And an ominous question hangs over it all: Will Abirached's parents return?
Nevertheless, he held the seat, and planted an ominous question mark over Hague's future.
But there is also the ominous question of whether Tamkeen needs to wake up to what the envelopment of opposition territory by the Assad regime might mean.
The underlying and more ominous question is whether the story of our species — the greater human narrative — has simply become too enormous, too confused and terrifying, for us to grapple with.
But beneath all the bling — the glossy catalogs brimming with lavish illustrations, the extravagant parties to lure rich collectors, the impressive exhibitions of the art and the optimistically high estimates — lurks an ominous question.
Perhaps the most ominous question of all is whether the Maoists, who have waged a cruel decade-long insurgency, will stick to their promise to abide by the rules of parliamentary democracy.
A meal there does not begin with the ominous question, "Have you dined with us before?" But it may start with a server saying, "I'll tell you what I tell everybody: you have to speak up because it gets loud in here, and I'm deaf in one ear".
Rather, they decry the "the first federal ban on safe medical procedures," ending with an ominous question: "Who knows what they will do next?" In a sense, the ban lays down the marker for the next battle in the abortion wars: the 2004 presidential election.
