| Many will see the Asian disaster as portending the advent of doomsday. |
| Both of them were eccentric originals, portending the radical pluralism that overtook the art world in the next generation. |
| The signs portending deflation are all-around for those who have eyes to see. |
| But perhaps the dreadful birth defects and mutated plants are not evidence at all, but signs and wonders portending some great event. |
| His aversion to the sound of the brook can, therefore, come from no conscious knowledge of a portending catastrophe in the dream. |
| Hours earlier, there were no outward signs portending the unfortunate turn for I'll Have Another. |
