portentously's Usage Examples:

looming vast and solitary -- a deep, dark, rich indigo blue in hue, so portentously did the old colossus frown under his beetling brows of storm-cloud.

"After several years of experimentation, Melle came up with what he portentously called "the first album of electronic jazz.

Bonnard's cheerfully unambiguous painting is directly opposite to Goya's portentously obscure piece.

Mitchell's (Steve McFadden) wedding to Stella Crawford (Sophie Thompson) and portentously notes that Stella would never be a Mitchell.

years, when John is seven years and six months old, Elizabeth dies, portentously on the same day as Herod the Great.

He adds, portentously, "this time," indicating that if and when he does come back to Earth.

from the soundtrack to a silent horror movie, as Silva bows the bass portentously and Graves rattles around the kit.

Contemporary critic Philippe Soupault described it as "portentously naive" and "blatantly unrealistic".

his direction and script, which begins as a thriller (complete with portentously brooding music by Michael Kamen) then shifts to a sort of screwy comedy.

And the poems are insistently but never portentously philosophical, grounded as they are in bailing twine, bared teeth, baptismal.

Miss Paul, a tutor to women students at King's, insisted portentously that "displays of boisterousness were really exclusively men's affairs".

an experimental motor bus to replace them from 1906, effectively and portentously becoming both a tram and bus operator.

becomes cloudy Over the western waves hither, Clouds up more widely and portentously.

he was on all fours at the exit, rolled his eyes, raised a forefinger portentously, whispered, "the Intelligence Service", and scuttled through like a rabbit.

itself constitute one of those ‘meanings’ which Ishmael is always so portentously in search of.

tacked up on the wall behind him such as "The London Prentice" and (portentously) "Whitington Ld Mayor".

work, for performers and audiences, is to approach it too earnestly or portentously.

On January 16, 1916, a fire broke out at the Inceville studio; portentously, the first of numerous that eventually claimed all of the timber frame.