| 单词 | portentous |
| 例句 | As Tom took up the receiver the compressed heat exploded into sound and we were listening to the portentous chords of Mendelssohn's Wedding March from the ballroom below. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z There, strangers were as rare as shooting stars, and just as portentous. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z On the stage, in front of a velvet curtain, were two flags: the Stars and Stripes and the unmistakable and portentous crimson Soviet banner with its hammer and sickle. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z As Amy returned from her last trip, Mr. Davis gave a portentous “Hem!” and said, in his most impressive manner... Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z That great, unusual, portentous thing is this: Roscuros voice was pitched perfectly to make its way through the tortuous path of Migs broken-down, cauliflower ears. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z “I have a new spirit helper,” he declared, his voice portentous. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z By this time Aeneas, who in the earlier part of the story seemed as human as Hector or Achilles, has changed into something strange and portentous; he is not a human being. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Before me stretched the portentous menacing road of a new decade. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z The chaplain’s first mention of the name Yossarian! had tolled deep in his memory like a portentous gong. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Weill’s delicate orchestrations muster momentum and dramatic atmosphere that Anderson’s book largely lacks, and while many of the lyrics for the chorus are heavily portentous or stodgily annotative, the singing is terrific throughout. | ?Lost in the Stars?: Pursuing a Prodigal Son, Who?s Strayed to the City 2011-02-04T23:55:30Z She travels a quirky route to the cosmic without abandoning the local or becoming portentous. Poem of the week: Things I Say to Myself While Hanging Laundry by Ruth Stone 2011-08-01T09:17:06Z All that is missing is an Arab sage prefacing every portentous utterance with "It is written". Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z The lighting is so portentous and the isolation and hopelessness so exaggerated that these scenes have always reminded me of Technicolor film stills from a 1950s melodrama — a kitschy imitation of life. For Gregory Crewdson, Truth Lurks in the Landscape 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Lesy’s unclassifiable book earns its portentous title, and its tone has influenced many disparate works of art. 50 Years On, ‘Wisconsin Death Trip’ Still Haunts and Inspires 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z She wears a prosthetic overbite and a portentous crucifix necklace, long coats and cardigans swishing behind her like a modern Miss Marple. “Big Little Lies” Season 2, Reviewed: Meryl, Meryl, Meryl 2019-06-09T04:00:00Z Their hooded and intense frontman, Roman Rappak, is a compelling focus, with his strained vocal yelp on portentous tracks such as The Commission evoking the Cure's Robert Smith. Breton – review 2013-01-15T17:52:32Z His work is akin to being on a socio-historical waltzer, as seemingly disparate concepts and historical incidents are dazzlingly threaded together by portentous archive clips. Manchester International Festival 2013 2013-05-24T14:08:00Z Casually realistic, with semi-improvised dialogue and low-tech production values, it is truthful without seeming portentous. Movie Review: ‘Safety Not Guaranteed,’ a Comedy With a Time Machine 2012-06-07T22:55:46Z Nevertheless, if Scott is determined to deliver a portentous, overblown and pseudo-philosophical event movie set in the "same universe" as its claustrophobic, sinewy predecessor, Prometheus looks like a pretty decent attempt. Prometheus: are you ready to take Ridley Scott's leap of faith? 2012-05-18T10:11:42Z Some critics found his novels portentous and self-consciously masculine. Cormac McCarthy, Novelist of a Darker America, Is Dead at 89 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z “Wild Grass” uses a portentous narrator and includes ambiguous interior monologues. | 'Wild Grass': Alain Resnais?s Film of Anarchic Imagination 2010-06-24T23:40:00Z The portentous narration begins soon after Dan Rather delivers a windy recorded video message to start “Bikeman: A 9/11 Play,” a docudrama by Thomas F. Flynn that recounts his experiences on Sept. Theater Review: ‘Bikeman: A 9/11 Play,’ on a Journalist’s Sept. 11 Experience 2014-02-20T23:38:15Z Kissinger's early academic publications, steeped in a now-dated existentialist lexicon, read as dour and portentous today. 'Kissinger's Shadow' explores diplomat's long reach in U.S. foreign policy 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Valhalla Rising is like watching woad dry, but hypnotic, densely atmospheric in a portentous way, and weirdly beautiful. Valhalla Rising 2010-05-01T23:08:00Z As this might suggest, the implicit claim for her as an Everywoman makes the book, at times, portentous. The Patience Stone by Atiq Rahimi 2010-04-23T23:07:00Z This renders comical the portentous pronouncements of liberal editorialists who threaten that the Court’s legitimacy is at stake if it strikes down the law. Quinnipiac Poll: Swing-State Voters Think the Supreme Court Should Overturn All of Obamacare 2012-05-03T17:28:41Z Brilliant suffers from a surfeit of atmospheric keyboards and a deficit of standout tunes: portentous tracks such as Change and Live simply sound like fillers from one of their early-80s albums. Ultravox – review 2012-09-28T17:09:10Z The second movement, taken very fluently, was airy in texture, and the finale, instead of being portentous, actually sang. David Afkham’s SSO debut uncommonly impressive | Classical review 2013-03-22T16:52:26Z Hurtling themselves at the reader, they are too brief to be fully explicable, but too portentous to be ignored: What John Dos Passos’s “1919” Got Right About 2019 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z As a portentous voice-over intones, we watch images of the characters on their yachts and in their fancy cars, their beautifully tailored suits straining to contain their meaty gym bodies. Movie Review: ‘Race 2,’ a Bollywood Sequel From Abbas-Mastan 2013-01-26T00:31:29Z That portentous claim launches one last spectacular scene that would make Crichton proud. Review | Michael Crichton’s classic thriller ‘The Andromeda Strain’ gets a deadly sequel 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z The naturalism and specificity of the local landscape, whether monumental volcanoes in Mesoamerica or misty mountain tops in Central Europe, were infused with portentous meaning. Getty exhibition makes a case for the enduring power of Theodore Rousseau 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z “Haitink’s approach was more passionate than portentous, happily lacking in heaviness,” Associated Press critic Daniel J. Wakin wrote after a Brahms Symphony No. 2 with the Berlin Philharmonic at New York’s Carnegie Hall in 1991. Bernard Haitink, renowned Dutch conductor, dies at 92 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, when former Candlemass vocalist Messiah Marcolin pops up on the impossibly bombastic Hel, his unmistakable bellow adds another layer of portentous punch to what is plainly the finest album of this band's career. Amon Amarth: Deceiver of the Gods – review 2013-06-20T20:00:02Z Meanwhile, a trio of magi – Balthasar, Melchior and Gaspar – grow frustrated with their elders' reluctance to investigate a portentous celestial conjunction; and a shepherd, Thomas, struggles to pay his taxes. Tonight's TV highlights 2010-12-20T00:05:02Z It’s a short chapter, only two pages, but already Cin shows that the book will vacillate between the calm familiarity of domestic affairs and a more portentous eeriness that infiltrates the proceedings. Review | Tice Cin’s ‘Keeping the House’ is a family drama with a side of suspense 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z As I wrote in 1999, Schumacher has a particular gift for making sleek, portentous, pseudo-profound films that seem socially relevant and of the moment, but that nobody ever wants to watch again. "Twelve": On the intoxicating badness of Joel Schumacher 2010-08-05T13:01:00Z The title is somewhat suggestive of genre parody and the music is suitably pseudo-momentous and portentous. New band of the day: Teenage Mothers (No 1,530) 2013-06-11T14:38:32Z Wagner serves as a portentous soundtrack, as the journey reaches the end of the first world war, and the series braces itself for what followed – and the role art played in that. Tonight's TV highlights: Coronation Street 2010-12-06T00:05:00Z It was a portentous time to arrive on the British music scene: Bands like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Kinks were performing to screaming teenage fans as they rolled toward global stardom. Judith Durham, Singer of ‘Georgy Girl’ and Other Hits, Dies at 79 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z In the Wednesday performance, conducted by George Manahan, even the pruned score retained the portentous, seething lushness of the music in a Douglas Sirk melodrama, with expressive touches of dissonance. Review: ‘The Dangerous Liaisons,’ Lush Music of Malice 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Certainly Kirchner’s astringent themes, primitive electronics and portentous recorded narration are of their time. Music Review: Orchestra of the League of Composers Takes On a Challenge 2013-06-18T21:09:49Z Too often, she tries to build momentum through portentous foreshadowing and cryptic dialogue. ‘The Shadow of the Crescent Moon,’ by Fatima Bhutto 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z It is in underscoring the twins’ ferocity that Mr. Frazier’s writing unfortunately turns portentous. Books of The Times: ?Nightwoods,? by Charles Frazier - Review 2011-09-21T21:53:25Z She’s clutching a perfect candied apple, a portentous splash of red and a witty emblem both of Halloween and Edenic forbidden fruit. ‘Us’ Review: Jordan Peele’s Creepy Latest Turns a Funhouse Mirror on Us 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Their starting point was apparently Henry David Thoreau's sonorous words "Not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves" but their show is far less portentous. No Quarter; The Silence of the Sea; Not Until We Are Lost – review 2013-01-20T00:06:10Z A portentous score by the venerable, quasi-anonymous art-band the Residents plays behind layers of prattle, both spoken and in projected subtitles. LACMA's exhibition 'Sculpt': Incoherent pretension for an audience of one 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Sung by three staff-carrying mountain oracles, it establishes the earnest, portentous tone of this new musical having its world premiere at Village Theatre. ‘Trails’ a cross between love triangle, buddy road trip 2013-03-18T21:40:23Z More of the same portentous hot air follows: when "thunder turns around" they are "learning how to dance the rain". Have Take That mastered the art of meaningless epic pop? 2010-12-03T12:51:00Z The music has shifted into something portentous, now into a dance track. The Rolling Stones and all tonight's bands – live! 2013-06-30T00:31:00Z Already the pacing of the film is portentous, lugubrious—how about just “slow.” Jeff Nichols’s “Loving”: An Airbrushed Portrait of the Interracial Couple Whose Struggle Changed History 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z “Magisterial” can seem a little portentous but it really is the best word to describe it. What the Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Reads While She Works 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z The anchorman assumed his most portentous voice, describing a bleak tableau of starving polar bears, despite the fact that this had been a relatively fat year. Polar bears just might outlive us all 2012-12-30T16:00:00Z Pynchon’s wonderfully terse parody of the portentous debate around Coleman’s music is as follows: Seeing Ornette Coleman 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z But “The Sound of Things Falling” is also remote, portentous, burped shut. Books of The Times: ‘The Sound of Things Falling,’ by Juan Gabriel Vásquez 2013-07-30T17:03:23Z It rests hard against your thigh, glows through light clothing with every portentous notification, and attempts to replace any other object—a card-and-cash-thick wallet, a set of keys—that happens to reside in your pocket. For Better and Worse, We Live in Jony Ive’s World 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z “Faith,” the single, began with portentous church organ—which it then swapped out for stripped-down acoustic guitar, handclaps, and more sexual forthrightness. George Michael’s Pop Paradise 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z Because the Arctic is a place of “astounding complexity” — a point he argues persuasively — many scientists were slow to understand the portentous changes they were witnessing. To the Poles — Before They Started Melting 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z The texts were friendly — compliments about his music, invitations to get a beer, enthusiastic updates about works in progress — but felt strangely portentous, like being invited behind a velvet rope. Michael Kiwanuka Felt ‘One Step Away.’ Now He Has a Seat at the Table. 