The ominous overtones of last Sunday's camp were replaced today by smiles and one-liners.
The reasonable tone of his voice overrode any of the ominous overtones usually associated with that thought.
The most mundane moment -- like a watchman studying a litterbug's tossed cigarette box -- carries ominous overtones.
The episode took on familiar and more ominous overtones of class and contempt with the officers' claim that the lawmaker called them "plebs".
"Homeland" similarly twists together ideas of the personal and political, beginning with the title, a word that has acquired ominous overtones in the shadow of Sept. 11.
The ominous overtones of "Session 9," both on and off camera, were something new for Mr. Anderson, whose previous movies were lighter fare.
He issued a brief statement yesterday, calling on Joe Torre and Cashman to settle the team, sparing them the usual ominous overtones.
Even the most peaceable of crossings has ominous overtones; it reminds us of their potential for violence and death in the way that purring kittens remind us of hungry lions.
Valentine did not see any ominous overtones to his singing fish, and he seemed totally mystified when somebody mentioned that a talking fish had recently played a major role in the season finale of "The Sopranos," on television a week ago.
Still, the word carries with it some fairly ominous overtones, surely not helped by the 1979 film that carried the title, centering around a young antichrist.
At this moment, I begin to realize that the ominous overtones of his sophomore album, Born Sinner, resurface as subtleties throughout the film.
