I generally pinpoint that as the moment I became doomed.
We meet in the middle of this work, which comprises, among other things, smashed bricks and columns, water dripping into barrels and buckets (whose sounds, modified by a mixer to become doom-laden drum-beats, fill the hall), and a video reenactment of an interview with Winnie Mandela (the wife of the first post-apartheid South African president).
His songs have become doomed-romantic anthems for a generation of high-school and college students.
As First Lord of the Admiralty at the start of the Great War, he believed that the slugging match on the Western Front showed a lack of imagination, and his pet project became the doomed invasion of the hinterland of the Turkish Empire, summed up in the name Gallipoli.
"Cuckoo's Nest" is the story, of course, of Randle Patrick McMurphy, a gregarious prisoner who is transferred to a mental asylum, where he becomes a doomed messiah, bringing life and hope to the inmates as he disrupts the emasculating ward routine.
As Stephen ranges through the jungle, his fixation on collecting tribal carvings becomes a doomed hunt for himself and "a pure expression of what it was to be a man: sexual, angry, full of remorse, sorry to be a creature that will die".
Once the job began, however, both sides became disappointed, dooming the work relationship right from the start.
If you were to believe some reactions, all women who become mothers are doomed to live the rest of their sad little lives, fat, hairy and exhausted.
He felt the message had become too doom and gloom, that it alienated some people.
"There were moments during the sessions that she would say stuff, and the air in the room would become pretty doom-laden.