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z The soft but grand dawn opening felt not portentous but natural, building to a sunrise that was shining without blare. The Vienna Philharmonic Tends the Classics With a Perfect Partner 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z Instead of pious statements about poverty, or portentous mutterings on the importance of American leadership, Mr Sharma sees the world from the ruthless and restless perspective of an investor. The long road 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z One reviewer described it as a “portentous and lugubrious revision ... the dreariest story ever told”. Faith films challenge Hollywood at box office 2018-03-24T04:00:00Z It imbued what the ensembles he led already possessed with a deeper integrity, a weight, a gravity, that was nonetheless rarely portentous or heavy. Bernard Haitink, Perhaps the Wisest Conductor of Them All 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z But once you do, the movie that comes together is an unpretentious, well-acted ensemble piece that doesn’t aspire to be a portentous generational time capsule like “The Big Chill,” “American Graffiti” or “Diner.” Movie Review: ‘10 Years,’ a Comedy Directed by Jamie Linden 2012-09-13T22:55:13Z The episode ended with a pair of portentous moments. ArtsBeat Blog: 'Good Wife' Watch: Oh, That's What Friends Are For 2011-12-12T06:15:41Z Summoning a portentous voice and a straight face, Cage proclaims, "I am Balthazar Blake, sorcerer of the 777th degree, and you are my apprentice." The Sorcerer's Apprentice: So-So Summer Fun 2010-07-15T03:45:00Z Dazzling and unsettling the residents with his arbitrary rules and pronouncements about how the world works, Abraham speaks in portentous aphorisms and exhibits a growing paranoia. She Got Away With Murder, but Now the Past Is at Her Doorstep 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z The equating of accent and autism, one of which we usually consider trivial and the other hugely portentous, was eye-opening for me. When Disability Isn’t a Special Need but a Special Skill 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z The leap between portentous high art and the lowly cartoon is humorous. Why Roz Chast Makes Fun of White Middle-Class New Yorkers 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z The movie resembles an overheated trailer for itself — a glaringly rough assembly of ill-staged computer-generated action sequences and assorted portentous moments. Movie Listings for April 11-17 2014-04-10T22:40:37Z Here are some takeaways and observations from this portentous episode. ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Season 1, Episode 4: Strange Magic 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z The scene is beautifully lit—moody and portentous. The Emmys 2016: The Season’s Most Memorable TV Moments 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z He added, in a portentous tone: “If people walk into the gallery and think he’s anything less than serious about this, then they’re really doomed.” Farm to Gallery: Peter Nadin?s Comeback 2011-07-03T05:30:29Z But almost all the meaning is in the music on this spotty but convincing album, which occasionally verges on portentous. Music Review: Rick Ross Promotes ‘Mastermind’ Album at Best Buy Theater 2014-03-04T21:54:48Z The music is slow, portentous and sometimes very striking indeed, especially when it builds into a kind of crippled funeral march, with thudding bass drums, tolling gongs and insistent synthesiser chords. London Contemporary Orchestra – review 2013-05-27T16:39:04Z A few weeks ago, he was explaining his new calling in faintly portentous fashion. Will Smith: just an ordinary guy being forced to run for president 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z The grandly portentous piano and synth intro strikes up again, and then – nothing happens again. Noah and the Whale ? review 2011-01-27T21:30:02Z Fox Solomon will frequently shoot men from below their center of gravity, which renders them portentous stereotypes of the sky. Rosalind Fox Solomon’s Color Line 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z But while it was innovative and cute to undercut a portentous franchise with wry humour 12 years ago, now these projects have become prolific enough to take on a perceptibly mercenary edge. Bricking it: why the Lego movie franchise is on shaky foundations 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Monte’s memories recur throughout, but without a free play of memory; his mind neither wanders nor explores nor slips—it corresponds, as if his unconscious were a writers’ room that winks with portentous irony. “High Life,” Reviewed: Claire Denis’s Disappointing Journey Into Space 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Welcome Reality opens with two minutes of portentous synthesiser chords. Nero: Welcome Reality - review 2011-08-04T14:30:01Z "With Beyoncé," one voter said, "the fact that every time she does something new, it's a big event and everyone's supposed to quake in their shoes — it's a little too portentous." How Harry Styles' Grammys speech made Beyoncé's Album of the Year loss worse 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z The drawings and paintings of the British artist Celia Paul — dark, caustic self-portraits and portraits of women in her family — are nothing if not portentous. Metropolitan Opera Showcases Portraits Based on 'Otello' 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z Danielle sings the chorus as a withering, portentous growl: “I don’t wanna hear ‘it is what it is’ — it was what it was.” Haim Steps Into a New Groove on ‘Women in Music Pt. III’ 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z And with “Bombshell,” Cocker and Gonzales re-create Jean Harlow’s portentous honeymoon, beginning with the sound of leaky bathtub spigot, followed by a somber drip-drop piano melody. Perspective | A hotel room more interesting than the cosmos: In praise of the downsized concept album 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z Eventually the phenomenon snowballed and Sitler cites a figure that more than 1,900 books have been written about this portentous date. The Maya apocalypse is not nigh 2012-12-20T17:50:00Z Though that episode, which was shown on Wednesday night, bore the portentous title of “The Kiss,” what made it so remarkable was how incidental the meeting of Mitchell and Cam’s lips was to the story. 'Modern Family' Fans Get Their 'Kiss' 2010-09-30T13:35:00Z Omega utters this simple yet portentous word in two separate instances when she learns how people value her for starkly different reasons. Omega is the MVP of "The Bad Batch," a Star Wars clone who's destined to be different 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z An actress who does not shy from the savvy deployment of outright mannerism, Ms. Turner plants long, portentous pauses in her many addresses to the audience, effectively juicing the play’s steady stream of revelations. | 'High': Assisting Recovery, Craving Redemption 2011-04-20T02:01:29Z In honor of the title we'll break this part of the sentence with a colon, and then use a portentous dash: Review: 'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1' 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z The music’s abstract mystery curdled into something labored and portentous. Music Review: Dead Can Dance at Beacon Theater 2012-08-30T21:48:08Z The structure he eventually settles on is “10 singular events, some of them portentous, some more trivial, but each appearing to me to herald some kind of trend.” Review: ‘Pacific’ Is Simon Winchester’s Latest Big-Picture Book 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z In a frenzied genre, she’s a calm rapper, which is part of what makes this song so frosty — the beat is skittish and portentous, but Ice Spice sounds at peace. M.I.A. Takes Aim at Fame, and 7 More New Songs 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z The portentous, politically prickly Russian drama Leviathan reeved the Screenplay award. The Cannes Palme d'Or: Who Won and Who Was Robbed 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z So is our patience, by a movie with several things awry besides wooden acting, portentous dialogue and the virtual vandalism of that Auschwitz scene. The X-Men Cede to Special Effects As the Franchise Faces an Absurd Apocalypse 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z The stormy backdrop is fittingly portentous for Michod as he discusses his much anticipated follow-up to the Oscar-nominated debut “Animal Kingdom.” A new animal kingdom for Michod in ‘The Rover’ 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z Even so, with their portentous biblical imagery and long beaten leathers, they looked like the swarthy cowboy vampires in Kathryn Bigelow's terrific film Near Dark. World Goth Day has roused dark memories in me 2012-05-22T15:34:40Z Didn’t that seem like a sensible length in which to accommodate all those portentous scenes of Batfleck roaring the word “Martha” at the moon like a wolf with a sore foot? A good time (not a long time): why Hollywood is trimming down its bloated film lengths 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z On a billboard the hero catches sight of a portentous phrase: “To be or not to be.” Theater Review: ‘Hamlet, Prince of Grief’ at the Public Theater 2013-01-14T21:58:50Z Youthful Russian Loyalty Turns to Political Disillusionment Political menace stalks youthful idealism in “Putin’s Kiss,” a portentous, rather creepy documentary that masks its lack of historical context with an atmosphere of accumulating threat. Movie Review: ?Putin?s Kiss,? a Documentary on Masha Drokova of Russia 2012-02-17T01:37:09Z Given the way they speak, in portentous staccato phrases, this is not surprising. Any Given Day 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z At the work’s end a portentous silence filled the room for long moments before rapt applause ensued. Music Review: American Contemporary Music Ensemble at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-09-12T22:08:27Z The Marschallin’s great monologue at the end of Act I, reflecting on aging and the inexorable march of time, for once did not feel like a stand-alone number, sung in portentous italics. Krassimira Stoyanova in ‘Der Rosenkavalier’ at Salzburg 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z But because we never divine any layers beneath the placid surface of Helene and Erik, the play never develops much real tension, despite those portentous clues. Debate Society's ‘Jacuzzi,' With Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z In truth, there are few sights more grimly portentous than an erstwhile Mouse operative under the impression that they are going rogue. Miley Cyrus has bared her breasts, hoping to break free of Disney 2013-05-02T17:47:50Z Alas, it is a great and most portentous sadness to us to find you repeating some of her mistakes. With the greatest disrespect: how Her Majesty's Press offers its candid friendship 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z The latest entry in this P.F.D.S. genre — yes, I intend to copyright that abbreviation — arrives Wednesday night on CBS bearing a particularly portentous title: “American Gothic.” Review: In ‘American Gothic,’ Another Rich Family With Secrets 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z The orchestra cooperated with articulate woodwinds and portentous lower brasses. Sizzling debut by violinist Renaud Capucon lifts CSO concert out of the ordinary 2011-01-14T17:38:01Z The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey trailer – video Link to this video It's an exciting story, easy to follow and lacking both the solemnity and the portentous symbolism of The Lord of the Rings. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – review 2012-12-16T00:05:40Z Even the Bach sections are laden with portentous, heavy-handed gestures, trying too hard to squeeze out the meaning in Bach’s math. Review: When Real Life Adds an Unexpected Round to the Fugue 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z He is not, although by the time McBride is swimming through a watery tunnel toward a rebirth — complete with a portentous, symbolic umbilical cord — the film is en route to a metaphysical collapse. ‘Ad Astra’ Review: Brad Pitt Orbits the Powers of Darkness 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z The stage lights dim, a grandly portentous piano and synthesiser intro strikes up, and then – nothing happens, unless you count some mortified shuffling around from the band on stage. Noah and the Whale ? review 2011-01-27T21:30:02Z There might be an engaging film buried beneath the severe dialogue, portentous music and ominous shadows of “1915.” Review: ‘1915,’ a Ghostly Evocation of Bygone Slaughter 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z For that matter, the language throughout is so maudlin, clichéd and portentous that the novel reads like an energetic parody. Books of The Times: Mark Helprin’s ‘In Sunlight and in Shadow’ 2012-10-05T05:17:21Z For now, Schwarzenegger's website features a photograph of him playing chess with a portentous message: "Stay tuned for my next move." Schwarzenegger sheds old life as he plots return 2011-05-12T10:31:05Z Pictographic suns, spirals, the odd portentous phrase: "Heavy time"; "virus slave". Fabrice Hyber: but is it fruit? 2013-03-26T18:30:10Z To an unusual degree, it spun a kind of clockwork ecosystem, teeming with portentous allusions, callbacks and foreshadowing that encouraged the most passionate viewers to scrutinize its every frame. Meet the ‘Better Call Saul’ Staffers Who Kept Its Story Straight 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Related Topics: All-TIME 100, Music, , Populist Get this album It starts ominously, with a single drum shot followed by a dangerous-sounding electric-piano riff and a portentous tambourine rattle. