| Now an even greater silence filled the air, filled with portent and emotion. |
| His opening cadenza is filled with tension and dark portent, and his tempos, as usual, are well judged. |
| It was a portent of climatic things to come, which culminated in the worst floods in living memory in cities such as Prague and Dresden. |
| I arrived home with renewed determination, I was going to study and make the heavy feeling of dread and portent disappear. |
| If you believe that fundamentals eventually catch up to market behavior, this is not a particularly good portent for stocks going forward. |
| Beginnings and endings, the dual portals of narrative, are often charged with portent and revelation. |
