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portentous |
There was nothing portentous or solemn about him. He was bubbling with humour. |
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portentous |
The report contains numerous portentous references to a future environmental calamity. |
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portentous |
Recent developments are as portentous as the collapse of the Berlin Wall. |
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portentous |
The present aspect of society is portentous of great change. |
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portentous |
Sunderland won 2-1; perhaps he will think it portentous. |
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portentous |
The split reflected a portentous difference of approach within the Party. |
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portentous |
Hence the portentous, and even fatuous slogan which towered each year in brightest blue above the rostrum. |
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portentous |
Its consequences were historically portentous. |
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portentous |
Portentous choices were forced on him by the dozen. |
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portentous |
With "Blue Nights", named for the intense and portentous beauty of the dying light on a summer day, Ms Didion has translated the sad hum of her thoughts into a profound meditation on mortality. |
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portentous |
Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade. |
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portentous |
Strikes occurred, but none as portentous as the strike in the Lenin shipyards in Gdansk that began on August 14, 1980. |
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portentous |
The problem with the book is that it sometimes descends into portentous philosophizing. |
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portentous |
In social politics, too, the city's contribution to 20th century thought and culture was no less portentous. |
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portentous |
The altered states, the plangent electronic keyboards, and her use of Biblical text all conspire to create a portentous sound. |
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portentous |
Last week Karl-Marx Allee was again treated to the sounds of portentous rhetoric and polite laughter. |
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portentous |
That Grunwald had a good seat for all this is obviated by his talent for the portentous and gift for the unremarkable. |
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portentous |
The captured instant often takes on meanings far more portentous than the actual event. |
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portentous |
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portentous |
Such alarms reflected the Alsops' tendency to cloak their analyses in portentous terms of dread and dismay. |
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portentous |
Neither the Realists nor the photographers were unaware of the significance of such a portentous conjunction. |
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portentous |
Answer: Workshop worker can hide below car, machine tool and loftier equipment, not portentous fluster runs. |
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portentous |
Following the magically hushed orchestral entrance, the fateful tread of the tutti main theme is powerfully portentous. |
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portentous |
Toad was quite alarmed at this very serious and portentous style of greeting. |
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portentous |
Keep it, in any case, familiar, facetious even, rather then pedantic and portentous. |
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portentously |
She frowned portentously to add weight to her suggestion. |
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portentously |
'No good will come of this,' she announced portentously. |
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portentously |
The lamps had a portentously elastic swing with them. |
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portentously |
Portentously, the engines began to roll. |
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portentously |
Halberstam paragraph usually filled a page, unfolding portentously towards some great quotation that glimmered in the final line. |
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portentously |
"The dif-ference is," he said portentously, "you are Anglo-Saxons, we are Latins." |
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portentously |
"Yes, Mr. Marx, " said the Director portentously. "I did ask you to come to me here. |
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portentously |
First they declare portentously that the European club is in deep "crisis" and unable to function. |
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portentously |
Louis surveyed me with his shrewd gray eyes and shook his head portentously. |