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z If you don't remember the 60s, you may want less soft focus and portentous music, with some harder-edged acting and a tighter script. Your next box set: The Kennedys 2011-08-25T20:59:02Z Yet lightly is precisely how Gunn approached a film he hopes will serve as a corrective to the portentous solemnity that has lately become one of the genre's default positions. Galaxy's quest to put fun in fantasy 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z It seemed like a portentous omen given that Mr. Kaufman subsequently seemed to disappear for the next seven years. Review: ‘Anomalisa’ Pairs Charlie Kaufman and Lonely Puppets 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z Walter Kerr, writing in The New York Herald Tribune, called it an “infertile cross between Sartre’s ‘No Exit,’ Albee’s ‘Tiny Alice,’ Wagner’s ‘Gotterdammerung’ and the most portentous high school pageant you ever saw.” Terrence McNally, Tony-Winning Playwright of Gay Life, Dies at 81 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z Ms. Hart writes short sentences in which the vocabulary is simple, while the sentiments are portentous.” Josephine Hart, Author of Best-Selling ?Damage,? Dies 2011-06-06T02:32:46Z The shift from “Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County” to “The Hills” was the most portentous of the reality-show era. Review: ‘Siesta Key’ Returns to Reality Television’s Awkward Youth 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z But as Mr. Rosen descended the staircase with a heavy, portentous gait, he saw only opportunity, not dust and debris. Aby Rosen Is the Life of the Party 2013-05-29T19:51:55Z It all looks deeply meaningful, portentous and clever, but is somehow academic and feels dead. The Deutsche Börse photography prize 2012-07-10T16:51:34Z The poster for the 46th season of “Sesame Street,” premiering tomorrow, reads—in the portentous words used by a thousand headlines—“Brought to you by the letters HBO.” HBO’s upscale “Sesame Street”: Why Elmo and Grover in the land of “Girls” and “Game of Thrones” makes perfect sense 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z And the fantasy sequences, which continue as Leadem receives another visit from his brother, and a desperate request from the Serbian woman, are similarly low-key and sometimes drearily portentous. Review: ‘Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, America, Kuwait,’ as Grim as It Is Cryptic 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z It's taken half a series, but Outcasts' heroic commitment to portentous dialogue and careful scene-setting is yielding results. Tonight's TV highlights 2011-02-21T08:00:01Z There is a lot of portentous talk here about things like carnivores who “decant souls,” “animacides committed by a syndicate of soul thieves” and “psychosoteric DNA” tests. David Mitchell’s ‘The Bone Clocks’ Explores a Girl’s Journey 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z “The Armies of the Night” was famous in its time for being a “nonfiction novel”—its portentous subtitle is “History as a Novel; the Novel as History.” The Strange Prophecies in Norman Mailer’s “The Armies of the Night” 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Mysterious, portentous, mesmerizing: Learn about these enigmatic nocturnal birds through more than 200 color photographs of owls in the wild. Inspiring, transporting and just plain gorgeous coffee table books 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Not in a grandiose or threatening way, but in a portentous one. Review: Henry Taylor at Blum & Poe Gallery 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z The writer and art curator Neville Wakefield had a more portentous view: “He literally digs to expose, if you want, the beast within.” The Photographer and Auteur Steven Klein Loves to Shock, but Surreptitiously 2011-11-24T10:45:04Z Photographer: BBC/Indus Films/Will Morgan Deep underground, almost as deep as this programme's portentous voiceover, are mysterious, beautiful – and utterly toxic – caves which shouldn't be capable of supporting life. TV highlights 07/06/2012 2012-06-06T19:00:05Z But except for a few portentous, bass-heavy bars at the start of the work’s second and fourth movements, you would never guess from this sunny, rhythmically vital music that anything was amiss in his world. Music Review: Stravinsky?s Catalog Yields Tasty Plums 2011-08-21T21:56:08Z An undercurrent of darkness and portentous mystery courses throughout — evoked by low-stirring reeds, a crisscross of percussionists and drummers, or the band members’ baritones uniting in a chanted chorus. Earth Couldn’t Contain Sun Ra’s Ideas. His Arkestra Is Still Exploring Them. 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z But “The Bible Code,” published in 1997, captured the portentous mood of the years before the new millennium. Michael Drosnin, Who Found Clues in the Bible, Is Dead at 74 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Obama begins the section on his journey to Kenya, which he made in the summer of 1988, with a series of portentous gestures. The invention of Obama 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z The scene, Sapochnik promised, was just the beginning of a whole season of portentous births, each seeded with additional gender commentary. The Many Violations of the Violent Birth Scene 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z That word disappeared from discussions, replaced by ideas less burdensome, less portentous, less ambitious. Tomory Dodge puts freedom back into the picture at Acme 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z If some of the work’s portentous theatricality evokes Graham, the transfiguration that Ms. Scofield seems to be shooting for is Twyla Tharp’s. | juniper?s ?Crack in Everything? at New York Live Arts 2012-04-06T22:23:13Z There is a persistent, alienated sense that all is not well beneath the comfortable exteriors, which can shade into a portentous cynicism. The Heart Broke In by James Meek - review 2012-08-24T07:00:01Z Most of the time, this incoherent thriller resembles an overheated trailer for itself: a glaringly rough assembly of ill-staged computer-generated action sequences and portentous moments. Movie Review: In ‘Jinn,’ Supernatural Creatures Threaten the Earth 2014-04-06T21:33:06Z Odyssey Dawn, by contrast, is portentous and faintly antique-sounding; suggestive of great deeds without pointing to anything concrete in Homer's Odyssey. Why 'Odyssey Dawn'? 2011-03-25T12:30:01Z The 51-year-old director had just returned from a trip to London, where his last film, “Phantom Thread,” was set, and now the sky above his native San Fernando Valley was choked by dark, portentous clouds. Paul Thomas Anderson Goes Back to the Valley With ‘Licorice Pizza’ 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z All of it unfolds in the atmosphere of gaudy, portentous vacuity that is Mr. Singh’s trademark. Review: In ‘Self/less,’ Immortality at a Cost 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z There is some mildly portentous writing in “The Yellow House,” but for the most part Broom’s prose is alert and inquisitive. ‘The Yellow House’ Is a Major Memoir About a Large Family and Its Beloved Home 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z As Snoopy continues making his way across the French countryside, navigating barbed trenches and the occasional skirmish, a portentous tune plays, set against a violet-bruised sky. Snoopy is the true star of "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z It’s hard to say whether all this represents a portentous turn in the Trump-F&F alliance or just a momentary spat among the best of friends. Is ‘Fox & Friends’ getting feistier with its Friend in Chief? 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Meant as a comment on the unfulfilled promise of feminism, the story just seemed silly, with its portentous murk and operetta high jinks. My Summer With Hal 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z "It's either very, very serious, portentous, or it's titillation, and I thought we could combine that and have titillation and portentousness," he said. London's "porn king" stars on the big screen at Berlin festival 2013-02-11T09:47:33Z Capped with a fez, speaking some sort of French patois, Mitchell brings his own campy aura to the movie, including the portentous punchline: “Choice is a Western concept.” ‘Force of Circumstance’: Casablanca in the East Village 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z Zombie warriors toppled the Wall and poured over the cliff like a necrotic waterfall, a seemingly inexhaustible supply that was replenished further in the portentous final scene. 'Game of Thrones' Recap: Oh, So That's What Winter Looks Like 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z Those quibbles aside, the Prokofiev symphony is a playful musical marker for each of the characters and a portentous warning of things to come. ‘Fargo’ Season 3, Episode 4: A Wolf in Cheap Clothing 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z The appeal of Mr. Manivong’s story, however, was that his journey was especially portentous. Front Row: Designing Against the Odds 2010-12-08T20:00:00Z The portentous, emotionally vacant film The Counselor, directed by Ridley Scott, plays like a parody of a Cormac McCarthy adaptation. The Counselor: Hard-Boiled Hokum 2013-10-24T09:45:41Z It offered a portentous insight into his ability to draw on racial division for political gain, and yet another reason why revisiting the case feels so important today. When They See Us: behind the harrowing Netflix drama about the Central Park Five 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z However, despite her high-mindedness and the austerity of her vision, Shvarts's poetry is never portentous or pompous. Elena Shvarts obituary 2010-05-06T17:40:00Z You look back, a lot of it was kind of portentous and self-involved, but we were doing our best. Can Physical Comedy Work on Zoom? Bill Irwin Wants to Find Out 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z When “Dominion” isn’t preoccupied with filling in its portentous back story, it provides some capably filmed action and a higher grade of acting than usual for this kind of show. ‘Dominion’ Brings a Battle of Angels to Syfy 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Though the novel is pockmarked with overly portentous teasers of the action to come, it is also genuinely suspenseful, its plot catapulting dangerously toward a fateful confrontation between Drax and Sumner. Review: In ‘The North Water,’ a Journey to the Arctic Turns Cutthroat 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z He did, selling his vision for the film using a portfolio that included photographs of jazzmen like Chet Baker, crime photographs and a bleak, portentous shot of a newly opened freeway. Curtis Hanson: A Filmmaker of Sunshine and Noir 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z The film is all portentous build up, with a little sputtering super-pay-off at the end. Pulling punches: why origin stories keep superhero films from soaring 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z Its scorching fourth album, “Honeys,” breaks the tension with portentous growls and the frontman Matt Korvette’s raw apologies for past misogyny; it’s a fascinating act of repentance. Pop & Rock Listings for May 8-14 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z “The last thing I want is portentous recitation in a dark room.” Claudia Rankine and Will Rawls: Surveillance and the Black Experience 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z As a result, the killer’s taunt is now more bewildering than portentous. Why Don’t Some TV Shows Sound the Way They Used To? 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z It was meant to be inspiring and all-embracing, but its galleries were given portentous titles: “Pavilion of Perseverance,” “Pavilion of Cooperation.” Exhibition Review: An Unseen Evil Still Ensnaring Countless Souls 2010-10-08T22:54:00Z Mr. Marcus’s style — brainy but fevered, as if the fate of Western society hung on a chord progression — is nearly impossible to mimic without sounding portentous and flatulent. Books of The Times: ?The Doors,? by Greil Marcus - Review 2011-11-15T21:52:12Z More characters with portentous single names appear — the Traveler, the Witness, the Foreman, the Immortal. In the Second Season of ‘12 Monkeys,’ Time Traveling Grows More Complex 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z There is a piano concerto — the portentous No. 20 in D minor — with the elegant pianist Nelson Freire as the soloist. The Week Ahead: July 29 — Aug. 4 2012-07-30T13:57:52Z The T-shirt photo shoot didn’t seem particularly portentous, Mr. Gruen said. Bob Gruen Captures the World of Rock in Photos 2011-10-12T19:22:53Z Here it’s a folk tale, a Scottish riff on Rip Van Winkle with some portentous observations about loss and time. Review: In ‘The Journey,’ Scott Silven Tours Your Mind 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z This movie is operatic, crepuscular, portentous, a vision of apocalyptic catastrophe – and there are some great things in it. The Dark Knight Rises – review 2012-07-19T14:29:00Z It is hard not to imagine portentous meanings in what is really a natural occurrence. A sea of red that evokes thoughts of more than just algae 2012-11-30T13:20:02Z The scene is announced with the portentous drone of bagpipes, an aural assault generated by a battalion of 30 highland pipers playing in a converted church in Scotland. How Hans Zimmer Conjured the Otherworldly Sounds of ‘Dune’ 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z In 1974, when Mr. Braufman was deeply embedded on New York’s radical free-jazz scene, he recorded “Valley of Search,” a record of darkly melodic improvising and portentous incantations and extempore group explosions. