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Sentence Examples The story has been simplified to the level of a cartoon, the music is portentous, and the lyrics are more risible than profound. As the portentous millennium approached, evangelical thoughts turned to the long-awaited Second Coming of Christ and thence to Armageddon. The portentous first page of text does not mention the artist, whose engraved image floats within an oval frame on the facing page. Wasn't this apocalyptic comment portentous with all the flooding and massive tidal waves around Thailand and the Indian Ocean? To the Macedonians, the future is always portentous, ringing with the ominousness of the past. After a portentous prologue, the film shifts five years ahead, showing him in his new position as lieutenant in the citizen police force. The same might be said of slow-moving animation that aims at portentous but achieves boring. Miller had the advantage of having seen the play in the early 90s, when it was momentous and portentous. The novel is divided first into portentous segments of the liturgical year. The physiognomy of the city and the bearing of its inhabitants share the portentous aspect of a drama. The first half of the movie is full of dreadful portentous moments that either go nowhere or end in cheap shocks. He is finely convincing in his portentous and lengthy narration, which can be wearisome if the words are enunciated less clearly than here. Lou gently lay Bev's hand back on the mattress and bowed his head with a solemnity that Nora thought both tender and portentous. Two monumental still-life paintings contain much the same air of portentous unreality. This is all very solemn and portentous, but it's impossible to shake the feeling this is a virtuoso example of preaching to the converted. Don't go getting the impression that Demonstration is at all pompous or portentous, though. While we study the pictures we are assaulted by an overblown, portentous, bombastic Bernard Herrmann score that borders on self-parody. The programme even opens with a theatrically portentous pre-credits teaser, an appetising foretaste of the bloodshed to come. In the process, what could have been a portentous freak show of rural grotesques became a memorable portrait of painful family fissures. This is music that has a megalomaniac quality, that creates a portentous grandiosity without much in the way of inner self-reflexivity. Show More Sentences In Milan Kundera's clumsy new novella, a portentous, worn-out philosophy that borders on the ironic and absurd stands in for real thinking. The title track tries to deflate its portentous musical backing of crashing cymbals and thunderous pianos with daft lyrics about needing a new eiderdown and some binoculars. Titchmarsh just isn't programmed for portentous, monumental declamation. The portentous original plan was to make three trilogies and so far we've been subjected to all three of the middle trilogy and, more recently, two of the first. The scene is grim and portentous, and a sense of foreboding looms. The idiocy, and it is perennial, is to look at polls three or six or nine months out and make these pretentious and portentous conclusions before any human being has voted. He delights in tracing similarities of metaphor, suggestive accidents of fate, portentous parallels, uncanny coincidences, and unexpected connections. Friedman, an unalloyed idealist when it comes to capitalism, and concomitantly a rampant technophile, is suddenly sober and portentous when it comes to Iraq. The film blends documentary and fiction, but the attempts at actual documentary, via old photos and a portentous narration, aren't worth the trouble. An example is the opening scene, in which the portentous water drops and golden filters are far too over-the-top in their attempt to highlight that scene's importance. Or, recently, some have been the opposite: sassily postmodern reactions to those portentous creations. Elements we interpret as romantically fatalistic must have seemed unbearably portentous immediately prior to the war. But we can all recognise the uncanny quality of his dream: that chilling, portentous atmosphere. But in the second theme, in the parallel minor, the mood becomes portentous, even Baroque in its rhythmic pounding. The intersection of the Arab-Israeli and decolonization conflicts had triggered a portentous East-West confrontation. The man drew an hour glass, with a full moon and straw limbs to it, and armed the spreading fingers with a portentous fan. An even bigger mistake is the dialogue, which slipperily shuttles between the farcical and the portentous, inducing gales of laughter in the most inappropriate places. In less capable hands these songs would be untenably portentous, but he allows them to breathe with humanity and loads them with some ringer lines to make them likable. The portentous dignities bestowed upon officials and sympathizers were partly for Roman consumption, setting him up as arbiter of status and palace-based master of the city. Looking back, the designation appears and sounds absurdly portentous. Show More Sentences