Pessimistic prophecy

Usage examples of doom.

All the while the shaft of phosphorescence from the well was getting brighter and brighter, bringing to the minds of the huddled men, a sense of doom and abnormality which far outraced any image their conscious minds could form.

Brutus, you said to me the day after Achates was born that we should make the best of the marriage we were doomed to.

Kathy Acker, for general inspiration, and for introducing me to DOOM PATROL.

The seventeen doomed men were offered a meal and an opportunity to speak with a priest before they were lined up along an adobe wall and shot.

The utter implausibility of this woman and her apish companion suddenly appearing on the doomed construction site left the young g-man dumbfounded.

The difference, then, in a word, between the two methods of salvation thus far explained, is this: While both assume that mankind are doomed to death and hell in consequence of the sin of Adam, the one asserts that the interference of Christ of itself saved all souls, the other asserts that that interference cannot save any soul except those whom God, of his sovereign pleasure, had from eternity arbitrarily elected.

The small cortege was led by the minister, whose unsmiling countenance was like the face of doom, followed by Jenny Argyll in unrelieved black and so heavily veiled her face was invisible.

He had to try something because without Arra, it was up to him, and unless it turned out that a 6,000 watt carbon arc lamp was all it took, the world was fucking doomed.

Maybe by that time, most of the personnel here would have been transferred to Auk House or to other stations, fleeing this doomed place.

Through seeming flight, The Shadow was seeking the only course by which he might nullify the catastrophe that would otherwise mean final doom for the prisoners within the Aureole Mine!

How had Baff, your average minnow, mortally offended a marina mogul to earn that doom?

And, of course, there was the empty space for Bazil Broketail of Quosh, lost with his dragonboy in the volcanic doom of Heruta.

He cried that the hour of the great doom had come for all who bore within them the knowledge of any evil thing neither bemoaned before God nor confessed to man.

Bewailing her sorrowful doom, Bewailing her trouble so sore, For old Mr Fox is no more.

Haendl, taking one of the guns out of the rack thoughtfully and caressing it as the doomed Boyne had his watch-case.