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Clarke's portentous scifi meditation, which appeared in 1968, imagined that leaps in human development are influenced by a mysterious alien race who send odd monoliths to encourage new ideas in human beings. John Mullan's 10 of the best: dates in titles 2012-06-01T21:55:10Z Arresting but portentous tableaus are punctuated with silky explosions, as if her dancers were martial artists always about to attack. Dance Review: Playing Like Children, but Much Is at Stake 2011-06-10T23:56:26Z In some respects, it is the most far-reaching and portentous response to Trump’s assault on democracy. Column: What makes the Georgia indictment of Donald Trump so different from all the others 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z It was a portentous broadside for a man running to be president, one that questioned the integrity of a justice system that had just brought the first federal charges against a former president. A Long-Shot Candidate’s Defense of Trump Could Undermine the Rule of Law 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z In drawings and paintings bearing some of the awkward poses and portentous titles of the genre, the artist has tracked the fictional battles of civilizations real and invented. With cars and kaiju, artists Umar Rashid and Frieda Toranzo Jaeger subvert American myth 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z Rock-and-roll memory cults have run rampant since that portentous reformation nearly 20 years ago, making the Pixies’ initial seven-year run from 1986 to 1993 look like a funny blip of prophecy. Perspective | I felt uneasy about reunion nostalgia. Until it came for me. 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z And like Christmas, it’s a season more than just a day, with ads teased for weeks on television and online, sometimes ending with a portentous, cliffhanging “2.12.23,” the date the teasing pays off. Super Bowl ads go lighter, starrier (Serena! Joni!) and boozier as the pandemic fades 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z The game focused on their journey’s most portentous scenes, but the show allows peeks into quieter, less busy moments. Review | HBO’s ‘The Last of Us’ stays true to the game, and hits just as hard Boebert commonly rails against the Democratic establishment, invoking portentous rhetoric about liberal persecution of conservatives and a displacement of Americans by immigrants in the U.S. without permission. Frisch targets GOP voters tired of Boebert’s ‘angertainment’ 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z It is a date that has achieved portentous status in Mexico. Is Sept. 19 cursed in Mexico? There have now been three major earthquakes on that day 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z That every step of Yankovic’s way - the first Hawaiian shirt, the epiphany of riffing on “My Sharona” as “My Bologna” - carried the same portentous sense of fate that rings through most music biopics? Weird Al gives himself the Weird Al treatment in new biopic 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z That every step of Yankovic’s way — the first Hawaiian shirt, the epiphany of riffing on “My Sharona” as “My Bologna” — carried the same portentous sense of fate that rings through most music biopics? Weird Al gives himself the Weird Al treatment in new biopic 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Open, whether merely symbolic or truly portentous, offers a glimpse at the current and future states of the game. As Serena leaves, Nadal loses, Federer absent, is era over? 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z Choir music swells during breathtaking panoramas and the dialogue is thunderous and portentous. Ambitious ‘Lord of the Rings’ prequel hopes to slay dragons 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z After the friends left, Habany told investigators that he had recalled Kravchenko’s portentous phone call to him earlier that day and, when they were in bed, asked her whether she was the murderer. Who Killed Tair Rada? Inside Israel’s True Crime Obsession 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z The hour-and-25-minute recording of the event was generated by a tape recorder placed center stage, and in the years since, it’s warped its way into a portentous aura. May the ghost of Sun Ra return to lift the 50-year curse he cast on Los Angeles 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z I kind of loathed that movie, though it did have awesome red wallpaper and a hilariously foul-mouthed Kristin Scott Thomas, which helped the portentous vibes and extreme carnage go down. Review: Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans play empty spy games in Netflix’s ‘The Gray Man’ 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z Boris Johnson's resignation as British prime minister is not just a portentous political event. The fall of Boris Johnson: A moment of reckoning for Machiavellian politics? 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Nikola has been working in the area felling trees — an overhead shot of one falling over seems to be a portentous visual metaphor — when he hears of the incident at his former place of employment. Review: 'Father' takes a Serbian man on a methodical journey to get his kids back 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z There are plenty of meaningful looks, but just not enough meaning to sustain this heavy, portentous tone. Review: 'Clean' is an Adrien Brody-produced, -written and -scored revenge tale 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Much of the rest of the CNN program is filled with speculation about the Wuhan Institute, typically presented with portentous music on the soundtrack, suggesting subliminally that something sinister is going on there. Column: New evidence emerges against COVID lab-leak theory — but the press keeps pushing it 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z But that encounter with Andersson was portentous - because, in parallel to her pop career, Little Boots is about to make her debut in Abba's live band. Little Boots says Abba's new live band is 'badass cool' 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z It's so banal yet so portentous, it feels like the sort of thing you remember happening to somebody you knew. Your memory of 9/11 is probably wrong 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Bellamy saw his era as “portentous of great changes,” and he was right. Opinion | The Strange, Sad Death of America’s Political Imagination 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z Things took on a rather portentous air for a casual Saturday-morning brunch. Apple employees circulate petition demanding investigation into "misogynistic" new hire 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z The tenor of the Feb. 3 meeting was therefore tense, portentous and deeply personal from beginning to end, according to several attendees who later described it to me. The Drop in Republican Support for Voting Rights 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z Not as a portentous instance of misbehavior — nor, for that matter, an attack on American democracy — by a Bad Dog. A minor investigation into Bidens’ Major problem: The first family’s dog troubles continue 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z In that moment, he said, it seemed only natural to ask what in recent times may have come to sound like portentous questions: Does the human soul exist? Kazuo Ishiguro Sees What the Future Is Doing to Us 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Myanmar’s own readout of the meeting proved more portentous. Analysis: In China, post-coup Myanmar likely to find support if sanctions bite 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z What was Morricone thinking, you may wonder, when he introduced the whistle of an ocarina, or joined it to the portentous chants of a choir? Appreciation: 'A Fistful of Dollars' to 'The Untouchables': Ennio Morricone made music a movie star 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z It’s a show that points out, in this frightening time of pandemic and portentous moment for democracy, how messy and fractious and chockablock with volatile personalities is the origin story of our shared American birthright. Review | ‘Hamilton’ jumps from stage to Disney Plus: A leap that shows just how brilliant this show really is 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z “The Vast of Night” opens with the intro from a fictional, black-and-white TV show from the 1950s: “Paradox Theatre,” modeled after “The Twilight Zone,” right down to the portentous, Rod Serling-esque voice-over. New movies to stream this week: ‘Vast of Night,’ ‘Lucky Grandma’ and more 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z But Palestinian officials insisted that Mr. Abbas really meant it this time, and cited his unequivocal language as a portentous change. Abbas, Cornered by Israeli Annexation, Opts for ‘Judgment Day’ Scenario 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z On Twitter and elsewhere Donald Trump continues to write portentous proclamations as though he were God from the Old Testament. Why does Trump seek conflict with powerful women? It turns him on, says psychiatrist Justin Frank 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z But unlike some of the more portentous messages being posted by some celebrities, Quarantine Speech is, well, entertaining. 7 highlights from YouTube's Stream#WithMe fundraiser 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z The court frequently referees disputes between the federal government’s political branches, and next Tuesday will be a portentous day there. Opinion | Two cases that could help ‘recage the executive lion’ 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z The author died in 2006, and her reclusive last years were marred by illness, but she was wry, smart and funny, able to write about youth with piercing sweetness and without portentous foreshadowing. Novelists pick books to inspire, uplift, and offer escape 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z The G-Man, following one of his typically portentous speeches, pulls Alyx into the future. Half-Life: Alyx gives us a big hint about Gordon Freeman’s future 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z Instead, according to the official portentous press release on the matter, being inducted will come with a medal and will be “the highest individual honour awarded to players by the League”. Roll up, roll up for the Premier League Hall of Fame (oh, and let the arguments begin) | Marina Hyde 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Kesha’s new album starts out on a portentous and soaring note with the singer on the opening song “Tonight” in full Broadway mode, belting out “Take me out toooonniiiigghht.” Review: It’s messy and crazy and deep—Kesha returns roaring 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z For this pivotal scene, Williams reworks a portentous brass chorale from his score for Oliver Stone’s “Nixon.” Perspective | How John Williams’s Star Wars score pulls us to the dark side 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z By turns cheerful, desperate and portentous, the rabbit looks straight into the camera and begs for sex, insisting all the while that it has been tested and can guarantee being free of HIV. Review: Nayland Blake turns bunnies and shoes into meditations on sex, power and prejudice 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z In the event, despite portentous predictions about the end of two-party politics, Labour and the Conservatives scooped up 82.4% of the vote between them – the highest score for the two main parties since 1970. Five factors that could be decisive to general election outcome 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z The Republican fracture is more unusual, more disruptive — and perhaps more portentous. Column: Foreign policy is on the 2020 ballot, right alongside Trump 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z The atmosphere in the courtroom was solemn and portentous, with lawyers proceeding exactly as if the trial will indeed begin on Monday, should talks collapse. Drug Giants Close In on a $50 Billion Settlement of Opioid Cases 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z GM, one of the country’s biggest manufacturers, has a long history of portentous fights with the United Auto Workers. What it’s like on a 24-hour picket line during one of the biggest strikes in recent history 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Given where we are with Brexit, never has the usual portentous timetable looked more absurd. Raising hopes and denying gropes: Tory conference leaves no fantasy untouched 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Opening day for any sports franchise is portentous. The W.N.B.A. Is Putting On Some of the Best Pro Basketball in America 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z It sounds unnecessarily portentous for talking about designing computers, but it’s appropriate to the scale of this turnover. Apple and the end of the genius 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z Just as D-Day marked a turning point in history some now question whether this moment is equally portentous. Heroes of a More Certain Time 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z In one clip, members are shown fighting one another in a mixed-martial-arts gym, accompanied by the kind of portentous music featured in first-person-shooter video games. The Undercover Fascist 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z As the investigation extended into this year, the portentous question of what new information Mueller’s team, exercising subpoena power, might disclose remained unanswered. The Media and the Mueller Report’s March Surprise 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z We’re behind Andre’s mansion, where an L-shaped glass hallway opens onto a minimally furnished deck and a downstage pool—a real one—that looks fun and portentous, chic and sort of tawdry all at once. The Bel Air Battleground of “Daddy” 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z It is, however, rare that a justice’s opinion concurring in a unanimous ruling is more intellectually scintillating and potentially portentous than the ruling itself. Opinion | The court’s opinion was right on this case. But the concurrence was even righter. 