Sentence examples for doomed role from inspiring English sources

This is not to say it's a doomed role.

Later, Casement's doomed role in the Easter Rising instructed WB Yeats in "the terrible beauty" of martyrdom.

Let's leave Lord Justice Moses, first chairman of Ipso (the new press regulator), to his doomed role as latest "barman in the last-chance saloon" (in Hacked Off's characteristically winsome opinion).

Long before Clint Eastwood narrowed his gaze, Hayden stared down the barrel of many an onscreen gun in often-doomed roles.

But it is doomed to the role of political football, whoever rules the roost at Westminster.

Because, of course, when we rewind as far back as 1975, we find him as the very newest of Hollywood sensations, and rightly so – the breakthrough Miloš Forman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and his pivotal turn as frail, doomed Billy Bibbit, a role he fitted so perfectly it was if Ken Kesey had foreseen a vision of him writing the source novel 13 years earlier.

If Rory McIlroy is the new Tiger Woods, poor Rickie Fowler seems doomed to play the role of the new, young Phil Mickelson – always the bridesmaid.

Is he doomed to play the role of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to an organisation which for many years has been as secretive as the Kremlin, as riddled with contradictions as the Russian Communist Party, as ramshackle as the Soviet Union?

That part of the range has been represented by the Sonata, which was old-school Hyundai, not very good and doomed to a twilight role in murky minicab-dom.

Unlike the younger Phyllis and her brother Peter, Bobbie is not allowed to be bad: like poor Wendy in Barrie's Peter Pan, she is doomed to play the role of "little mother".

She realized early that she was doomed to a supporting role on the family ranch; although she could work cattle and tractors, she writes, I also learned to... reserve my opinion when the men were talking.