Begin again!" "As I was remarking," chanted the obedient Lord Chancellor, "this
portentous movement has already assumed the dimensions of a Revolution!"
Whoever visits some estates there, and witnesses the good-humored indulgence of some masters and mistresses, and the affectionate loyalty of some slaves, might be tempted to dream the oft-fabled poetic legend of a patriarchal institution, and all that; but over and above the scene there broods a
portentous shadow--the shadow of law.
Ellen was interrupted by the same bright vision, which on the preceding day had stayed another scarcely less
portentous tumult, by exhibiting itself on the same giddy height, where it was now seen.
Such a
portentous and mysterious monster roused all my curiosity.
I wish Hatfield had not been so precipitate!' said Rosalie next day at four P.M., as, with a
portentous yawn, she laid down her worsted-work and looked listlessly towards the window.
These
portentous infants being alarming creatures to stalk about in any human society, the eighteen denominations incessantly scratched one another's faces and pulled one another's hair by way of agreeing on the steps to be taken for their improvement - which they never did; a surprising circumstance, when the happy adaptation of the means to the end is considered.
When he had closed the door, he re-opened it, stared in again for a few moments with the same
portentous gravity, and nodding his head once, in a slow and ghost-like manner, vanished.
I imagine it was carried on clandestinely and, I am certain, with
portentous gravity, at the back of copses, behind hedges .
"He was looking for little Miles." A
portentous clearness now possessed me.
Early on in the Torah, God asks, "where are you?" of a guilty Adam, another
portentous episode in which an inexplicable gap in knowledge calls attention to deeper truthsalthough my youthful fellow festival-goers' ignorance was less calculated than His.
It had me hooked from the thrilling opening scene, which detailed a US raid on an al-Qaeda cell, to the closing scene, in which FBI antiterrorism chief John O'Neill (Daniels) delivered a chilling and
portentous three word response to news that al-Qaeda had stepped up its operations by targeting US embassies in Africa: "Now it begins."
Among their topics are daydreaming and lusting after the divine: Clement of Alexandria and the Platonic tradition, dreaming of treason:
portentous dreams and imperial coups in seventh-century Byzantine apocalyptic discourse, the dream come true: Matthew of Edessa and the return of the Roman emperor, dream portents in early Byzantine and early Islamic chronicles, and divine fantasy and the erotic imagination in the Hymns of Symeon the new theologian.
The music which accompanies it is, thankfully, equally as venomous, from the sinister, spidery guitar lines to the
portentous, gothic-hued melodies.
Ben Affleck's stony-faced caped crusader growls
portentous one-liners, while Gal Gadot is rendered largely inert after her scene-stealing theatrics in the standalone Wonder Woman film.
It all looks gorgeous, all top hats, can-can dancers and
portentous bunches of flowers.
