Aboveground lurk such ominous issues as outdated wiring, convoluted plumbing, chimneys in need of cleaning and pointing, and areas so devoid of insulation that they "could have been used for meat storage".
Gothic stridors and ominous chanting issue from the soundtrack so often that you'd think "Rosemary's Baby" was playing on a television set in the other room.
In an ominous warning issued on its Web site, the bureau warned that the storm was "likely to be more life threatening than any experienced during recent generations".
Local citizens were reportedly vexed by the lack of information, and their anxiety only mounted with the ominous advice, issued a week after the mysterious episode, that anybody who had spent time at either Zizzi or the Mill on March 4th should wash their clothes and possessions.
That news, courtesy of a Forbes magazine analysis that casts it as an ominous long-term issue, registered a 2.0 on the Rich People Richter scale, although, as a USA Today article points out, N.F.L. teams are still doing a lot better than their other pro sports counterparts.
The choice of a hooded British executioner to start the shooting of five purported spies and issue ominous threats to British Prime Minister David Cameron will have been designed to flood the UK media, as it now has, with speculation over the killer's identity and what the message meant.
Like a best-selling author, he basked in praise for his narrative and issued ominous and often-repeated warnings about the terrorist strike next time.
When Yoshiro is angrily confronted by a creditor in front of the guests, Shuji poses as a hard-nosed lawyer, issuing ominous counter-threats.
LONDON — Britain, Germany, the Netherlands and the United States issued ominous warnings on Thursday about threats to Westerners in Libya, in particular the unruly eastern city of Benghazi, less than a week after the deadly hostage crisis in neighboring Algeria.
