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 ...

Erie County Clerk Kathy Hochul’s upset win over Republican Assem blywoman Jane Corwin in the Buffa lo-area 26th congressional district has left Democrats crowing and the other party haplessly… ...

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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".

Portentous derives from portent, a sign of some impending calamity or momentous event. The adjective originally meant ominous, presaging some disaster.

ATLANTA — By the time Georgia’s 6th District votes in the June 20 special congressional election, $40 million — perhaps more than $130 per ballot — will have been spent to pick 1/435th of ...

There is a difference between attempts to change policy through public pressure and seeking to change the very nature of government through an insurrection. The civil rights protests of the late ...

This is a movie that can get portentous about a paper cut, which makes its occasional digs at L.A.'s art-and-fashion whirl feel more leaden than they should be.

The views expressed by contributors are their own and not the view of The Hill Pyongyang’s portentous New Year’s resolution by Sung-Yoon Lee, opinion contributor - 01/02/19 9:00 AM ET Getty Images ...

STATES & CITIES: Portentous Primary 5 minute read TIME October 2, 1933 12:00 AM GMT-5 ...