- 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...
-
different cultural traditions.
Though obvious-sounding,
these provisions were
portentous.
Where would they lead? Of
those who took part in the council's opening...
- 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...
-
Commenting on Derrida's
Specters of Marx,
Terry Eagleton wrote "The
portentousness is
ingrained in the very
letter of this book, as one
theatrically inflected...
- nor does it have any
narrative interest,
otherwise singling out the "
portentous"
performance by
Castillo as a
positive point. Belén
Prieto of El Español...
- 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...
- and
stated that "I
admired the ingenuity, but less so the writing:
portentousness,
reminders of the author's
presence ('How
shall I put it?' he wonders...
-
successful Prime Ministers. But
Trevelyan admits that, "owing to the
portentous character of the
electoral catastrophe of 1906 that
claim is not always...
- swarthy, dwarfish, bandy-legged, short-armed, squint-e****, liver-lipped—a
portentous monstrosity," or as
another translation has it, "a
faulty creation of...
- 17, 2013, at the
Wayback Machine. "But at a
later time
there occurred portentous earthquakes and floods, and one
grievous day and
night befell them, when...
