With 2013 approaching termination, it may be a good time to review the five most portentous events and developments of the year. These are events and developments that hold out high prospects for ...

And its overuse to mean merely large is bordering on the “prodigious.” But the original definition of “prodigious,” now obscure, was “portentous”: relating to an omen, probably a bad one. We are still ...

This season, a string of recordings documenting quotidian social aggressions has been accumulating in our social-media feeds, clip by clip, like some portentous summer garland. The videos are ...

But alas, what he has produced is a "desperately portentous" and self-indulgent dud. I fear it will be "megaflopolis". It should delight those who take an interest in grand "artistic follies ...

This is a movie that can get portentous about a paper cut, which makes its occasional digs at L.A.'s art-and-fashion whirl feel more leaden than they should be. But then it's hard to have fun when ...