanyahu to power with a small but even more nationalist coalition majority. Is Benjamin Netanyahu about to go rogue in Jerusalem? All the signs are there | Mick Dumper 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z Nor are they portents of what is to come – they are the uncanny signs of a crisis that is already here, accelerating around us and experienced most severely by the most vulnerable. What lies beneath: Robert Macfarlane travels 'Underland' 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z The Disintegration Loops feels like not just an elegy for 9/11, but a portent for our whole politically fractious, environmentally precarious era. 'I wanted to be David Bowie': music maverick William Basinski 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z He means a physical misalignment, but “portent” and “nasty” are wonderfully ominous words to describe the general sense of doom that has overcome the population lately when it comes to technology. Opinion | Kids growing horns on their heads? Don’t panic. 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z It was a portent of the harassment to come. Chinese Dissidents Feel Heat of Beijing’s Wrath. Even in Canada. 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z There are resurgences of deadly disease, famine, portents of worse to come. At 82, Glenda Jackson Commands the Most Powerful Role in Theater 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z There were two ties and four lead changes, a portent of what lay ahead. Pivec pulls Oregon State past Zags, into regional semis 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z For Mr. Trump, the portents for cooperation seem even less promising. A Call for Bipartisanship With a Familiar Partisan Sting 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z Of course, it’s worth considering that drag racers in Challengers, Camaros and Mustangs are already being bested by Tesla drivers on the track, a portent of the electric future awaiting the muscle-car world. Why Detroit's all-American muscle car is outliving doomed sedans 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z Yet even despite these portents, a gloomy financial outlook may not be entirely appropriate. The Stock Market’s Dangers Are Easier to See Now 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z While reports of the auto show’s death may be exaggerated, the portents are ominous. For Carmakers, Auto Shows Are No Longer Can’t-Miss Events 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z This flight from the president’s party matters as a national portent because Denver and its suburbs, which undulate east toward the plains and west toward the mountains, contain 50 percent of the electorate. Opinion | Colorado’s changing tint from purple to blue is bad news for Republicans 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z The story it tells is grim, a portent of nature altered and convulsive. The beginning of the end of America’s best idea 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z Rising interest rates are a disturbing portent for stocks, he noted, and they are climbing rapidly now. The Market’s Been Falling. I’m Putting My Money in Stocks Anyway. 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z There are weird portents all along, or random events that Plath seems determined to read that way. Sylvia Plath’s Last Letters 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z It managed a safe emergency landing, but Mr. Straarup later described the 2006 incident to a friend as a portent of the trouble ahead. How One Stubborn Banker Exposed a $200 Billion Russian Money-Laundering Scandal 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Moving the combat away from the Hollywood trades and into more general political waters was a portent of things to come. Opinion | How ‘First Man’ became a casualty of pop culture’s new political meat grinder 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z “Throughout history belugas have been a portent,” he writes. Daily briefing: A new wave of Indigenous genetic scientists 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z But very shortly after Russell arrives, he’s subjected to the kind of eerie portents and dire warnings that so often greet outsiders digging into other people’s business in small towns. Netflix’s Hold the Dark throws Jeffrey Wright to the wolves 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z Tell that to the contemporary human heart, battered and buffeted by the relentless present, surging each time the phone vibrates with a fresh news alert, another portent of disaster. Olivia Laing’s “Crudo” Is Made from the Raw Material of the Present 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z There are two potential reasons why the curve remains a portent. Bond yields reliably predict recessions. Why? 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Today, the victories of Lee, Innamorato and Fielder look like a portent. Opinion | The Millennial Socialists Are Coming 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z Are the sizable jumps in equity-tapping portents that we shouldn’t ignore? Homeowners cash in on a surge in real estate values 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z “I see it as a portent of American decline,” Baker said. Under Trump, America's influence in the western Pacific may be on the decline 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Despite all the ominous portents, the action on the pitch has been a revelation, with two wins that have exceeded the expectations of even the most patriotic optimists. ‘Ros! Si! Ya!’ Energised Russia is one nation under a World Cup chant 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z So the change about to be wrought at the giant's feet could be a portent for the exciting future of the town itself. The untold good news story of America today 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z The agreement was a portent of doom for my family, a sign of oncoming strife and struggle apocalyptic in scope. Trump’s pandering to working-class voters has a long and ugly history: My family fell for it 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z The portents are good and not so good. Steven Gerrard and how predicting which players will be good managers is pure guesswork | Richard Williams 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z It is hard to interpret the flash of a knife as the portent of a really well-made brunoise onscreen; the combination of rabbit and stockpot does not equal fricassee. Jonathan Gold recommends 10 food-centric films 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Not to mention that time in 2000 when Giuliani dressed in drag and allowed Trump to smooch his fake breasts in a bizarre portent of things to come. Rudy Giuliani: the five ages of Trump's loyal, long-serving friend 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z "This is not a favorable portent. It's an ominous development." Rare trifecta of soaring stocks, cheap loans and low inflation coming to an end 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z “This is not a favorable portent. It’s an ominous development.” Rare trifecta of soaring stocks, cheap loans and low inflation coming to an end 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z But in 2018, its portents are so terrifyingly familiar that they have become excruciating to watch. Is the Handmaid’s Tale still worth the agony of watching it? 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z As my colleague Laura Hudson writes, “its portents are so terrifyingly familiar that they have become excruciating to watch.” The Handmaid’s Tale doesn’t quite get modern American misogyny 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Within the administration, some painted the strike as a possible portent of greater American involvement in the Syrian conflict. Trump touts 'perfectly carried out' missile strike, but lacks an overall strategy toward Syria 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z All of these events and portents, creative and cataclysmic, underpin Dewe Mathews’ exhibition, In Search of Frankenstein – Mary Shelley’s Nightmare, which opened at the British Library this week. Frozen with fear: a photographic journey into the icy landscape of Frankenstein 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z And does part of the answer, scientists and local residents ask, lie in the bay itself, at once a testament to Brazil’s economic power and a portent of environmental risk. ‘Sentinel’ Dolphins Die in Brazil Bay. Some Worry a Way of Life Has, Too. 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z In 2018, its portents are so terrifyingly familiar that they have become excruciating to watch. Is the Handmaid’s Tale still worth the agony of watching it? 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Much as the recklessness that caused the crash was both an echo and a portent of Kennedy carelessness past and future. Opinion | The Kennedy with the biggest impact might not be Jack, Bobby or Ted 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z But even if Mr. Lamb were to lose in the end, the race’s dynamics and turnout are a bad portent for the GOP in November. Trump’s Pennsylvania Downdraft 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Is Occupy to be a portent for today's gun control debate? Another Shooting, Another Gun Debate. Will the Outcome Be the Same? 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z It was a moment full of dire portents. The epic failure of our age: how the west let down Syria 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z Celtic and Rangers sign off before the winter break with the second Old Firm meeting of the season and all the portents pointing towards a convincing home win. Celtic v Rangers: Scottish Premiership – live! 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z He and his “witchy” wife, as he lovingly termed her, tuned in to Bali, and received a portent of sorts. The School Prepping for Apocalypse 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z The surge in the price of Bitcoin strikes many observers, including the billionaire investor Warren Buffett, as a classic portent of a bubble ready to pop. A Bull Market Should Make Investors Happy. This One Isn’t. 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z Now, as his 37-year stint in power appears to be drawing to a close, his downfall holds portents for leaders across Africa. In Zimbabwe, Mugabe's fall appears to mark the end of Africa's postcolonial 'Big Men' era – LA Times 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z This Wednesday morning, with the summer nearly over, portents of fall — like the wind — bring uncertainty, and uncertainty can mean trouble when you’re standing on top of the largest landslide to bury Highway 1. On unstable ground: Engineers and road workers fight Mother Nature while trying to fix Highway 1 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z In the haze of connectivity, are we not all drawn to the same nightmarish portent? Has the internet been overtaken by the eldritch horror of Yog-Sothoth? 