How To Use Portent In A Sentence

Elongated roars and fragments of voices gave a sense of atmospheric portent, while syncopated pings, clicks and chirps added a desultory counterpoint.
It's a cultural curiosity now, but perhaps a portent of the future. Christianity Today
We're not there yet but the signs and portents are mounting up.
I see it as a portent of things to come.
It was a portent of climatic things to come, which culminated in the worst floods in living memory in cities such as Prague and Dresden.

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And the tremendous skull of the great hog of Oakham hung, a portentous ivory overmantel, with a Chinese jar in either eye socket, snout down above the fire .... The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth
As the warriors passed along the mountain trails, they watched for portents of future victory or defeat. THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World
Society-wide measures of religious behavior muffle portentous change that may be occurring at the younger edge of the population, so social prognosticators just like commercial advertisers focus on trends among young adults, trying to discern which aspects of behavior are what they are because the youths are young, and which aspects are what they are because of when they are young. American Grace
As if fulfilling the portentous predictions of some medieval soothsayer, the first year of this new century has witnessed an unprecedented catalogue of warnings of the cumulative effects of climate change.
As the portentous millennium approached, evangelical thoughts turned to the long-awaited Second Coming of Christ and thence to Armageddon.
Is that a portent of grandiosity, which is sometimes a characteristic of sociopathic personality? CNN Transcript May 24, 2007
I was fed up with all those portents of doom and reckon the series could benefit from a brutal change of direction. The Sun
Last month the judges -- bleary-eyed from reading 130 nominated books each -- attacked publishers for submitting works they called "portentous," "pretentious" and "pompous. Eyes On The Prize
In retrospect it looks almost like a portent. The Times Literary Supplement
An ominous portent or proof that combined entities can amount to more than the sum of their parts? Times, Sunday Times
Instead, they became even brassier, the graphics still more explosively portentous, the panics more moral. It's a good week for … Britain
The task is monumental and the portents not promising. Times, Sunday Times
Don't you think that this event is a portent of things to come soon too?
Particularly for growth companies, the signs and portents were mixed even prior to the attacks on September 11, and since then they've grown only murkier.
Her face was fixed on her, through the night; she was the creature who had escaped by force from her cage, yet there was in her whole motion assuredly, even as so dimly discerned, a kind of portentous intelligent stillness. The Golden Bowl — Complete
But sweeping narrative is not Leaf's style; instead, she represents incisive moments, many of them funny, some harrowing, and all equally free of portent and nostalgia.
The problem with the book is that it sometimes descends into portentous philosophizing.
STRANGER: There did really happen, and will again happen, like many other events of which ancient tradition has preserved the record, the portent which is traditionally said to have occurred in the quarrel of Atreus and Thyestes. The Statesman
The dinner stood, but there was a desire already more powerful than the appetite for shows, already more efficient in turning the man’s mind away from his grim prepossession with his past than any theatre could be, and that was an enormous curiosity and perplexity about this Boomfood and these Boom children — this new portentous giantry that seemed to dominate the world. The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth
The same might be said of slow-moving animation that aims at portentous but achieves boring.
And all the books and theories and mathematical formulae and religions and portents are worthless. LOSING IT
Will upending the old way of searching for the Dalai Lama's incarnation, in which priests search for omens, portents and meteorological signs, undermine the legitimacy of his successor?
Temple at Jerusalem, with all that about the 'Mark of the Beast;' that mock (I suppose it was _mock_) miracle, with the fire consuming the sacrifice, and then that awful portent of darkness, thunder, and lightning -- but no rain. The Mark of the Beast
But'there is no American identity without a sense of portent and doom. Times, Sunday Times
But the time when Cuculain should be knighted, that is to say, invested with arms, and solemnly received into the Red Branch as man to the high King of all Ulla, now drew on, and such a knighting as that, and under such signs, omens, and portents, has never been recorded anywhere in the history of the nations. The Coming of Cuculain
Don't go getting the impression that Demonstration is at all pompous or portentous, though.
Lou gently lay Bev's hand back on the mattress and bowed his head with a solemnity that Nora thought both tender and portentous.
