It was that last incident that seemed, at the time, the most portentous -- foreshadowing her resignation over Brexit.
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The shift from "Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County" to "The Hills" was the most portentous of the reality-show era.
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One of the most portentous suggestions in The Last Jedi, abandoned in The Rise of Skywalker, was Luke Skywalker's hint that his Force Ghost would haunt Kylo Ren after death.
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The second is that he is America's most portentous self-help guru: "The world will tell you that you need more government, more protection, more rules, and more edicts," he solemnly intoned.
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Many of the most portentous plot points that have happened this half-season, like Sherry freeing Daryl and escaping herself, or Ezekiel finally deciding to join the Alexandrians, or Sasha's suicide run, have been narrated by the characters afterward when they could have made for compelling moments of drama if actually depicted.
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Carlo Rovelli, "The First Scientist, Anaximander and his Legacy" (Yardley: Westholme, 2011).Daniel W. Graham, "Explaining the Cosmos: The Ionian Tradition of Scientific Philosophy" (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006). Karl Popper calls this idea "one of the boldest, most revolutionary, and most portentous ideas in the whole history of human thinking."Karl Popper, "Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge" (New York: Routledge, 1998), pg 186.
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Historian William Stubbs, who considered the revolt "one of the most portentous events in the whole of our history", painted by Hubert von Herkomer. Contemporary chroniclers of the events in the revolt have formed an important source for historians. The chroniclers were biased against the rebel cause and typically portrayed the rebels, in the words of the historian Susan Crane, as "beasts, monstrosities or misguided fools".; London chroniclers were also unwilling to admit the role of ordinary Londoners in the revolt, preferring to place the blame entirely on rural peasants from the south-east.
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Hazlitt 1930, vol. 11, p. 330. Edward Irving, c. 1823, artist unknown Curious visitors to the chapel, along with some uneasy regular members of the congregation,Hazlitt notes that "the more serious part of his congregation indeed complain". Hazlitt 1930, vol. 11, p. 39. would have been faced with a man of "uncommon height, a graceful figure and action, a clear and powerful voice, a striking, if not a fine face, a bold and fiery spirit, and a most portentous obliquity of vision" with, despite this slight defect, "elegance" of "the most admirable symmetry of form and ease of gesture", as well as "sable locks", a "clear iron-grey complexion, and firm- set features".Hazlitt 1930, vol.
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Réville began to use the legal indictments that had been used against suspected rebels after the revolt as a fresh source of historical information, and over the next century extensive research was carried out into the local economic and social history of the revolt, using scattered local sources across south-east England.; Interpretations of the revolt have changed over the years. 17th-century historians, such as John Smyth, established the idea that the revolt had marked the end of unfree labour and serfdom in England. 19th-century historians such as William Stubbs and Thorold Rogers reinforced this conclusion, Stubbs describing it as "one of the most portentous events in the whole of our history".
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