Sentence examples for if doomed from inspiring English sources

Likewise, in his love affairs Crane set himself up for failure, as if doomed to re-enact the melodrama of his parents' ruinous marriage.

Mr. Wade occasionally gets angry — the rage of the nerd is a major theme of storytelling — but his characteristic moment is when a minor episode inspires an exhilarating if doomed sense of joy.

He at least knew better than to give her a smooch, as he had Oprah two days before in his continuing if doomed quest to make up the ground he lost after Al's Excellent Kiss.

When it turns out that "country girl" LaTonya is also a rabid fan of Blue, Peggy has a new project, the makeover of LaTonya, and LaTonya has a determined, if doomed, mentor in Peggy.

But we start with the inevitable childhood and teenage crushes, moving on to encounters with prostitutes, drug addiction, breakdown, rehab, brief marriage, second longer marriage, and several serious, if doomed, relationships with (often red-haired, sometimes married) women.

In Trovatore, this meant Manrico angrily shoving Leonora around a graffiti-sprayed container truck as the music speaks only of their tender, if doomed love; in Pelléas, it entailed gratuitous child abuse amid the random ravings of irrelevant inmates.

Doomed if they do, doomed if they don't: such is the tricky spot the Libertines find themselves in on their first album since 2004's implosion.

Now that plan appears in jeopardy, if not doomed.

It was a masterful, if ultimately doomed, effort that required both precision and coordination.

On home soil, they can become idols overnight with a courageous attack or a valiant, if ultimately doomed, breakaway.

"The guy behind is destined, if not doomed, to a life of insignificance or insecurity," Mr. Meyers said.