Portents of doom thundered from a septet of improvising trombones.
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It returns as a fairytale, bearing its own subconscious portents.
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So the deal comes complete with lots of dark portents.
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Most microbiologists regard these numbers as portents of worse to come.
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Despite the gloomy portents, though, Farid still finds fun in fakes.
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For Mr. Trump, the portents for cooperation seem even less promising.
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There are resurgences of deadly disease, famine, portents of worse to come.
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The end of the film opens outward to the portents of the future.
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The trailer promises dark portents and a flood that will destroy the planet.
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Deepening those portents of GOP gloom, white women broke exactly evenly this year.
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As we approach the End Times there will be great signs and portents.
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The historical detail is well dosed, and the narrative delivers on its portents.
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The combination of weird symbols and strange portents has Lost written all over it.
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Yet here, at the birthplace of democracy in Africa, are portents of its fragility.
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Portents of destruction are tempered by images of desire, like lesbian couples making love.
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The script features plenty of portents about decidedly unfunny goings-on at the firm.
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Yet even despite these portents, a gloomy financial outlook may not be entirely appropriate.
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What begins with seemingly grim portents evolves into an exuberant celebration of color, quirk and romance.
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But in 2018, its portents are so terrifyingly familiar that they have become excruciating to watch.
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The soundtrack hums with deep, tooth-rattling vibrations and the prairie sky is full of portents.
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TO PUT it very mildly, dark portents of resurgent anti-Semitism are making news all over Europe.
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Hillary getting to a new job always seems to be an occasion accompanied by portents of catastrophe.
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There are weird portents all along, or random events that Plath seems determined to read that way.
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As four women in their 70s chatter in a sunny backyard, portents of a darker future unfurl.
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He saw signs and portents everywhere, beginning with the fact that their official moving day was Sept.
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After all of these portents of doom, Grace does find her friend tragically dead, and suffers a breakdown.
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But in the corners of the economy where trouble often rears its head earliest, there are disconcerting portents.
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Snowden makes a lot of this Tolkien-y sort of thing—avatars, portents of destiny, signs of greatness.
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Lindquist's film footage of Newtown Creek turns seemingly innocent ambient sounds — water running; wind whipping — into portents of contamination.
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And we pull back for his gratifying architectures of form and space, amplified by color and portents of abstraction.
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They've been seen as death omens, symbols of wisdom and good fortune, portents of witchcraft or Harry Potter references.
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The country is to mark the centenary of the Bolshevik Revolution in 2017, and not all the portents are good.
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Herzog's strategy is to move in stages—from a panoramic, if glancing, overview to a summoning of implications and portents.
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We look for meaning — portents — in the clouds as well, the more grown-up version of picking out puffy animals.
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We seem to encounter the most unlikely and ordinary things, all of which are mysterious portents of what lies ahead.
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Objects return like portents of fate: a knife with the handle of an elk antler; a pair of blood-spattered glasses.
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On Tuesday, in one of many now-eerie portents in his TV interviews, Chris said the apparent disappearances had scarred their home.
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Although the mess he leaves behind will linger, Mr. Pruitt's departure offers good news for the nation — but ominous portents for President Trump.
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All manner of portents set up the full-scale, all-out ghost assault, revenge for a primal sin committed by the town fathers.
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Polls and portents also suggest that the former vice president will pad his lead after Tuesday's primaries in Florida, Illinois, Ohio, and Arizona.
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Many African cultures continue to see them as portents of witchcraft, even as the West associates them with the magic of Harry Potter.
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So the effect of his non-singing presence makes the song into a sort of funhouse-mirror Johnny Cash ballad—all omens and portents delivered with grave urgency and simmering anger, except that these omens and portents are about a plague of gangly twerps who can't even be used as fish bait because their tainted presence would kill all the marine life.
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And then a few other wild events occur at the banquet that make us get distracted from the portents of a few moments before.
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In its inoffensive infectiousness, rootsy trappings, and ominous portents of biblical doom, "Turn Around Don't Drown" is the one true song of summer 2018.
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For followers of the Stock Trader's Almanac and others who look for patterns in the stock market, those were resounding portents of financial doom.
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As I wrote in a somewhat gloomy post earlier this month, the world is not exactly filled with happy signs and portents these days.
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I've long been skeptical of the thesis that the shrinking non-Hispanic white share of the population portents demographic doom for the Republican Party.
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Ignoring the portents of impending doom (and the fact that stealing antiquities is illegal and also wrong), Morton and his Army buddies unearth a sarcophagus.
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Eclipses were often viewed as portents (usually bad ones), or as battles between moon or sun gods and the forces that sought to overthrow them.
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Despite all that, the delegates who met in Iceland recently for the annual gathering of the European Humanist Federation saw troubling portents on the horizon.
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While traces of these migrations seem subtle or hidden, they are portents of the rapacious extraction of resources and loss of life that eventually followed.
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Recent history has rendered certain aspects of Mr. Ruscha's career into dark portents, cataclysmic visions of a decadent culture that can't help but devour itself.