So attuned is the human mind to look for and find answers that sometimes it extracts meaning where none exists: the face of an old man, a witch, or the image of a monster, seen in an inkspot; psychic portent attributed to mere coincidence; the cry of "why me?" when natural disaster strikes, as if the agent of disaster chooses its victim; the perception of supernatural anger expressed in the violence of an earthquake. The urge to know
This incident at Walker's Point when a freak storm destroyed his mildly ancestral home in Kennebunkport was almost a kind of portent of what was to come. Hell of a Ride: Backstage at the White House Follies 1989-1993
The book opens with a haunting and portentous prologue that simultaneously catalyses the twin narrative strands of the novel, presages its thematic concerns and gives a first taste of the dark symbolism with which it is heavily laden.
The scene is grim and portentous, and a sense of foreboding looms.
The mood is more playful than portentous. Times, Sunday Times
They point to currency fluctuations as a portent of things to come and dismiss the relatively stable economic data elsewhere. The Sun
Wasn't this apocalyptic comment portentous with all the flooding and massive tidal waves around Thailand and the Indian Ocean?
Oblivious to the signs and portents that he's making a very big mistake, he takes the job.
portentously, the engines began to roll
There came a Saturday morning ugly with the portent of storm.
The mutter of sinister threats and portents was already to be heard.
The portents are not good for one of his fractious demeanour. Times, Sunday Times
The programme even opens with a theatrically portentous pre-credits teaser, an appetising foretaste of the bloodshed to come.
The report contains numerous portentous references to a future environmental calamity.
The major labor market problems faced by out-of-school youth during the 1990s carry portents for likely developments as their numbers increase in the years ahead.
The idiocy, and it is perennial, is to look at polls three or six or nine months out and make these pretentious and portentous conclusions before any human being has voted.
In social politics, too, the city's contribution to 20th century thought and culture was no less portentous.
The stunning apparition of a comet's tail was long regarded as a portent of doom and disaster, and in a way this is not too far from the mark.
In retrospect it looks almost like a portent. The Times Literary Supplement
In 2001 the couple got married in the face of some unpropitious portents.
Traitées par des systèmes informatiques spécifiques, les données (lexicales et textuelles) portent sur divers registres du français: langue littéraire (du 14e au 20e siècle), langue courante (écrite et parlée), langue scientifique et technique (terminologies), et régionalismes. Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas
On the 1st of March he complained of frequent vertigoes, which made him feel as though he were intoxicated; but no effectual means were taken to remove these portentous symptoms; and he regularly enjoyed his daily exercise, sometimes in boats, but oftener on horseback. The Life of Lord Byron
During a typhoon in the Sea of Japan, the ship is torn of her canvas and the masts come aglow with the corposants, St Elmo's Fire, a source of deep superstition to sailors, who believed them to be a portentious omen, ‘God's burning finger… laid upon the ship’.
He told himself that it was a silly piece of superstition; but, all the same, a strange feeling troubled him; and it seemed as if the fall of these old mementoes of the gallant officer, his dead father, was a kind of portent of trouble to come -- trouble and disaster that would be brought about by his cousin. The Queen's Scarlet The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne
The city was soaked throughout the night and well into yesterday morning by torrential rain and the forecast promised more of the same - unhappy portents prevailed. Times, Sunday Times
But for all the omens and portents, the magic in Shalimar is firmly at the service of the realism.
In social politics, too, the city's contribution to 20th century thought and culture was no less portentous.
Another source of spurious profundity is DeLillo's constant allusions to momentous feelings and portents — allusions that are either left hanging in the air or are conveniently cut short by a narrative pretext. A Reader's Manifesto
The performances were as cartoonishly ridiculous as men with humiliating hair saying portentous things to a 'green screen' generally are. Times, Sunday Times
The Portent, in 1859, a poem in which he calls the abolitionist John Brown hanging in a tree Theartblog
An ominous portent or proof that combined entities can amount to more than the sum of their parts? Times, Sunday Times
She's survived this far being the runt and all four lambs are always bouncing around the field, but falling asleep in the rain is not a good portent, especially after Blackie dying soon after falling asleep in the rain.
Because of its longevity as a shaper of the partisan landscape, changes in abortion attitudes are especially portentous. American Grace
First they declare portentously that the European club is in deep "crisis" and unable to function.