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z Even on a relatively august and portentous occasion, Lee brings his own individual energy and slicing wit, spiritedly talking about his work and his collaborators, with a hard-won wisdom regarding what truly matters. Spike Lee on his first directing Oscar nomination — three-plus decades in 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z Jones commented: “He was fond in his letters of making these very portentous statements. He was always acting before an unseen audience, always playing a part.” Unseen Rupert Brooke letter to 'lovelorn' admirer to be sold 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z "Perhaps you meant portentous? It means marvelous and amazing," the publisher wrote. Pro tip: Do not drag J.K. Rowling and her writing room 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z It was, he said, “aggressive and nasty, cacophonous and arrogant, silly and portentous.” Bruce Nauman, the Artist’s Artist 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z This future archaeologist might note how apt it was that these young people were given such a portentous, end-of-days name: millennials. How Much Power Do ‘Millennials’ Actually Have? 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Wending your way around the interior’s surreal right angles, it’s difficult to miss the boxes with the portentous labels: Elena fragile, Tyler fragile. Review | ‘Anamorphine’ beautifully manipulates time, space and memory 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z They’re portentous, heavy on jargon and short on style, with one simple sentence following another monotonously. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Thunder crashed, echoed by the startlingly portentous orchestral discharge that opens the opera. Review: With 'Doctor Atomic,' Santa Fe stages a nuclear tale as the opera of our time 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z It was France’s second defeat since the 2014 World Cup, and proved a portentous sign before their loss to Portugal in the final at Saint‑Denis a little over 12 months later. Kylian Mbappé’s boldness will be crucial for France against Belgium | Marcel Desailly 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z And it unfolded on a portentous stage, in the cities and suburbs of a state that is likely to be crucial both in the Democratic presidential primaries and in the general election. Elizabeth Warren Condemned Trump in Reno. He Answered in Las Vegas With a Slur. 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z “There comes a time when only a few are called upon to make a difference, but the question is what difference will the few make?” the portentous narrator asked. Solidarity of heirs on the Trump and Kim surreality show 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z But there was still something portentous about a large whale stranding. This Man Has Helped Give 460 Dead Whales a Second Life—As Art 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z A languid, sometimes portentous composition, the sequence of scraping, clanging, creaking, gonging sounds is as aurally prismatic as the colors are visually. Artist Olafur Eliasson built a 'Reality projector' of smashing beauty 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z There was no fanfare surrounding the news here: Indeed, it was buried within an article about much less portentous constitutional arrangements on Page 2 of Monday’s print edition of the party newspaper, the People’s Daily. With a dash of Putin and an echo of Mao, China’s Xi sets himself up to rule for life 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z Annihilation is a portentous movie, and a cerebral one. Annihilation is the most thoughtful science fiction movie since Arrival 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Perhaps more portentous is the restive Senate, a less partisan body where Mr. Mueller’s appointment in May was greeted with relief. Justice Dept. Official Defends Mueller as Republicans Try to Discredit Him 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z What a terrible and portentous decision not only for citizens from the banned countries but also for the very health and future our own nation. The supreme court upheld bigotry before. Its Muslim ban ruling does it again | Moustafa Bayoumi 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z He had been hired April 1, a date perhaps portentous. Perspective | It’s supposed to be a college football coaching search, not Rotten Tomatoes 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z “This,” she said, pointing at the wall and summoning as portentous a tone as she could muster, “is how you build a media empire.” The Voices in Blue America’s Head 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Dylan later praised the Ramblers in his 2004 memoir “Chronicles,” writing that “all their songs vibrated with some dizzy, portentous truth.” Tom Paley, who helped spur folk revival with New Lost City Ramblers, dies at 89 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Klausner and Friedman seem to exist at times solely to spout portentous theories about the Old Testament, Kafka and the Jewish people. Latest Nicole Krauss novel evokes Jewish mysticism, Kafka 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z To Silva, the news was portentous — and a relief. Why were a little girl’s muscles as weak as noodles? The answer was unexpected. 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Frustrated and angry, the White House fought back, threatening retaliation both petty and portentous, eyeing federal jobs and programs in the state of the rebellious lawmaker to force obedience. Lesson for Trump: Hardball Against Senators Is a Game He Can Lose 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z If only he was Hollywood’s idea of a president, equally polite and portentous, grave when he needed to be, soothing otherwise. Donald Trump is 'ill-mannered'. But this is less of a problem than we think | Ross Barkan 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z At the Village Voice, Bilge Ebiri added “ ‘Alien: Covenant’ seethes with self-importance yet is never boring or portentous. Indie Focus: Around the world with Cannes, 'Alien: Covenant' and 'Everything, Everything' 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z Channel 4’s coverage begins with an absurdly portentous analogy between the new-look F1 and the dynamics of the Russian revolution and then perestroika. F1: Russian Grand Prix – live! 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z Actually, the number was somewhat random, though it does have a portentous feel to it. Why 100 days? Trump, who now hates that yardstick, should blame FDR 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z Their one distinguishing mark was a pencil in the right hand and a notebook in the left—a notebook open—waiting, virginally yet ominously portentous. “I.O.U.” 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z The screenwriters tossed out much of Mr. Waller’s portentous prose, opting to let the cinematography and the chiseled faces of Eastwood and Streep carry the story line. Robert James Waller, author of best-selling ‘Bridges of Madison County,’ dies at 77 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z It’s a bit like an intellectual European answer to Papa Was A Rolling Stone, with a stately, portentous beat and eerily scraped strings setting the tone before the various singers begin their verses. These are the songs that never end: 10 of music's most rewarding long cuts 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z It is at times irritatingly self-serious, with scenes weighed down by portentous dialogue and characters who don't seem to have unique voices. 'Legion' is a mindbending superhero tale that may try your patience 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Here was bold proof that the portentous accents of Trump’s inaugural address, also Bannon’s work, was not mere rhetoric. Steve Bannon is calling the shots in the White House. That's terrifying | Lawrence Douglas 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z President Trump’s demeanour was so openly populist and bullish that it seemed primarily designed to provide portentous establishing footage for future documentaries with titles like Dark Star Rising, or The Gathering Storm. Guys, there is one Donald Trump, there is one speech | Marina Hyde 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Tuesday’s meeting between the foreign ministers of Turkey Russia and Iran, with its portentous Moscow Declaration, is supposed to be the first stage in the closure of the civil war on Russian terms. Common ground on Syria unites Russia and Turkey against the west 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Newspaper endorsements, those most portentous of journalistic institutions, also seemed to have little purchase on the outcome of this convention-shattering election. Trump v the media: did his tactics mortally wound the fourth estate? 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z That said, this country finds itself facing an electoral decision starker and more portentous than any in modern memory. Election 2016 is a referendum on demographic change 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z Contrary to its portentous title, this would actually be more of an unrepeal measure, since it would incorporate into British law the whole gamut of current EU legislation. Mind your step 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z In a portentous passage recalling Tony Blair’s penchant for grand historical narratives he cast British politics today as a giant Kulturkampf between open and closed. Not drowning but waving 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z But it’s also one of those industrially produced history lessons in which the archival footage is formlessly assembled and the portentous music is constant — surprising qualities from the normally more judicious Burns. Ken Burns' 'Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War' crisply portrays an American couple's heroism 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Yet we are hardly bothered by the routine practice of presidents rewarding big donors with cushy ambassadorships, appointments to portentous boards and invitations to state dinners. The bribery standard 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Such a portentous and mysterious video roused all my curiosity. Humpback whale nearly pulls a Free Willy onto a pack of kayakers 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z After a series of tests and consultations with two doctors, Eovaldi revealed Tuesday just how portentous that description had been. Yankees’ Eovaldi Faces 2 Elbow Operations, Leaving Career in Jeopardy 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z This time, nothing so portentous looms in his immediate future. Obama Arrives in Martha’s Vineyard for Two-Week Vacation 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z Looming over it all is a portentous bureaucracy that exhibits more pratfalls than a Charlie Chaplin film. Want to end the Olympic war on performance-enhancing drugs? Legalize them 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Not all agree that these deals are particularly media-centric or portentous for the industry. Investing in the Changing Media Landscape 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Fortunately, California’s Supreme Court might soon decide to hear — four years after litigation began — the 21st century’s most portentous civil rights case, which concerns an ongoing denial of equal protection of the law. The injustice of California’s teacher tenure 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z They often begin with a portentous air but, all too often, wind up with exaggerated conclusions and a fatigued public not especially caring. The Survivor 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z But too often Mr. Foy’s prose is portentous and clumsy: “The incunabula of travel and boat repair swirl in my brain.” New Directions 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z They argue that conversion of the lyrical “Ahwahnee Hotel” to the comically portentous “Majestic Yosemite Hotel” can only be calculated to offend. What’s in a Name at Yosemite? 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z That timing sounds portentous, but it is again completely arbitrary. How Stories Drive the Stock Market 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z But surely the portentous tone with which this ordinary injury is related is meant to transmit the sense of a dramatic, disabling calamity. The Peculiar Radiance of Henry James’s Memoirs 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z “By the Sea” has been called languid and lugubrious, portentous and pretentious, and it is, but look past those claims. The year in guilty-pleasure movies: The most delightful flops and worst trainwrecks of the year 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z “It takes a certain degree of vanity,” the Post continued, “to pose in the portentous style Trudeau struck for Vogue”, perhaps preferring instead that he look less at ease or more bashful. A charm offensive: the repellent magnetism of Justin Trudeau 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z It was long awaited and, in some ways, portentous, signaling China’s growing political clout, if not the ascendance of its currency. China Steps Up, but Its Currency Still Has Dues to Pay 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z “Zero is inherently unique and in this particular context could be a bit portentous.” Chief justice favors some when assigning court’s major decisions 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Theranos is a perfect tech company name – it sounds mysterious, Greek and portentous. We should be suspicious of Silicon Valley unicorns and their exorbitant valuations | Mike Daisey 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z It should have sounded portentous when the coach said, “I like to see the ball go up and down the field.” There will never be another ball coach quite like Steve Spurrier 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Then he piles on the studied looks, sorrowful silences and portentous murmurs. Artsy Civil War drama 'The Keeping Room' heads south dramatically 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z And now look at this,” said Juliana Bray, 44, looking suitably impressed in the shadow of the portentous pencil. EXCHANGE: Pencil makes big point in Casey 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z Or are they vague bluster that seems portentous only after the fact? Did Twitter predict El Chapo's escape? Take it with a grain of salt 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Glazy baronial types, with portentous and misguided names: Romulus and Creon, who were pleased to invite us to gala dinners, and to use us as their gloating mirrors. “The Prospectors” 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z Media coverage of the same-sex-marriage retraction was laced with portentous language, claiming that faith and trust in science had been profoundly shaken. Misplaced faith 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z But, as always with Kahlo, any referential meaning is as likely humorous as it is portentous, if not both. What Grew in Frida Kahlo’s Garden? 