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Thus, like Michael Corleone, Abel is a man living with a paternal figure looming over his life.

With a government shutdown looming, Nancy Pelosi and Michele Bachmann are on the same side.

Across the country, high school seniors are in the throes of completing college applications before looming deadlines.

Finally, as with other medications, the looming question is that of globalization.

Visitors are greeted by a looming gothic gate, the kind used to signify that important residents lie behind its spires.

Some one is bending over me, looming unnaturally large in the darkness.

I am afraid that there is still further trouble looming ahead.

Sheriff Tom had seen many war-bonneted Indians looming through the dust of trail herds.

Don't you love to see great ideas looming through a mist of words?

I saw the nearer trees looming in the mist, and the silver fog rolling on the lake.