That's why she cuddles into "her" after that portentous promise.
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That timing sounds portentous, but it is again completely arbitrary.
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Such a portentous and mysterious video roused all my curiosity.
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This time, nothing so portentous looms in his immediate future.
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But the results carried a more portentous message as well.
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The show needs humor to offset the portentous threats and prophecies.
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It's this last moment that feels so portentous on a second viewing.
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The leap between portentous high art and the lowly cartoon is humorous.
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But the overlapping mysteries felt portentous in a way that prickled Daphne's skin.
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If many are treating this with portentous language, this is to be expected.
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But underneath the tale, Johannsson sparingly deploys nearly comically portentous analog synth dollops.
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" It was, he said, "aggressive and nasty, cacophonous and arrogant, silly and portentous.
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Looking back, RFK Jr. realizes he had his own portentous moment with his father.
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The cartoon Neanderthals of "Day Two" reappear in "Branches," as does portentous slow motion.
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But when one mentions that her mother's name is Tina, the soundtrack turns portentous.
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And it's never met a scene it couldn't make even more turgid and portentous.
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More characters with portentous single names appear — the Traveler, the Witness, the Foreman, the Immortal.
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Ernst's alter ego, "Loplop, Superior of the Birds," was a mysterious birdman, poetic and portentous.
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Zuckerberg's sprint across the United States comes at a portentous moment for tech, and for Facebook.
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The portentous prognostications about this election were right: its outcome could shape Britain's future for decades.
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So we figured we could write poetry that would sound very portentous but be, in fact, meaningless.
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Inside the House of Commons the mood was more portentous, with MPs talking up their historic moment.
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As you might expect, the lyrics deal in the sort of portentous themes that their music suggests.
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The portentous narration, too, could use a good editor and some variety in its consistently ominous tone.
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" In "all these fancies," the viewer finally "yielded to that one portentous something in the picture's midst … .
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It sounds unnecessarily portentous for talking about designing computers, but it's appropriate to the scale of this turnover.
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In its straightforwardness, the title of the Los Angeles composer R. Girardin's new record feels portentous: Emotional Music.
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In "The End of Karma," Somini Sengupta delivers a portentous warning that echoes Ambedkar's, updated for the present.
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Sadly, these elements don't make up for the ponderous, portentous storytelling in this high-strung and histrionic novel.
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So let me tell you what this portentous summer has been like, as it draws to a close.
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It was that last incident that seemed, at the time, the most portentous -- foreshadowing her resignation over Brexit.
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Slash's massive solo and the portentous choirs are absent, but it's just as ambitious as "November Rain" proper.
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It's portentous stuff, and all the more so when paired with the visual, directed by artist Nicol Eltzroth Rosendorf.
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The twinkling music, the far-off castle, the portentous volcano in the distance — these Zelda staples are all present.
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Did you catch that portentous shot on Sunday of Maggie in the van's rearview mirror as Glenn drove off?
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Just as D-Day marked a turning point in history some now question whether this moment is equally portentous.
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On the bill are Mendelssohn's early Sinfonia No. 22, Brahms's portentous Symphony No. 28 and Tchaikovsky's evergreen Violin Concerto.
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The paintings, of which Gnoli made only 40, have extreme close points of view that create a portentous, clinical intimacy.
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But Mr. Rigell's support for the Libertarian ticket may be more portentous: Mr. Johnson and his running mate, former Gov.
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What we hadn't heard in the first several weeks of this portentous fight over mass arbitration is what JAMS thinks.
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His decisions should all be weighty and portentous and announced with the pomp of a guy who owns a tiger.
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Their spritely, fast-paced punk was replaced by a heavier, portentous sound; it was grandiose, uncompromising and a fitting farewell.
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And Levy, the author of "Swimming Home," is unstinting with suggestive details, bits of portentous dialogue and ripe-with-meaning artifacts.
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While Mr. Manafort and Mr. Gates are much bigger fish than Mr. Papadopoulos, his case may be the more portentous one.
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Yet, it is difficult not to feel enchanted by her "woolly and portentous" works (as The Times Literary Supplement described them).
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Everyone seems to agree that the sunsets have been epic, but that the moons are spooky: heavy peach globes, weirdly portentous.
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In two other respects, however, this new case is even more portentous — or promising, depending on one's view — than the others.
