the extent that Williams' plays and Cocteau's films do suggest these portentous meanings

Throughout March, one portent after another had made the Armenians of north-west Syria apprehensive

she said portentously

She did clipped irony and she did sentences swelling with portent.

recommend various brands of portentous mysticism as the solution to human ills

Anything revelatory or portentous at the end of the story is very heavy indeed.

this portentous philosophical phrase or statement is not outside the work but inside it

In a portent to which they did not pay adequate attention, police reported that watching soldiers cheered the workers’ red banners

Hal's portentous "I am in here"

But the case is notable for the portentous and pedantic elaborations made by the arbitrator,

As she came to a particularly dramatic passage, where the hero was about to encounter some strange, perhaps fatal danger, her voice would slow down, her words would be spaced portentously

The notes scrawled in the margins in my loopy high school hand proclaim such portentous platitudes as “orgasm = death,”