portentous

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In drawings and paintings bearing some of the awkward poses and portentous titles of the genre, the artist has tracked the fictional battles of civilizations real and invented.

From Los Angeles Times

Rock-and-roll memory cults have run rampant since that portentous reformation nearly 20 years ago, making the Pixies’ initial seven-year run from 1986 to 1993 look like a funny blip of prophecy.

From Washington Post

Much of the rest of the CNN program is filled with speculation about the Wuhan Institute, typically presented with portentous music on the soundtrack, suggesting subliminally that something sinister is going on there.

From Los Angeles Times

But that encounter with Andersson was portentous - because, in parallel to her pop career, Little Boots is about to make her debut in Abba's live band.

From BBC

It’s a short chapter, only two pages, but already Cin shows that the book will vacillate between the calm familiarity of domestic affairs and a more portentous eeriness that infiltrates the proceedings.

From Washington Post