ominous, melodramatic, grandiloquent, ponderous, lugubrious, aphoristic, elegiac, poetic, overdetermined, sophoclean, minatory, sententious, overfamiliar, bathetic, mournful, florid, declamatory, leaden, dolorous, orotund, tenebrous, metaphoric, overwrought, admonitory, pantomimic, incantatory, evocative, plangent, banal, unpoetic, premonitory, nabokovian, grandiose, oracular, mawkish, melancholy, jaunty, baleful, revelatory, doleful, hackneyed, hieratic, memento mori, allegorical, droll, filmic, unsubtle, cryptic, dissonant, ruminative, disquieting, dostoevskian, beethovenian, stentorian, resonant, epochal, apocalyptic, literal, discordant, epiphanic, stagy, funereal, bombastic, digressive, opera buffa, otiose, expository, sonorous, easeful, prophetic, beguiling, toneless, prosaic, pompous, somnambulistic, climactic, oneiric, hortatory, wordier, affectless, histrionic, maudlin, songlike, discursive, parodic, polytonal, lachrymose, melancholic, ludic, sidelong, mozartian, clangorous, eerie, platitudinous, felicitous, hypnotic, poignant, rueful, authorial, obtuse, danse macabre, uninflected, awful, terrifying, auspicious, frightening, inauspicious, momentous, sinister, unsettling, alarming, awesome, menacing, disconcerting, disturbing, unnerving, saddening, saddest, somber

portentously

fateful, foreboding, grandiloquent, important, overblown, pompous, pontifical, pretentious, prodigious, prophetic, prophetical, significant