| The small stuffed shop appeared to grow portentously cavernous and waveringly illumined. |
| Some, frowning portentously, thought the plane an unscheduled ocean flier who had lost his way in the fog. |
| Often hovering portentously around the edge of the drama, he pops up at irritatingly convenient moments to keep the plot going. |
| The camera tracked around them portentously as they sat at glowing laptops in a dimly-lit smoky room and, bit by bit, revealed the purported secret of Christie's success. |
| And then all this gets underlined and italicized by a portentously romantic score. |
| A Halberstam paragraph usually filled a page, unfolding portentously towards some great quotation that glimmered in the final line. |
