- per
solar year, and
hence 12 "true months" plus a smaller, and
often portentous,
thirteenth month). This can be witnessed, for example, in the "Twelve...
- Shatner's
disembodied head
floating in
space and
delivering the segment's
portentous tag line: "And so we take a
cosmic ride into that new millennium; that...
-
Commenting on Derrida's
Specters of Marx,
Terry Eagleton wrote "The
portentousness is
ingrained in the very
letter of this book, as one
theatrically inflected...
-
equally by his
anecdotes of witchcraft, and of the
direful omens and
portentous sights and
sounds in the air,
which prevailed in the
earlier times of...
-
reinforced this conclusion,
Stubbs describing it as "one of the most
portentous events in the
whole of our history". In the 20th century, this interpretation...
- work, for
performers and audiences, is to
approach it too
earnestly or
portentously. I have
always tried to
interpret his
plays with as much
humour and humanity...
-
Yakuza (1975);
Shogun ********in (1980) At the
conclusion of the scene, a
portentous line of M****llus's
echoes one from the
crime drama Charley Varrick (1973)...
-
American Journal of
Philology 43.2 (1922), 166f. "Another, much more
portentous mistake of the same kind (loc. cit. [ Jour. Eg. Arch., VI, 296]) is Sayce's...
-
preparation for the role, told
director Hugh
Hudson that he didn't feel the
portentous and
sanctimonious scripted speech was
either authentic or inspiring. Hudson...
-
dancers and athletes.
Riefenstahl relies heavily for her
transitions on
portentous cutaways to butts, mist, statuary, foliage, and rooftops. Her reaction...