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Four days later, she was less philosophical, and more portentous. What Happened to Alberto Nisman? 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z But I think the focus—by the media, and by most foreign commentators—on Abe’s economic policies is missing the most transformational, and portentous, part of his agenda. Abe's Post-Election Agenda: Defense And Security Issues To Dominate 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Senate investigators found scant evidence that the CIA devoted any energy to examining available research on the subject after the Sept. 11 attacks — with one portentous exception. Rise and fall of CIA’s overseas prisons traced in Senate report on interrogations 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Several senators bemoaned the lack of substantive debate over such a portentous matter. President and Congress play waiting game on authorization for Islamic State action The latest example is the fadeout of portentous predictions of a “super” or “monster” El Niño warming of the tropical Pacific. The 'Super El Niño' Forecast Fadeout 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Come Tuesday, the national pastime will be the subject of oral arguments in a portentous Supreme Court case. Supreme Court has a chance to bring liberty to teeth whitening I pause the video, and cue up a song: Run Boy Run by Woodkid, one of the advertising tunes of the moment, percussive and urgent and vacantly portentous. The rise of GoPro: why wearable cameras make us film everything 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z A second scenario is, to my mind, more likely, and portentous. Abenomics Fizzles In August; BoJ Reflation Scenarios For FY 2015 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z The producers hastily inserted this epilogue, delivered in appropriately portentous tones: Espionage Threatened the Manhattan Project, Declassified Report Says 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z Where this path will lead is unanswerable, but is one Asia’s portentous geopolitical changes. What Abe's 'Proactive Contributor To Peace' Doctrine Means for China, Asia, and Japan 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z As Europe’s largest research funder, the commission needs to provide incentives that will encourage scientists to embrace, rather than reject, this portentous but hazily defined future. Europe needs a research leader who will lead 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z Among the multiplying foreign policy debacles that are completing the destruction of Barack Obama’s crumbling presidency, many are more portentous but none more emblematic than the closure of the U.S. America needs a conservative internationalist as president For the time being a wary stalemate holds, but the new, precarious balance marks a shift that is portentous. How did it come to this? 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z However, for one part of the political culture — the defense establishment — Cantor’s loss was genuinely portentous. As Military Tensions Rise, House Leadership Turns Away From Defense 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Others were not persuaded that Mr. Cantor’s loss, while momentous, was particularly portentous. Incumbents Fear Cantor’s Loss Will Fill Tea Party’s Sails 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Although Mr. Rivera ends these apocalyptic matters on a triumphant note for heaven and earth, that does not relieve the gloom of his portentous vision. | New Jersey: A Review of ‘Marisol’ at Luna Stage in West Orange 2014-05-03T03:48:48Z In November 2012, the White House issued a thick and portentous update on the health of the nation’s research complex. Billionaires With Big Ideas Are Privatizing American Science 2014-03-15T20:24:24Z Opinions ran from portentous credulity to merry mockery, with lots of clownish commentary and anguished hand-wringing. Harold Camping, Radio Entrepreneur Who Predicted World’s End, Dies at 92 2013-12-17T21:39:17Z People often seek out the profound or portentous phrase. The rise of the text tattoo 2013-09-30T00:00:56Z That everyday question, “How are you?,” with the portentous overlay of tragedy. The New Old Age Blog: What Not to Say at the Bedside 2013-05-29T17:11:07Z The tournament's eight key sponsors had stands and gazebos, Gazprom revealing its function as a gas and pipeline conglomerate with portentous broadcasts extolling its primary product's origins "deep beneath Russia". Welcome to the Champions Festival – but just don't touch the cup 2013-05-23T20:34:38Z It certainly won't be a cheap film to produce, but Ridley Scott's Prometheus, if a meandering mess, proved expensive, mildly portentous sci-fi can make money. Dead Space movie: which film-makers should adapt video games? 2013-05-15T09:49:03Z But he turns portentous when I mention China. Crazy over the Crucible 2013-04-26T11:38:46Z What do you think will be the end of these portentous times? The story of how the tin can nearly wasn't 2013-04-21T15:03:28Z But if self-confidence was high, 1913 also saw its share of portentous events. 2013, like 1913, could see epic transformations in world order 2012-12-30T17:01:01Z "I hope it commands support from both sides of the House," Osborne said with a portentous smirk as he sprang his mantrap. Be bold, Labour, and expose Osborne's skivers v strivers lie 2012-12-06T21:00:07Z Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden, that was President Obama’s “Mission Accomplished moment,” says Nawaz, and there’s an understandable but dangerous reluctance to acknowledge portentous developments since. The Repentant Radical 2012-10-15T05:00:00Z As a happy by-product, it will cure you of any lingering doubts you might have had over the portentous, pusillanimous, utter uselessness of “the international community” into the bargain. The U.N.’s Uselessness on Syria 2012-08-11T08:45:00Z Exultant trumpets sound, heralding another day of this portentous international event. Riff: The Loneliness of Watching the Long-Distance Runner 2012-08-01T20:12:25Z If the knowledge that yesterday was a portentous night serrated the American sense of regret at the outcome, at least they could savor the occasion. Are Americans warming up to rugby? Why it may be the sport's time to shine 2012-06-24T18:46:00Z One of the most portentous came in 1997, when she paid what some Britons saw as a belated tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales, after the princess’s death in a car crash in Paris. With Prince Philip Hospitalized, Queen Elizabeth Embarks on Final Day of Jubilee 2012-06-05T19:44:23Z "I don't think this notional milestone is portentous for the future," Eberstadt said. More minority babies than whites in U.S.: Census Bureau 2012-05-17T23:46:34Z He was startlingly like his father, a circumstance not adverse to his future comeliness as a man, but which made him a little portentous as a baby. Mariquita A Novel 2012-04-24T02:00:19.737Z Despite the large loan expenditure, too, there was a portentous succession of deficits, due to unfavourable seasons, and Sir Samuel Griffith found in 1887 that his Government and party had outlived their popularity. Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information 2012-04-22T02:00:09.320Z This portentous silence was broken by the rush and roar of a hurricane, that swept with the voice and strength of the sea, over the devastated city. The Second War with England, Vol. 2 of 2 2012-04-05T02:00:38.213Z The only remarkable incident of the journey was the mysterious behavior of the few officials who were entrusted with the portentous secret. Baltimore and The Nineteenth of April, 1861 A Study of the War 2012-04-04T02:01:00.923Z The anchor light tossed against the portentous gloom of the land. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z As he came out through the crowded porch, he put his hand into his father's, and with a portentous yawn piped out in his shrillest voice, "Oh, I is so tired." The Suprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion With Those of General Napoleon Smith 2012-04-03T02:00:29.527Z He represents and illustrates a movement the most remarkable, possibly the most portentous, which has disturbed England and the English Church since the time of Wyckliffe. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z I had never seen a London fog before, and to me it seemed portentous and providential; a marvel as great as the crimson hail which fell in the London gardens to mark her Majesty's accession. The Story of Francis Cludde 2012-03-30T02:00:16.347Z Undoubtedly, she possesses the exclusive power of producing these portentous feats; but they cannot materialize except with the co-operation of an unknown agent, some deus ex machina. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z It is fostered by that condition of scientific knowledge in which every portentous natural phenomenon is supposed to be the result of a direct divine interposition, and awakens in consequence emotions of humility and awe. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z The result of that contention is evident to-day only in a supremely dull book in which all the conflicting evidence is printed in page after page of portentous, though hazy, rhetoric. The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old 2012-03-25T02:00:04.800Z And so it seemed to Lindo when, an hour later, the small boy, with the same portentous gravity of face, let him out and bade him good-day. The New Rector 2012-03-22T02:00:35.997Z "To be sure!" replied the captain, with a portentous wink and a mysterious roll of the head. The Story of Francis Cludde 2012-03-30T02:00:16.347Z I asked the meaning of this bizarre and portentous conglomeration of letters. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z To many this animal voice has seemed a portentous sound. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z Several portentous occurrences, equally or more marvelous, have thus been accounted for. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z Gradually, as returning vitality and patriotism increased, opposition to the oppressor multiplied and became more formidable and portentous. Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) 2012-03-19T02:00:25.027Z "Sophia, I am astonished!" he said in portentous tones; and, dull as he was, he was astonished. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z He had not seen her since his last portentous visit to New Romney. Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z Confluence of the latter adds to the gravity; hemorrhagic and purpuric symptoms are in the highest degree portentous, and commonly indicate a fatal result. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z It had been worked up to in steep and audacious ascent, and after it and from it the story would flow down in rushing, inevitable stream to its portentous close. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z At this portentous hour we must reflect Upon the fate awaiting us. The Dramas of Victor Hugo: Mary Tudor, Marion de Lorme, Esmeralda 2012-03-15T02:00:28.817Z The dark-world emerges into the realm of day as a portentous power: and there is the feeling of a double personality, or of an indwelling genius, familiar spirit, or demon. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z "Well," said Old Kipps, and nodded his head portentously towards his nephew, with the corners of his mouth pulled down in a portentous, discouraging way. Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z There was a portentous little glint in his eyes as he slipped it into his pocket. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z Its financial aspects were portentous, to put it mildly. The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg RailRoad 2012-03-02T03:00:07.920Z In Hindustan, this doctrine is still enforced in the most unequivocal manner, through the medium of rites of portentous solemnity and significance to the devotees of the Hindu religion. Ophiolatreia An Account of the Rites and Mysteries Connected with the Origin, Rise, and Development of Serpent Worship in Various Parts of the World 2012-03-01T03:00:28.303Z The Missouri question is the most portentous one that ever threatened the Union. Famous American Statesmen 2012-03-01T03:00:26.167Z He was silent through a portentous moment while topics battled for him and finally he burst and talked of them all together. Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z Desmond guessed their thoughts, and a red flush crept into his sea-bronzed face and a little portentous glint into his eyes. