| Just don't forget to dance round your fire in a clockwise direction to ensure good portents for your family in the coming season. |
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| There is a scent of change in the air, as a devastated people eagerly interpret the smallest of signs as portents of a new beginning. |
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| We gaze at the sky as it allows clouds to drift fluffily through it, and appears entirely empty of portents. |
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| Interpreting deformities as portents or signs of divine displeasure continued well into the sixteenth century. |
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| The artist began to feel a general unease as things that happened and things he saw seemed to be signs and portents of some great event. |
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| The midwife had muttered of portents and omens, but the full confirmation came some hours later. |
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| But for all the omens and portents, the magic in Shalimar is firmly at the service of the realism. |
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| I thought of how, in Tibetan Buddhism, tigers are symbols of strength and compassion, sometimes also portents of death. |
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| By now the portents and ill omens that had dogged the start of their journey were receding quickly into memory. |
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| But signs and portents certainly suggest this power surge could help manifest something you've always wanted. |
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| We've been reading the tea leaves and rolling the bones, and the signs and portents tell us, something totally wicked this way comes. |
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| Perhaps he will surprise us all at Muirfield, but the portents are unpromising. |
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| Oblivious to the signs and portents that he's making a very big mistake, he takes the job. |
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| It is the morning of New Year's Eve, 2003, and the sky above my home in Brooklyn is streaked with jet trails, portents of unseen danger. |
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| It is in this context that we have to consider the portents for Ethiopia, and beware. |
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| Skipper of the 1982 team and scorer of the first goal against Scotland, Steve Sumner, believes the portents are promising for the current crop. |
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| Ragnarök will be heralded by a host of terrifying natural and supernatural portents. |
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| Subsequent portents were missed, procedures altered and tests muffed which should have saved the rig. |
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| Particularly for growth companies, the signs and portents were mixed even prior to the attacks on September 11, and since then they've grown only murkier. |
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| The portents are good for the economy at the beginning of our trio presidency. |
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| We'll have to see what he comes up with, but the portents are grim. |
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| We're not there yet but the signs and portents are mounting up. |
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| The major labor market problems faced by out-of-school youth during the 1990s carry portents for likely developments as their numbers increase in the years ahead. |
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| These were signs and portents, she realized, visitations and apparitions from a tangled mess of folklore, some unrecognizable and others merely silly. |
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| But while the ancient imagination doubtless conjured up giants in plumes of gas from fumaroles, the earthquakes that Pliny described so casually were more than just portents. |
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| In those works, skies and landscapes seem filled with portents, animals convey a preternatural awareness, and lurid light touches everything with strange glamour. |
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| When their portents and prophecies fail there are excuses and denials. |
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| It is our view that the relative poor performance of U.S. junk and corporate debt issues provides clear and ominous portents for the coming cycle downturn. |
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| Admittedly, these observers were watching the skies in the hope of gleaning future portents. |
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| However, with the gimlet eyes of a new blogger, I detect ominous portents of change. |
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| It will explore the role of the Spirit and of the Church as signs and portents of the goal of all endeavour in the glory of God. |
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| With so many dark portents hanging overhead, the people are losing their faith. |
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| The mutter of sinister threats and portents was already to be heard. |
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| Biblical preaching calls us to pay attention to the portents of death masquerading as success and the tokens of resurrection hope in the midst of despair. |
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| There are just two episodes to go in The affair, and many portents that things are not going to end well. |
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| In the end I suspect that more people will want to believe that things are really all right despite the portents, rather than accepting that we're on the eve of destruction. |
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| In 2001 the couple got married in the face of some unpropitious portents. |
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| It is therefore understandable that these priests at times forced the 'gods' of the Elements or the blind forces of nature to answer prayers by various portents. |
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| The portents were positive for the Australian team when they took on Uruguay six months later especially after a 1-0 home win had the team on the verge of a historic FIFA World Cup qualification. |
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| At the same time, there are portents of their anticipation in the influence of the Synod of Bishops in the life of the Church and of her Mission in the world. |
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| Its promotion of inter-ethnic dialogue and harmony, and its fight against intolerance and alls forms of discrimination, are portents of success in the quest for lasting peace in Afghanistan and elsewhere. |
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| With climate change and global warming, the portents are not good. |
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| These monstrous portents that before me rise Of mitred pimps, and coronetted spies! |
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| Three other portents of disaster were described by Paolo Giovio in 1549 and repeated in John Polemon's 1578 account of the battle. |
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| Vespasian eventually believed that this prophecy applied to him, and found a number of omens, oracles, and portents that reinforced this belief. |
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| The Annal seems originally to have been used by the priesthood to keep track of omens and portents. |
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| He would say he had seen flickering lights and images of fetch candle, which, in Pembrokeshire, were portents of death. |
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| There would be a search for the new incarnation a gifted boy identified through oracles, portents, clues left by his predecessor, and the intervention of senior lamas. |
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| The paper concludes that the Sharia debates evoke contradictory portents of despair and hope regarding the survival and future of Nigeria as a multi-ethnic federation. |
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| If critics rave about the film, that might be another story, but in this corner-cutting, beat-the-strike-deadline summer, the portents are not good. |
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| Indeed, there can scarcely be another discipline in which oddities and coincidences are so often seen as portents of professional success or failure. |
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| McGill Universitys Desmond Morton, one of Canadas most distinguished historians, looks back at the history of foreign occupations in Afghanistan and finds them rather ominous portents for the UNapproved NATO mission. |
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| After that the summer holidays beckon, so most participants have set the weekend of July 14th-15th as the effective deadline for a deal. In one sense the portents are not good, especially on the Unionist side. |
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| However, regardless of evil portents, prophetic despair and a great deal too much writing on the wall, I have managed so far to write two fairly cheerful musical comedies. |
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