It was obviously a mistake of the Remain campaign before the referendum to allow themselves to come across as threatening immediate gloom and doom – although they were right about the collapse of the pound, which has aggravated the squeeze on real incomes that was already apparent.
Earlier today, the House of Lords itself backed a fully appointed chamber, setting the two houses of Parliament on a collision course that appeared to have doomed any immediate progress on the long-awaited restructuring of Britain's much-maligned upper house.
Tea bags will be doomed to immediate interment in the trash the moment they have finished steeping.
After the Crash of 1987, there were some immediate forecasts of gloom and doom, but many in the city pooh-poohed the notion that Wall Street's troubles would have a broad effect on most New Yorkers.
The turnstile is certainly technologically advanced, but, like many defense-industry marvels, this contraption is doomed to almost immediate obsolescence: the transit authority plans to replace tokens with MetroCards by 1997.
In the office of the immediate future, every body is doomed to keep moving up & up, into jobs of greater & greater complexity & responsibility, until at last every man is hard at work at a point well beyond his capacity for taking in what he's doing.
But barring immediate, permanent and total victory, that would also doom Russia as a gas exporter.
Theirs was a touching attachment devoted, defiant and bathed in tears.Yet Nelson's love for Emma never altered his destiny; apparently there was no immediate climax from which he rose or was doomed because of her.
When I outlined On the Edge of Gone, which starts minutes before a massive comet impact and chronicles the immediate aftermath, I went in with the same doom-and-gloom ideas about the apocalypse.