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z But when we study the New Testament by the light of such Codexes as BאDL, we find ourselves in an entirely new region of experience; confronted by phenomena not only unique but even portentous. The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels 2012-02-24T03:00:31.020Z A sort of whisper crept along the tier,—a portentous thrill; one and another, all turned, and before I could gather with my glance who had left them, several seats were voided beneath us. Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z The first primrose had just emerged from its bed when the abb� announced one day the portentous fact that the marquis was packing his valise. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z He never guessed what a new and portentous idea was surging in her brain, and she was careful to drop no hint of it. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z What a long array of sedatives may be required to blot out the remembrance of a crime of such portentous magnitude as this which we are contemplating! My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z Though the volcano was heaving in portentous fashion, society seemed of one mind as to dancing jigs upon it to the last. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z And the little girl with her sawdust doll has become a portentous thing. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z Doubtless you have seen the great comet—Heaven's portentous lightning in the sky, which glares so prophetically down upon us. Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck 2012-02-13T03:00:19.620Z The clock struck ten; Mrs. Worfolk gave portentous utterance to the information that the snapdragon was burning beautiful; there was a rush for the pantry where the ceremony was to take place. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z That difficulty is portentous, for any writer who doesn't approach it na�vely, as only a very limited and simple-minded writer can. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z And always, reverberating and portentous, the siren howled overhead. Running Sands 2012-02-05T03:00:08.983Z But he pointed out that the means spent on portentous armaments could equally be used for other purposes. Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 2012-02-04T03:00:16.443Z She stood still, looking at them with the portentous red flush burning in her cheek. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z The sister kept on simpering vacantly, while her eyes roved from print to print on the walls of the dining-room where the lecture was delivered, and the baby stared at me with portentous solemnity. Our House And London out of Our Windows 2012-02-03T03:00:24.190Z An effort was made, which proved far more portentous than preceding ones, to wrest tragedy back into conformity with the supposed rules of Aristotle. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z Still, there was something oppressive and portentous in the stillness, and his skin was tingling. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z He vaguely felt that it was portentous and emblematical, for that evening the brightness of the West seemed to beckon him. Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z Charley," she said with portentous quietness, "it seems to me that the possession of this document places Merril absolutely in your hands. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z Deep, and perhaps portentous, silence had succeeded the crash. The Corner House Girls on a Houseboat How they sailed away, what happened on the voyage, and what was discovered 2012-01-20T03:00:16.183Z This tradition probably grew out of the established belief in the ten sacred cycles which constitute the great prospective and portentous millennial epoch, as described in Chapter XXX. The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z Then, however, instead of the excuses he had expected, there were wrathful cries, and the Englishman gasped when he saw dim, white-clad figures clambering in portentous haste up the adjacent steps. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z Leger made a little gesture, and glanced at Ingleby, as if to ask for support, but though Hetty's brows were assuming a portentous straightness she smiled again. Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z "You have had your answer," and Eleanor rose and faced him with portentous quietness. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z I knew for instance, that people came and went with a delightful informality and had tea made fresh for them, and were witty or portentous as the occasion demanded. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z But there is likewise a series of portentous facts, bearing upon the institution of bloody sacrifice, which runs through all human history. Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom 2012-01-11T03:00:30.173Z "Black Pete Spooner is in the mountains, and he is here in town," replied the orator quietly, though he found it difficult to make so portentous an announcement calmly. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z One or two were evidently uneasy, others a trifle grim, but there was a portentous murmur from the dusty rabble farther back in the shadow. Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z Her portentous quietness troubled him far more than a flood of tears or a wild outbreak would have done. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z Stanhope brought up Pitt, portentous but unconvincing, with perhaps a unique expression, for he addressed the Speaker as 'dear Sir.' Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z They elected whiskey, at times condescending to gin, and the effect was portentous. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z Such a portentous year is inevitably full of colorful characters. Currents: The Middles Found Their Voice in 2011 2011-12-30T12:20:09Z "Will you be good enough to get out of my way?" asked Esmond with portentous quietness. Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z The sudden portentous silence and the roar of blown-off steam that followed it roused every man on board the ship, and Robertson crawled sluggishly out of his berth. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z Just as we were about retiring, Bose gave a portentous bow wow! but, on going out, and taking a survey of the premises, the alarm proved to be false. The Captive in Patagonia 2011-12-27T03:00:10.803Z Emerging thence, the Titans marched where still Their own portentous shadows went before Like night that fled but shrunk not, dusking all That desert way. The Star-Treader and other poems 2011-12-27T03:00:09.977Z He was so engrossed with this gratifying speculation that he failed to hear seven portentous thumps upon the floor of the passage leading to the studio. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z In 1793 it was regarded as portentous, and the postmasters-general anxiously sought means to reduce it; but Johnson, besides being perfect master of his subject, possessed two faculties which by no means always go together. The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 2011-12-19T03:00:45.273Z Jimmy watched her with eyes half-closed to keep the spray out, which had a portentous glint in them. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z Of course, the neighbourhood of a forest was an essential condition to the establishment of ironworks; but wherever such an establishment was effected, the forest disappeared with portentous rapidity. The Romance of Industry and Invention 2011-12-19T03:00:43.870Z He closed an eyebrow over one of his white-grey eyes with a portentous wink. The Heart of Denise and Other Tales 2011-12-14T03:00:15.733Z To his utter amazement it had swelled to a portentous size, and was as large now as the biggest pumpkin. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z Often, though not always, they are men and women of high physical, intellectual and ethical development, who are affected only with this one portentous abnormality. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z Grey and his friends were enrolled in this portentous association, and presented in parliament its menacing petitions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z The portentous development of the size and power of modern ordnance is exemplified by these guns and the Armstrong guns of one hundred and eleven tons made at Elswick. The Romance of Industry and Invention 2011-12-19T03:00:43.870Z The election also seemed to mark a portentous, new chapter in Russian cyber-politics. Russians Vote; Governing Party Claims Early Victory 2011-12-04T18:59:36Z And, when he had spoken, there ensued a portentous pause. Amusement Only 2011-12-04T03:00:06.637Z That this scene should come back to her now, obtruding itself in the middle of the marriage service, struck her as portentous. The Stronger Influence 2011-12-02T03:00:23.630Z The Dramatic Society, the O.U.D.S., as it is popularly called, will be seen to be a very portentous organization. An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z I doubt if an abler, more intellectual and patriotic set of men were ever before gathered together in this State for the discussion of a subject so delicate and so portentous. Life Gleanings 2011-12-01T03:00:23.890Z The far-off thunders of the plain began again: vibrations as of earthquake first, then explicit sounds, unmistakable and portentous. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z But he did not mean running any risks; and so he remained where he was, rigid, waiting, listening, while the minutes slipped away, and the silence, heavy, portentous of lurking evil, remained absolutely unbroken. Grit Lawless 2011-12-01T03:00:18.137Z At that hour on Sunday night the fact was portentous. A Master of Deception 2011-11-30T03:00:12.357Z For the greater part of his course, an undergraduate's reading is by no means portentous. An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z It was not a village of portentous magnitude, since it only contained thirteen cottages and one shop, the shop being the smallest cottage in the place. A Hero of Romance 2011-11-30T03:00:11.457Z Their quaint and na�ve fancy has there, at times, produced a portentous embodiment of the 'old-fashioned' child of fiction. English Book-Illustration of To-day Appreciations of the Work of Living English Illustrators With Lists of Their Books 2011-11-30T03:00:10.703Z But it is sufficient to point to the consequences: for already it is becoming evident that events of the most portentous nature are developing in the domain of psychological observation. Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits 2011-11-28T03:00:26.030Z After several of these tentative selections of a site, the moment came when Mr. McOstrich swung his black velvet pall in the air and buried his head under its portentous folds. Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-11-24T03:00:44.527Z He wears the head-dress of a chief, and is armed with a bow and arrow of portentous length. The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z One quibble: The production announces every scene with portentous projected titles, an annoying trend I hope will disappear soon. Alan Rickman Devours ‘Seminar’; Boy Scouts Gone ‘Wild’: Review 2011-11-22T00:48:31Z There was no sun visible, not a speck of blue sky, but in their place a wan-white opaqueness which looked portentous and might mean anything. Maid of the Mist 2011-11-21T03:00:11.937Z You will wonder what these rather portentous words refer to—but don't be too much alarmed! The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z In ancient times their appearance was regarded as portentous of national or individual calamities. Nature and Culture 2011-11-17T03:00:34.107Z Antar to European readers, justly remarks that it cannot be translated in full owing to its portentous length. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z Almost at the same time the portentous cry of �Viva Carlos Septimo! was hurled into space. The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel 2011-11-12T03:00:35.113Z And realising Woman's portentous rôle in Racial advance, it is difficult to believe anything but that her rôle must be equally potent in Racial decline. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z That is the grand fact of the situation—that is the tawny lion, portentous creature, in my path. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z He was sitting in the porch, when his dame, with a disturbed and portentous aspect, accosted him:— "I know not what hath come to the lad." The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z The taciturn general in Cuyo was, however, preparing a thunderbolt that would clear the Argentine sky of all these clouds except that most portentous of all—civil war. The South American Republics Part I of II 2011-11-06T02:00:14.827Z All the Se�or de Elorza's energy suddenly vanished like a shadow, at hearing those portentous words. The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel 2011-11-12T03:00:35.113Z As too, the portentous fact that had he not declined in physical and mental calibre, she could never so readily and efficiently have taken his place as we have seen her doing. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z “I know perfectly well that this preamble is portentous.” The Motor Girls at Lookout Beach In Quest of the Runaways 2011-11-04T02:00:22.360Z Very soon after his arrival there was great turbulence in the air, and many portentous storms; the winds became tempestuous, and fiery whirlwinds rushed forth. Old English Chronicles 2011-10-27T02:00:21.903Z We were both deeply affected, for even Ariston, votary of Demeter though he was, could not but feel as I did, that there was something in the choice of Lydia strange and portentous. The Woman Who Vowed The Demetrian 2011-10-24T02:00:18.500Z The breath of the monster began to be felt, blowing freshly and proudly through the narrow mouth of the river; and far away could be heard the low, portentous beating of his heart. The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel 2011-11-12T03:00:35.113Z She overlooks the portentous truth that a law is the expression of a general aspiration toward an ideal for which a people is striving. