With 2013 approaching termination, it may be a good time to review the five most portentous events and developments of the year. These are events and developments that hold out hi ...

With 2013 approaching termination, it may be a good time to review the five most portentous events and developments of the year. These are events and developments that hold out high prospects for ...

You get the impression Coppola wants us to "marvel anew" at his genius. But alas, what he has produced is a "desperately portentous" and self-indulgent dud. I fear it will be "megaflopolis".

While nuance might not be the first thing one looks for in a harrowing account of slavery, this portentous, viciously violent film reaches parodic levels of didacticism and emotional signposting.

Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Patina, Painting, and Portentous Somethings, Representations, Vol. 78, No. 1 (Spring 2002), pp. 140-144 ...

Still, it feels as though these portentous trappings arrive too early. There’s humour in Carr’s play, too: Portia claims to prefer a good jigsaw to sex and enjoys scandalising her nosy relatives.

Nature Materials - Portentous polymersBut 'Mylar' is precisely the right choice. It gives readers the frisson of being surrounded with materials the names of which they barely know and the ...