| One of its aims seems to be to oppose the portentousness of so many other French films. |
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| The phrases evoke both the portentousness of a movie script and the gnomic meter of haiku. |
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| Archie carries volume and weight and just the right edge of portentousness to give the viewer insight as well as satisfaction. |
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| But it is also a hugely celebratory collective insanity, a world away from the portentousness and individualism of much current hip-hop and rock. |
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| Journalists take perfectly good stories and pump them full of air and portentousness with a view to winning a Pulitzer prize. |
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| Mr Hollinghurst crafts a credible but somehow awful poem for Cecil, echoing Rupert Brooke's clammy portentousness. |
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| Few books about spirituality are so devoid of portentousness or pretense. |
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| Believers in propaganda by deed, usually choose to invest themselves with portentousness by selecting an anniversary that will freight their murder with meaning. |
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| Such writing, drawing attention to itself as highly wrought, risks either whimsicality or portentousness. |
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| He has staked out his claim for being a great critic through portentousness, pomposity, and extravagant pretension, and, from all appearances, seems to have achieved it. |
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| There is concomitant realization that adds to the portentousness of this observation for me. |
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| Moving away from allegory and portentousness and into more lyrical and fantastical realms, Messer at the same time sticks closer to home for subject matter. |
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| Here McNamee is guilty of an extraordinary tendency to over-egg the pudding, loading the novel with signs, symbols and a seemingly irresistible portentousness. |
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| Eliot's plays were clunkers in this respect, weighed down with portentousness emphasised by putting pentameters in the mouths of the interwar beau monde. |
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| His narrative voice slides frequently into portentousness. |
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| Despite the portentousness of its title, La France remains a close and intimate work that sustains its singularity to the end. |
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| Drenched in Eighties-style stabbing synthesisers, and afforded a swaggering portentousness courtesy of Macpherson's booming tenor vocal, it suggests that modern life, in all sorts of ways, is rubbish. |
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| Its flaws — its portentousness, its flashbacks, the sunshiny self-importance of anything that happens in California — are far outweighed by its brilliant pleasures. |
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| At last we were summoned back to the table by the visibly irritated Pierre Victor, who announced with the portentousness of a Roman senator: 'Demain Sartre parlera. |
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| In the main narrative he frequently reaches the same heights, with the novel's symphonic structure and motifs marred only, perhaps, by the lachrymose portentousness of some later passages. |
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