As a consequence, Congress and the American public should be scrutinizing these portentous developments.
In his ponderous style, he made portentous statements about the future of information consumption.
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Turkey is the sole example in the world to refute this portentous line of argument.
To those portentous events add the departure of Iran from the family of interdependent nations.
It is not without incident, however, with plenty of portentous sentiment and some very good acting.
The scene is so portentous, so monumental, that I nearly switched sides the sheer boldness was seductive.
The fevered swamps of a pre-election season are no time to be taking such portentous steps.
This singularly portentous problem arises from communique language the Clinton Administration has developed with the Russians.
Time will tell if HP is righting the ship, but the equally portentous example of Yahoo!
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Perhaps most portentous of all is Moscow's drumbeat that only a political or diplomatic solution is acceptable.
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They prefer the military to believe that Ne Win has approved, if not directed, their more portentous decisions.
In this sluggish, portentous melodrama, the director Andrei Zvyagintsev highlights critical inequities in Russian society and in one marriage.
His portentous life of comfort and lack of military experience serve as a catalyst for additional, if subtle, derision.
That has not stopped British pundits from reading portentous meaning into the visit.
Often, a paucity of substance, spirit or both is wrapped in portentous complexity.
One hauntingly dusky verse later, he goes one step further, unveiling a ghostly series of "oohs, " each as infectious as it is portentous.
Over half of Britain's 434 councils have signed the portentous-sounding Nottingham Declaration on Climate Change (or its Welsh and Scottish equivalents).
What's most disappointing about O'Connor's capably acted but gloomy and portentous movie is how it shies away from any real complexity.
Yet everything is jumbled in the recollection, because the most proximate memory may be the least important, the portentous detail relatively trivial.
This eye-opening report from Boeing scarily documents examples of laptops interrupting autopilot control, forcing aircraft to make turns and other portentous behavior.
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It seems appropriate, therefore, to use an old Tinsel Town marketing line to herald the advent of a portentous strategic development: "They're Baaack!"
But under these portentous circumstances, what you say better be true.
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For the following reasons, this ploy should be seen for what it is: a portentous move to restrict U.S. flexibility in deploying effective strategic defenses.
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Frears and his superb cinematographer, Philippe Rousselot, establish a dark, portentous visual mood, but the script stubbornly refuses to deliver the horror-movie payoffs that it promises.
Portentous as it may sound, the manifesto represents the distillation of several successful team-oriented techniques, and should inspire innovation groups outside the confines of software development.
The first is a portentous move by the Palestinians with the strong backing of the 57-member bloc now known as the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).
Stern made it rather clear that the two sides remain far apart on a variety of issues, and his portentous comments inspired no reason for optimism from anyone.
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The movie is not the kind of portentous bio-pic in which history, like some sort of hooded eagle, perches on the shoulders of every scene, waiting to soar.
It takes a few minutes for the song to register as more than a faint stirring of strings, but as it progresses, it gathers portentous energy almost subconsciously.
The movie has the portentous hollowness of so much bad sci-fi, in which the world is always about to end, but nothing else much matters, or makes any sense.
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