#portent

She was every inch the skeletal goddess that had been promised by the bones of her feet. ↗

— Jefferson Smith

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The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent. ↗

— Peter Conrad

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Self-parody is the first portent of age. ↗

— Larry McMurtry

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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. ↗

— Agnes de Mille

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