Bound to fail

Usage examples of doomed.

And most subsequent human desire, drive, motivation, and cultural endeavors are then seen as a doomed series of twisted attempts to regain this Paradise Lost.

WMD arsenal could cause great panic, and potentially great damage, if he chose to employ it--which for the moment, seems likely only to defend his regime or if he believes he is doomed.

This year, in order to side-step that problem, I waited until the last moment to make my bets -- despite the fact that I knew the Vikings were doomed after watching them perform for the press at their star-crossed practice field on Monday afternoon before the game.

It seemed that Bradley was doomed when, apparently out of space, an arrow whizzed, striking Schwartz in the side, passing half-way through his body to crumple him to earth.

These were not the moustached, experienced veterans who had died in the appalling Spanish battles, but conscripts dragged unwilling from school or farm to die in a cause that was doomed anyway.

Sir Cyril very much feared the mission, if not their collective existence, was doomed.

Even that drastically downscaled aspiration, however, seemed doomed to failure.

Here on Erna it would have doomed them long before they left port, when the doubts and fears of the passengers first seeped into the waterproofed hull and began their disruptive influence.

AH my addictions stand doomed on death row: swearing, fighting, hitting women, smoking, drinking, fast food, pornography, gambling and handjobs they all cower in the corner now, waiting on the long walk.

Here also walked the domestics of the re-habilitated noble of Venice--the hatchments that had been doomed to oblivion freshly embroidered upon their sleeves above their tokens of crepe.

Two hours before they had been helpless victims in the hands of the headhunters, doomed to torture and to death.

Any presidential campaign without a full complement of first-class political technicians -- or with a drastic imbalance between technicians and ideologues -- will meet the same fate that doomed the Fred Harris campaign in New Hampshire and Massachusetts.

Both the politician and the pawnbroker are doomed to live like junkies, hooked on the mutant energy of their own unexplainable addictions.

The spell of the play was not yet cast on them, the occult masked figures on the skene below, the voices of gods and doomed kings manifested by loudspeakers with terrifying intimacy even on the highest benches.

John Mangles felt the necessity of leaving without delay a vessel doomed to certain and speedy destruction.