Sentences with word «portent»

I remember a theologian making reference to this book as being very sad and depressing, a sort of portent of the meaninglessness of postmodernity, and I've already got enough sadness in my life, thank you very much, what with Facebook and bloating.

I can't help but see Dan Rather's departure as an ominous portent for the future of CBS News and all broadcast news, especially given the pop - culture celebrity who soon will take his former anchor seat.

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Artfully shot and phantasmagorically lighted to the nines, the film has a menacing mood and a sense of portent in every dark, crimson - filtered hallway and pink - tinted lounges.

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And they say: Why are not portents sent down upon him from his Lord?

(49) And they say: Why are not portents sent down upon him from his Lord?

The side - lit hall of the Kunsthalle stands under the rather historical portent of the classics, the collection supplies prior to 2002 — which have been acquired from Rainer Speck as a group from the Cologne collection, and have generously remained in the Rhineland.

Now, there continue to be bad portents in many short - term lending markets.

The Armenian genocide is a haunting early portent of the puzzling century that brought the many countries of the world closer than ever before and at the same time bloodily illustrated how difficult true coexistence is.

Once through the gates, we're slapped with Loveless, the opening film of the Palme d'Or competition, ringing with apocalyptic portents and geopolitical tremors.

He was, that is, until about 1968, when being the vessel of portent became, should we conjecture, painful enough that he tried drowning himself in booze and regret.

Refn, if nothing else, is quite good at portents.

The level of startup activity and investing portent well for substantive solutions to the big quality and cost problems facing U.S. health care.

A reassuring portent for buyers is the amount of Wall Street purchases through CME Group Bitcoin futures buying and selling, say eToro.

One of the manuscripts of the Anglo - Saxon Chronicle for 793 reads: «In this year dire portents appeared over Northumbria and sorely frightened the people.

If so, this was a grim portent for ever proving the continuum hypothesis.

The Byzantine historian Procopius recorded of 536, «during this year a most dread portent took place.

Whereas Wan (who retains a producer credit here, and makes a cameo appearance) is the sort of director who can effortlessly turn a billowing curtain or creaking floorboard into an unbearable portent of dread, Whannell rarely makes the neck hairs quiver, let alone stand at attention.

«Thick with weighty themes, disquieting portent and anxious tension,» according to Rodrigo, it cements Villeneuve's talents, and showcases those of the supporting cast like Melanie Laurent, Sarah Gadon and Isabella Rosselini.

Very few shots are comprised of empty colour, and the ones that do are subtly loaded with narrative portent.

... What is most important now, and what has great portent for the future, is that Negro artists, of divergent backgrounds and interests, have come together on terms of mutual respect.

When the songs are heard, the books read, the citations hung with portent on the screen, all sorts of aha!

Watching these scenes makes it apparent how few films fully embrace the heavy portent of when skin brushes on skin.

While Edmodo insisted that the data included no passwords, it was still a worrisome portent for the entire industry.

What gets lost is the science, which shows that the climate is changing at a rate not seen in the past, and has dire portents for our future.

The disquiet is punctured both by Travis's nightmares — eerily nested images of future portent — and by an intruder named Will (Christopher Abbott), who breaks into the boarded - up cabin assuming it's empty and seeking provisions for his wife, Kim (Riley Keough), and young child, Andrew (Griffin Robert Faulkner).

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Thus we see that the belief in Allah is based on both rational evidence and intuitive insight, evidence which is available to all men who are not heedless of the Divine portents.

(Scandalously, in the Iraq war protests of 2003, the anti-war types let their protests be initially organized by the unapologetically fully - Leninist ANSWER, an evil portent of more bile to come circa 2004 - 2008.)

The signs and portents indicating that we may be on our way to an Orwellian society cluster around our doctrine of national security.

Its singularity and portent make it a plausible candidate for the ground of the self.

I found it difficult to understand their extravagant praise of the United States» role in defeating Iraq» until I realized that they understood the conflict as between Christians and Muslims, with the Christians emerging victorious (a hopeful portent for their own situation).

they all look like dudes from Huntington Beach... and listening to all the heavy British accented actors portenting to be pre AD middle easterners is hysterical... I believe the Burnetts are good people but they live in a make believe Christian world where things are literally black and white including it seems Lucifer...!

The legendary was slowly relegated to the remote past; belief in the validity of dreams and in portents continued for some time, and doubtless among certain classes permanently.

In course of time, unusual events were studied as of special significance; and from this into portents of one sort or another the way was easy: earthquakes, ec1ipses, abnormal births, abnormal weather, celestial phenomena, and then ritualistic phenomena, such as the structure of a sacrificed animal, the spread of oil on water, and so on in manifold ramifications.

A great many internal and external portents (political and social upheaval, moral and religious unease) have caused us all to feel, more or less confusedly, that something tremendous is at present taking place in the world.

It was not viewed as an interruption of something else that was more important or a negative portent of what would happen in the future,

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