Word: doom
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...truth, though, there's voodoo afoot, black magic in the air and an ominous sense of doom hanging over Harvard. This team may win every conference game it plays, it may overwhelm Boston College, it may even get a trip to Madison, Wisc. for the Final Four...
...what, critics argue? Evolution is littered with the remains of organisms that didn't make it, and prophecies of ecological doom have replaced nightmares of thermonuclear holocaust. The thinking animal is also the one that worries the most. It should. Wilson's intellectual, aesthetic and moral conception of life on earth suggests that survival may depend on a new age of anxiety...
Raunch and sex can save most works from obscurity--but should they fail, they doom a piece to the purgatory of sleaze. Eroticism is a province of the mind; if the artist doesn't stylize his sexual themes so that they involve more than the gonads, he (or she) sinks to vulgarity...
...office in the White House and clean underwear." But when the President goes to the Debate of His Life and keeps looking at his watch as if he had a much more important engagement elsewhere, there is no way for his minions not to lose heart. Trickle-down doom is inevitable when the candidate is physically present at the debates but is already mentally off at the Bush Library in Texas or on the links in Kennebunkport...
...teaching fellows, dressed as ninjas, saluted Nagy with swords and proceeded to beat an egg-shaped cake to a pulp. Students said the ninjas referred to "Sword of Doom," a movie shown for the class, and the egg referred to a lecture given earlier in the term...