The chinks in the marital armour appear slowly, but with a doom-laden rhythm, as if a part of Edward has always sensed his luck couldn't last.
Then a young Harvard professor, he was unaware that he was currying favor with a doomed order.
And now the Wagnerian climax was complete, with a doomed protagonist to lend some weird poignancy to the drama.
And there were some nice passing triangles from Rooney, Juan Mata and Ander Herrera, albeit with the air of a slightly sleepy cat toying with a doomed mouse.
At Paradise Locker Meats, an independent slaughterhouse in the Midwest known for its attention to animal welfare, eye contact with a doomed pig unnerves him.
"No one is going to judge me," she says at the end with a doomed insouciance, "there are no witnesses to my thoughts".
But before we leave the neighborhood, there's "Washington Heights," a low-budget movie set in Upper Manhattan that deals with a doomed bodega owner and his unhappy cartoonist son.
Already set in the West, Raoul Walsh's late gangster picture "High Sierra" (1941) stars Humphrey Bogart as a recently released career criminal recruited for one last job, ending with a doomed retreat up a sheer mountain face.
They identified the Jeffersonian tendency with a vanished America of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, dominated by agriculture and small proprietorships, and Bryan's popularity (three Democratic nominations for President, and almost a fourth) with a doomed feud with modernity.
Had he, sweet dreamy Les, been there, instead of scowling, practical-minded Gregor, her emergency would have acquired and forever retained a different poetry, more flattering to her, more congruent with a doomed summer love.
Mr Putin enjoys standing up to the interfering West, not least for domestic political reasons (see article), but sticking with a doomed leader could cost Russia its naval-supply base in Tartus and its arms exports.
