The gathering was peaceful though not without its ominous moments.
The spell was finally broken after several ominous moments by the sound of one man clapping (it was the playwright, Enda Walsh, but still).
There were deliciously ominous moments, as when Ms. Ahmadi crouched and her braids slid out around her, pulled by invisible strings.
There were certainly some ominous moments for them in the early stages, with Navas racing ahead of Cissokho to head a cross against the top of Simon Mignolet's right-hand post: the third attack down that flank in the first 10 minutes.
The most ominous moments of the hearing weren't about Trump or leaks—instead, they were about the plain fact staring us all in the face: Whatever the Kremlin's intentions, the hack-and-leak strategy was shockingly effective in distracting everyone, especially the media.
It was as ominous a moment as any in the history of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
It's a lesson worth pondering at an ominous historical moment.
It's a buoyant novel, ominous at moments but mostly just funny".
"The Clearing" is a study in contrast — majestic and radiant one moment, ominous and weary the next.
Like the ominous slow-motion moment that precedes an explosion in an action movie, conversation ceased, everyone in the room froze and hairstyles rose and bowed in windy deference.
