Sentences with phrase «on ominous»

Everyone loves the idea of being out on an ominous night with a threatening sky, scary moonlight, and hearing eerie sounds as they go trick - or - treating with friends and family.

But that common technique can take on an ominous cast if it's connected to possible elections meddling, said Robert Ricci, a marketing director at Blue Fountain Media.

With an unstable government and the most active chapter of al Qaeda, Yemen's story ends on an ominous note for future global politics, because that inter-village conflict isn't likely to remain isolated or contained forever.

There is an inordinate focus on ominous predictions of computer models that clearly do not work.

Hornby Island July 6, 2015 — Yesterday around 4 am, I awoke disturbed and opened my back door on an ominous orange sky.

Throughout the first trailer for the film directed by Rian Johnson we see Daisy Ridley's Rey getting counseled by her elder, but it ends on an ominous note...

Check, check and check so far on ominous signs.

The film opens on an ominous note, as Will (Logan Marshall - Green) and his girlfriend, Kira (Emayatzy Corinealdi), hit a coyote with their car on the way to a party thrown by Will's hippie ex-wife, Eden (Tammy Blanchard), and her new husband, David (Michiel Huisman).

Like all good suspense stories, the screenplay relies on an ominous musical score and overcast, rain - soaked scenes to propel the story along.

Before getting on an ominous - looking roller coaster, Wendy has a vivid vision of a coaster calamity that will kill everyone on it, including herself.

Toll from prescription painkillers on ominous upswing, experts warn.

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This tenth century manuscript contains mostly religious notes, except for one page at the end on ominous body vibrations.

The «Midwife's Tale» told in Exodus begins on an ominous note.

The official trailer, released Tuesday morning, builds on the ominous vibe of the teaser and provides a better look into the couple's dynamic and the unusual behavior of the unwanted house guests.

Not exact matches

When you are as large and all - encompassing as Facebook, even something that seems like a gesture of friendship can take on a much more ominous tone.

By mid-January, after the other two intelligence officers also sought medical attention at the embassy, the matter began to take on a more ominous cast, several officials said.

Fortune reported, «There's been an ominous drip - drip - drip of stories reporting on how these men are [faring] in «exile» and speculating about how they might stage their comebacks.»

But what really scares B.C. is the ominous shadow of a nearly three - decades old marine disaster on the West Coast that is of an entirely different order of magnitude.

My company had raised a seed round of capital in late 1999 even before either of us were full time in the company (ominous side note: on the way to pitch our seed investor, Delta Partners, a man walking right in front of me died of a massive heart attack making me late to the meeting.

On the flip side, cutbacks in corporate capital spending are indeed an ominous indicator.

«The signal is based on new highs and new lows, and is cheerfully called a Hindenburg (the actual name given to it by Kennedy Gammage is the «Hindenburg Omen» but that strikes me as far too, well, ominous, because it's certainly not a sufficient condition for a market decline).

After SpaceX CEO and entrepreneurial innovator Elon Musk's earlier ominous Twitter announcement on Dec. 10 that revealed the Dec. 19 launch date for the Falcon 9 rocket, the company announced that the launch has been delayed for a later date.

Her rhetorical style is decidedly not up to Trump's zany standard, but on this day it matched the U.S. president's manner of threat - making that is as ominous as it is vague, and subject to change according to the political whims, or winds.

Minerd's ominous interview with CNBC comes as analysts at Credit Suisse warn investors against getting too down on the market.

The dollar strength has been ominous and obvious for everyone to see and this is beginning to take its toll on the prices of gold.

Similarly, one might be concerned that Luther's comparative lack of interest in the sacraments, innocent enough in his early lectures on the Psalms, is growing somewhat ominous when he finds it possible to expound Romans without mentioning baptism.

One ominous result of this bureaucratization is that all sorts of decisions are being made primarily on the basis of political and institutional requirements without the theological and ecclesiastical controls that exist in other contexts.

Stripped of the ominous rhetorical overtones with which the author surrounds it, the «strategy of openness» thesis does cast useful light on American motives and purposes.

Mr. Zuss also directs the action, beating a dull and ominous thud on the drum before the announcement of each disaster.

That ominous sense of what is at stake is not uncommon among evangelicals, and it should be more evident among Catholics, as we reflect together on the Christian mission in the Third Millennium.

The man or the society, however, that passes over it is on the road to destruction, for grandiosity is greatness without realism, without tenderness, without sensitivity, and it produces the frame of mind that eventually becomes deaf to ominous messages of the real world.

Flat, blank facades on buildings conceived as commodities — or just oddities — rather than works of civic art; flat modernist pictorial abstractions; the flattening of cultural history into pseudo-history packaged as what Henry dismissed as «applied sociology» — all spoke to him of something far more ominous, the abasement of man and the crude negation of his proper relationship to nature as embodied in the great tradition.

But the cleavage in our society over abortion and related questions touching on respect for human life is deep and ominous, comparable only to the cleavage over slavery.

Faced with Catholic clericalism, Orthodox binding, European Protestant devastation, confrontations with old and new paganisms, the irrelevance of much of American Protestantism, and ominous signs that, by standards of human judgment, the church was unequal to its task, the editors relied on a secret for hope.

Superst!tion: a belief or notion, not based on reason or knowledge, in or of the ominous significance of a particular thing [being], circ.umstance, occurrence, proceeding, or the like.

If the ominous portents concerning the Supreme Court hold true, the fight for religious liberty will take on added urgency at the state level.

If he, Peter, could keep Jesus on the mountain, at prayer, interpreting the scriptures, perhaps he wouldn't need to worry about the ominous possibility of a Messiah who suffers and who calls his followers to share his cross.

As we hear the (ominous for some, joyous for others) sound of the door slamming shut on the Dream Act, Christians in America are left to wonder if this is a missed opportunity or the exercise of justice.

Rather, the new and ominous possibility on the near - term horizon was something quite different: the happy, if thoroughly dehumanized and massively coercive, dystopia of Huxley's brilliant imagination.

Indeed, at this special juncture of the world's history, few things need more to be driven home on the public conscience than this simple but ominous fact: it is a good deal easier to waste a patrimony than it is to make one.

In an ominous sign, the ACCC has delayed for the third time its final decision on BP's $ 1.8 billion acquisition of the Woolworths fuel business.

Having looked so impressive without him, his quality on the ball and ability to fit into Guardiola's system will only strengthen the side further, and it will undoubtedly continue to send an ominous warning to their rivals about their ability to win silverware this season.

Ominous in the background, Sonny Liston glowers down on a quartet of fighters who, when they met him, were not intimidated in the least.

Say hello to him as you pass the ominous - looking structure on Garnett Street.

The bleak countryside and ominous clouds made me feel as though I were on another planet.

So, we found and took the press elevator up to the 300 Level instead, walked by the room the White Sox» announcers were in, and when we got to this ominous ticket - checking man, he saw our pass and just asked for a ticket — any ticket — to let us continue on our way.

But thanks to our second choice stopper David Ospina those fears were eased yesterday as the Colombian produced a fine display to stop Tottenham from winning the north London derby and opening up an ominous gap on us in the Premier League table.

Unsurprisingly, the encounter was the main topic of discussion on the Sunday Supplement on Sky Sports, and the panel were in agreement that Guardiola's City are starting to look very ominous at an early stage of the Premier League title race.

Not only did that 0 - 0 draw stop the scousers from joining Arsenal on 19 Premier League points, but it may have dealt a heavy blow to the ominous looking momentum that Liverpool were building.