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z Like kindred spirit Dawn Richard, Kelela veers from the requirements of mainstream R&B to explore her own course, and the result is a portent on the genre’s future. California Sounds: New music from Lawrence Rothman, Kelela and Peter Case 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, the quip was a portent: A half decade later Buckley would be dead at 28 after overdosing on heroin. California Sounds: A thrilling new punk song from No Age and rescued recordings of Tim Buckley at the Troubadour 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z The scenes at FBI headquarters, smothered in moody blue lighting and ominously plinking piano notes, are heavy with portent but light on atmosphere. Deep Throat drama 'Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House' stays mostly on the surface 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z The portents of such good royal baby tidings were instantly trending on social media and splashed globally. Britain’s royal family announces third pregnancy for Duke and Duchess of Cambridge 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z Atmospheric textures rise up in portent, and Mr. Komunyakaa turns evocative: null 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Mood: Everything in my eyeline is steeped in portent — a boy’s sock, some lady’s Levis, most cups of coffee, for sure all clowns. Reading Stephen King’s It is an exhausting way to spend a summer 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z There are also those who claim less direct impacts, drawing on the long tradition of eclipses as signs and portents. Heavenly influence: how an eclipse affects events on Earth | Rebekah Higgitt 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z Practically speaking, what viewers are left with is a flat, workmanlike compendium of apocalyptic portents, bloodless killings and highly derivative sci-fi-fantasy-western images. Dimension-hopping fantasy 'The Dark Tower' is hardly fit for a King 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Last season produced the two portents of a breakout 2017: Steady improvement and close losses to good teams. New powers in Pac-12 North come from ... well, the far north 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z Suffice to say that time, if not space, turns weirdly elastic, and Daniel Hart’s moody score rises to an almost ecstatic level of doomy portent. Casey Affleck goes under the sheet in David Lowery's haunting, melancholy 'A Ghost Story' 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z The other young women meekly but excitedly concur, by which point it’s clear that the eerie supernatural portents seeded at the outset have already taken root. Sofia Coppola brings a ruthless precision to the artful Southern gothic 'The Beguiled' 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z This year’s Democratic primary has taken on unusual significance — as a possible portent of the party’s path through the political wilderness. To shake up the Democratic Party, progressives turn to a primary race in Virginia 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z "I was that gobsmacked that I just replied 'yes'. I got the job but it was a portent to what the company was like." Just the job? When interviews go wrong - BBC News 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z With the benefit of hindsight, it seemed an ominously emblematic portent of an impending season destined to conclude with the club bumping down hard into the Championship and Moyes’s carefully burnished reputation in ruins. David Moyes’ old-school ways helped to drag ailing Sunderland over the edge | Louise Taylor 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z Or a warning, a portent of what can happen when race, poverty and policing collide? Rodney King riots 25 years later: a view from the corner where it all began 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z Those on the outside looking in are left confused and bewildered, desperately seeking signs and portents of what the most powerful man in the world will do next. The American people are now truly strangers in a strange land: Donald Trump’s White House is the Kremlin on the Potomac 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z If Thompson ends up winning here, the national Democratic Party will claim the victory as a portent of bad things to come for Republicans in the 2018 midterms with Trump in the White House. Republicans undertake unexpected rescue mission in deep red Kansas 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z They’ve been seen as death omens, symbols of wisdom and good fortune, portents of witchcraft or Harry Potter references. Trump, Syria, Pepsi: Your Wednesday Evening Briefing 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z Many African cultures continue to see them as portents of witchcraft, even as the West associates them with the magic of Harry Potter. Bringing Owls Into the Light 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z “What you see in these testosterone trials is an ominous portent of cardiovascular disease, although it remains a prediction, not a fact,” Dr. Handelsman said in an interview. Testosterone Therapy Is Popular, but Studies Are Mixed 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z The vote will test the strength of European populism in the era of Brexit and Donald Trump, and will be seen as a portent of the French and German elections later this year. The Netherlands’ election is this year’s first test for Europe’s populists 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Still, the next day, the skies brightened over Washington, which may also be a portent. A tale of two countries: Thanks to President Trump, America is now engaged in a civil war of sorts 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Frankel is a first-rate storyteller; her prose style is witty, thoughtful and warm, hampered only by an overreliance on foreshadowing and portents of doom as transitions. From son to daughter a big switch for a remarkable family 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Donald Trump’s victory may thus be only a particularly alarming portent for moderate progressives who, less than two decades ago, were confidently on the march. The new politics of fear 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Like the rest of this collection, the version is a portent. California Sounds: The Tracks open with a bang, Open Mike Eagle offers love advice and Gillian Welch revisits her classic debut 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z Overall, changes in C-S gas ratios seem to be a powerful portent, Fischer says. Volcanic fumes warn of imminent eruptions 