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(adjective) of, relating to, or constituting a portent / (adjective) eliciting amazement or wonder; prodigious / (adjective) being a grave or serious matter / (adjective) self-consciously solemn or important; pompous / (adjective) ponderously excessive

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

—p.9 Against interpretation (3) by Susan Sontag
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Throughout March, one portent after another had made the Armenians of north-west Syria apprehensive

—p.164 The Battle for Kessabh (163) missing author
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she said portentously

—p.176 Inheritance (172) by Alexander Chee
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She did clipped irony and she did sentences swelling with portent.

—p.108 Joan Didion (102) by Katie Roiphe
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recommend various brands of portentous mysticism as the solution to human ills

—p.147 Post-Structuralism (127) by Terry Eagleton
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Anything revelatory or portentous at the end of the story is very heavy indeed.

—p.125 Endings (124) by Jerome Stern
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this portentous philosophical phrase or statement is not outside the work but inside it

on Damien Hirst's 'The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living'

—p.108 Aesthetics of Singularity (101) by Fredric Jameson
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7 years, 4 months ago


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

—p.40 February: Joyful Tears (39) by China Miéville
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But the case is notable for the portentous and pedantic elaborations made by the arbitrator,

—p.103 Chapter 3 – Palimpsests of Law and Corporate Sovereigns (87) by Laleh Khalili
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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

—p.81 by Vladimir Nabokov
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The notes scrawled in the margins in my loopy high school hand proclaim such portentous platitudes as “orgasm = death,”

—p.172 The Real Lolita (171) by Becca Rothfield
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It was the fate of those mild hills around the Thrale house to be portentous in the view of Edmund Tice.

—p.55 by Shirley Hazzard
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