portentousness การใช้

• :: Affectation, grandiosity, pomposity, pretension, ostentation, portentousness.
• We wanted a sort of portentousness,
• Beginnings are always difficult : Even the most tough-minded writer finds it hard to avoid portentousness.
• A revolution doesn't hurt either, but Haussmann for the most part resists the lure of portentousness.
• Detective McKenna said, echoing a bit of the Method portentousness that has led actors down this road in the first place.
• Most of the other monologues similarly come unmoored from their roots in gently observed comedy, swerving suddenly into portentousness or sentimentality.
• You can feel Hamlisch struggling to create a sense of urban anxiety and film noir portentousness, with the requisite sinister strings and blistering brass.
• Kerry is a more distant presence, a man whose aristocratic bearing and ornate rhetorical constructions carry him perilously close to an off-putting portentousness.
• In fact, " Kissed " succeeds in proportion to the kinds of excess it sidesteps _ solemnity, horror, or macabre gothic portentousness.
• They are, he intones with bit-player portentousness, " moving through time toward a world that is ill-prepared for their evil ."
• And the film's verbal pas de deux are so polished and fine-tuned that they go a long way toward camouflaging the creaky portentousness of much of the dialogue.
• The very portentousness of that title, with its resonance of superpower leaders conferring to stave off nuclear disaster, reflects how deeply many church leaders have been jolted by the megachurch movement.
• It is as if he were content simply to fill in the gaps left by Sophocles, chronicling events and establishing a tone more of portentousness than of poetic sweep or psychological depth.
• "I felt like a gray mouse headed for the mouth of a cat, " she muses darkly, though Barton takes the weightiness out of the teen-age portentousness.
• "People are starting to get a sense of portentousness and pretentiousness coming out of the museum community, because that's what museums are good at, " he said.
• Compared with Freud and Kitaj, whose figurative paintings are weighted with portentousness of either the painterly or the literary kind, Hodgkin, who is now 63, is altogether another species of artist.
• The portentousness did not come exclusively from the content; every network and cable channel focused on this reading without commentary, creating the rare, unanimous sense that this was truly a moment of history.
• "The weather was humid and warm; every mosquito in town seemed to have hatched, and each one was hungry for blood, " she says in a typical burst of backyard portentousness.
• In the presence of a man who bears the titles of holy lord, gentle glory and ocean of wisdom, there is an absence of the portentousness that often accompanies a meeting with a president or prime minister.
• Certain symbolic motifs recur _ a female figure in a hoop skirt, a globe, whale eyes, spirals _ and there's a portentousness about them that's not inappropriate for Melville's allegorical grandiosity.