What three years earlier would have been a riot now took on the ominous aspect of an armed clash between organized forces.

As he related all this out there on that lonesome desert, it began to take on a new and ominous aspect, the future loomed dark and thrilling.

Madame Guderian assured her companions again and again that the region was safe despite its ominous aspect.

Apollo has ominous aspects aside from his plague-bringing, death-dealing arrows: Marsyas was a satyr who challenged Apollo to a contest of music.

It was Bull who spoke of the more ominous aspect of the whole affair.

Van has both an auspicious and ominous aspect:

One ominous aspect alone governed Mountview Lodge.

There is a more ominous aspect, too.

I, and the handful of other debarkees, trundled down the gangway and into a gray room of ominous aspect.

Another ominous aspect of the recent sectarian conflict has been its potential to draw in other Middle Eastern countries, possibly spreading the violence beyond Iraq's borders.