That was two days before administration officials fanned out on the Sunday-morning talk shows to point ominously at the now-discredited front-page Times story about Saddam's aluminum tubes.

Their rifles pointed ominously at his chest.

The gun pointed ominously.

"No." She pointed at me ominously.

As it came erect, its finger pointed ominously.

His gun muzzle pointed ominously toward the back of the express driver's head.

His eyes were closed, his lips silently moving; his hands were stretched out pointing ominously towards Paul, as the sweet, unearthly music went on.

On the chest of each groggy prisoner was a blinking red device, and Picard pointed ominously at them.

In the background a line of tanks stretched across the road, the muzzles of their guns pointing ominously at a convoy of personnel carriers.

His thick fore finger pointed ominously at Diego.