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Example sentences for: portentous

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Professional music-making works along the principle best defined by Chevy Chase when he opened Saturday Night Live 's "Weekend Update" with the portentous phrase, "Good evening.
The term our times and its portentous relative our time (as in "one of the most important movies/books/recordings of our time ") are rhetorically vast but temporally indeterminate, even as they become trivialized by overuse.
Many consider it portentous that former NAACP President Benjamin Chavis is now a Nation of Islam minister.
Even in the American edit, with Raymond Burr tacked on as a portentous reporter, the aura of mourning was palpable.
Strains of bad klezmer music and a portentous voice-over give way to clips of pop stars (played by SNL cast members) singing Hanukkah songs.