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z Yet here, at the birthplace of democracy in Africa, are portents of its fragility. Nkrumah’s heirs 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z How is this an elegy rather than a portent when Mike Pence will soon be a heartbeat away? Zombie Apocalypse 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z It was to be a suitable portent of the agonizingly tense night of results that was to come. How the US election unfolded: an agonizing night that put Trump on top 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z Smith hangs the moment over her novel like a portent, a warning about memory and the distorting tricks it can play with the sense of self one takes—or makes—from the past. Zadie Smith’s Memory Tricks 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z Tuesday evening, after Election Day’s tranquility, new clamors will erupt as analysts with agendas tickle portents and lessons from the torrent of election returns. Some helpful history to remember on election night 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Experts say the attack is a portent of what lies ahead. Tightening the noose 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z But this year, Ms. Hatmaker’s outraged post was one small sign of the splintering of the evangelical bloc and a possible portent of the changes ahead. Donald Trump Reveals Evangelical Rifts That Could Shape Politics for Years 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Silence here carries ominous portents; the morning of Hurricane Andrew on Aug. 24, 1992, was famously balmy and unusually calm. A ghost town in Florida: In the shadow of Hurricane Matthew 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z Other portents followed: a vision of warring “white spirits and black spirits,” then lights written softly across the sky, then drops of blood appearing like dew on the corn in the fields. “The Birth of a Nation” Isn’t Worth Defending 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z But then, like a confusing, bad dream for her most loyal supporters, she fell, and the Maastricht treaty materialised, with its portents of the euro, political integration and everything that she had warned against. The man who brought you Brexit | Sam Knight 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z The rise in hate crime incidents after the EU referendum was a worrying portent, Ruth Smeeth says. Labour conference: How to win back UKIP voters? - BBC News 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z "By the Sea," then, is not meaningful because it was offering portents. Revisiting Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's movies in divorce-enabled hindsight 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z For true portents of where the movie globe is spinning — at least the movie world that isn't sequels and superheroes — the Toronto International Film Festival is downright clairvoyant. It's OK to cry, and other lessons learned at this year's Toronto Film Festival 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z Their jerky progress towards the negotiating table in recent weeks is an ominous portent. Rebels in their dotage 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z “Instability and crises sometimes contain portents of positive change,” he added. Israeli think tank: Don’t destroy ISIS; it’s a “useful tool” against Iran, Hezbollah, Syria 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z Until this week, it had been possible for party elders to convince themselves that Trump might prove to be a passing storm in their ranks rather than a portent of climate change. Win or lose, Trumpism may be here to stay in the GOP 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z But China's decline may be a portent of Team GB's future. Rio Olympics: Is team GB doing well - or is China doing badly? - BBC News 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z The world was stunned, but Republicans who knew better decided to treat the situation as an unfortunate incident rather than as a portent of future trouble for their party. The road to Donald Trump wasn’t built in a day 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z While some executives said this was a useful management exercise that took place multiple times over the years, it proved an ominous portent of the business troubles to come. The identity crisis that led to Yahoo's demise 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z The tone is airy and light, with each moment played more for laughs than as a Snyder-ean portent of inevitable doom. The first Justice League trailer is here, and it actually looks great 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z To many others, however, Pokémon Go is a portent of doom, a terrifying new technology that puts people, especially children, in mortal peril, while also signaling the destruction of life as we know it. Don’t fear the Poképocalypse: Pokémon Go is a fun phone game, not the end of life as we know it 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z Th discovery of a new beetle named after Xi is clearly a heavenly portent. Beetle Is Named in Honor of Xi Jinping, but China Aims to Squash the News 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z Looking up, the skies also offer troubling portents. A governor with a view 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Some assembly is required of any newly mythic series, but too many portents, no matter how eerie, lose their power with replication. Cinemax drama 'Outcast' shifts apocalypse from zombies to demons 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z A portent of the spectacle driven media frenzy to come! Lights, Camera, Trump 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Lewis’s cautionary tale about the dangers of homegrown fascism isn’t great literature, but its portrayal of a demagogic huckster who promises “to make America a proud, rich land again” is an eerie portent. Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z We look for meaning — portents — in the clouds as well, the more grown-up version of picking out puffy animals. The Amateur Cloud Society That (Sort Of) Rattled the Scientific Community 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z In one brief scene, signs for Starbucks and Kentucky Fried Chicken lie unused, either the portents of Western imperialism or the ruins of its decline. In ‘A Hologram For the King,’ Tom Hanks plays a globalized Willy Loman 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z But Mrs. Clinton’s continued decline among Democrats does suggest there may be some buyer’s remorse—a portent, perhaps, of low turnout or even defection in the fall. Tired of Winning 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z Those claims are as much a portent and even less legitimate than the Third Reich’s claim to the Sudetenland. The Candidates Ignore Rising Military Dangers 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z Now that we are in possession of an honest-to-God demagogue of the classical model, old portents of doom seem pertinent. A Walk in Rome in the Days of Trump 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z For Rajesh, it was a portent of the future—the first of many such breakdowns to come. Madness Runs in the Family 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z The portents all point to a home win. Leicester City v Newcastle United: Premier League – live! 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z The results from Louisiana may also have been a portent of things to come. Could Trump's vulgarity cost him the nomination? - BBC News 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z It's called "Atomic Number," and if the song's any sort of portent, fans are right to mark the June 17 release date on their calendars. Neko Case, k.d. lang and Laura Veirs unite for 'Atomic Number' -- the result of an offhand email 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z It's called "Atomic Number," and if the song's any sort of portent, fans are right to mark the June 17 release date on their calendars. Neko Case, Laura Veirs and k.d. lang unite for new album -- and a date at the Greek 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z Many ordinary savers, meanwhile, view the central bank’s move as a portent of unstable times. Nope to NIRP 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z The portents all point to a home win. Leicester City v Newcastle United: Premier League – live! 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z That immediacy permeates "The Wheel" and reads as a portent. PJ Harvey's 'The Wheel' continues her fiery social commentary; DJDS dig deep in 'Stand Up and Speak' 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z The retired Air Force general said he wasn't certain, but the Iraqis' jumpiness was a portent. Looking Back at Desert Storm 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z Concerning the High Court, we follow the Berra Rule that it’s not over ’til it’s over, but Monday’s portents were excellent. ‘Compelled Riders’ for the Union 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z But a sudden, unanticipated death was not foreseen, whatever the portents one can now see in Blackstar, the album he released just three days ago. Exit Bowie, discreetly: 'He thought it honourable to become invisible' 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z In short, this is a portent of stability. One Market Prediction Is Sure: Wall Street Will Be Wrong 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z Some of the stuff on “Another Side,” newly reissued on vinyl, sounds a little dated now, but from a historical perspective the record was a portent of the music’s future global dominance. 33 1/3 essential reissues and archival recordings of 2015 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z But as the election year opens, the lingering question — the big unknown — is whether 2015 will prove to be an aberration, a holiday from reality or a portent of things to come. One year, two races: Inside the Republican Party’s bizarre, tumultuous 2015 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z Some analysts saw the plunge as a portent of weak global growth, since it might indicate that companies are buying less oil to fuel their operations. A Roller Coaster Year Ends With U.S. Markets Mostly Down 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z The fall became the subject of a broadsheet: The stone was taken as a portent of the success of the emperor Maximilian, who was engaged in a military campaign at the time. What Meteorites Mean for Science, Culture, and Kitsch 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z The hope is this was actually a portent of better things to come, and a reminder of underlying qualities. Chelsea overcome nerves to top group and move into last 16 at Porto’s expense 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z That is a disturbing portent for those now promising to defeat IS. In the Battle Against ISIS, Where Is the Arab Coalition? 