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Unfortunately, the deteriorating situation in the Middle East and the moves by the U.S. against Iran are ill portents for the future of the JCPOA.
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Depending on mood and place, I would absorb the aching wails of Hank Williams, or maybe the fire-next-time portents of some storefront preacher.
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While the first scene of Julius Caesar begins as a pun-filled dialogue on cobbling shoes, it turns more serious with portents of Caesar's downfall.
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Before Timothy and Emily even entered their house, we see a few Antichrist portents that Michael kicked off when he began to embrace his devilish destiny.
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The woes of a provincial family amid portents of sweeping political change are a familiar subject to fans of Richard Nelson's Apple and Gabriel family plays.
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There she discovers that the end of the world is at hand—portents include suicides, poisoned oceans, plane crashes, and erotic dreams for everyone still alive.
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They belong to the New England intellectual tradition of looking for signs and portents in thickets of happenstance, but they usually stop short of facile meaning.
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Meaningless or nonsensical creepy things happen, like rain falling upward and a live fly crawling out of a lit joint, but none of those portents are ever relevant.
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It's a kind of birth story, or re-birth, dripping with mythic portents — Black Mountain being at least as much the birthplace of American modernism as New York City.
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It's not clear what the larger point of the series is, or where all of its mystical portents and hints about some larger purpose for these characters are going.
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He cited the "extreme heat waves, wildfires, storms, and floods" that are already "leaving a trail of death and devastation" around the world as portents of runaway climate change.
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But very shortly after Russell arrives, he's subjected to the kind of eerie portents and dire warnings that so often greet outsiders digging into other people's business in small towns.
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Like honeybees, whose colonies began to collapse en masse across the United States a decade ago, frogs are portents of the greater ills that could befall our environment — and us.
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For authority figures in Colombia and the United States, looking the other way while one narco-terrorist organization tries to stamp out another has dire portents for the rule of law.
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More scary portents: "Groundhog Day" stars Andy Karl (who played the title role in the musical "Rocky") and is directed by Matthew Warchus (who did the same, er, honors, on "Ghost").
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Tradition dictates that after a Dalai Lama dies, the high priesthood of Tibetan Lamaism searches for his reincarnation using a series of portents that lead them to his reborn soul in a child.
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She can put the feelings you want to see from an actor, feelings you experience as a human being, right there on the surface, as portents of other psychological, emotional and romantic depths.
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The gjallarhorn is an item from norse mythology, and if there is one thing I know for sure about mythology it's that it very rarely concerns itself with superstition or portents of the future.
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In his office at the India Meteorological Department in New Delhi, Madhavan Nair Rajeevan, the department's boss, looks at portents which are dry in a different way—figures and lines on paper and screens.
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But if the portents are read well, and if the big and tall center-forwards that Germany and Spain have added to their rosters mean anything, it is a back-to-the-future approach.
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That's largely been covered as a corruption story, since Trump appears to be invested in one of the main funds that owns Fannie Mae stock, but it's also a stance with critical ideological portents.
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Portents of doom notwithstanding, matters are already going south for Mary Beth, a middle-aged office manager and single mom who feels stuck in her insurance company drudgery and noncommittal affair with her boss.
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Over the years he often saw various natural disasters—the eruption of Mount St. Helens and various earthquakes—as portents of the moment at which he and his followers would ascend to the Higher Level.
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During the offseason, I've been busy combing through trailers, tracking Kit Harington hairstyles, wading through fan gossip, and otherwise searching the signs and portents for hints about how the next set of stories might unfold.
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" Unusual evocations of clouds begin to appear toward the end of the book, as if the reader should see portents in the sky: "Gold clasped unevenly to the edges of a dark, stormy-looking mass.
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UPPER SVANETI, Georgia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For the people of Upper Svaneti, a remote sliver of land nestled high in the gorges of Georgia, the last words uttered by the dying are portents of the future.
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For the neurotically inclined — and as someone raised to root for this Flushing Bay team, I know from fan neuroses — the portents and auguries of playing the last series of the year here were not good.
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It's only those of us who have the luxury of arriving late that can see the dark portents in the things people chose not to notice or, worse and probably more accurately, chose not to care about.
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Political turmoil sweeps in like a dream: Yetemegnu is outside among the "pale gold domes of teff" when the Italians invade her village, in 1936; in 1974, when Selassie is deposed, she's watching the sky for portents.
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Styled by Shiona Turini ON CARRIE MAE WEEMS'S deck in Syracuse, N.Y., locusts are buzzing about the space like doomsday portents, emerging from the ground after 17 years only to drown boozily in our cups of rosé.
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" The couple has a particular vision of happiness planted so firmly in their minds that they can't relinquish it, even as warning signs and portents pile up, and as Rachel insists that their new life "doesn't feel right.
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Hints that Disney did not expect A Wrinkle in Time to be a world-dominating hit started appearing a few weeks ago — signs and portents that were pored over by the journalists and industry observers following along online.
