Sentence examples for omen of disaster from inspiring English sources

The first is that one culture's lucky sign is often another's omen of disaster.

A group of old women discuss a neighbor's son, who has started wearing spectacles, an occurrence that is treated superstitiously, as an omen of disaster.

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The curators were interested that unlike contemporary prints showing whales as terrifying monsters and omens of disaster, Anthonissen had depicted one in a real event.

Elizabeth F. Shipley Narberth, Pa., June 22, 2010 • To the Editor: Joe Nocera makes a compelling indictment of BP for maintaining a culture of operational shortcuts, even after very serious accidents triggered a pledge by the previous chief executive to build a culture of safety ("BP Ignored the Omens of Disaster," Talking Business column, June 19).

The ambiguity that is so unbearable to Curtis — the sense that he might be losing his mind and also receiving omens of impending disaster — is crucial to the film's logic.

Each of us has his own omens of impending disaster.

What kind of disaster, exactly.

But in what could be an omen of the challenges ahead for Mr. Marchionne, Fiat's own executives say that trying to blend the very different cultures of G.M. and Fiat was a disaster.

Was that an omen of dreadful events to come?

Is this the dire omen of a new depression?