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Перевод: portentous

[прилагательное]
зловещий; предсказывающий дурное; необыкновенный; удивительный; важный; напыщенный

Тезаурус:

1. In the early part of his career he had made a number of smaller, better films such as The Stripper (1963) and The Best Man (1964), before embarking on bigger and more portentous projects such as The War Lord (1965) and The Planet of the Apes (1967), both with Charlton Heston baring his teeth and chest; Patton (1969), an ambiguous biopic about a modern war lord (for which he won Best Director Oscar); and Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), a tedious and simplistic Tsar-trek.
2. As it is, my memories of the weekend are dominated by the image of two diminutive figures crouching in the nether reaches of a vast vaulted interior, their sporadic and tentative remarks amplified by the vacant acoustics into portentous gobbledegook.
3. The long, Slow build-up is distinctly portentous, and no ultimate revelation could quite deliver the promised goods.
4. The unfortunate effect in such cases is portentousness; and "The Red Wheelbarow" is surely in this way portentous :
5. The production is cleverly controlled by Gerardine McDermottroe's understated direction, and the tone and pace of the 40 minute monologue are skilfully animated to prevent it ever becoming tedious the poetic torrent of Frank McGuinness' text comes to life with a terrifying and portentous symbolism for a rivetting piece of drama.
6. (His view of sex seems to suffer from the same "Pharisaical", constraints that ben Eliezer fought against, when he condemns "Celebration" as "a failure of tone," "portentous imagery and the reality of the blow-job."
7. The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936) amusingly shows a simple bank clerk trying to grasp the potential of the miracle-working powers he has been given, but frames this story within a portentous divine commentary on "that little planet under the sun", occupied by "such silly little creatures, swarming and crawling."
8. Suddenly a portentous atmosphere has been established.
9. The fate of seven "Amcits", a Frenchman and two "Brits" was not compelling enough to be seen to be driving policy; something much more portentous was needed.
10. I am one of what must be an increasing number who find the portentous moralisings of A. Solzhenitsyn a bore and an irritation.
11. Most of the evidence for these legends is drawn from some rather vague references by the Greek historian Plato, in particular a passage in his Timaeus: "But at a later time there occurred portentous earthquakes and floods, and one grievous day and night befell them when the whole body.
12. The language of the letter itself made her shiver - the "we hereby, being the parents of one Oreste Romagnoli", seemed so important and the ending, though it only gave the date of the document and names of the witnesses, truly portentous.
13. In this collection of pieces which revert to themes pursued in If this is a man Levi writes: "Desperate, the Jewish survivors, in flight from Europe after the great shipwreck, have created in the bosom of the Arab world an island of Western civilisation, a portentous palingenesis of Judaism, and the pretext for renewed hatred."