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• s  of momentous or ominous significance
  such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville
• s  ominously prophetic
• s  puffed up with vanity

• It is only at the very end that Christianity makes a brief but portentous appearance, aboard a fleet of Spanish ships that appears suddenly on the horizon.
• Twenty years she has squatted there; eyes accustomed to the landscape are beginning to recognize something portentous in her massive outline.
• Labyrinth's narration is sometimes painfully portentous: "The hardest place to look is inside yourself, but that is where you will find the beast.

• prodigious
• fateful
• foreboding
• grandiloquent
• overblown
• pompous
• pontifical

News & Articles

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• Chinese president: My country also hit by hackers
  RANCHO MIRAGE, CA - Though portentous issues were on the table, Presidents Obama and Xi Jinping began their second and final day of talks with a gentle stroll on the idyllic grounds of Sunnylands, a lush and verdant 200-acre estate in this desert resort community.
  June 8, 2013 - KAJ Flathead
• E3: Announcement Trailer for Dying Light!
  Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment today revealed the announcement trailer for Dying Light , a first-person, action survival horror video game with a portentous day-night cycle set in a vast open world. Currently under development by Techland, the game will be available in 2014 for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, as well as the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC.
  June 7, 2013 - Coming Soon

Quotes

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• Daniel Day-Lewis in Los Angeles Times
  I started to worry a little bit because we were very close,Day-Lewis said, "and I thought, 'Man, how's he going to feel when I start treating him harshly?' So I kind of sat him down. I created this sort of atmosphere . . . portentous...
• Orson Hyde in Mormon Times
  There was an unspeakable something, a portentous significancy in the firmament,Orson Hyde said. "O, the repulsive chill! The melancholy vibrations of the very air, as the prince of darkness receded in hopeful triumph from the scene of...
• Michiko Kakutani in Los Angeles Times
  Michiko Kakutani called it a "piercing first novel," and described it in her review in The New York Times as "by turns lyrical and portentous, ferocious and elegiacal:a small but powerful opera in the unexpected form of a novel."