Word: dooming
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...genre that must be underplayed, Williams hokes up the script into near parody. He huffs and puffs doom like an overamplified Greek chorus, and lays on the suspense with all the foot-clumping subtlety of a horror movie...
Which led me to my fatal doom, to wander off in shame...
...S.A.T., a doom to your plans to take such intangible qualities as creativity, motivation and curiosity and reduce them to the realm of the tangible by assigning a number score to them. These are all an American kid has left to call his own. In other areas he can chart his performance by comparison with that of the rest of the nation, thereby diminishing, to some degree, the sense of the unique and the special. With this final invasion of his privacy you commit the ultimate putdown. May your computers clog...
...exceptions have mainly been the work of veteran songwriters like Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rogers and Hammerstein, and Lerner and Lowe. They found it possible in the '50's to treat familiar tales of high society or backstage life which might have spelled doom in the hands of their juniors. Call Me Madam ,Can Can, The Sound of Music and Camelot were triumphs of technical genius, the net products of their creators rather than of their subject material...
...like the world-even with the threat of war and famine and overpopulation hanging over it! And what's more, I'm gonna enjoy it, prophets of doom! I'm gonna enjoy today and tomorrow and next week and every day the good Lord gives me to enjoy...