The physiognomy of the city and the bearing of its inhabitants share the portentous aspect of a drama.
She frowned portentously to add weight to her suggestion.
We also went through a spate of "millennial" thinking, that quirky habit of the mind which finds special significance in numbers of years, and gets exaggerated as the numbers become portentous.
The film blends documentary and fiction, but the attempts at actual documentary, via old photos and a portentous narration, aren't worth the trouble.
For the landowning nobility, the portents were not good.
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An ominous portent or proof that combined entities can amount to more than the sum of their parts? Times, Sunday Times
We've been reading the tea leaves and rolling the bones, and the signs and portents tell us, something totally wicked this way comes.
After he heard that he was an aruspex, being a man whose mind was not without a tincture of religion, pretending that he wished to consult him on the expiation of a private portent, if he could aid him, he enticed the prophet to a conference. The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08
What made words (or at least particular kinds of words such as oaths) seem so threatening and portentous?
Yet the other portents are good. Times, Sunday Times
She was inclined to think that the thing sounded more portentous than amusing. Emily Fox-Seton
Beginnings and endings, the dual portals of narrative, are often charged with portent and revelation.
The first seemed a portent of nature, the second a portent of doom. Times, Sunday Times
Waal," Pete had rejoined, with a portentous wink at the boys, "you never kin tell in this wale of tears what you're a-goin 'up aginst -- queer shapes, fer instance. The Border Boys Across the Frontier
He has staked out his claim for being a great critic through portentousness, pomposity, and extravagant pretension, and, from all appearances, seems to have achieved it.
At that portentous word, which always preluded a long story, the Abbot broke in. The Monastery
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Western explorers construed the presence of wolves as an ominous portent.
His early moves were a striking portent of the populist spending spree that was to follow, spiced here and there with well-directed salutes aimed at pacifying the extremes of the political spectrum.
The title track tries to deflate its portentous musical backing of crashing cymbals and thunderous pianos with daft lyrics about needing a new eiderdown and some binoculars.
The portentous original plan was to make three trilogies and so far we've been subjected to all three of the middle trilogy and, more recently, two of the first.
He would delight them equally by his anecdotes of witchcraft, and of the direful omens and portentous sights and sounds in the air… The Haunted
For someone who was chosen shortly after birth by means of a variety of signs and portents few of us would set any store by in ordinary circumstances, he's an extraordinarily wise human being and a powerful force for good.
It is from this point of observation that our humour is suddenly made aware of the startling absurdity of human institution; and not only of _human_ institution; for it is made aware also of the absurdity of the whole fantastic scheme of this portentous universe. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations
Looking back, the designation appears and sounds absurdly portentous.
The portentous dignities bestowed upon officials and sympathizers were partly for Roman consumption, setting him up as arbiter of status and palace-based master of the city.
The midwife had muttered of portents and omens, but the full confirmation came some hours later.
Here was an ominous portent. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
She was inclined to think that the thing sounded more portentous than amusing. Emily Fox-Seton
Yes, this has been what you might call a portentous evening," agreed The Motor Girls Through New England or, Held by the Gypsies
And the house flagrantly flaunts fortune cookies that contain ‘aphorisms’ instead of portents of kismet and fame (I urge you all to bitterly complain).
The city was soaked throughout the night and well into yesterday morning by torrential rain and the forecast promised more of the same - unhappy portents prevailed. Times, Sunday Times
I recognized the stench, the aura that hung in the air; thick and palpable… a portent of imminent death.
It is unoriginal, portentous and entirely pointless. Times, Sunday Times
She received his complaint as a portent, the way a sailor notes a shift in the wind.
Dr. Jeff Masters on Gustav. jonquil discusses portential shortfalls in the evacuation protocol here. Four hundred miles without a word until you smile
And you see in these cultural portents what the future will bring: it is a new America. Times, Sunday Times
The portentious concatenation is a parallel post by another well-known non-philosopher, P. Z.Meyers. October 15th, 2009
The weather reports of a somewhat cooler, drier summer are probably good portents for the ultimate quality of the wines and there is much talk of the surprisingly bright acidities in some of the wines as well (mirroring the 2007 Ports in this regard?), and these characteristics are encouraging to me. Natural wines, premox, chenin blanc, 07 Port and Rhone – John Gilman | Dr Vino's wine blog
The portents are that, despite all the problems, the outcome is a foregone conclusion and he will not need to call in the removal men next year for a flit to his new £3.5m gaff.