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z His stint at the youth league was of greatest portent. The north star 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z But the firm’s run-in with the New York justice department may be a portent of what is to come. Nodding donkeys 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Historically, these kinds of events were considered portents and omens. What Meteorites Mean for Science, Culture, and Kitsch 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z The "Late Show" gig was also a portent; during a recent interview on New York rap station Hot 97, the rapper hinted at a "secret project" with Colbert. Velvet Underground's 'Loaded' in 45th-anniversary set 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z A first-pitch strike was a portent of a glorious result; a ball was oh so ominous. The World Series: Memories of Moments to Forget 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z But if instead Rose falls into another pattern of injury, a random elbow will seem less like an accident and more like a portent of doom. Another Injury for Derrick Rose, More Waiting by the Bulls 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z Maraniss begins with twinned disasters that at the time no one saw as portents. When Gentrification Is Good 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z At a press conference on Monday, the Governor warned that the wildfires are a result and portent of cataclysmic climate change. Carbon, Wind and Fire 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z The Shoah, it seems, has come to be read for portents and interpretation as much as for history itself. Why We Keep Studying the Holocaust 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z While it's true that this might not cause the immediate downfall of our species, it could be a portent of trouble ahead. Having an Existential Crisis? It Could be Worse, and Weirder 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z All of which brings us back to rebuttals of rebuttals, and the dire portents of that redundant percussion. Diet in a Taubesy-Turvy World 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z That, it turned out, was a portent of problems to come. U.N. Arms Ban on Iran Remains a Hurdle to Nuclear Deal 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Signs and portents, runes and bizarre rituals are everywhere in this parallel universe. Review: ‘The Bad Doctor’ and ‘Graphic Medicine Manifesto’ 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z But today we are watching them - intensely, as modern portents of doom, already affected by climate change. Do butterflies hold the answer to life's mysteries? - BBC News 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Those who see a tough fight as a portent of weakness should recall that the 2008 nomination contests were more protracted and bitter for the Democrats than the Republicans. Will Hillary Clinton Run Unopposed in 2016? Don't Bet On It. 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z I don’t recall that we spoke much, if at all, about the awful portent of our mission — an East Coast Hiroshima. When the Cuban missile crisis hit home in rural Maryland 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z By contrast, the attack on Friday in the Kano mosque was exceptional, both for its high death toll and for its symbolic portent. Boko Haram Attacks With Ease, Causing Death and Mayhem in Nigeria’s Capitals 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z I hope they’re portents of more good news in the year ahead. 5 Reasons To Be Optimistic About Education Trends 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z So when we don’t see Gareth actually bite the dust, it seemed a portent of his return. Does Episode 502 Provide 'The Walking Dead's' Most Shocking Moment Ever? 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z His dire warnings and outspoken portents were unusually frightening, and exceptional rhetoric for a public health leader to use. In the Ebola Fight, A Defense of Embattled CDC Chief Thomas Frieden 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Getting back to portents of winter, this week saw two side comments by Federal Reserve members that put a distinct chill in the air. Economic Sea Change Ahead 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z In a troubling portent on Wednesday, Poland halted its supply of reverse gas to Ukraine, citing a reduction in supply from Gazprom. With Gas Cut Off, Ukraine Looks West 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z He – himself the son of a goddess, Venus – is encouraged on his way by a series of divine portents. Virgil’s Aeneid has travelled with me through life 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z But even before his firebrand oration, portents of trouble were clear; on the Facebook post to announce the gathering, one of the first comments asked: “Shall I bring a can of gasoline?” How an Extremist Buddhist Network Is Sowing Hatred Across Asia 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z Each of the years Germany has won has carried political portent. Still Walking on Air, Germans Touch Down for World Cup Party 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z Mr Campbell said that progress needed to be made but that the "portents are not good" and he mentioned a number of disputed parades. NI talks 'opportunity for progress' 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z It is often folly to try to tickle national portents from local events. George Will: How Eric Cantor’s defeat will strike other Republicans He began to see his son's question about the Brady law as a portent. Parent of Columbine victim sees reminder of his ordeal in Isla Vista 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z Otisville Correctional Facility is a medium-security state prison, 79 miles northwest of Manhattan, on the site of a former tuberculosis sanitarium — with an equalizing element of portent, near the town of Mount Hope. Prison Program Turns Inmates Into Intellectuals 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z “We hope this is a portent of further action to conserve land by his Administration and by Congress.” Obama to make 500,000 N.M. acres off limits to developers But there were portents that Saturday might be different. College lacrosse: No. 1 Loyola survives against Navy, 7-6, in double overtime 2014-04-05T23:06:40Z One of the tragedies of Hall Garth is that it was a portent of worse to come. Can school safety be guaranteed? 