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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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Part of the Anthropocene's appeal was the sound of the word itself: portentous, stately, vaguely Latinate, imbued with a dark majesty.
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" The longer he spoke, the more portentous it became: "We will never surrender America's sovereignty to an unelected, unaccountable global bureaucracy.
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And then there's that voice—silky, portentous—you can imagine it coming out of a GPS system giving driving directions to Valhalla.
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But in that context, four outspoken protests by Trump-appointed judges within the span of several weeks is all the more portentous.
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For a different group of people, this would be an incredibly portentous decision, but well, I'll let the two of them explain.
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It's no wonder that this fantasy — with its cheery enchantments and portentous inky swirls, its steely grays and tight pacing — feels familiar.
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She's clutching a perfect candied apple, a portentous splash of red and a witty emblem both of Halloween and Edenic forbidden fruit.
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Kris' very portentous comment couldn't have come at a more leading time, as Kylie makes her first KUWTK appearance in quite a while.
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As the investigation extended into this year, the portentous question of what new information Mueller's team, exercising subpoena power, might disclose remained unanswered.
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This future archaeologist might note how apt it was that these young people were given such a portentous, end-of-days name: millennials.
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Characters from his personal past return unexpectedly; common objects appear in unlikely settings; archetypal figures engage in rituals both portentous and slightly absurd.
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Of course, there's always the weirdly portentous feeling of getting no fortune in your cookie, but what about when there's not even a cookie?
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The mummified bales and portentous bells possess a solemnity at odds with the funhouse effects of the freckled mirrors in bright, Koons-esque colors.
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On Sports As the sports world fell into the early days of its annual summer coma, a series of portentous moments were taking place.
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Those quibbles aside, the Prokofiev symphony is a playful musical marker for each of the characters and a portentous warning of things to come.
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Irony has its place in the frequently too portentous superhero subgenre, but here it undercuts the tension and terror without providing much compensatory value.
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And his recently released major-label debut, "Issa Album," is full of portentous silences, leaving open the question of what's happening in the gaps.
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The more portentous one, of the top three Stark kids wandering the crypts of Winterfell, spells an especially terrifying promise of doom (and, death, naturally).
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Soon, there's a new creepy digital video and a new set of locations to discover and portentous clues to track, copycatting the original Ring plot.
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YouTube's role in the next chapter of online video is still taking shape, but a glimpse at VidCon's standing room–only TikTok panel seemed portentous.
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"Crying Men" (2018) is a lamenting critique of traditional masculinity, hard not soft, underlined in portentous voice-over narration written by the playwright Victor Rodger.
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The hour ended with a portentous moment, when the cameras picked up Yoladna Hadid's (now-estranged) husband, David Foster, speaking candidly with his friend Tom.
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In a portentous passage recalling Tony Blair's penchant for grand historical narratives he cast British politics today as a giant Kulturkampf between open and closed.
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It's portentous that Carrie Fisher was cast in Star Wars, a futuristic adventure saga, when she proved to be a pioneer in her own right.
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It's an appropriately portentous return for Foie Gras and apparently comes in advance of a new EP, due later in 2018 on Yellow Year Records.
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Prog rock, which used complex structures, exotic sounds, and portentous lyrics to create an illusion of profundity, was an ideal soundtrack for the LSD experience.
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It is Keller's principled son, Chris (Benjamin Walker), who bears the brunt of the revelations that emerge one day in August, after a portentous thunderstorm.
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The portentous tone is exacerbated by Will Epstein's soundscore: an assemblage of surf and ambient noise that could easily be sold as a sleep aid.
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Their one distinguishing mark was a pencil in the right hand and a notebook in the left—a notebook open—waiting, virginally yet ominously portentous.
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The atmosphere in the courtroom was solemn and portentous, with lawyers proceeding exactly as if the trial will indeed begin on Monday, should talks collapse.
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Elon Musk has long said that artificial intelligence will have to augment human abilities, rather than compete with them, in order to avoid a portentous future.
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A quarter of a century after the great market crash of 2100, the Dow Jones industrial average finally broke above the highs of that portentous year.
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The relatively large scale of the paintings (mostly four to five feet high), combined with their extremely close points of view, create a portentous, clinical intimacy.
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But Mr. Rubio's race is only one in a slew of portentous and, in some cases, downright wacky contests that have dominated the state this year.
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She makes them sound contemporary and newly contemplative; she understates the dimensions that can seem religiose or portentous; she shows both wry humor and deep poignancy.