To my mind, the sight of a bored animal locked in a cage holds way too much portent with respect to most relationships to be an image one would want to introduce so early in the dating game.
She was struck by how accurately the Sister had hit upon the peculiar, uneasy feeling she was havinga kind of portent to doom, yet without definable cause, that made the fine hairs at the back of her neck stand on end like when she would be lying in her bedroll, almost asleep, and every insect, all at once, went silent. The Pillars of Creation
Elongated roars and fragments of voices gave a sense of atmospheric portent, while syncopated pings, clicks and chirps added a desultory counterpoint.
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.
So attuned is the human mind to look for and find answers that sometimes it extracts meaning where none exists: the face of an old man, a witch, or the image of a monster, seen in an inkspot; psychic portent attributed to mere coincidence; the cry of "why me?" when natural disaster strikes, as if the agent of disaster chooses its victim; the perception of supernatural anger expressed in the violence of an earthquake. The urge to know
I sit on a bentwood chair in a patch of sunlight as if I'm in a single spot, centre of a dim-lit stage, shadow-filled with movement and with portent.
He delights in tracing similarities of metaphor, suggestive accidents of fate, portentous parallels, uncanny coincidences, and unexpected connections.
Now I write it down the scene does seem awfully portentous. Times, Sunday Times
It's a clumsy, unnecessary portent of doom, both for Gilda's life and for the next two hours of watching a clumsy and unnecessary movie.
The setting is grim, the portents far from good. Times, Sunday Times
I cannot express strongly enough how horrified I am at what has happened and its evil and terrifying portent for the future.
The task is monumental and the portents not promising. Times, Sunday Times
Quoth she, ‘The manifest signs and visible portents of Allah; and, when the path is patent to thee, thou espiest with thine own eyes both proof and prover.’ The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
It is our view that the relative poor performance of U.S. junk and corporate debt issues provides clear and ominous portents for the coming cycle downturn.
I sit on a bentwood chair in a patch of sunlight as if I'm in a single spot, centre of a dim-lit stage, shadow-filled with movement and with portent.
Biblical writings, which lie at the root of Western culture, make numerous mention of portents in the heavens.
The two sides of the vale were so near, that at every double of the river the shadows from the western sky fell upon, and totally obscured, the eastern bank; the thickets of copsewood seemed to wave with a portentous agitation of boughs and leaves, and the very crags and scaurs seemed higher and grimmer than they had appeared to the monk while he was travelling in daylight, and in company. The Monastery
A great ease came upon my mind; it was lightened of a load that had lain on it since ever my Tynree spaewife found, or pretended to find, in my silvered loof such an unhappy portent of my future. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
There is a scent of change in the air, as a devastated people eagerly interpret the smallest of signs as portents of a new beginning.
Signs and portents bring us messages, and we should heed them ere civilisation crumbles. Times, Sunday Times
In Mesopotamia, where the reading of omens was developed into an art, the symptoms of the disease were understood as omens too, just as a potsherd found by the exorciser on his way to the sick man could be of ominous portent. HEALTH AND DISEASE
It is the morning of New Year's Eve, 2003, and the sky above my home in Brooklyn is streaked with jet trails, portents of unseen danger.
Oblivious to the signs and portents that he's making a very big mistake, he takes the job.
The present aspect of society is portentous of great change.
Titchmarsh just isn't programmed for portentous, monumental declamation.
There were ugly rumours and portents: the 34th N.I. - the executed Sepoy Pandy's regiment - had been disbanded at Barrackpore, a mysterious fakir on an elephant had appeared in Meerut bazaar predicting that the wrath of Kali was about to fall on the British, chapattis were said to be passing in some barrack-rooms, the Plassey legend was circulated again. Fiancée
It is also portentous, pretentious and sententious.
While the bold sweep of the band's ambition seemed impressive at the time, such portentous complexities now seem quaint and rather naive. Times, Sunday Times
On the eve of my first day of paid post-university employment she rang me up and in a voice dripping with portent, said: ‘Listen, I want to tell you something.’