2014-03-28T00:03:35Z “The current drought is a portent of weather to come,” he wrote. Brown to Run for Re-election as California Governor 2014-02-27T21:05:22Z For those who believe in the ideas of humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect, the fate of Syria marks a grim portent of what these changes in the global realities of power might mean. Nato leader sees power slipping away 2014-02-04T00:24:51Z The episodes of palpitations were still anxiety provoking but more in the sense of their portent than the associated discomfort. The A-Fib Marketing Blitz: Be Still My Heart 2014-01-30T20:52:45Z It was a portent of what was to come two years later. Shiffrin slaloms out of Vonn's shadow 2014-01-20T16:54:55Z The Chinese public is digging deep for portents of the Communist Party’s anticorruption campaign in President Xi Jinping’s recent lunch at a popular steamed bun restaurant in western Beijing. Sinosphere Blog: Divining China’s Direction by What Xi Ate 2013-12-30T21:00:55Z The 12 jurors and eight alternate jurors generally appeared engaged, except for three, who dozed on Thursday morning, an ominous portent for a trial expected to tackle complex subjects over five months. Madoff employees were puppets of 'grand master,' defense says 2013-10-17T18:57:03Z The portents are good; both President Barack Obama and Chuck Hagel, the secretary of defence, are also pushing for a change in the way the armed forces handle such cases. Rape in the armed forces: Breaking the silence 2013-10-17T15:02:28Z But grassroots strength is an imperfect portent of legislative success. Immigration Reform's Lost Month 2013-08-27T11:05:25Z Dark portents of civil war were looming as the American poet Walt Whitman celebrated the transformative song of empathy. We Contain Multitudes: Walt Whitman, Charles Darwin, and the Song of Empathy 2013-07-20T03:45:00.470Z Broken Age was the catalyst, the trailblazer, the portent of things to come. Double Fine Misadventure: First Major Kickstarter Game Runs Out Of Money 2013-07-07T15:04:00Z Another portent: Last week, one of the country’s leading anti-gay institutions, Exodus International, decided not to wait for the justices to act. Catching Up on Gay Rights, the Supreme Court Overturns the Defense of Marriage Act 2013-06-26T15:20:42Z As the Danube River reaches record high levels and thousands flee Europe's worst flooding in more than a decade, scientists already are predicting that this deluge may be a portent of things to come. Climate Change May Bring Severe Flooding to Some Regions 2013-06-10T14:45:00.303Z When, where and whether they appear is, absolutely, a portent. Opinion: What Do the Bird-Watchers Know? 2013-04-19T20:07:44Z Is that pounding headache a migraine or portent of a stroke? Personal Health: Avoiding Emergency Rooms 2013-04-16T15:57:09Z The portents for a recovery are not unfavourable, however, in either the short or longer terms. Yorkshire's big day spoiled by dreadful batting as Sussex take control 2013-04-10T19:41:00Z I'm naive enough to suppose that portents of such a dire future would be already visible in interest rates and measures of inflation expectations, and they aren't. Fiscal policy and political stability: The danger of profligacy 2013-03-14T17:53:39Z There have been stray portents since Witherow took over – a sudden reverence for the works of Sir Andrew Green and Migration Watch, for instance. Tim Montgomerie may make the Times a more openly Conservative home 2013-03-03T00:04:08Z The number of boys in the youngest cohort of membership, the Cub Scouts, was down more than 25 percent, marking an even more alarming portent for the future. Vote to End Ban on Gay Scouts Is on Board Meeting Agenda 2013-02-05T02:33:20Z Was that exuberant victory over New Zealand a portent of they way they would play this spring? England avoid Groundhog Day against Scotland as green shots grow strong 2013-02-02T19:37:03Z Could this be a portent for the future, a sign that Silicon Valley is turning right? The Zuckerberg Christie love fest 2013-01-25T18:35:00Z That move, akin to piracy in the way that United exploited the fact that the Italian authorities barred boys younger than 18 from becoming tied to professional contracts, had spectacular early portents. Global Soccer: Looking for a Good Home: 2 Former Soccer Phenoms 2013-01-22T13:20:04Z Or, as Strat-O-Matic insisted, it is a portent of events yet to unfold. Slap Shot: Rangers Will Win Cup, According to Strat-O-Matic 2013-01-19T19:32:23Z And so enter the "five day rule", often cited by Jim O'Neill, Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, as an uncanny portent of the year's trading. Analysis: Five-day rule flashes green on market's "Groundhog Day" 2013-01-09T06:05:37Z A revealing portent came after a tornado nearly leveled Joplin, Mo. Missouri is a Republican-leaning state. City Room: Gotham Extra: Christie Takes a Swing at His Party, Possibly Hurting His Political Future 2013-01-03T20:52:16Z With Wigan, timing seems to be everything, and they generally only get going when they really have to, though there were a couple of worrying portents from another heavy defeat. Premier League: 10 talking points from the new year's action 2013-01-03T13:00:32Z Despite these portents of doom, he says, “the waves of global activism that we’ve been seeing, with Occupy and everything else — this fills me with more optimism than I’ve felt for many years.” Adbusters’ War Against Too Much of Everything 2012-12-22T17:17:52Z As Egypt’s political opposition prepares to rally against what some are calling Morsi’s “constitutional coup,” many will be hoping that Islam and Gaber were not a portent of things to come. Teen Victims of Egypt’s Unrest 2012-11-27T09:45:00Z Already the portents were there for the briefest of matches. India fight back after Panesar's burst 2012-11-23T11:50:08Z They see a portent in drilling plans proposed by the Interior Department that would close 1.6 million acres of federal land to oil-shale exploration. Changing U.S. Electorate Worries Wyoming Conservatives 2012-11-19T00:31:38Z Let's hope that the whole idea, stripped of its portent and piety, doesn't die, too. Journalism once had Woodward and Bernstein. Now it's guns for hire 2012-11-18T00:06:29Z Some researchers see this as a portent