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Words that defy reality are ominous. And it's ominous reality that confronts those who would obscure the wise and worthy. — Mencius

The word 'novel' carries, for me, a weight as ominous, all-consuming and unforgiving as any Job encountered. — Philip Schultz

As the saturating colors of sun-life fade from sight, the ominous moon reaches out its long arm and applies the dark dyes of night. — Daniel J. Rice

Why do waiting rooms have to be so ominous? — Jenna Morasca

Animals like crows, owls or black cats are not ominous at all; it is the men's superstitious mind which is the inauspicious one! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange. — Tracy Kidder

ominous and disquieting. It seemed that the evil power in Mirkwood had — J.R.R. Tolkien

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned — George Santayana

Weapons are ominous tools. They are abhorred by all creatures. Anyone who follows the Way shuns them. — Laozi

He liked murder. Murder and long walks had been two of his favorite things when he was younger. — Derek Landy

The Tower trembles; the worlds shudder in their courses. The rose feels a chill, as of winter. — Stephen King

Torak's dead."
"Really?" Aunt Pol said. "Have you seen his grave? Have you opened the grave and seen his bones? — David Eddings

For those who fear to die, death walks behind them like an ominous shadow. But for those who embrace it, death casts a gentle eye upon that person. — Charles Lee

Thou ominous and fearful owl of death. — William Shakespeare

Never be intimidated by what seems ominous, for BiG is only an accumulation of many smalls. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred. — Colleen McCullough

The time has come (ominous musical crescendo) for some missions! — Andy Weir

The Earth swirls down through the ominous moons of preconsidered generations. — Mervyn Peake

Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over. — Arthur Erickson

To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo. — John Dewey

The problem with real life is there's no musical score. In movies, you know you're in danger because there's an ominous chord underlining the scene, — Sue Grafton

Most morally ominous: from the second you choose one event over another, you're shaping the past's meaning. — Mary Karr

And see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky ... — Martin Luther King Jr.

The phone rang. Softly, in actuality, yet it seemed loud and ominous, as phones do at night in dark hotel rooms. — Jim Thompson

Twas ostensibly ominous in the overview
To be 'orribly and onerously overrun. — Ian McEwan

But he still lingered for a moment, as if waiting for the wind to take a hand and perhaps gust him down to his car. — Stephen King

You stupefied me. We waxed,
Carnivores, late and alight
In the beaded winter. All was ominous, luminous. — John Ashbery

But do not take this responsibility lightly, my boy. The Gauntlet casts an ominous shadow. — Casey Caracciolo

I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

You can't afford to make the shark look good so you do most of it with ominous music and a fin. — Jim Howick

I turn back to Griffin. His expression is stony and unreadable, although if I had to take a wild guess, I'd say it was tending toward ominous. — Amanda Bouchet

That is to say, nine dead beavers in a line on the sand. There was something decorative about this, but also ominous or forbidding. — Patrick DeWitt

Is there any phrase more ominous than you need to see exactly what you've done? I couldn't think of one offhand. — Stephen King

Bond looked at the beautiful day and smiled. And no man, not even Mr. Big, would have liked the expression on his face. — Ian Fleming

Ren watched us as he leaned casually against the table, holding a pair of scissors. I'd never seen a classroom tool look so dangerous. — Andrea Cremer

I like to think that I'm not as ominous in real life. — Daniel Dae Kim

William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke. — Willa Cather

Is there a spot on earth where such a man is unknown, an ominous survival testifying to the eternal fitness of lies and impudence? — Joseph Conrad

The villagers marked the time in two ways: before the swamp and after. What came before was good. And all that came after was not. — Melanie Crowder

Rosa is pushing all the buttons. — Justine Larbalestier

Filling life exceedingly is called ominous. — Laozi

Danny couldn't remember how many times he had driven down this particular stretch of highway. — Mike Mehalek

I know not, but strained silence, so I deem,
IS no less ominous than excessive grief. — Sophocles

Facilis descensus Averni," he whispered, his ominous and preternatural words striking her very soul. "The descent to Hell is easy. — Sylvain Reynard

Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it. — Laozi

He falls asleep believing he's been robbed, not knowing that the summoning of demons is almost always unwitting. — Dexter Palmer

It would be, in fact, very ominous if Iraq were to be able to get weapon-usable material, hydro-plutonium or highly enriched uranium from abroad. — Mohamed ElBaradei

What none of them knew, of course, was that Carrie White was telekinetic. — Stephen King

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess. — James Thurber

The only thing we know for certain is that Darquesse is coming, and she's coming to kill us all. — Derek Landy

It was a dark story. — Joseph Conrad

"Foreboding" and "ominous" is what you're striving to achieve-not mention. — Josip Novakovich

Again he trailed off into ominous silence. — Terry Brooks

Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long. — Laozi

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction — Freya Stark

There was a Sabbath lull in the air, which, in a settlement unused to Sabbath influences, looked ominous. — Bret Harte

Every nation feels itself to be superior, but in America it's a jaunty feeling, and in some cases a rather ominous one among the super-patriots. — James Salter