- per
solar year, and
hence 12 "true months" plus a smaller, and
often portentous,
thirteenth month). This can be witnessed, for example, in the "Twelve...
- film of "granite,
monolithic intensity", yet also
calling it a "hammy,
portentous affair".
Andrew O'Hehir of
Salon writes "if The Dark
Knight Rises is a...
-
being kicked to
death by
young thugs". GQ
magazine stated, "Pompous and
portentous as this is,
blaming Hill for rape
statistics is like
pointing a finger...
- Spanish-born
American visual artist. One of his best
known paintings is "The
Portentous City," a
vertical view of
Manhattan skys****ers.
Julio De
Diego was born...
- "It's
absolutely fine. It's got brio, it's got
style and it's got
enough portentous voiceover book-ending
events to make
everything feel high stakes." John...
- to Tony's
brief arrest. Tony
accepted his su****ions
about Sal
after a
portentous dream in
which Sal
appeared to him as a
talking fish, a
clear reference...
- lack of
originality and characterization, and
derided the
dialogue as "
portentous [and] self-consciously literary". It also
criticized the slow pace as...
- Shatner's
disembodied head
floating in
space and
delivering the segment's
portentous tag line: "And so we take a
cosmic ride into that new millennium; that...
- When they have
featured in films, they
often drive the plot and have a
portentous presence. NPR's Glen
Weldon said that
films use
eclipses "to
signal to...
- isn't at all sure of its own identity." He
found the
screenplay "very
portentous" and
concluded that "the crew
members pitted against the
monstrous creatures...