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z His passion for details not only swelled his volumes to a portentous size, but was fatal to artistic construction. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" 2011-10-22T02:00:29.487Z A virtual conference — itself portentous of sustainable conferencing of the future — means electronic-only travel, in this case to the University of Houston which is hosting the event on its e-learning platform. 'Follow the Sun' Foresight That's Worth Staying Awake For 2011-10-18T14:05:34Z He assumed an air of portentous gravity when he learned the object of our visit. The Woman Who Vowed The Demetrian 2011-10-24T02:00:18.500Z It looks portentous of what is to follow.” Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z The use of this still further causes the mountains of difficulty that loom portentous in our pathway and tower to the heavens to crumble into mole-hills. Alter Ego A Tale 2011-10-13T02:00:41.707Z No human mind would have selected Hardin County for the birthplace of the man who was to grapple with the most portentous problem in all American history. Lincoln, the Politician 2011-10-11T02:01:06.270Z He celebrated four triumphs, and gave a succession of banquets; for he knew that there is no more portentous grumbling than that which proceeds from an empty stomach. The Comic History of Rome 2011-10-09T02:00:24.507Z In his ponderous style, he made portentous statements about the future of information consumption. The Beating Heart of Hewlett-Packard Makes A Case For Relevance 2011-10-07T13:34:59Z She closed it behind her, and for a moment there was a deep portentous silence. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z In the Yellowstone National Park, in the north-west corner of Wyoming, the various phenomena of the geysers can be observed on the most portentous scale. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" 2011-10-05T02:00:17.763Z During all this time, he was thinking out the portentous question that was agitating a tempest. Lincoln, the Politician 2011-10-11T02:01:06.270Z This brother had a blooming countenance, and displayed three chins at least, and a portentous belly, all without the least embarrassment. The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere 2011-10-04T02:00:19.193Z That cigar would have become the center of interest, the portentous symbol of Grant's dogged, taciturn persistence. The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature 2011-10-04T02:00:18.533Z She made a portentous rumour as she moved. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z House of Lords, Tuesday.—Remember one night in years gone by, whilst Hartington was still with us in the Commons, he interrupted one of his own speeches by a portentous yawn. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 16th, 1893 2011-10-02T02:00:16.433Z The twilight of a summer evening was accelerated by a vast and heavy cloud, portentous of a thunderstorm. Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners 2011-10-01T02:00:32.597Z He could not have told why this struck him as portentous. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z He, too, wore tunic and cross-belt and a look of portentous solemnity, such as that on the faces of the Major, Cecil Clarence, and, indeed, everybody else. Cupid in Africa 2011-09-28T02:00:21.467Z How on earth was he ever going to endure the strain if already, in these few hours, his anxiety about her welfare was assuming such deep and portentous proportions! Quick Action 2011-09-26T02:00:28.347Z The portentous figure of her father no longer loomed so highly in her eyes as formerly, and she was the decided woman, with a woman's heart and will, and a woman's rights. The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains 2011-09-24T02:00:16.927Z Once more a smashing force was hurled against the door, followed by a portentous, splintering crack. The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z Now, as it was well known that an eclipse could only happen at new moon, and as Passover was at full moon, this would involve a portentous miracle. The Gospel According To Peter 2011-09-22T02:00:26.513Z This sounds a little portentous, as if my tale were about to take a sensational turn, with bombs and secret agents in it. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z We knew the portentous cloud every day grew darker. Mind Amongst the Spindles 2011-09-20T02:00:13.677Z Had such portentous manifestations of geological activity ever been the normal condition of things since the beginning of that history, there ought to be a record of them in the rocks. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z But I remember that on one of these winning occasions I had a portentous piece of luck. Fifty Years of Golf 2011-09-14T02:00:50.627Z The consequence is a portentous increase of population in nearly every portion of the colored world now under white political sway. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z But the fisherman's house—oh, my good Lord Charles," he added with a portentous shrug, "has dwellers in it that it is best not to trouble. Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's 2011-09-11T02:00:10.443Z You received Jesus, so you are delivered from the tyranny of these unsubstantial and portentous systems, and relegated to the facts of a human life for your knowledge of God. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z Banfi shrank shuddering back at this phenomenon and hid his face in Azrael's bosom, as if he had seen a portentous enchantment. 'Midst the Wild Carpathians 2011-09-09T02:00:57.830Z The doctor was sitting in his portentous study, with a globe at each knee, books all round him, Homer over the door, and Minerva on the mantelshelf. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z But the day when any considerable fraction of China’s laborious millions turn from the plough and handicrafts to the factory must see a portentous reaction in the most distant markets. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z Most portentous of all, perhaps, was the rumor that the placers at Quadjen�� were beginning to show signs of exhaustion. The City of Numbered Days 2011-08-31T02:01:25.807Z The mind, by suggestive symbols, builds something portentous, a vague and tremendous idea. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z And what a strange, odd friendship it seems when we contrast the tender and delicious quietude of the Essays of Elia with the portentous flow of Coleridge's speech! English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z And in the heavy, portentous stillness which succeeded it, there came to the ears of the two besieged men the sounds of distant shouting, faint and far. The Ranchman 2011-08-27T02:00:21.017Z If this be indeed the present spirit of Islam it is a portentous fact, for its numerical strength is very great. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z It looks as if the chief had gone with the crowd," said Leshington when the silence had grown almost portentous, "though that wouldn't be like him. The City of Numbered Days 2011-08-31T02:01:25.807Z I learned there were dark and portentous matters, not actually with us, but looming, each already rather larger than a man’s hand. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z The sentiments in the quotation just made remind one of Emerson's "Nature," the preface of Whitman to his first portentous quarto, "Leaves of Grass," and Wordsworth's essay on the nature of the poetic art. John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings 2011-08-26T02:00:22.667Z The butler and Oliver Bradford were by no means good friends, and it must have been something portentous indeed which brought them to the Rectory together. Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 2/2 A Romance of Real Life 2011-08-25T02:00:33.793Z Around me in arm-chair groups by the fire, or quarrelsome knots suspended over the day's bill of fare, were sleek, full-bodied creatures of dignified girth and portentous gravity—fathers of families, successes in life. The Sixth Sense A Novel 2011-08-24T02:00:18.870Z We knew a slender thread was all That held her now; we saw The dark, portentous shadow fall, And near and nearer draw. Canada, My Land and Other Compositions in Verse 2011-08-23T02:00:28.813Z And here we observe once more the portentous demand of Christ's person upon His followers. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z What is man's knowledge when confronted by the portentous fact of death? Great Ralegh 2011-08-16T02:00:43.100Z Falk paced up and down the room, taciturn, portentous like a thundercloud. The Red Room 2011-08-13T02:00:26.943Z In a portentous statement Mr. Peary and his party declared my Eskimos said I had not been more than two sleeps from land. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z Though the high water was lapping at the foot timbers of the forming, and the weather reports were still portentous, Williams was in fine fettle. The Real Man 2011-07-29T02:00:28.280Z It was therefore an act of portentous waywardness when, at this juncture, a complaint was made of His indifference to ceremonial cleanness. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z The convulsion of 1848 followed; France is still unsettled; and Mr. Webster’s prophecy seems still to be in the course of a portentous fulfilment.” The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 2011-07-27T02:00:32.830Z There was a portentous frown upon her brow; and really, she seemed somewhat of the virago type. The Further Adventures of O'Neill in Holland 2011-07-20T02:00:17.027Z Of all conjectures to account for this pursuit, that of a telegram by the way of Richmond was most probable and most portentous. Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. 2011-07-19T02:00:19.070Z But he was thinking of anything else but relenting, and even I began to see in a few days that something portentous lay behind the apparent apathy of his manner. Cynthia Wakeham's Money 2011-07-18T02:00:24.717Z Is it not a dread mystery in this frail compound of ours—and portentous of evil to come, that this faculty of supporting misery so long outlives the good? The Cavaliers of Virginia or, The Recluse of Jamestown. Vol. II 2011-07-18T02:00:20.080Z Gentlemen, it is but a few short months since dark and portentous clouds did hang over our heavens, and did shut out, as it were, the sun in his glory. The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 2011-07-27T02:00:32.830Z Here, he too frequently draws stark, portentous conclusions that go well beyond the underlying data. Who Made This Mess of Planet Earth? 2011-07-16T04:31:10Z “Are you nearly ready, Henry?” said the lady, who would not notice the last most portentous yawn. One Maid's Mischief 2011-07-15T02:00:22.283Z He had seen Leland's face, and there was something vaguely portentous in the flash of whirling steel and the crash of the blow. By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z All was silent, gloomy, and portentous; not a sound was heard, save the measured tramp of his own troops, as they moved through the bushes. The Cavaliers of Virginia or, The Recluse of Jamestown. Vol. II 2011-07-18T02:00:20.080Z The portentous recorded music by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Utah Symphony Orchestra seemed to indicate that the whole place might ascend heavenward at any moment. A Mormon Spectacle, Way Off Broadway 2011-07-13T10:01:23Z A man who stands near a camp fire projects portentous dimensions on space behind him. Revisiting the Earth 2011-07-12T02:00:36.337Z The third day of their visit, the lull and heaviness of the air increased so strangely and closely, for January, as to seem almost portentous. Home Influence A Tale for Mothers and Daughters 2011-07-10T02:00:16.790Z Her face was set, and there was a portentous glint in her very steady eyes. By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z A portentous calculation ensued, which occupied, I should think, twenty minutes. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z "O that's a meteor sent us, a message dumb, portentous, An undeciphered solemn signal of help or hurt." Stranger Than Fiction Being Tales from the Byways of Ghosts and Folk-lore 2011-07-06T02:00:50.100Z The latter was an elderly man of portentous aspect, ruddy of countenance, and keen of eye. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z The crowds had increased on the shore, watching with intense eagerness the return of the boat; but the expectation was too deep for sound, silence almost portentous reigned. Home Influence A Tale for Mothers and Daughters 2011-07-10T02:00:16.790Z "Still," she said, with portentous calm, "that implies a good deal." By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z The small cloud that had been slowly gathering over the settlement was growing dark and portentous. The White Squaw 2011-07-05T02:00:26.437Z There was something portentous in the sight of this relic of the past rising up as it were in judgment upon him, here in this lonely nook, away at the other side of the world. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z I thinke it be no other, but enso; Well may it sort that this portentous figure Comes armed through our watch so like the King That was and is the question of these warres. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z And see what portentous shadows crowd the long reaches of the Dover Road, and demand attention! The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike 2011-07-04T02:00:17.130Z Leland turned sharply, and looked at her with a portentous sparkle in his eyes. By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z |
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