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- Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- We fret about words, we writers. Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. And… — Susan Sontag
- For this reason the gravest question before the Church is always God Himself, and the most portentous fact about any man is… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
- Veil, you see, if I vas to say something portentous like "zer dark eyes of zer mind" back home in Uberwald, zer… — Terry Pratchett
- Want any of this stuff? Jordan?... Nick?" I didn't answer. Nick?" he asked again. What?" Want any?" No... I just remembered that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Carved above the lintel were the words SCIENTIA POTESTAS EST. Science points east, I wondered? Science is portentous, yes? Science protests too… — Ben Aaronovitch
- I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The stillness of the calm is awful. His voice begins to grow strange and portentous. He feels it in him like something… — Herman Melville
- What is the big political issue for Britain at the moment? Without wishing to sound portentous, it is about whether we can… — David Miliband
- Another segment of society that has constructed a language of its own is business. ... [The businessman] is speaking a language that… — Elwyn Brooks White