Kenneth Cole

My first AIDS campaign was in 1985. There was this dark cloud, everybody was socially inspired - we hadn't seen social consciousness like that since the '60s - but most people were talking about hunger in Africa. Nobody was talking about this really ominous circumstance here in the U.S. because of this fear of stigma.

American Designer

Karen Kilgariff

Every true-crime thing you see goes in with that kind of ominous music and low lighting, so to be able to talk about these things but not have to feel somber about it and not feel guilty that you're not feeling somber about it - I think that's what appeals to me.

American Writer

Thomas Sowell

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

American Economist

Killian Scott

Broadchurch' was very naturalistically shot, in many respects, whereas 'Dublin Murders' has a slightly heightened element cinematically, because there is a supernatural, ominous quality - particularly in the woods.

Irish Actor

Cordell Hull

Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself.

American Public Servant

Tim Commerford

The computer has always been this ominous, scary thing that came into music, for me, in the early '90s, right when I first started playing music.

American Musician

Lionel Shriver

Overly vigorous investigations of ominously ill-defined 'bullying' can themselves constitute a form of bullying.

American Journalist

Philip Schultz

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

American Poet

Daniel Dae Kim

I like to think that I'm not as ominous in real life.

South Korean Actor

Jenna Morasca

Why do waiting rooms have to be so ominous?

American Model

‘Ominous’ describes situations filled with a sense of threat or danger.

Negative Feel

Something ominous suggests a feeling of evil or harm that is not necessarily visible.

Not Always Visible

Use adverbs to intensify the sense of dread, such as 'highly' or 'increasingly'.

Enhance with Adverbs

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Learning from past...

 that stature was being crushed, and the animal that he had roped to a tree really was a symbol for all bears. Whether those animals lived or died now was entirely up to the compassion or the indifference of people. That said something really ominous about the future of bears,

The strange story of the...

 this fuzzy picture that reflects no real truth. Replace them with grittier, exact terms that have been buried in our Lexis, waiting to see daylight. No longer does the weather look good or bad, the weather looks ominous or exhilarating. Nothing tastes good or bad.

The case against "good"...

 Satellites in high orbits like these could remain there for centuries. And then there's the orbit coined "the graveyard," the ominous junk or disposal orbits, where some satellites are intentionally placed at the end of their life

Let's clean up the space...

 a ring that could have saved a life. "Beat." is our project exploring the ominous silence surrounding domestic violence. We filmed the experiment, and it became instantly viral. Our campaign amplified the voices of survivors

How to recover from...

 an ominous consequence of this overconfidence during its voyage there were no passenger safety drills to give instructions on where to go or which lifeboats aboard in case of emergency but there weren't enough lifeboats to

How Did the 'Unsinkable'...

 that nothing can protect your eyes from it. I grew up with the sounds of war -- the staccato sounds of gunfire, the wrenching booms of explosions, ominous drones of jets flying overhead

Zainab Salbi: Women,...

 but throughout her pregnancy she had premonitions pains that her midwife explained away in her sketchbook Margaret made lists of carcinogens and ominous assemblages of words far away

Living in a shadow PIPE...

 While Mark's research has shown that mountain lion fights are rare, the signs are ominous. Marc heads off to solve the mystery.

For When you Need a Good...

 research has shown that mountain land fights are rare the signs are ominous mark heads off to solve the mystery