Both Uses of "portentous" in "The Great Gatsby"

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Both Uses

portentous
in
The Great Gatsby
(Edited)

As Tom took up the receiver the compressed heat exploded into sound and we were listening to the portentous chords of Mendelssohn's Wedding March from the ballroom below.
p. 127.5

portentous = sounding excessively important
Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.
p. 135.5 *

portentous = indicating something important will happen

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Definitions:

(1) (portentous)
very important; or indicating something important in the future -- often something that is threatening

or:

acting overly important or serious
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)