Word: doomful
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...anxiety and guilt that have little to do with the subject as such. For many Bomb worriers, it seems to be a true phobia, a kind of secular substitute for the Last Judgment, and a truly effective nuclear ban would undoubtedly deprive them of a highly comforting sense of doom...
...Marx observed Russia on the verge of an "unfortunate submission to capitalism," Rubel said. He believed that Russia's economic backwardness would doom any program aiming at an immediate socialist revolution...
...gazetteer (those who confuse it with Thomas Jefferson's home will be very confused indeed), but it can be visited five days a week at 4:30 p.m. E.S.T. on CBS. The network and the ad agency of Benton & Bowles, which hold joint fief over Monticello's doom-prone citizens, regard it with loyal affection: it is the mythical locale of TV's most merciless soap opera. The Edge of Night, the greatest hypnotic to appear since the video tube nudged the U.S. housewife away from radio's Stella Dallas...
...least Patrice Lumumba died like a man, face to face with his enemies. This is more than can be said for Kasavubu and Tshombe, too cowardly to meet their political doom in front of the democratically elected Parliament of their country...
...annual ADVOCATE-HDC playwrighting (sic) contest." Mr. Cole has evidently decided that the stage is eminently suited to flippant dialectic: his play does not have characters, but rather attitudes, few actions of the body, but many intricate actions of the soul. This sort of mental horseplay does not necessarily doom a literary effort, but in Mr. Cole's case the tone is annoyingly didactic, the intention overly profound--and the results predictably dull...