| The phrases evoke both the portentousness of a movie script and the gnomic meter of haiku. |
| He has staked out his claim for being a great critic through portentousness, pomposity, and extravagant pretension, and, from all appearances, seems to have achieved it. |
| Mr Hollinghurst crafts a credible but somehow awful poem for Cecil, echoing Rupert Brooke's clammy portentousness. |
| Archie carries volume and weight and just the right edge of portentousness to give the viewer insight as well as satisfaction. |
| Such writing, drawing attention to itself as highly wrought, risks either whimsicality or portentousness. |
| But it is also a hugely celebratory collective insanity, a world away from the portentousness and individualism of much current hip-hop and rock. |