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The tweets crystallized Trump's emerging midterm election message, which is designed to confound historic portents that first term presidents rarely get the same kind of turnout in the midterms as they enjoyed in their own euphoric election wins.
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To be clear, the coronavirus pandemic is a tragedy — a human nightmare unspooling in overloaded hospitals and unemployment offices with unnerving speed, barreling toward a horizon darkened by economic disaster and crowded with portents of suffering to come.
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To be clear, the coronavirus pandemic is a tragedy — a human nightmare unspooling in overloaded hospitals and unemployment offices with unnerving speed, barreling toward a horizon darkened by economic disaster and crowded with portents of suffering to come.
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The New Old Age Ever since President Trump nominated Judge Neil M. Gorsuch to fill the empty seat on the Supreme Court, interested parties have been combing through his writings and appellate court rulings looking for signs and portents.
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In 1993, even before Amazon went online or Google was incorporated, Mr. Aiken, as a dispirited lawyer producing a baseball trivia calendar on the side, joined the Guild and started generating news releases that presaged the portents of electronic publishing.
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Like Joseph McBride, whose magisterial "Steven Spielberg: A Biography" was first published in 1997, Haskell finds portents of Spielberg's visual imagination—his obsessions, his tropes—embedded in his early life, particularly in the family romance of mother, father, and child.
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The wide-open Oscar race has definitively narrowed in favor of Guillermo del Toro, as one of the most reliable Oscar portents, the Broadcast Film Critics Association, lifts The Shape of Water into the best picture conversation with a staggering 14 nominations.
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In person, he's preternaturally tanned (he holidays in the United Arab Emirates, "the shortest flight to the most sun"), and his voice, a languid Californian drawl, redolent of the state where he lived until the age of 42, softens his doomsday portents.
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Not only did she goth it up in 2017, but her pre-White House Christmas tweets suggest that she associates the holidays with portents of evil, like gloomy clouds, evil dolls, and haunted fireplaces: It's 2018: It's well-established that we live in hell.
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It's possible the House was already out of reach, given his approval rating in the mid-40s, the fact that many vulnerable GOP lawmakers are running in districts that Clinton won and historical portents that suggest first-term presidents always struggle in the midterm elections.
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Over nearly four decades, her cartoons in The New Yorker have captured a certain kind of anxious city dweller: sometimes roaming streets teeming with odd signs and portents, but just as often sitting on a lumpy couch in a nondescript living room, battling obsessive thoughts.
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As is often the case with "The Leftovers," most of this episode is about the destructive arrogance of self-appointed seers, who mess with other people's lives when they claim to be the only ones who can read the signs and portents all around.
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In the movie's final moments, certain events that seemed to be portents of a hopeful future are counteracted by wartime catastrophes, including, finally and most terribly, the death of a family member, of which the director had informed viewers (with that fleeting text) in the first half.
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Nick's latest reckless grave-robbing venture in Iraq ends with him, Chris, and weirdly undefined but bossy Jenny Halsey (Annabelle Wallis) in Ahmanet's long-hidden tomb, where they ignore a series of warning signs and evil portents in their rush to get Ahmanet's sarcophagus out of the country.
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First, the good match: John Cena and A.J. Styles had a modern-day classic, one laden with portents of Cena's transition to "special attraction" status—something reserved for men like Andre the Giant and the Undertaker, wrestlers who can still draw but can no longer do the regular grind.
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While it's difficult to not identify the goldfish in its shallow pond, painted at the height of Hitler's power, with the artist in a Russian prison or Nazi interrogation room, the catalogue rightly warns against interpreting the artworks in the exhibition as portents of the events to come.
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The effect was like walking into an intimate conversation between old friends, and it was just as hard to follow, but the underlying theme was clear: The world is full of mysteries, miracles, portents and divine, otherworldly occurrences, and it's all being occluded by the political, societal, scientific and historic establishments.
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Click here to view original GIFImage: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/Hampton University/Science AlertAdd this to the long list of celestial End Times portents to keep you up at night: Saturn's north polar hexagon, a six-sided vortex of unknown origin that could easily swallow our entire planet, has changed color.
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Season three is both the most mature exploration of this theme — in that it constantly pokes and prods at that idea to find holes in it (a Milch specialty), but also in that it makes ever more clear that whatever good America used to stand for, it's since been subsumed by far darker portents.
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I am not a reader of portents or horoscopes, and I greet the promises of fortune cookies with wry hope at best, but there was a time, more than 20 years ago, when I once hand-delivered 20 copies of a chain letter on the last day before bad luck was supposed to descend on anyone who dared to break the chain.
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What I mean by that is the global financial system and economy is obviously so fragile because of debt, so fragile that all of this conversation about the next 2386 or 2100 basis points of interest rate hikes in the United States, the possibility that the Japanese and the European policymakers won't make policy rates deeply -- more deeply negative that these kinds of portents cause a ruckus, or the beginnings of a ruckus, or a pre-ruckus in global financial markets.
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