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Because the Arctic is a place of "astounding complexity" — a point he argues persuasively — many scientists were slow to understand the portentous changes they were witnessing.
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Each time the scoop hits the base, there's a portentous thud and I should know better when I step in to get a feel for the workload.
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Pellerano's living room, with its ashen walls and esoteric sigils (including a particularly portentous-looking dagger), is clearly the realm of someone who takes his job seriously.
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They take turns reciting the events of that November day, both ordinary (he checks the weather, he naps) and portentous (a bodyguard warns of a suicide attack).
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Contrary to its portentous title, this would actually be more of an unrepeal measure, since it would incorporate into British law the whole gamut of current EU legislation.
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But some of us also thought she was forcing her portentous writing and wicked ways, and soon the pop market she was too mature for had had enough.
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His writing is quick and supple, and even the sometimes portentous exchanges on life and love move quickly enough to avoid injuring either our patience or our credulity.
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"It's no wonder that this fantasy — with its cheery enchantments and portentous inky swirls, its steely grays and tight pacing — feels familiar," Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times.
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Ear-shredding to listen to (the soundtrack, between chunks of a comically portentous score, is mostly thrash metal) and soul-destroying to watch, the movie trembles with tragedy.
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For those who approach all of her work with a kind of morbid curiosity, they will find plenty of portentous signs of Plath's disgust with the artifice of life.
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These men tell you what's going to happen in a mostly meaningless AFC South game in portentous, Meet the Press tones, but at something like three times the volume.
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Instead of pious statements about poverty, or portentous mutterings on the importance of American leadership, Mr Sharma sees the world from the ruthless and restless perspective of an investor.
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Here and there I took mental notes of outlines such as hill shape against the horizon so that some day the portentous simplicity and shape would slip into writing.
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In one clip, members are shown fighting one another in a mixed-martial-arts gym, accompanied by the kind of portentous music featured in first-person-shooter video games.
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Frustrated and angry, the White House fought back, threatening retaliation both petty and portentous, eyeing federal jobs and programs in the state of the rebellious lawmaker to force obedience.
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"Oracle" is disorienting and vaguely portentous; you feel submerged, possibly in the bowels of a slave ship, or trapped in a dystopian nightmare where nature has begun dismantling the structure.
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The texts were friendly — compliments about his music, invitations to get a beer, enthusiastic updates about works in progress — but felt strangely portentous, like being invited behind a velvet rope.
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Crumpled balls of paper are piled against the wall, and when I reach down to unfold one, I discover a portentous warning: Your wife may not be who she seems.
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The film lingers on mundane conversations about Mandy's favorite planet, or portentous references to the "Horn of Abraxas," a sacred artifact that's shot under eerie green light regardless of setting.
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Along with the portentous messages to society expressed on HOPELESSNESS, she also recently walked 100 kilometers across the western Australian desert's Pilbara region to protest a uranium mine being built.
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A sepia-toned cover, some twelve-string guitars, a portentous title: "The Weight of These Wings" has many of the warning signs of an artist straining for seriousness and authenticity.
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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 May issue brought tidings of yeti footprints, portentous deathbed visions, sex with aliens (sex with ghosts was covered back in January) and tiny, mischievous Mexican sprite-like beings called chaneques.
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Episode VII suggested the Story Group copied this template, sending Leia into more practical matters than space magic and meditation, despite Yoda's portentous assurances that she wasn't the Jedi's last hope.
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The reason Hollywood famously enjoys the Golden Globes more than the Oscars is that they are less portentous: They include dinner, and attendees schmooze and move around and drink at will.
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Though the novel is pockmarked with overly portentous teasers of the action to come, it is also genuinely suspenseful, its plot catapulting dangerously toward a fateful confrontation between Drax and Sumner.
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But although the portentous air isn't entirely earned, still you keep reading, half-believing that dark forces are stirring, the way you might feel a planchette sliding across a Ouija board.
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The portentous tagline — "In space no one can hear you scream" — was provided by Mr. Gips's wife, Barbara (Solinger) Gips, a copywriter, and is arguably better known than the glowing egg.
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Most of us may have missed the news, but we are now embarked on a computing technology race that is as portentous as any military conflict we have ever faced before.
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Bandai Namco's game features perfectly coiffed protagonists, melodramatic music, and skimpy bikini armor, as well as a portentous voiceover that tells us that in this world, all the regular humans are dead.
