We doubt that radio will ever amount to a damn as long as it is haunted by the fear of nobody speaking.
Kouchner is also damned as a hypocrite and a dupe.
But here lies a problem: historical fiction has been damned as a lesser talent, a repository for unnecessary emotion, inaccuracy and a fair sprinkling of anachronisms.
It was Hitler's final brutalization of a city already damned as a staging area for genocide.
Critical opinion has shifted over time — to the point that a film once damned as a self-indulgent behemoth now seems, to many eyes, a misunderstood giant.
The past collides with the present in "Catch a Fire," the story of a man who was simultaneously hailed as a freedom fighter and damned as a terrorist.
When John Nash erected a 20-metre pillar in Kings Cross, topped with a statue of George IV, it was damned as a "Doric monstrosity".
Mumtaz had been damned as a possible sufferer of Munchausen's syndrome by proxy - a highly contentious label suggesting that mothers harm their children to gain attention.
At any rate, it is one step up from being damned as a tradesman of letters by a woman who lived on dividend payments.
He was branded the "lunatic of all lunatics" on Fox News and damned as a socialist (he's not) by the rightwing radio host Rush Limbaugh.
