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Example sentences for: portentous

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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.
The modern world comes at us as a randomly proportioned cocktail of the portentous, the terrifying, and the trivial.
There was the bullying portentous tone, which said, "This is unbelievably important--so you, shut up."
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.
Even in the American edit, with Raymond Burr tacked on as a portentous reporter, the aura of mourning was palpable.