Examples of portentous

• The rather portentous title of this book neatly describes its topics, except that the term ' postmodern ' is likely to mislead.

• Others are more portentous: ' dementia care-giving is a demanding practice of consuming work in which both care-receiver and caregiver need careful tending' (p. 212).

• Here are one or two things—portentous things—which have happened since then.

• A vista of portentous possibilities, of fateful possibilities, is opened before us.

• They followed one another at no great distance, and they contain what appears to be a most portentous list of protected occupations.

• We are told that this is a portentous and unprecedented change.

• Any document purporting to be about the future of broadcasting must be portentous, and in this case it is voluminous.

• I should have thought, with respect, that this rather portentous statement was, to put it mildly, a glimpse of the obvious.

• Why have there been these quite portentous changes?

• I wish to conclude by saying something which sounds a little pompous and a little portentous, but it needs to be said.

• I think these figures are really most portentous and alarming.

• I am thinking how they would have dwelt on the portentous profits which were being made by the people who owned those ships.

• When allowance is made for all these things, what kind of residual yield is there likely to be from this portentous operation?

• He is to have the whole of this new portentous constitutional machinery at his disposal.

• I find that in every part of the world, notably in the country which is producing films, they erect portentous tariffs against our goods.