of a radical transformation of scientific research. Big data: revolution by numbers 2012-11-18T00:06:19Z As Egypt’s political opposition prepares to rally against Morsi’s “constitutional coup,” many will be hoping that Islam and Gaber were not a portent of things to come. Teen Victims of Egypt’s Unrest 2012-11-27T09:45:00Z There also is going to be speculation that Sinofsky’s exit is an ominous portent for Windows 8 and Surface tablet sales. Microsoft Shares Slump On Concerns About Sinofsky's Exit 2012-11-13T14:09:21Z In reality, these signs and portents are relatively small. We've passed peak Apple: it's all downhill from here 2012-11-07T10:49:20Z You can never do a straightforwardly interesting story because straight-forward lacks proper portent. BBC shouldn't need tabloid 'permission' to probe Jimmy Savile allegations 2012-10-13T23:29:01Z He hates debates, period, with their false air of portent and stage-managed aggression. Note to Obama: Get Down off the Mountaintop 2012-10-11T13:35:24Z It was at this juncture that the grumbling took on a loud, authoritative voice, and it portents change. Golf Pros Line Up to Debate Use of Long Putters 2012-08-09T00:02:05Z One newspaper dismissed him as "nowhere man" and several saw it as a gloomy portent for the rest of the games. Britain awakes to an unfamiliar sensation: winning 2012-08-05T12:45:09Z Its failure to manage its finances is a worrying portent for its much bigger neighbours. How Spain's regions got into trouble 2012-07-23T18:16:38Z The portents being positive, Gosden announced on Tuesday that it would be "a bit wimpish" to duck the Ascot challenge through fear that Nathaniel might not have recovered. John Gosden's Nathaniel ready for King George & Queen Elizabeth Stakes 2012-07-19T17:47:24Z Louis International Airport may be a portent for other airports serving smaller cities around the United States. Secondary Airports, Losing Traffic, Have Space to Rent 2012-07-09T21:46:18Z There has been a sequence of occurrences recently to which we have assigned biblical portent. Why does an uprising revolt so many Brits? 2012-07-07T23:06:00Z Add it all together and the portents are highly encouraging. London 2012: Britain's rowers set to hit the big time at Olympics 2012-07-07T22:00:02Z And the fact that there are six Liverpool players on the England squad at Euro 2012 is an unhappy portent of England’s prospects. Euro 2012: England-France Clash Reprises an International Soccer Paradox 2012-06-11T06:35:36Z The downgrading of some of its banks this week was a portent of that. The global economy: Start the engines, Angela 2012-06-07T15:06:12Z The game was a thing of beauty for American supporters, and a great portent for World Cup qualifying. Goal: Player Ratings : U.S. (5) vs. Scotland (1) 2012-05-27T04:45:11Z The portents for the win were apparent from the outset. 2012 NCAA lacrosse tournament: Maryland men use suffocating defense to beat Johns Hopkins and return to Final Four 2012-05-20T01:19:51Z To testify how little they valued such a portent, these impious wretches resolved to do away with the prodigy. The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z An epitome of it here can hardly be out of place: When Cuchulainn’s foes came against him for the last time, signs and portents showed that he was near his end. Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland 2012-04-23T02:00:32.180Z Then, in the beginning of August, a hundred portents were fulfilled. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z Summer drownings would not be so numerous if the portent of the squall were heeded. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z The weather was so bad that the very elements seemed to fight against the Royalists; and the standard was blown down the same night, which was regarded as a very evil portent. Rupert Prince Palatine 2012-04-13T02:00:20.660Z To some critics Mr. Tabucchi’s work was obscure, insufficiently narrative and overfilled with looming portents. Antonio Tabucchi, Elegiac Italian Writer, Dies at 68 2012-04-05T01:55:33Z A happy portent to begin our common home on the day when the Prince of Peace came to dwell on earth! A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 2012-04-02T02:00:24.090Z Should purchases and rumoured purchases of land prove to be a portent, Dafydd had all to lose and nothing to gain by change. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z Scared by these horrors he lost all self-control, and petulantly cried, and the cry was itself a portent: 'Now strike Jove whom he will!' Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z The cries of dissent they were about to utter died stillborn at the portent; and, for a moment, men stared at one another as if they could not believe their ears. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z There were multitudes who, declaring that there were no gods, or that the gods never interfered with human affairs, professed with the same breath an absolute faith in all portents, auguries, dreams, and miracles. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z Signs and portents in the heavens, the vision of an Indian bow, and the figure of a scalp imprinted on the disk of the moon, warned the New England Puritans of impending war. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z There were simple religious annals, votive tablets recording miracles accomplished at a shrine, lists of priests and priestesses, accounts of benefactions, of prodigies and portents. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z How far this circumstance may be connected with the date of the first portent, the very night of the young man's death, or whether that coincidence was simply accidental, is matter for conjecture. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z A dangerous light kindled in Oswald's eyes, and they flashed upon the speaker a glance of menace and evil portent. Fickle Fortune 2012-03-20T02:00:13.167Z |
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