Sentences with phrase «seem ominous»

It can seem ominous at first but it's important to understand what return you are getting for your marketing dollar.

Richter obscured the details of each image using thick, heavy applications of paint, making the canvases seem ominous and spectral, sinister remnants of memories from an undefined past.

Those large monthly mortgage payments may seem ominous, but high - interest credit cards will accrue unnecessary debt if not dealt with in a timely manner.

There's Percy Alleline (Toby Jones), Bill Hayden (Colin Firth), Roy Bland (Cirian Hinds), and Toby Esterhase (David Dencik), all of whom seem ominous at best, and potentially dastardly at worst.

The distractions soon pass, as members of the colony begin dying in grisly fashion one by one, but things seem ominous, as the prison has no weapons or much protection, leaving the men almost defenseless.

Though the symptoms seem ominous, magnesium deficiency is actually a relatively simple deficiency for the body to resolve with the right form of magnesium.

After all, her daily routines may have been interrupted, she's struggling to understand why the adults around her are so sad, and the world may suddenly seem ominous to her in a way that it hadn't before.

Though there is some reason the explore the fact that it was pursued for so long and at such enormous expense, there did seem an ominous possibility that Harry would lose it.

In one of the film's most poignant scenes, the pregnant Theresa, who still has a soft spot for Tommy, replays home videos of a raucous Christmas gathering at which Tommy and Rob engaged in some friendly roughhousing that in retrospect seems ominous.

I'm getting ready to get in the shower and I'm being watched through the window, so it seems ominous and scary, but it turns out to be just like a college kid and not Michael Myers, but that got cut out.

Referring to the response by B&N as reported by Business Insider, it seems ominous for B&N to have invested mega dollars in opening stores nationwide.

Graphite - and - soot on paper in a particular 1963 for Bontecou seemed ominous, as if she were divining that the blackness held all colors shadowing a void below.

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.

If Trump's frequent, occasionally personal critiques of opponents during the campaign disturbed some reporters, the first days of his presidency were an equally ominous sign that the press would face years of opposition from a president who seems eager to battle for every factual inch.

However, it seems the phrase was coined a little early, as now it seems even more ominous.

His comments to a reporter of El Nuevo Día newspaper seem more ominous now than ever:

What we are seeing is merely a reflection of our own racism, but don't worry, we all see thru colored lenses that make the unfamiliar seem depressing, ominous and dirty.

In solitude, the questions seem larger, more ominous, more hopeless.

The seeming failure to produce new means to meet what is in so many respects a radically different world may indicate an ominous lack of resiliency.

Or so it seemed, until the colt's connections made the ominous announcement a few days after the Juvenile that Arazi would be spending six weeks at Paulson's 2,200 - acre Brookside Farm in Versailles, Ky., following surgery to remove what was initially described as «bone chips» from the colt's knees.

Four ominous letters never seem too far away from the lips or minds of Irish radio executives, producers and presenters.

Its conclusion seems quite ominous.

The swing to Labour in North Swindon is ominous for the Tories, given that it seems Ukip voters are breaking for Labour and not the Conservatives.

Out on Edgemere Drive in Greece, the grey sky seems a bit more ominous.

In our post 9/11 world, the ominous warning of the coming (and ultimately imaginary) computer apocalypse seems almost quaint.

I went outside in the blackest of nights, where stars shining uninhibited by city light seemed so close above my head that I might almost reach them, and I listened to the distinct and ominous sound of drumming.

It seemed suitably ominous.

Compare that to the impenetrable cocktail of algorithms at play on other dating sites — where matches are made based on clicks, quizzes and cold probabilities — and it almost seems less ominous.

The choreography of the ceremony seems poised somewhere between Busby Berkeley and «Triumph of the Will,» and the Coens succeed in making it look ominous and ridiculous at the same time.

I'm not sure, but I do know that the Christian of Freed seems like a psychopath, as the movie offers one scene after another in which he feels ominous.

The whole city seems to exist in anticipation of a storm, just before the rain comes down: there's an ominous, thunderous feel; the air hangs heavy; the threat of violence permeates.Much will and already has been made of the violence, of which there is lots, the impact exacerbated by the agonisingly slow, painfully tense character of the film; it makes you wait and it makes you suffer.

Director Corin Hardy and cinematographer Martijn Van Broekhuizen give the movie a dark, ominous look, particularly in the scenes set outdoors, where the woods seem to loom maliciously.

It doesn't seem so promising at first, beginning as it does with a title card that sets the scene with ominous overtones.

Ominous black clouds gather, their heavy raindrops brown and oily, and so subtle is the direction of Jeff Nichols that some of this poisoned rain seems to be real, not imaginary.

Javier Bardem seems to be a stranger looking for a room, JLaw runs the maybe / maybe not boarding house, and Michelle Pfeiffer has an ominous bit of voice over: «God help you».

Director David Yates suggests the transition in subtle ways, one of them by making Hogwarts itself seem darker, emptier and more ominous than ever before.

I like my horror cinema grim and ambiguous, and the film's brilliant trailer seems to promise a gloomy tone and ominous atmosphere, along with what might be the most malevolent on - screen goat since Drag Me to Hell (although likely not as humorous).

Wet weather never seemed so ominous as it does in Dark Water.

What at first seems ingenuous, and even playful, grows progressively darker and more ominous, until the shattering finale reveals exactly what the stakes have been in this particular game.

It seems to be more in line with the gorgeous and ominous teaser trailer that was shown in theatres with Cars 2.

With spotty acting, superficial developments, and rules that seem to be made up as the film moves along, Dead Silence is strictly only of interest to audiences who are all about scary images set to ominous music, caring far less about a good storyline to follow or characters who do or say things that might be plausible to anyone who experiences them in real life.

Lucas mentioned during the pre-release for the film that it was akin to Titanic in space, where we all know the tragedy will befall everyone in the movie, which makes every scene before the fall seem more ominous and heartbreaking.

After an ominous intro in which a nameless young woman is abducted from a nightclub and chained up in a flatbed truck, the film zeroes in on Sacramento newspaper reporter Brea (Paula Patton) on the eve of what seems a less than promising birthday weekend.

Tony Stark does not seem to have recovered from the ominous vision he received in Avengers: Age of Ultron, which predicted the Avengers» doom.

For the kickoff rally for an unprecedented state campaign, the symbol that confronts the audience here seems somewhat ominous — a «doomsday» clock, its hands bent, its numbers askew.

The committee recommended that the department «impose mandatory reforms to disciplinary policies for schools that demonstrate significant disparities in disciplinary actions on the basis of race, color, or disability,» but that's not as ominous as it might seem.

Two days later in Mt. Vernon, Illinois, it doesn't seem like a very smart thing to have done in early February, as we awake to the ominous sound of crunching footsteps outside our motel window, an indicator of a fresh snowfall.

I was looking for a good place to bring it up in the blog and this seemed alright, especially as you, then, called the Kindle «the Amazon Trojan Horse» and the author of the article sees the present - day Kindle as a more ominous alternative.

Or to put it another way, why end up with a stunted nest egg at retirement to insulate yourself from a threat that, viewed over a time horizon of 30 or 40 years, isn't as ominous as it may seem?

This is why, as ominous as the appraisal process might seem, home buyers should see it as a safety measure that keeps them from entering a bad deal.