Examples of portentous

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Perhaps the strangeness of this trajectory becomes less mysterious, less portentous, when we realise that this trajectory is simply teleological.
The book also includes two chapters surveying the state of the newspaper press and public opinion in these portentous years.
In the musical discourse the" magic" progression serves to symbolize portentous moments of various kinds.
By and large it did, but its breaches were portentous for organized capital.
Here we introduce some of the basic features of this intellectual revolution, along with its more portentous implications for the human predicament.
Portentous implications are invoked from biblical senses and derogatory overtones are strengthened by association, earlier this century, with racial stereotyping.
The ethereal violin line is broken for an instant by a portentous tolling, a portent that is to be developed throughout the work.
Crime rates and popular apprehensions would rise together in the early 1840s, opening the way for another portentous experiment in local policing.
Much had to do with the pace of events: everything moved so quickly, as events with portentous implications seemed to accelerate from one day to the next, in vertiginous succession.
I argue that one specific feature of early state laws, the reliance on private rather than public entities to underwrite insurance policies for employers, was indeed portentous.
From this perspective the death of the alliance appears as a tragic act of ingratitude brought about by momentary weakness, and taken with little thought for its portentous consequences.
We must break free of this kind of hypocrisy that involves the portentous announcement of association agreements while at the same time we are freezing the essential budgetary increases....
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Here is something new, something significant, indeed portentous, of what could happen.
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