Joy of a Toy established Ayers as a unique talent with music that varied from the circus march of the title cut to the pastoral " Girl on a Swing ," and the ominous " Oleh Oleh Bandu Bandong ", based on a Malaysian folksong.

Every cycle climaxes in the arrival of The Leveler, whose approach ( and fall ) is heralded by an ominous comet that appears in the sky.

The most important commandment of the Eschaton appears to be " thou shalt not violate causality "; that is, the Eschaton strictly prohibits the use of faster than light travel for reaching any point in its own relative past, with the ominous proscription " or else ".

Every cycle climaxes in the arrival of The Leveler, whose approach ( and fall ) is heralded by an ominous comet that appears in the sky.

" Suddenly, an ominous " Special Bulletin " slide appears on the screen, with an announcer saying " We interrupt this program to bring you a Special Bulletin from RBS News.

Kirk has Spock scan a dark ominous form that appears on the main view screen.

The second, alternative cover shows a young child reaching for a gun, with ominous blood near to it ( the drawing that actually appears with the song in the " Americana " booklet ).

like an ominous bird a-wing '', or `` wrings with wrong '', or would describe a winter sun as `` God-curst ''.

Spencer's potential followers were openly sullen and morose, missing muster without excuse, expressing in ominous tones their displeasure at the prisoners being kept in irons, communicating with the three by glance and signal.

The implications for Potsdamer Platz were ominous, with suggestions that overall confidence in the project was faltering, and more pessimistic claims that the development had largely failed in its original intentions.

GameSpot agreed with positive reviews and praised every aspect of the game, stating " Quake is a masterpiece on every level, with its ominous atmosphere, silky-smooth animation, incredibly well-balanced gameplay and level design, and unparalleled soundtrack.

The practice of referring to ominous dates through this shorthand has continued, for example, with 7 / 7 for the 2005 London bombings.

The story of Shenmue begins on November 29, 1986, in the perspective of the protagonist Ryo Hazuki ( 芭月 涼 Hazuki Ryō ) returning home to his family dojo to witness his father, Iwao Hazuki, battling with a tall, ominous man dressed in a green silk Kung-Fu suit known as Lan Di.

Gorey's illustrated ( and sometimes wordless ) books, with their vaguely ominous air and ostensibly Victorian and Edwardian settings, have long had a cult following.

The Tzitzimimeh were also feared during other ominous periods of the Aztec world, such as during the five unlucky days called Nemontemi which marked an unstable period of the year count, and during the New Fire ceremony marking the beginning of a new calendar round-both were periods associated with the fear of change.

Successful businessman John Cabal ( Raymond Massey ) cannot enjoy Christmas Day, 1940, with the ominous news of possible war.

The telegram ends the message with an ominous code: " Alas Babylon ", a Biblical reference that the Bragg brothers employed throughout their lives as a euphemism for disaster.

The ominous verse which has Constantine fall with his people, might allude to the end of his family.

* The Alexander Litvinenko poisoning with radioactive polonium " represents an ominous landmark: the beginning of an era of nuclear terrorism ," according to Andrew J. Patterson.

In a broader sense the expression fin de siècle is used to characterise anything that has an ominous mixture of opulence and / or decadence, combined with a shared prospect of unavoidable radical change or some approaching " end ".

Though the word " omen " is usually devoid of reference to the change's nature, hence being possibly either " good " or " bad ," the term is more often used in a foreboding sense, as with the word " ominous ".

" that the economists part company with the ominous pictures of an overpopulated, starving world, prostrate before the throne of ' competition ,' ' individual initiative ,' ' private property ,' or some other pseudo-god, and tell men in simple, straightforward language how they may combine, re-shape, or overcome the laws and utilize them as a blessing instead of enduring them as a burden and a curse.

Before this Carleton had hoped to obtain an education as a poor scholar at Munster, with a view to entering the church ; but he was shaken by an ominous dream, the story of which is told in the Poor Scholar, and he returned home.

At least until the 5th century BC ( Pindar's time ) the winners of the Isthmian games received a wreath of celery ; later, the wreath was altered such that it consisted of pine leaves .< ref >“ As he was marching up an ascent, from the top of which they expected to have a view of the army and of the strength of the enemy, there met him by chance a train of mules loaded with parsley ; which his soldiers conceived to be an ominous occurrence or ill-boding token, because this is the herb with which we not infrequently adorn the sepulchres of the dead ; and there is a proverb derived from the custom, used of one who is dangerously sick, that he has need of nothing but parsley.

The news that Shore would score the trilogy surprised some, since he was primarily associated with dark, ominous films and had never scored an epic of this scale.

As with Himan Brown's prior Inner Sanctum Mysteries, each episode of CBS Radio Mystery Theater opened and closed with the ominous sound of a creaking crypt door, accompanied by Marshall's disturbing utterance, " Come in.

Except for occasional attacks upon non-union workmen, or upon persons supposed not to be in sympathy with the miners ’ union, there had been no serious disturbance in Goldfield ; but in December 1907, Governor Sparks, at the insistence of the mine owners, appealed to President Theodore Roosevelt to send Federal troops to Goldfield, on the ground that the situation there was ominous, that destruction of life and property seemed probable, and that the state had no militia and would be powerless to maintain order.

and in early 1939, a `` Fallen Figure '' of very ominous character, which concluded his abstract phase.

I'm all alone and certain things are going on that look very ominous.

Moreover, orchestral and contrapuntal innovation is characteristic of his style: for instance, the strings producing a rapid ascending scale in Monterone's scene in Rigoletto accentuate the drama, and, in the same opera, the chorus humming six closely grouped notes backstage portrays, very effectively, the brief ominous wails of the approaching tempest.

T ' was considered very ominous, and so it proved.

Haematochezia from an upper gastrointestinal source is an ominous sign, as it suggests a very significant bleed which is more likely to be life threatening.

Are we not courting the friendship and favor of the very men whose hands are simply dripping with the blood of their innocent victims ?... The ominous silence of the American press and pulpit is not understandable ".

From the very beginning, his job has ominous undertones.

The bowsprit has an ominous nickname widowmaker ; maintaining the headsails upon the bowsprit was very dangerous business, especially on rough or stormy seas.

The name Egeria has been diversely interpreted ; it might mean " of the black poplar " ( needs source ); George Dumézil proposed it came from " e-gerere ", suggesting it came from her childbirth role, though this sounds very unlikely ; her role as prophetess and author of " sacred books " ( even through the proxy of Numa ) would compare her to the Etruscan figure of Vegoia ( alleged author among other things of " Libri Fulgurales ", which give keys to interpreting the meaning of lightning strokes, seen as ominous messages from deities, a variety of them ).

From the 30-second opening track, which starts with ominous techno music and ends with Yuki and Pierson exclaiming " Hello everybody nice to meet you we're NiNa ," the band's eponymous and only album is very diverse.

Doing so, they explore them and find ominous signs that something there has gone very wrong: they find rotting bodies everywhere, often wrapped in barbed wire.

" Last Skirmish " is a lengthy section intended to simulate an increasingly fraught battle ; it culminates in ever more forceful repetitions of an ominous theme similar to the main theme of " Cirkus.

A wide variety of ominous or hellish supernatural dogs occur in mythologies around the world, similar to the ubiquitous dragon.

Natalie Curtis described the song as " inelegant ", on a similar note, Mim Udovitch of Rolling Stone dubbed it as " ominous, anthemic ", with Lou Stathis of MTV stating that " Army Of Me " is " booming, martial-march techno ".