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Early on in this show, which drips with portentous symbolism, if not actual substance, the newly elected Pope Pius XIII discovers that the Australian government sent him a kangaroo as a gift.
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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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And it unfolded on a portentous stage, in the cities and suburbs of a state that is likely to be crucial both in the Democratic presidential primaries and in the general election.
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Rue's narration proves to be a portentous thought as she ends up trying fentanyl — a drug that gives her blissful high but could also end her life — by the end of the episode.
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Here was a fantasy show that focused not on the portentous prophecies and heavy spellbooks, but on the politics and personalities of its medieval realm—and in the process, cultivated millions of fans.
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In the First Symphony, Price is still finding her way; the harmonic writing sometimes falls back on nineteenth-century clichés, such as portentous diminished-seventh chords and insistent sequences in the Tchaikovsky manner.
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In 1974, when Mr. Braufman was deeply embedded on New York's radical free-jazz scene, he recorded "Valley of Search," a record of darkly melodic improvising and portentous incantations and extempore group explosions.
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He is not, although by the time McBride is swimming through a watery tunnel toward a rebirth — complete with a portentous, symbolic umbilical cord — the film is en route to a metaphysical collapse.
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Motive, means, and opportunity probably remain unknown, but out of a vague set of coincidences and portentous dialogue from your various cab rides, you can pick someone who seems like they probably did it.
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When something memorable happened to one of us — memorable but not exactly momentous, portentous but lacking a clear narrative thrust — we'd send the other a message with the story's title and a short synopsis.
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The V.J. Kurt Loder and a cameraman came along to witness a bunch of blue people carrying a coffin, making portentous pronouncements and setting fake fire to '230s symbols they found objectionable, including Rambo.
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The most intriguing and seemingly portentous event in the book — a premonition of a future meeting with a mysterious figure — is paid off disappointingly early, and to no long-lasting significance to the story.
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What sealed it for me was learning that the romería and its attendant events would be nothing like the portentous, gloomy services, usually in impenetrable Latin, that I had to endure as a child.
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Sure, looked at from one perspective, Miller comes off as a mere jerk, dismissive of his collaborators and overly portentous about a future dedicated to making B-grade shlock like Yogi Bear in 3-D.
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The 90-second clip uses portentous music, HBO-ish camera filters, and a riff on Apple's famous "1984" Mac commercial, imparting the message that only Sonos speakers can stop you from living a lonely life.
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The surface of her collage made of Japanese paper and watercolors is rippled where the paper has been creased and folded, and it is festooned with spots of color and the portentous images of birds.
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And part of the story is a big, portentous hole in the Democrats' agenda: Progressives do not have a good, crisp, resonant answer to the question 'What's your great idea for reforming the tax system?
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In the watercolor "X Claimed" (2012), Wiley depicts an open wood frame with a crossbars forming an X. The ground is a dense, atmospheric gray, somewhere between a stormy, portentous sky and a dirty blackboard.
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It's not really clear what Emerson or Dargis were saying, other than they believed Zuckerberg would be pretty powerful, and that the moment seemed portentous enough to warrant tying their reviews to classics of contemporary sociology.
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" While Reinhart couldn't comment on whether or not someone would get drenched in blood à la poor Carrie White by the end of the episode, she could offer this portentous tease: "There might be some blood.
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But "Trumbo" is too slow and portentous to deliver as the snappy, satirical con-trick caper it sometimes promises to become, and yet it is too shiny and artificial to convince as a heavyweight historical drama.
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We're behind Andre's mansion, where an L-shaped glass hallway opens onto a minimally furnished deck and a downstage pool—a real one—that looks fun and portentous, chic and sort of tawdry all at once.
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The book makes vague mention of an international language, and as in many dystopian stories there are plenty of portentous, underexplained words in capital letters: There was a Crash that led many to emigrate to Miden.
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The first few chapters ladle on the foreshadowing, with portentous references to "what had happened in the cold, wintry Green Mountains of Vermont" on "that terrible night"—the cause, evidently, of an estrangement between Lucy and Alice.
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As the camera explores these cavernous spaces, ominous, staticky music and a portentous narration — most of it by the actor Sam Neill — makes you feel as if you're watching a trailer for the latest alien-invasion blockbuster.
