Sentence examples for doomed to play from inspiring English sources

Mitsuko was doomed to play this".

It was a mixture of pantomime and pandemonium, with poor Laws doomed to play Widow Twankey.

For a while, Greig looked like she was doomed to play hapless, single thirtysomethings.

My heart sank as I was about a head shorter, so thought I was doomed to play weedy choirboy Oliver.

Sadly, they made lumpen boogie blues and were doomed to play venues like the Dorking Gibbet & Acorn forever more.

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.

The second scheme was to produce a documentary entitled The Führer Gives a City to the Jews, for which Terezín was cleaned up and grotesque sequences filmed in which apparently happy inmates, in reality doomed to die, play football and cultivate market gardens.

In one chapter, the dead are doomed to spend eternity playing bit parts in the dreams of the living.

He is left pondering the old puzzle about present and former selves, the nature of guilt after a vicious war, and the predictability of historical characters doomed to "perform the same play and rewrite the same melodramatic plot".

Welcome to Belgrade, the hometown of Biljana Srbljanovic (pronounced bill-YAN-ah serb-LYAN-oh-vitch), Serbia's leading young playwright, who, at 29, sometimes feels trapped in her own never-ending play, doomed to repeat until the actors triumph over the repressive regime or self-combust trying.

Are we doomed to re-enact these narratives, playing hopelessly with archetypes while animals die, over and over again?