The foreboding sheen of an extra large date.

Here is Steve Jobs introducing multi touch and making a rather foreboding joke.

The multiplication of threats to our common existence, whatever their genesis, represents as foreboding a scenario as any the scourge of war could conjure up.

PARIS There is a strange foreboding in the world economy. Newspapers report downward revisions in growth estimates for all the major developed countries the United States, Germany, France, Japan.

PARIS There is a strange foreboding in the world economy. Newspapers report downward revisions in growth estimates for all the major developed countries the United States, Germany, France, Japan.

The prospect of the abridgment of labor should fill us with hope rather than foreboding. But, in our kind of society, there are no mechanisms for converting redundancy into leisure.

In short, we are far from having developed a reliable set of precepts and policies to guide us toward a safer future. Small wonder, then, that Western populations look ahead with foreboding.

But the confidence boosting effect of the earlier real estate boom was far more powerful, because it resonated directly with many more people. This time, in fact, the smartphone tablet story is associated with a sense of foreboding, for the wealth that these devices generate seems to be concentrated among a tiny number of tech entrepreneurs who probably live in a faraway country.