| Nioche, clenching his two fists and jerking back his head again, portentously. |
| Among the few quincentenary projects to reach a satisfactory conclusion is a twelve-volume series called, somewhat portentously, the Repertorium Columbianum. |
| I came down to my birthday breakfast on my eighth birthday and announced, formally and portentously, to my family that I was going to be an author. |
| Often hovering portentously around the edge of the drama, he pops up at irritatingly convenient moments to keep the plot going. |
| Some, frowning portentously, thought the plane an unscheduled ocean flier who had lost his way in the fog. |
| And then all this gets underlined and italicized by a portentously romantic score. |
