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"Portentous," Lady Maltenby replied; with a smile.
The Devil's Paw 1906
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Summer's End -- "Portentous" is the only word that seems to suit the slate-gray colour of the skies over upstate New York today.
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Summer's End -- "Portentous" is the only word that seems to suit the slate-gray colour of the skies over upstate New York today.
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Portentous imagery tosses narrative clarity aside, as director Pieter Van Hees commits to surreal sensations that allow for little hope.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2009
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My only real problem with it is that the author has a seriously annoying tic, which is to say he seems to be unable to pen a single chapter without Portentous Utterances Of Impending Doom, of the "Little did they know --" variety.
the winds are crying remember me through the holy silence of the desert and the sea cristalia 2007
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Portentous music swelled up in the background and the three men resumed their seats, struggling for composure.
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I don't remember seeing such a straightforward strapline on recently-published books, which seem to have a tendency to the Epic And Portentous.
Greenmantle Carla 2006
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I don't remember seeing such a straightforward strapline on recently-published books, which seem to have a tendency to the Epic And Portentous.
Archive 2006-02-01 Carla 2006
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Before such happy outcome, a Portentous Owl gazes speculatively at our sleep-deprived hero, and there's other business like an Underground Vision-Quest lit by a road-flare, and a subway rave, and a cruel police inspector with a big birthmark, and other idiosyncratically archetypal new oxymoron! things that the movie screeches to the brink of beating you over the head with, but then mostly doesn't.
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2004
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It's hard to make a Portentous Owl not seem over the top -- that's the whole point of being Portentous.
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2004
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