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When a man meets what a character seems to think is his rightful end, the backdrop used is that of the Dussehra festival and the Hindu demon Ravana burning, with portentous announcements about how good overcame evil.
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He soon realizes that he's been embarrassingly close to his car all night and speeds off to his ethics conference, where he turns his portentous but apparently meaningless experience into a vehicle for his new-found nihilism.
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The photo has served as a symbol of the exuberance Americans felt at the end of World War II, capturing what many saw as a charmingly ideal portrait of the United States at a portentous moment of history.
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It revels in the outrageousness of the moment, down to the portentous close up of Lange's silver pump, crushing out a dropped cigarette before she sweeps past Sarandon to "take" the Oscar that Davis thought was rightfully hers.
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In 2014, she skewered the portentous first season of "True Detective" with a perfect line that's still scathing but reads rather differently now, five years later: "The show has got so much gravitas it could run for president."
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But then media experts hired by the Rubio campaign revealed a portentous data point: Mr. Trump was earning 10 times as much news coverage as his nearest rival, a staggering imbalance that was powering his strength in the polls.
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If "Behemoth" can feel a little slow-going at times, that's partly because of the knottiness of the history Freeman lays out, as well as his honorable refusal to resort to simplistic notions of grand progress or portentous doom.
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And his elimination -- the most significant killing in decades in the Middle East --carries portentous regional implications that go well beyond those of killing al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden or Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS.
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Instead of offering generic meeting rooms with portentous names, Airbnb, a tech firm that lets people rent out their homes, has designed each of its meeting spaces after one of its rental listings, such as a Bedouin tent from Morocco.
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Neatly political without ever laboring its points, "Angry Alan" is the better and more biting of two plays by Ms. Skinner to be running concurrently on the Fringe (the all-female, comparatively portentous "Meek," at the Traverse, is the other).
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The Walking Dead In the portentous Season 8 premiere of "The Walking Dead" — which kicks off an arc loosely modeled after the "All Out War" issues in Robert Kirkman's comic book series — disparate clans of warriors organize into stronger coalitions.
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These figures lack Q's mystique (and are far, far better connected with reality), but they share Q's vulnerability: Their influence depends on producing a nonstop stream of portentous tidbits, little pellets of encouragement to keep followers hitting the retweet button.
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"Love Machine," about a hyper-realistic robot sent in to flirt with, and apprehend or kill, the Unabomber, feels both goofier and more portentous than it is probably meant to, and it resists the emotional investment Hunt's other stories easily invite.
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It's not even like the genuinely "spooky" characteristics of Lady Silence — like her name, the fact she went completely silent after her father's death, or her portentous last words to him about Tuunbaq — are what make her an eerie addition for the men.
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Yet he presented the election as a matter of high principle: in the face of a sluggish economy he had chosen to delay a long-agreed rise in Japan's consumption (value-added) tax, and such a portentous decision required the people's approval.
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But while "Gone Girl" and "Fates and Furies" used the technique for sensational ends, Livesey's novel, despite its occasionally portentous tone (what hath Mercury wrought!), is more in the Bridge school, delving into the subtler miscommunications of even the most intertwined lives.
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Whereas Crazy Rich Asians gussied up Asian modernity in luxury fabrics and candied colors, The Farewell calls to mind the portentous aesthetic of Jia Zhangke, a Chinese filmmaker renowned for chronicling the changes that convulsed his country after Deng Xiaoping opened its economy.
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Two hanging yard signs covered with silver-painted palm fronds ("Metal Yard Sign with Sabal Palm Fronds I" and "Metal Yard Sign with Sabal Palm Fronds II," both 2019) lend a portentous feel to the narrow entry hallway that conjures a crypt's antechamber.
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They are portentous pieces of art that solemnly warned my generation of the techno-anxieties they would soon become all too familiar: they also made me cry a little bit because in spite of all those things, they are very optimistic about human beings.
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From the incoherent, fallacious interview he gave the New York Times on December 123 to Tuesday's tweet about his "nuclear button" to his Saturday morning assertion that he is a "very stable genius," the remarks keep getting more menacing, bizarre, and portentous of disaster.
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" AND NOW, A WORD FROM CHARLES… "In mathematics, when you're convinced of some eternal truth but can't quite prove it, you offer it as a hypothesis (with a portentous capital H) and invite the world, future generations if need be, to prove you right or wrong.
