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Portentous meaning
Of momentous or ominous significance. | Ominously prophetic. | Puffed up with vanity.
Synonyms of Portentous
Example sentences (16)
A narrator calls for strength to "annihilate" 's enemies, as portentous music plays in the background.
And of course the whole thing was carried off with such chutzpah that you could let slide some of its more portentous posturing.
I write this as a question because I can hardly believe it and it seems portentous?
The literary world was scandalised: Gilbert’s decision seemed a portentous overreaction.
This week, Apple finally let a carefully selected few people try out its boldest, most portentous product since 2007’s iPhone.
And, alluding to another portentous incident, he remarks “The crowing of the cock was such a childish thing.
Here it’s a folk tale, a Scottish riff on Rip Van Winkle with some portentous observations about loss and time.
Interestingly, Troy’s fascination with snakes is portentous.
Yet, like those portentous prophecies about the demise of Mother Earth, predictions about the imminent death of the office have thus far been no more accurate than the fabled IHME coronavirus fatality projections.
But whereas the pedigree of Paul Feig’s double-Oscar nominee lies in television originated on the stage, and writer-director Leslye Headland () mines material as portentous as the Seven Deadly Sins.
If portentous pomposity sounds like fun, you’re in luck!
Arthur Birling Arthur Birling is described as "a heavy-looking, rather portentous man in his middle fifties", husband of Sybil, and father of Sheila and Eric Birling.
Charleson, who had studied the Bible intensively in preparation for the role, told director Hugh Hudson that he didn't feel the portentous and sanctimonious scripted speech was either authentic or inspiring.
Riefenstahl relies heavily for her transitions on portentous cutaways to clouds, mist, statuary, foliage, and rooftops.
So we figured we could write poetry that would sound very portentous but be, in fact, meaningless.
These roles would require such inane phrases as "snap snap", "rumble rumble", "roar roar snarl slaver", or "chug chug futt", preceded by portentous announcements such as ".