These portentous rumblings aside, no coherent position on ectogenesis has emerged so far within the pro-life movement. As in his previous film, Central Station, another road movie and a great one, Salles doesn't try to lyricize landscapes or fill them with portentous menace or serenity. As such, there is a portentous quality here that can occasionally get in its own way. Little moments are portentous of grand sweeping changes, and big, dramatic moments are meaningless to all but the few involved. Behind these macho moves lie some pretty dramatic and portentous policy decisions. They can be portentous and relentlessly self-assertive. In an excerpt from his portentous work of revelation, Christ speaks of his spiritual return as occurring in a nation beyond the great ocean, that is to say, the Atlantic. Nonetheless, they feel satisfied and proud to be able to show off this portentous world of marvels they have created through the power of their science. The films progressed from Ozploitation fodder to the portentous story of a broken man's spiritual voyage back to humanity via death-defying heroic acts. This portentous Lyre is the Creative Larynx! These formative events seem to collide in a portentous mosaic that propelled Giselle Rufer on a path of independence and self-described rebellion from the conventional roles of women. The rehearsals, portentous theme tunes, garish computer graphics, live links and guests had not prepared for such an SNP tsunami and the decimation of the Liberal Democrats. The single, Never Fade Away, has the portent of a Killers track: portentous sound, portentous vocals, as though to convey the idea that they are talking about Important Stuff. The aims of the Conference are abundantly clear, and its ends so portentous that it is highly improbable that any fundamental differences of opinion will arise during its deliberations. Heaven knows we don't want a return to the portentous prolixity of Star Wars or the philosophical blather of the Matrix trilogy, but some small relevance to the world we live in would have been appreciated. This somewhat portentous designation refers to the four provincial federations that are able to resource and sustain functioning offices and executive personnel. 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. It drummed tackily to gather my attention, coughed, spat, cleared its throat, and, on the eve of that portentous communication, retired up stage as a multitude whispering. Examples from Classical Literature After a frantic chase Jambres paused, breathless, in front of a building of portentous proportions. He vaguely felt that it was portentous and emblematical, for that evening the brightness of the West seemed to beckon him. Naming him was a portentous proceeding and one not to be lightly gone about. Apparently the amount of Anglophobia was not portentous, when it came to putting this emotion to the test of counting heads. Therefore he drew him aside in a manner as portentous and ingratiating as he could make it. So general was once the belief in its portentous nature that Ehrenberg described it under the name monas Prodigiosa. The most portentous crisis in the history of the human family has just passed. He delivered himself of this long speech with an air of portentous gravity. But scarce was this done ere the portentous strength of the Black Knight forced his way inward in despite of De Bracy and his followers. I imagine it was carried on clandestinely and, I am certain, with portentous gravity, at the back of copses, behind hedges. Because from such arms conquests come but slowly, long delayed and inconsiderable, but the losses sudden and portentous. He had hastily helped us to the soup, and was dispatching an ample plateful with portentous speed. The anchor light tossed against the portentous gloom of the land. All in black he was, and horrifying and portentous he strode in. I was as a man sapped of all strength by some portentous struggle. They were almost always solemn and portentous, and they were for the most part of a deathly respectability. There was a portentous composure in Frank's manner which showed that he had other news to communicate than the news of his dismissal. Tom drew an hour-glass with a full moon and straw limbs to it and armed the spreading fingers with a portentous fan. He caught the color of what was passing about him, and threw it back more vividly than he received it, but mixed, nevertheless, with a lurid and portentous hue. There were such portentous shepherdesses among the Ladies Dedlock dead and gone, he told us, that peaceful crooks became weapons of assault in their hands. Show More Sentences It was portentous however that they did not laugh aloud, for the brute's act constituted a side-splitting witticism according to the ethics which rule green Martian humor. But come out now, and look at this portentous lower jaw, which seems like the long narrow lid of an immense snuff-box, with a hinge at one end, instead of one side. Such a portentous and mysterious monster roused all my curiosity. Find more words! 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