Sentence examples for ominous terms from inspiring English sources

Other couples, however, described public affection in more ominous terms.

Others do not see this week's developments in such ominous terms.

He paints in ominous terms the president's conciliatory 2009 speech in Cairo and envisions a foreboding future in which the Middle East becomes a "United States of Islam".

Federal prosecutors have described the self-deprivation and corporal punishment in more ominous terms: as ways for followers to show their slavish devotion to Mr. Mullet.

Mr. Bush, speaking to Congress last week, laid down ominous terms for the Taliban, saying, "They will hand over the terrorists, or they will share in their fate".

In this case, he said, anti-abortion forces tried to define the ultrasound mandate as something benign and nonpolitical, while their opponents, with unaccustomed success, have cast it in the most ominous terms.

Today the focus of Rembrandt insecurity is the Frick Collection's The Polish Rider, which has been "questioned" (as the ominous term has it) by the much-feared Rembrandt Research Project, an independent group of experts whose mission is to construct an unassailable corpus of genuine Rembrandts out of the welter of attributions inherited from earlier days.

And don't get him started on the label "conspiracy theorist", which is an "ugly and ominous" term used, he says, to tarnish the reputations of anyone who thinks conspiracies ever occur, as clearly they do: his movie Nixon is all about one conspiracy that nobody now disputes.

Let me just finish by saying -- again, an emphasis on this relentless public campaign prior to the war which repeatedly characterized the Iraqi weapons programs in more ominous and threatening terms than any intelligence would have allowed.

This has ominous long-term implications for the country.

Kohler and his colleagues invented an ominous new term for the phenomenon: "lowest-low fertility".