1. There was nothing portentous or solemn about him. He was bubbling with humour.

2. The report contains numerous portentous references to a future environmental calamity.

3. Recent developments are as portentous as the collapse of the Berlin Wall.

4. The present aspect of society is portentous of great change.

5. Sunderland won 2-1; perhaps he will think it portentous.

6. The split reflected a portentous difference of approach within the Party.

7. Hence the portentous, and even fatuous slogan which towered each year in brightest blue above the rostrum.

8. Its consequences were historically portentous.

9. Portentous choices were forced on him by the dozen.

10. With "Blue Nights", named for the intense and portentous beauty of the dying light on a summer day, Ms Didion has translated the sad hum of her thoughts into a profound meditation on mortality.

11. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

12. Strikes occurred, but none as portentous as the strike in the Lenin shipyards in Gdansk that began on August 14, 1980.

13. The problem with the book is that it sometimes descends into portentous philosophizing.

14. In social politics, too, the city's contribution to 20th century thought and culture was no less portentous.

15. The altered states, the plangent electronic keyboards, and her use of Biblical text all conspire to create a portentous sound.

16. Last week Karl-Marx Allee was again treated to the sounds of portentous rhetoric and polite laughter.

17. That Grunwald had a good seat for all this is obviated by his talent for the portentous and gift for the unremarkable.

18. The captured instant often takes on meanings far more portentous than the actual event.

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19. Such alarms reflected the Alsops' tendency to cloak their analyses in portentous terms of dread and dismay.

20. Neither the Realists nor the photographers were unaware of the significance of such a portentous conjunction.

21. Answer: Workshop worker can hide below car, machine tool and loftier equipment, not portentous fluster runs.

22. Following the magically hushed orchestral entrance, the fateful tread of the tutti main theme is powerfully portentous.

23. Toad was quite alarmed at this very serious and portentous style of greeting.

24. Keep it, in any case, familiar, facetious even, rather then pedantic and portentous.