0 too serious and trying to be very important:
The problem with the book is that it sometimes descends into portentous philosophizing.
The report contains numerous portentous references to a future environmental calamity.
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.