Valeria," said Benjamin, pointing to the Portent in the chair. The Law and the Lady
From his fierce eyes there shone forth portentous fire: and once in high Calydon he slew the destroying beast, the fierce wild boar with gleaming tusks. Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
Consequently, the parents often seize on anything as a portent which confirms their wishes.
The tender attention paid by the wife to her husband's body, the detailed steps of her betrayal, and the subtle note of portent, all serve to heighten the drama.
The decision to allow infant baptism is described as portentous: a dramatic sign which foreshadows something. The problem of infant baptism
Un Poule qui chante le coq, et une fille qui siffle, portent malheur dans la maison. Notes and Queries, Number 41, August 10, 1850
It would not have surprised me to learn that I must subtract at least half a dozen syllables from that portentous phrase to reduce it to alexandrine dimensions. The Guermantes Way
If we glance over the latter part of the book of prodigies, compiled by the otherwise unknown writer Julius Obsequens from the records of the pontifices quoted in Livy's history, we can get a fair idea of the kind of portent that was troubling the popular mind. Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero
I followed a series of signs and portents that led beyond thought, to find myself in a realm that was vast and ancient. Times, Sunday Times
Short of slaughtering a wild animal and rummaging about in its entrails, every sign, portent and augury had been examined beforehand.
The mood is more playful than portentous. Times, Sunday Times
For if the immortal gods foreshow us the future, by means of portents and prodigies, then it has been openly revealed to us that punishment is near at hand to him, and liberty to us. Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform
If they can somehow buy themselves some time, the portents for the future are more positive. Times, Sunday Times
Whether it is the right one only time will tell but the portents are good and it is refreshing. Times, Sunday Times
This was a portent of things to come. Times, Sunday Times
In people's view, mask is both holy and portent, and thus mask taboo comes into being.
If you believe that fundamentals eventually catch up to market behavior, this is not a particularly good portent for stocks going forward.
There were two portents that truly depressed Parlabane in this world, and one was anything that suggested deep water - unheated, unchlorinated and unattached to a changing suite and a lounge bar - would be featuring on the day's agenda. Be My Enemy
And monstrous architectural portents in Boston and Salt Lake City encourage one to suppose that even that churchless aspect, which so stirred the speculative element in Mr. Henry James, is only the opening formless phase of a community destined to produce not only classes but intellectual and moral forms of the most remarkable kind. An Englishman Looks at the World
Now an even greater silence filled the air, filled with portent and emotion.
These were signs and portents, she realized, visitations and apparitions from a tangled mess of folklore, some unrecognizable and others merely silly.
He is finely convincing in his portentous and lengthy narration, which can be wearisome if the words are enunciated less clearly than here.
Not your typical hardcore-punk funfest, this one comes heavily laden with socio-political portent.
It's an ominous portent of the future of cattle class. Times, Sunday Times
I see it as a portent of things to come.
Perhaps he will surprise us all at Muirfield, but the portents are unpromising.
Answer: Workshop worker can hide below car, machine tool and loftier equipment, not portentous fluster runs.
It's birthday week so everything seems meaningful and full of portent.
The portents had been ominous. Times, Sunday Times
Recent developments are as portentous as the collapse of the Berlin Wall.
The portents described as heralding the fall of the Aztec Empire, and many of the incidents and events written of in this story, such as the annual personation of the god Tezcatlipoca by a captive distinguished for his personal beauty, and destined to sacrifice, are in the main historical. Montezuma's Daughter
That's how the album was received on its release in November 1975: as beacon, portent, and catalyst.
In fewer than 100 pages, we travel from a haunted garden to the very gates of hell, via ominous encounters, portentous conversations and moments of absurd levity.
Instead of sounding profound and portentous, there was an edge of pomposity. Times, Sunday Times
It does mean, though, that he runs the risk of smothering the most anodyne comment with the pillow of portent. Times, Sunday Times
Nobody was hurt in the incident and shoppers and shopkeepers alike were in no mood for grim portents. Times, Sunday Times
Sorcieres rapportent que cet accouplement leur est le plus souuent des-agreable, tant pour la laideur & deformité de Satan, que pour ce qu'elles y ont vne extreme douleur. [ The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology
A sidesman, with an air of portentous gravity, as one who, in opening doors, performed an office more on behalf of the Deity than the worshippers, was usually at hand to usher the party in. Simon Called Peter
The savage civil war there could be a portent of what's to come in the rest of the region.
