Word: doomful
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...child. "What have I had out of life?" she asked. "I was 15 when the Nazis came. That is a happy age for girls but I don't remember any happiness. ... I can't remember that I have ever been free of a sense of doom about this country, since the Nazis came. They ruined what they touched and they ruined...
than ever before." Example: "The great revivals in American Protestantism were in their incipient stages during the 18th Century recession and when rationalism, capped by the French Revolution, appeared to be spelling the doom of Christianity." The driving vigor of expanding Christianity, Latourette maintains, has been an "uncompromising loyalty" to the doctrine of Christ's divinity...
This artistic integrity--rarely to be found in the theatrical world-may spell the doom of the production financially. For the opinion of the Shubert's audience Wednesday seemed to be a conglomerate lack of understanding, appreciation, or even interest, all of which seems to point away from the direction of box office success...
...last consolation of Britain's dying aristocracy. "I was called to all parts of the country to make portraits of houses that were soon to be deserted or debased; indeed, my arrival seemed often to be only a few paces ahead of the auctioneers, a presage of doom...
...report of the ghost of a little old French lady in a faded green bonnet who tiptoes through the rooms of an old plantation at night. "Tirelessly, she journeys from bedchamber to bedchamber, raising mosquito baires and peering hopefully into the face of each sleeper." It is her doom never to find the face she seeks...