on the name "
Portents" because they loved the Herman Melville poem about the martyr John Brown that opened his book "Battle Pieces." To Melville, "
Portents" were the vital signs in the mid-19th century that the Civil War was imminent in the United States.
Each song is molasses-thick, laden with menacing
portents and ominous vocal growls.
It is not very pleasant to see kids waiting for their school vans in dark and shivering with cold weather at morning due to this decision, said
portents of children.
A PROPERTY expert believes the
portents are good for the market in Coventry and Warwickshire after new figures revealed further house price rises in the region.
Because Rosenberg sees all of the region's conflicts as
portents of a biblical prophecy.
For the larger audience of sports fans, there are greater
portents from this accomplishment.
The artist's Pop-surreal forms present bodies as libidinous
portents that only tenuously come together, like textbook illustrations of the mirror stage of infant development.
In November 2003, a sinister political marriage was contracted between the remnants of the Marxist-Leninist Left and militant Islam, though
portents of this dark union had been around since Sept 11 2001.
The improved second-half performance suggested that the ghosts were friendly, but
portents from the first half were proved right in the shape of Drogba.
Biblical preaching calls us to pay attention to the
portents of death masquerading as success and the tokens of resurrection hope in the midst of despair.
"The coming turn-of-the-millennium is surrounded by signs and
portents of disaster" (233).
The important thing is the Bluebirds are flying in the right direction and, for the first time in many a year, the
portents are good.
Mezlekia's brilliant book opens with his birth, an event fraught with
portents. In a seductive style that he manages to sustain for most of the book, the author writes, "I was born in the year of the paradox, in the labyrinthine city of Jijiga" His birthplace, we learn, is a place of contrasts, social, religious, and (perhaps most poignantly) natural.
The description of Havel's birth, for example, finds ominous
portents in an old family movie ("inexpertly shot," the book jabs) in which parents and relatives fuss over the baby so much as to give the impression of "a child whose early months were not only coddled but crowned." Keane seems unaware that it is standard for parents to fuss over babies in lavish fashion.
Ironically, the bigger problem is that Hong Kong has complacently remained the same since the handover, while China's other cities--once backwards places and worrying
portents of things to come in a Chinese-ruled Hong Kong--have been busy modernizing.
