Sentence examples for ominous thing from inspiring English sources

The Oprah list offers us that rather ominous thing: not a world without pity, but a world composed of nothing but.

"[L]et us see them going about their ordinary business, undisturbed by forebodings … and into this calm environment let the ominous thing put out its head, unobtrusively at first, and then more insistently, until it holds the stage".

His characters, who tend to reside and vegetate in the undramatic flatlands of eastern England, scrape away at the borders of stained-glass windows, fondle the carvings on the end of cathedral stalls, or purchase old engravings; and there, in the course of their daily tasks and hobbies, the trouble starts — "Into this calm environment let the ominous thing put out its head," he wrote.

The "ominous thing" in James's stories, written between the 1890s and 1930s, might be a sheeted ghost (Oh, Whistle, And I'll Come to You, My Lad), a corpse crawling from its grave (The Mezzotint), or something grotesque and tentacular (The Treasure of Abbot Thomas).

And there are strange and possibly ominous things afoot culturally.

There are a couple of ominous things about this menu of mischief.

And they found some ominous things: A rifle scope inside a pair of dirty white athletic socks.

Despite Republican calls for its repeal, Class seemed to be moving along — until recently, when a number of possibly ominous things began to happen.

"I got this infant on service and he had really ominous things going on in the first 24 hours of life.

"Solaris," in all three accounts, is the story of a psychologist-astronaut named Kris Kelvin who travels to the space station orbiting the ocean-planet Solaris because ominous things seem to be going on there.

Sophie sees the ominous things that happen to her, like the cat bite, as "portents that lit up the dark at the edge of her own existence," and she's not wrong.