portent of doom

It is easy to read in this scene portents of doom.

With his long, ragged dark hair he looked like the portent of doom in a bad play.

Kate referred to those citizens who found everyone and everything a portent of doom.

It ended abruptly, with a sudden silence that seemed a portent of doom.

"You've given me vague hints, portents of doom, but nothing beyond that.

This was taken as a portent of doom.

That sea crow had been no omen, no portent of doom.

"The writing on the wall" is an idiomatic expression that suggests a portent of doom or misfortune.

A number of apocalyptic sects see portents of doom everywhere.

This also resulted in an earthquake because it was a prophesized portent of doom for the town.

In ocean lore, the sight of this phantom ship is a portent of doom.

Throughout the album, carnal passion carries portents of doom, not all of them verbal.

Shadowy figures-perhaps his servants and a priest-in the background seem to be portents of doom.

It would be far easier than if he was just going to stand over her like a portent of doom with that horrible expression on his face.

Pundits who spent the fall debating portents of doom have begun making predictions about the next hundred years and the next thousand.

"After all these years and excuses, for me to start a family...it seemed like a portent of doom.

And if he had never tasted that cup would he be having this dream, this vision, this portent of doom?

He encounters Devil-Slayer on the way to the base, who states that he has sensed portents of doom all day.

Most of the songs are come-ons tinged with other concerns: portents of doom, fear of death, a determination to do things his way.

Mr. O'Shea's yearning for a private peace brings the lights down with a sweet dream that is clearly a portent of doom.

The ancients considered comets to be portents of doom and would not have chosen one as a predictor of the birth of a new messiah.

And the tidings of cosmic fertility are strikingly at odds with the old view of comets as portents of doom.

They bring portents of doom - personal and global - in words barked between jackhammer jolts of guitar, and they've become too popular to shrug off.

When the new 3-D Man arrives in Hawaii, Devil-Slayer informs him that he has sensed portents of doom all day.

He gave the compound a thorough inspection, his hard blue eyes taking in every detail as if he expected his portent of doom to come true any second.