"Art," she declares portentously, "is whatever you choose to frame."
He announced portentously that "a panel of judges will be roving the racecourse" deciding who wins the "Best Hat" award.
"Whether you like it or not," she announced portentously, "your father and I have become good friends."
The clouds which had long been hovering portentously in our skies now began to spread and to blacken all around the heavens.
He paused portentously, finding in each face before him an anxious excitement which was exactly what he wanted.
Then they made a trip which came near being a solemn occasion, it was so portentously important.
The old man winked one faded eye portentously.
The lad seems to wish to make up for the natural insignificance of his face by frowning on all occasions most portentously.
