Sentence examples for dark portents from inspiring English sources

There are dark portents everywhere, and people are panicking.

The story of my starter garden seems to have as many plotlines as "Lost" -- and as many dark portents.

Snack brand Moonpie also cast dark portents, while others declared it an generically auspicious time for strange rituals, or posted zoomed-in pictures of chorizo.

Here, his solo pieces mingle with tracks recorded with electronic composer James Hunter, aka The Dark Poets, whose samplescapes, synth beds and vocal samples about things like military mind-control techniques recall the dark portents of Cabaret Voltaire.

Nonetheless, the appeal sent another shiver of anxiety through liberals and representatives of the Baltic republics, who have read dark portents into Mr. Gorbachev's recent calls for law and order and his public courtship of the military and K.G.B.

His army of necromancers bring him dark portents: a planted story about the X Factor's soaring wage bill has failed to liquefy sufficient human tears to tide his publicity orcs over the Easter break.

Admittedly, there is the odd dark portent.

Tunisia's success would not guarantee that its neighbors will follow, but its failure would be a dark portent.

What is clear now is that the stuttering manner of England's series victory in the summer was a dark portent of things to come.

It is hardly surprising that the BNP are on the march in Stoke – a dark portent of what may come in similar towns that are increasingly coming to resemble the rotten boroughs of old.

But as with Mr. Ohlsson, what is likely to live longest in memory is the force of emotion that Mr. Lewis conveyed: the rattling tremolos of the little A minor Sonata, seemingly intended as mere bluster to set off sweet and lovely subsidiary themes, now carrying dark portent; the deeper emotions of the big A minor becoming almost frightening in their intensity.