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threatening (suggestive of, or foreshadowing bad things to come)
- That prescient part of his mind saw her before he knew he was seeing her, and must surely have understood her before he knew he was understanding her , why else did he associate such dour, ominous images with her?Part 1 — Annie (5% in)
- The bailiff asked her to state her name, and over and over again she said it was Annie Wilkes, but she said no more; she sat there with her fibrous solid ominous body displacing air and said her name over and over again but no more than that.Part 1 — Annie (31% in)
- With a clarity that was both surprising and somehow ominous he saw himself pulling the Camaro up to the drive-in window of the Boulder Bank the day before he had finished Fast Cars and dropping his check for four hundred and fifty dollars, made out to cash and endorsed on the back, into the tray (perhaps even then the guys in the sweatshops had been talking vacation?Part 2 — Misery (42% in)
There are no more uses of "ominous" in Misery.
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