portentous no Dicionário de Espanhol-Inglês da Oxford

portentous no Dicionário PONS

inglês americano

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Tradition holds that he named the settlement after the tree he was leaning against while witnessing the portentous event.
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His writing sometimes struck a portentous note, and his refusal to make it clear where the playwright stood could be a challenge too far.
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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 core of seriousness isn't a grim countenance or a portentous tone.
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His probing comes across as less portentous now, encased in a lyrical flow of playful sensuality.
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But her mixture of the winsome and portentous tends to obscure her meaning.
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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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Today, global warming has reduced the portentous mass to eleven glaciers that total only three hundred acres.
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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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Viewed under the light of universal history, the fighting was a fleeting incident; the social revolution was the essential portentous outcome...
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