Sentence examples similar to portentous development from inspiring English sources
Portentous developments this week in the market exposure of Katie Price, so often cited as among the savviest of British businesswomen.
Elsewhere in the paper we catch up with water riots in India (another portentous climate-related development), Japan's new female leader of the opposition, trouble at the top for Podemos in Spain, and the radical new mayor of Johannesburg.
Because Ms. Smiley fails to make Marcus's charm palpable to the reader, because she keeps dropping portentous hints about the riskiness of his development schemes, it's hard to listen to his long-winded pontificating, and harder still to understand why Joe is so smitten by his ideas.
Brace showed the letter to another friend, who commented sagely: "No man ever comes up to his ideals who has any"—an apt epitaph.The haphazard pattern of Olmsted's remarkable career parallels the helter-skelter development of the United States in its first full century, justifying the portentous sub-title of this elegant and perceptive biography.
The jury-rigged lighting flickered and then died, a development that actually turned out to be in uncanny accord with the portentous note that ends the play.
The writing is clotted with portentous symbols - the grandfather's collection of blue jars, an antique cradle, a rain barrel - that make a poor substitute for character development.
It is a portentous issue.
The portentous minutes ticked away.
Abrams: That's portentous enough.
