Sentence examples for an ominous future from inspiring English sources

As Jean-Luc Godard had done with "Alphaville" (1965), Fassbinder used the city's new architecture -- underground shopping malls, hulking concrete high-rises -- to suggest an ominous future world.

But that will change, as the rappers start seeming less like harbingers of an ominous future and more like relics of a colorful past.

If this were a short story, my friend and I would hold each other tight in fear, and in rebellion against an ominous future.

In parts of America where demographic and social change have been slower in coming, that inaugural stage can symbolize an ominous future: the United States as an increasingly centrifugal nation, made up of tribes spinning ever further from a center of shared culture and values.

Determinedly contemporary, "Demonlover" imagines an ominous future of computerized home entertainment in which cyberwise suburban teenagers, with only a few clicks on their computer screens, can visit an interactive pornography site called Hellfire Club, which invites them to think up tortures for a disturbingly lifelike female captive.

The agency's final report, read in retrospect, signaled an ominous future not just for Iraq but for any place the U.S. might find itself involved.

What Netanyahu and Trump have demonstrated during their press conference was that both seem to revel in illusions where they find a zone of real comfort, while leaving Israelis and Palestinians to an uncertain and ominous future.

On Friday, with negotiations at a virtual standstill, the ominous future of the N.F.L. invaded the present when Goodell said many owners wondered why they approved the current collective bargaining agreement in 2006.

In diverse ways he remained a conscientious objector in the years to come, echoing a line in "The Birthday Party," in which Stanley, a lodger in a seaside boarding house, is suddenly taken away by two strangers to some ominous future as a friend cries out, "Stan, don't let them tell you what to do!" Years later, Mr. Pinter said he had lived that line all his life.

For Carr's The Glass Cage -- an analysis of the past and maybe ominous future of automation -- I'm glad I have hardcopy.

Based on the 1994 schedule, the last time owners and players were faced with an ominous labor future, it would set the date two weeks hence.