I arrived home with renewed determination, I was going to study and make the heavy feeling of dread and portent disappear.
AND that all the dark portents of late (the Augustine II review, rumors of "possible cuts to human spaceflight", etc) do not forbode a retreat from real (vs 'more advanced studies') exploration beyond LEO. Bolden Watch - NASA Watch
In a kind of literary sleuthing, Ms. Zanganeh haunts many of the places where Nabokov lived, visits his grave in Clarens, Switzerland, detects portents that link her with him, celebrating fluky coincidences between Nabokov and herself and correlations that conjoin them in some sort of "relationship," although she does point out that she was only 10 months old when he died on July 2, 1977. The Trouble With Ardor
Louis surveyed me with his shrewd gray eyes and shook his head portentously.
A far more chilling episode, little remarked and with even graver portent for the future of the democratic process, occurred on November 12.
As in his previous film, Central Station, another road movie and a great one, Salles doesn't try to lyricize landscapes or fill them with portentous menace or serenity.
They shared, according to Tacitus, a war orientated Teutonic lifestyle with a veneration for the portentous powers of sage women and a predilection for feasting and drinking to excess.
This is all very solemn and portentous, but it's impossible to shake the feeling this is a virtuoso example of preaching to the converted.
Albertson's recent paintings in both oil and gouache continue to feature contorted, hyper-eroticized figures enacting portentous traditional scenes amid the most vulgar trappings of popular culture.
While we study the pictures we are assaulted by an overblown, portentous, bombastic Bernard Herrmann score that borders on self-parody.
Portmanteaus being then opened and clothes changed, Mr. Goodchild, through having no change of outer garments but broadcloth and velvet, suddenly became a magnificent portent in the Innkeeper's house, a shining frontispiece to the fashions for the month, and a frightful anomaly in the Cumberland village. Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
The beast of prey skulking back to his lair, the stag quenching his thirst ere retiring to the depths of the forest, the wedge of wild fowl flying with trumpet notes to some distant lake, the vulture hastening in heavy flight to the carrion that night has provided, the crane flapping to the shallows, and the jackal shuffling along to his shelter in the nullah, have each and all their portent to the initiated eye. Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series
Which, unfortunately, never occurs in this puzzlingly lifeless play, presented with respectful, dirgelike portent by director Alexander Strain. Theater review: Forum Theatre's dismal 'One Flea Spare'
In general I do not think of myself as a particularly superstitious person, but then things like this happen and I realize I am constantly on the look out for signs and portents in the world around me.
But signs and portents certainly suggest this power surge could help manifest something you've always wanted.
I thought of how, in Tibetan Buddhism, tigers are symbols of strength and compassion, sometimes also portents of death.
such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity
The Guardian's weekly supplement, which bears the portentous title Society, is the font of public-sector employment, the spring whereat the civic-minded slake their thirst for righteous subsidy.
A sulphury light filled the flat, and the first heavy raindrops splashed portentously on the sill beyond the sitting-room window. DEATH SPEAKS SOFTLY
A pessimist might have seen a portent in the cynical amusement of her smile, and another in the aweless speed with which Gilfoyle and Kedzie hustled toward the awful mystery of such a union as marriage attempts. We Can't Have Everything
Short of slaughtering a wild animal and rummaging about in its entrails, every sign, portent and augury had been examined beforehand.
Mariamne might want her to become a nun, but the find in the coffer was a portent and had fixed Annais's decision on the matter. The Falcons of Montabard
Considerate persons found something of the pathetic in their preoccupation by these trifles while, so clamantly, the dissension between the young King and his uncles gathered to a head: the air was thick with portents; and was this, then, an appropriate time, the judicious demanded of high Heaven, for the Queen of fearful England to concern herself about a peasant's toothache? Chivalry
When their portents and prophecies fail there are excuses and denials.
Ugly as they are, I'm finding lots of useful material - old commercials, sound effects, peculiar remarks, portentous musical cues.

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