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Traditional Latin prayers sung by men have a heavy, chant-like ominousness; the two female angels who appear in the visions convey an urgent, slightly dissonant ecstasy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026

Blackening skies swirled with cloudy ominousness from before noon until after nightfall as the National Weather Service issued flurries of tornado watches and tornado warnings.

From Washington Post • May 27, 2022

Kaufmann translated it as “tremendous,” which takes away too much of the ominousness.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 7, 2019

In Comyns’s version, she is called, with a touch of ominousness, Bella Winters.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2018

First a terrible ominousness would fill the air.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr