Sentence examples for a damnation from inspiring English sources

That's why I say it's a damnation".

He spoke of a "damnatio memoriae" — a damnation of memory.

"Work," said Olmi, "is not a damnation for man.

This is a damnation often hurled at Mr. Obama, oddly so.

"What it is, is a damnation, to be so consumed like this," he said.

His wonderful touch in Berlioz is well represented in a "Damnation of Faust" with the London Symphony from 1962.

John Reuben Thompson, an acquaintance of Poe's, recalled in a letter a few months later that in his last days, Poe "spoke of himself as the victim of a preordained damnation, as "l'âme perdue, a soul lost beyond all hope of redemption".

It is a haunting damnation once you know Elaine Riddick, despite having an absentee father and a mother in jail, went on to get a college degree and raise her son to be a successful and contributing member of their community.

"It is a total damnation of everything in this setup," he admitted to a friend, which meant that any reasonable reader of his book is left "to ask how and why the damn setup continues at all".

On the one hand, it includes concerts celebrating the 200th anniversary of Hector Berlioz's birth, like a concert "Damnation de Faust" from Charles Dutoit and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and an all-Berlioz program from James Levine, the Met Orchestra and Olga Borodina.

Therein lies a specific damnation of pain.