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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Hence the portentous , and even fatuous slogan which towered each year in brightest blue above the rostrum.
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Last week Karl-Marx Allee was again treated to the sounds of portentous rhetoric and polite laughter.
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Neither the Realists nor the photographers were unaware of the significance of such a portentous conjunction.
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Such alarms reflected the Alsops' tendency to cloak their analyses in portentous terms of dread and dismay.
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Sunderland won 2-1; perhaps he will think it portentous .
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That Grunwald had a good seat for all this is obviated by his talent for the portentous and gift for the unremarkable.
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The captured instant often takes on meanings far more portentous than the actual event.
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The split reflected a portentous difference of approach within the Party.