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Example sentences for: portentous

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had paid off more handsomely than expected," writes Bernard Weinraub in the New York Times . The big spending is seen both as the roots of Shakespeare 's win and as portentous of Normandy-scale campaigns on everyone's part next year.
Take a respite from February's portentous programs with the irreverent humor of George Carlin's latest HBO live concert, You Are All Diseased (Saturday, 9:30 P.M).
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.
Many consider it portentous that former NAACP President Benjamin Chavis is now a Nation of Islam minister.
The modern world comes at us as a randomly proportioned cocktail of the portentous, the terrifying, and the trivial.