The pessimistic view is that the effective annexation of Crimea marks the beginning of something new and ominous: not another Cold War but, rather, a revival of a chauvinistic and expansive Russian nationalism that goes back to the tsars.
"You leap out of bed," Mr. Gore said, sashaying to his right, "and you dance your way to the front door and you fling open the door to the warm rays of that sun, and you pick up that newspaper and it says: 'Gore-Lieberman Win!' " Mr. Gore can only hope that Monday's weather was not ominous, as the cold driving rain he spoke of dampened his travels in Iowa and Missouri.
Frankly, I would have jumped at the chance to never again have my vagina pried open by a cold, ominous, salad-tongs-resembling plastic tool, only to have cells scraped from my cervix after more invasive poking-around with another frigid tool.
Being mindful of both distortions — and finding someone outside the wedding frenzy to listen — is one way to check whether those cold feet are ominous.
A cold Morgan is somehow more ominous than a cold child.
In 1953, with the United States and the Soviet Union testing hydrogen bombs and the cold war increasingly frigid, that ominous minute hand of hers stood just two ticks from the symbolically catastrophic 12.
It's as if he were healing the twentieth century's stylistic divides, with Romanticism as the meeting ground; at several crucial points, the orchestra enters a beautifully ominous space that might be described as Cold War Mahler.
Thompson's raps, though, were anything but lighthearted: On a series of early mixtapes, Giggs honed an ominous style, chronicling hood life in a cold, almost taunting tone.
Scott Wollschleger, of Erie, Pennsylvania, also at the Manhattan School, has a grand sprawl of a piece called "The Cold Heaven," full of apocalyptic drones, ominous minor-key statements, jabbing semitone signals, and a shimmering close reminiscent of early John Adams.
Are we headed back to another Cold War? Probably not, despite the ominous range of activities.
