Morgan felt the scene erred on the side of portentousness.
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Directed with whimsy and portentousness by Ken Rus Schmoll, the play feels as ponderous as its title.
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To survive, you need either aggressive, frantically winking self-consciousness, end-of-the-world portentousness, or both.
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But I don't doubt that she has met "some people" with a Bernie-or-bust, scorched-earth electoral portentousness.
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Despite the broker's disclosure, and the portentousness of their move-in date, the couple signed the lease and settled in that Halloween.
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The Munchs may get a bit ponderous, but the beauty and lightness of "The Seasons" dispel any whiffs of fatalism or portentousness.
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When Theo talks about the situation, he uses words like "revolution" and "struggle," words saved from portentousness by the rawness of his emotion.
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Despite the opacity of the narrative and an annoying portentousness that frequently infuses the movement and the soundscape, "Until the Lions" lingers in the mind's eye.
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" These strained images are accompanied by a certain portentousness of tone, as if Tom has assumed the "paralytic melancholy" of the unknown amnesiac: "I ate a chunk of stale bread.
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Miró now squares up with Calder as an entertainer allergic to portentousness and even, each in his own way, anti-modern, given to timeless, simple pleasures of recalled childhood and artisanal tinkering.
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But the focus on grim portentousness and rank atmosphere keeps bogging down the story, which needed more attention to achieve the balance it seeks among gothic bodice-ripper, "Heart of Darkness" social tract and corporate thriller.
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I don't think it's too big a spoiler to reveal that there's a supernatural dimension to "Antlia Pneumatica," which has been directed with a mix of bright whimsy and dark portentousness by Ken Rus Schmoll and features a likable cast led with grace by Annie Parisse.
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The first wave of concept albums, from the late 1960s until the mid-1970s, were rock music's flight from frivolity into portentousness (the sleeve notes to Yes's "Tales From Topographic Oceans" claimed, implausibly, that it had been inspired by "a lengthy footnote on page 83 of 'Autobiography of a Yogi'").
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In the 2009 novel "The Anthologist," Nicholson Baker describes how the clearing of space around a poem exacts a promise of a high-wire act, and I sometimes think of it when staring down an empty page, because the (intentional) portentousness makes me laugh and take myself ever so slightly less seriously: Rumble, rumble, stand back now, this is going to be good.
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The BBC maundered on until 2013, doing less and less but doing it ever more irritatingly, investing its remaining big days with up-itself portentousness: all forced banter, moody music and silly slo-mo.
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Dave Langford reviewed The Void Captain's Tale for White Dwarf #64, and stated that "the story succeeds. It's over-long, it bogs down in portentousness, but the chase of the metaphysical white whale still compels. Worth a look, though younger readers may need to protect impressionable parents from the many sex scenes." The Void Captain's Tale was nominated for the 1983 Nebula Award for best novel and the 1984 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
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Aquaman's reinvention in the DCEU has received general praise throughout the character's appearances in the DCEU, resulting in renewed interest in the character. Miles Surrey described Jason Momoa's take on the character as "refreshing". In a three-star review of the character's eponymous film, Geoffrey Macnab writes that Momoa's "self-deprecating" performance helped balance the film's portentousness, and that the film was an overall improvement over previous installments in the film series such as Batman v Superman and Justice League. Matt Zoller Seitz of RobertEbert.
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Writing in 1908, Fauré called it "one of the most poetic, most expressive works that have been written in France in the last twenty years",Quoted in Duteurtre, p. 160 but it made little impact. The score remained in obscurity until 1930 when Reynaldo Hahn staged the ballet section of the work at Cannes. The whole piece was revived at the Opéra-Comique in 1958; it failed again, but the ballet, unencumbered by the portentousness of the libretto, which weighs down the rest of the piece, has remained in the repertory.
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Writing after his death in 1958, Mary Gilmore declared that he was Australia's "most outstanding poet", that his poetry "came diamond-like in its perfection of form". "Nothing was too small or too great to attract him," she wrote, adding that "no matter how swallow-like he skims a surface, the deeps are below; he never wrote the shallow." However, he has not retained his critical standing, and is now esteemed mostly as the poet who first offered "an alternative to the balladry that had dominated Australian poetry". Judith Wright called him "a singer, not a thinker, [who] freed the notion of poetry from the portentousness of the Nationalist and radical schools".
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This sonata consists of two movements: # Andante – Allegro vivace # Adagio – Tempo d'andante – Allegro vivace This short, almost enigmatic work demonstrates in a concentrated form how Beethoven was becoming ready to challenge and even subvert the sonata structures he inherited from composers such as Haydn and Mozart. Its overall structure is very similar to the contemporary piano sonata Op. 101. Both movements recall the long-established convention of a slow introduction to a brisk main section in sonata form, but with significant modifications. In the first movement, the introductory portion entirely lacks the portentousness of a conventional slow introduction, consisting of a brief elegiac theme repeated several times without change of key and largely unvaried; it concludes with an elaborate cadence in C major that is then contradicted by the sonata portion being in the relative minor, largely avoiding the key of C major except at the opening of the development.
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In "Supernatural Horror in Literature", Lovecraft gives his definition of weird fiction: > The true weird tale has something more than secret murder, bloody bones, or > a sheeted form clanking chains according to rule. A certain atmosphere of > breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; > and there must be a hint, expressed with a seriousness and portentousness > becoming its subject, of that most terrible conception of the human brain—a > malign and particular suspension or defeat of those fixed laws of Nature > which are our only safeguard against the assaults of chaos and the daemons > of unplumbed space. S. T. Joshi describes several subdivisions of the weird tale: supernatural horror (or fantastique), the ghost story, quasi science fiction, fantasy, and ambiguous horror fiction and argues that "the weird tale" is primarily the result of the philosophical and aesthetic predispositions of the authors associated with this type of fiction.Joshi 1990, pp.
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