| After a portentous prologue, the film shifts five years ahead, showing him in his new position as lieutenant in the citizen police force. |
| The programme even opens with a theatrically portentous pre-credits teaser, an appetising foretaste of the bloodshed to come. |
| As the portentous millennium approached, evangelical thoughts turned to the long-awaited Second Coming of Christ and thence to Armageddon. |
| Miller had the advantage of having seen the play in the early 90s, when it was momentous and portentous. |
| While we study the pictures we are assaulted by an overblown, portentous, bombastic Bernard Herrmann score that borders on self-parody. |
| In Milan Kundera's clumsy new novella, a portentous, worn-out philosophy that borders on the ironic and absurd stands in for real thinking. |
