"Lord Mark Vorkosigan, milady," the manservant announced portentously, making Mark flinch.

"The zealots sent a message," the heretic leader announced portentously, without even asking Lark about his day.

"My life," he portentously announces.

Now he spread his arms to his audience, paused for a second and then announced portentously, Kusasa isufari, tomorrow the march begins!

"Today concerns weather," Tukolom announced portentously and frowned at the groans from his audience.

"Lad-eess an' Shentlemens," he announced portentously.

"I am the Rememberer Elegro," he announced portentously.

At one point, the movie announces portentously that video must revolutionize the way audiences look at movies and the way movies are made.

"Jackson Pollock had demons inside," they portentously announce at the beginning, as if that were news to anyone with the slightest familiarity with Pollock's career.

"He cannot lie to me," Tachyon announced portentously.