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She was the subject of portentous hand-wringing over this seemingly empty kind of notoriety: "In a ravenous celebrity culture, Ms. Hilton's rise shows how far celebrity itself has been devalued," one writer opined in the New York Times Styles section the year her show debuted.
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The contemporary set evokes the throne room as war room, replete with the latest in cartographic and surveillance technology; a portentous battery of telephones (yep, one's red); and, oh, yes, television monitors, including one immense paneled screen, which allows you access to what's happening behind the scenes.
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Both due to this real life high drama and the way that clubs have culturally become portentous symbols for populism and collectivity, a number of films have also set climactic conflicts in these locales—bathing police officers in blinding neon and setting loose clubgoers in controlled chaos.
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But in this looming and portentous national moment in particular and in a broader world that seems somehow to be both slowing towards a crushing stasis and ripping itself apart, inevitability is not what anyone really wants from their sports; we all have more than enough of it already.
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If you loved last week's blood-soaked hour of torture porn, chances are "The Well" bored you to tears, but these kinds of episodes are the ones that I find most interesting, even if they often hew toward portentous dialogue and proselytizing just to prove how clever the writers are.
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And that moment doesn't read as portentous and tragic, like the dove sequences in Woo's The Killer or Mission: Impossible II. Instead, it reads like a conscious in-joke for savvy audiences — especially when the car circles the cage teasingly before slamming into it and sending the doves across the screen.
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Dan Jolin, Empire Online American Gods feels like a stylistic sequel to Hannibal, with the first two episodes directed by one-time Hannibal regular David Slade...Here the dream sequences are more epic and portentous, involving visions of petrified forests carpeted with human skeletons and ceilinged by the vast, cold cosmos.
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For most of the novel, Irina and Sam bear more of the weight of this noirish plot — portentous as an upstate sky before snow — than the grown-up characters do, because Eleanor and her husband, Karl, are too wrapped up in their own problems to notice those dark clouds gathering.
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The whole show was pretty good, bookended by two Hell in a Cell matches—the other, a tag team match between the New Day and the Usos, is only being short-shrifted by my word count and was every bit as good, if less portentous in story terms, as the main event.
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A portentous milestone was passed when the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, or "the Merc," started trading financial futures on a host of instruments — Treasury note interest rates, government-issued mortgage bonds, foreign currencies and various stock index futures, like Value Line and the S & P 500 stock indexes.
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It was not the first time North Korean officials had stood up their US counterparts, but the high-level snub just a day before Trump and Kim were scheduled to sit down was a worrying and ultimately portentous signal that the second summit would not be the triumph Trump had hoped for.
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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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In the strangest of many strange aesthetic decisions, the voices have been slowed down to give the dialogue a baritone sound, as if a combination of (mostly) black-and-white shooting, a fragmented structure, sporadic slow motion, quotations from Rainer Maria Rilke, Godardian title cards and absurdly gratuitous overlays of Bach weren't portentous enough.
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And the film, whose exasperated full title is The Water Between Us Remembers, so we carry this history on our skin… long for a sea-bath and hope the salt will heal what ails us, emits, as its soundtrack, a low pulsing drone that looms over the screen's idyllic environs like a portentous shadow.
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If Fleet Foxes sounded like gorgeous, sun-kissed landscapes, though, listening to Helplessness Blues felt like being in the eye of a storm: The record was as portentous as it was inviting, with darker textures and increasingly personal lyrics sharing space with the gangland sing-alongs that listeners had come to expect from the band.
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So did Hussein Chalayan, in a swing through time and regional values, from the Roman abduction of Sabine women to Eastern protectionism (his words, via some show notes), where thankfully the portentous starting points were lightened up into something more abstract and compelling: jackets pulled off the shoulders; dresses cinched at the side; collars stretched into points that dripped down the shoulders.
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A tad staticky with an ominous sub-tone, this aural prop seems in retrospect a portentous harbinger of showdown number two that will take place next week between President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE and Kim in Hanoi.
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The Next Day (2013) reviewed as one of the greatest rock comebacks ever; the release of a series of portentous music videos that recall and reflect upon his artistic career; the recently released, Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime) from his compilation album spanning 50 years of recorded work on Nothing Has Changed (2014), and the record-breaking David Bowie Is global exhibition tour, which moved on from Melbourne's Australian Center for the Moving Image (ACMI), to the Groninger Museum in the Dutch city of Groningen in December.
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