Often hovering portentously around the edge of the drama, he pops up at irritatingly convenient moments to keep the plot going. |
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A Halberstam paragraph usually filled a page, unfolding portentously towards some great quotation that glimmered in the final line. |
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The camera tracked around them portentously as they sat at glowing laptops in a dimly-lit smoky room and, bit by bit, revealed the purported secret of Christie's success. |
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Among the few quincentenary projects to reach a satisfactory conclusion is a twelve-volume series called, somewhat portentously, the Repertorium Columbianum. |
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And then all this gets underlined and italicized by a portentously romantic score. |
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I came down to my birthday breakfast on my eighth birthday and announced, formally and portentously, to my family that I was going to be an author. |
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He blusters as he settles into a chair or sips portentously from a glass of wine or fustily examines plants with a magnifying glass. |
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The trap with Harold's work, for performers and audiences, is to approach it too earnestly or portentously. |
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