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Cheap wine, portentuous and pretentious conversations, sex sex sex and unending tributes to the powers of pot.

Archive 2008-01-01 Ed Gorman 2008

Cheap wine, portentuous and pretentious conversations, sex sex sex and unending tributes to the powers of pot.

A Diet of Treacle by Lawrence Block Hard Case Crime Ed Gorman 2008

Or, you can hire some attractive but anonymous exhibitionists each year for your reality series and promise [portentuous pause, in the manner of Dr. Evil threatening world leaders] one million dollars to the winner!

Economics of the Music Industry Steve Sailer 2004

Or, you can hire some attractive but anonymous exhibitionists each year for your reality series and promise [portentuous pause, in the manner of Dr. Evil threatening world leaders] one million dollars to the winner!

Archive 2004-12-05 Steve Sailer 2004

The darkest feature, however, in this oppression, is found in the undefined terrors which hung like a portentuous cloud over this devoted people; terrors, too, of such a nature as gloomily to impress the imagination and freeze the soul with horror.

The Oath of Allegiance to the United States, Discussed in its Moral and Political Bearings Benjamin Morgan 1863

For about three weeks the storm raged most furiously, the wind became a hurricane, the waves rolled and dashed mountain high, sweeping our boats from their hangings, and dashing them in pieces; while the sun was hid by dark and portentuous clouds.

The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave; Containing His History of 25 Years in Bondage, and His Providential Escape. Written by Himself. 1856