His sculpture - toylike creations and vaguely ominous geometric constructions - particularly struggled for an audience, he noted.
Beyond the island of artificial light that was the parking lot, the night was black, vaguely ominous, certainly unwelcoming.
Does a vaguely ominous question at the end, when one shuffling black man reappears, portend change?
There is throughout a cinematic tension between pastoral relaxation and vaguely ominous suspense (Johnson).
I thought it was vaguely ominous and Victorian.
Silver needlenosed gars, slender and vaguely ominous looking, prowled near the surface.
But for many people there is something abhorrent, with vaguely ominous connotations, about canceling a book because of its content.
The set, the music and the host's dark, elegant, vaguely ominous wardrobe are all part of the formula.
In the absence of specific details, the charges make for a baffling situation with vaguely ominous overtones.
's Darryl Sterdan considered it as a "futuristic and vaguely ominous dance-floor filler".