Sentence examples for ominous effect from inspiring English sources

Phillip Noyce is an Australian who has worked in America for twenty years, often to ominous effect.

There wasn't a cloud in the sky, and each show had to provide its own thunder for ominous effect.

As on the rest of the album, melodies are staggered to ominous effect, and tempos are doubled or halved in a manner more typical of the composer and modal theorist George Russell than of Ellington.

He could strike his consonants hard, as Laurence Olivier did, but with less of a cluck, and that soft, rasping croon of his, when he chose to deploy it, had the ominous effect of making you want to stop the action and offer him a drink.

"Then, three weeks before his assassination, I interviewed him and he said, 'You always have that same question, and now I want to tell you.' " Krol lowered his voice to ominous effect: " 'She said that my end would be terrible, and that I would have' — how do you say it?

The scientists next tested whether this ominous effect occurred in animals.

If the Fed does not cut rates next week, "it risks dissipating the gains that have been made in relieving the credit crunch".The market's recent nervousness about whether the Fed will cut rates has already had some ominous effects: there has, for example, been a widening in the spreads on corporate bonds, including the least-risky commercial paper, for the less creditworthy firms.

The ominous effects of climate change are becoming more and more obvious with each new natural disaster.

And the fact, despite all the tumult about letting gays in the military, almost all agree it has had no ill effect despite the ominous and hateful warning of the GOP right-wing, with which Romney now allies himself.

Beneath this picture and Mr. Franks's name, subtitles flash on-screen, each of them accompanied by an ominous sound effect reminiscent of a jail-cell door slamming shut: "Missed 29 straight votes," "Missed vote to crack down on hate crimes".

Violent royal blue whirls and swooshes seem to define the sports-hero aesthetic, while the ominous spotlight effect used to pick out a player on the field (as a dark cloud enshrouds her teammates) seems like a tool for a hit man.