portentous in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for portentous in the English»French Dictionary

portentous [Brit pɔːˈtɛntəs, Am pɔrˈtɛn(t)əs] ADJ liter

portentous in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for portentous in the English»French Dictionary

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Other effects include dramatic shadows, portentous superimpositions and moody sequences in which the camera glides through corridors with billowing curtains.
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Portentous discourses of fire alternated with choral renderings.
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All of this would seem portentous considering the controversy the track subsequently caused.
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But her mixture of the winsome and portentous tends to obscure her meaning.
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This is now was an excellent portentous opening.
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Five minutes into this portentous journey my elder daughter snapped her chain in two, or more accurately in one.
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Despite the portentous expectations of his candidacy, relatively few demands for racial justice were ever made of him.
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She looks towards a dark and portentous full-length curtain to her left, which many art historians interpret as a symbol of death.
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The new system of candidate-centered parties is so distinct and so portentous that one can no longer deny its existence or its character.
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This rationalization did not match the portentous significance of the event, however.
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