In the musical discourse the 'magic' progression serves to symbolize portentous moments of various kinds.

The novel's less portentous moments demonstrate the author's ear for language and easy, confident gaze.

Collecting the dust was part of that same impulse, a way to make sense of a portentous moment in time.

However banal the action, it was a portentous moment.

A portentous moment, for those who pay attention to portents.

It was a portentous moment.

A portentous moment in their lives-after the full completion of the ceremony they would never be the same.

Her prejudice was unreasonable at this portentous moment.

At which portentous moment he encountered Crassus lingering alongside the entrance looking less impassive than usual.

Eddie's eyes scurried back and forth between them, as if she were watching a portentous moment in a movie.