Sentence examples for doomed task from inspiring English sources

Unscrambling California seems a doomed task.

As Liliane, and her real-life counterpart Tuck, know too well, resolving the gap between the real and the literary representation is a doomed task.

It's not necessarily a doomed task.

This task is doomed to failure unless the austere measures are seen as fair.

But Strether's task is doomed once he realizes (or imagines) how remarkably improved Chad has become in the clutches of an older woman, Madame de Vionnet.

But even this much more modest task is doomed to lead to unsatisfactory results, for there is much confusion perhaps a hopeless confusion about how the terms of the debate should be drawn up.

But now that the worst recession since the Great Depression is inflicting severe pain on the generally citizenry, those elites are becoming alarmed that the American public will pull back the curtain on the Keynesian Wizard of Oz happiness machine and discover they are doomed to the herculean task of paying down mountainous debts.

"In short, this particular lawsuit seemed doomed, with the court's biggest task figuring out how to say so without shutting the courthouse door entirely to such claims," said longtime Supreme Court reporter Lyle Denniston.

How much more wrenching it would be to see that young guy trapped on a factory floor, doomed like Sisyphus to the endless task of trying to get by.

Mordrin is a laconic, lazy, pissed-off Scottish wizard, doomed to attempt, with vitriolic reluctance, heroic tasks in an unheroic world.

The task of envisioning a radically different world is doomed before it begins.