It seems appropriate, therefore, to use an old Tinsel Town marketing line to herald the advent of a portentous strategic development: "They're Baaack!"
The first is a portentous move by the Palestinians with the strong backing of the 57-member bloc now known as the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).
President Obama's studied indifference towards the situation there and his determination, come what may, to pull all U.S. forces out is setting the stage for a portentous American rout.
Tomorrow, German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel and Czech Foreign Minister Josef Zieleniec are scheduled to initial a possibly portentous bilateral declaration dealing with an issue that set the stage for World War II.
Frears and his superb cinematographer, Philippe Rousselot, establish a dark, portentous visual mood, but the script stubbornly refuses to deliver the horror-movie payoffs that it promises.
Ms von Lange, who has been dubbed literature's answer to the Spice Girls, saves her novel from sounding too condescending and portentous by injecting a heavy element of comedy into a book intended to upset the grown-ups.
Stern made it rather clear that the two sides remain far apart on a variety of issues, and his portentous comments inspired no reason for optimism from anyone.
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But the fact that many of the phones were sold at Apple outlets--and those who buy their phones from Apple's Web site may never have to set foot inside a store at all--is portentous.
Such a proposition should be subjected to the closest of critical scrutiny by Congress, the press and the American electorate since a number of highly debatable, and increasingly portentous, policies are predicated on this assumption.
Often, a paucity of substance, spirit or both is wrapped in portentous complexity.
As a consequence, Congress and the American public should be scrutinizing these portentous developments.
The fevered swamps of a pre-election season are no time to be taking such portentous steps.
Perhaps most portentous of all is Moscow's drumbeat that only a political or diplomatic solution is acceptable.
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His portentous life of comfort and lack of military experience serve as a catalyst for additional, if subtle, derision.
It takes a few minutes for the song to register as more than a faint stirring of strings, but as it progresses, it gathers portentous energy almost subconsciously.
One hauntingly dusky verse later, he goes one step further, unveiling a ghostly series of "oohs, " each as infectious as it is portentous.
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