Sentences with phrase «seemed doomed»

Such, at least, speaking from the testimony of my senses, used to be the state of these things in former days: nor could I, without a sentiment of commiseration, behold one of these learned gentlemen in the state of humiliation to which he seemed doomed: his Lordship not taking any more notice of him than if he were a post.

Like the Ancient Mariner alluded to in her albatross remark, Alice Neel seemed doomed to tell her tale over and over in paint to whomever she could corner.

Houghton had an admirable amount of self - belief and determination, but given that she was a woman, a medium and an abstract painter working in the 19th century, her endeavours always seemed doomed to failure.

After going through many, many developmental issues including studio closures and property acquisitions, the future of a once - bright open world sequel seemed doomed.

Our Kickstarter campaign seemed doomed from the start.

Sticker Star was greatly disliked by longtime fans of the series, and when Paper Mario: Color Splash was first revealed and looked to be replicating Sticker Star's style, it seemed doomed from the start.

Dirge of Cerberus was an experiment that seemed doomed to failure from the start.

The game seemed doomed to forever stay a niche, cult classic, but luckily we live in an era of HD remakes that includes Beyond Good & Evil HD.

Indeed, Bulletstorm failed to make a profit and it seemed doomed to obscurity until Gearbox Software stepped in as the surprise publisher of Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition, a remastered version of what Epic Games once merrily backed.

So print comics seemed doomed, marginalized like vinyl LPs.

It's easy to forget that hybrids once seemed doomed to be forever - dinky eco-machines, like the Honda Insight and Toyota Prius.

But the negotiation strategy seemed doomed from the start, as school board members had made up their minds not to meet with parents on either side until they received the petition.

The communal answer was that the escape seemed doomed — «like some people look at our kids,» one young woman said — but that perseverance and vision will yield success.

The Dark Tower is one of those unfilmed Stephen King novels that seemed doomed to forever languish in development hell.

The socialite Jasmine (Cate Blanchett) is «blue» for how fate has taken her from riches to rags, after her marriage with her husband Hal (Alec Baldwin), a Wall Street financier, implodes — somehow it seemed doomed from the very start since their love song was «Blue Moon.»

But attempts to configure several laser beams so that they could collect and concentrate atoms in some region of space seemed doomed to failure.

«In short, this particular lawsuit seemed doomed, with the court's biggest task figuring out how to say so without shutting the courthouse door entirely to such claims,» said longtime Supreme Court reporter Lyle Denniston.

The dirtiest, most polluting fossil fuel on the planet seemed doomed in a world of cheap gas and worries about global warming.

The two - year old boy weighed 65 pounds and seemed doomed to a similar fate.

Downing Street's attempts to prevent an independent inquiry into Jeremy Hunt's actions during News Corp's bid for BSkyB seemed doomed to failure last night, amid mounting pressure in Westminster.

They stuck by him during his nadir last summer, when his leadership of the party seemed doomed - indeed, the organisational, campaigning and social media nous of the pro-migrant radical left probably saved him, and certainly boosted his general election performance.

This has helped them resurrect their challenge for the top four, which seemed doomed a few months ago.

Don't get me wrong, I would have loved to have seen Paulinho perform well, or even score more than 10 goals in two seasons, but in hindsight, it all seemed doomed from the beginning.

Halfway through the campaign they seemed doomed to yet another dismal failure, but a stroke of luck helped Ricardo Gareca's side gain confidence and momentum, before making it through after two nervy play - off games against New Zealand.

Could it be that Diaby gets another contract and saves the career that seemed doomed?

TCU seemed doomed.

Anybody who came to Pebble to have fun seemed doomed.

That was the cherry on top of a drive that seemed doomed from the start.

A hastily assembled coalition of South Korean (ROK) and American - led U.N. forces attempted to stall the NKPA advance, but their efforts seemed doomed.

That seems doomed to fail, as more than a century of case law dating back to the early days of the railroad suggests that provincial measures that directly thwart interprovincial infrastructure may be overruled by federal jurisdiction using 92 (10)(c) and this would be a prime example of when it should be (and has historically) been used.

While these actions on pipelines seem doomed to fail, Bill 12 also proposes to allow the provincial government to wield this authority over railroads.

The Gunners are up against Lionel Messi and company, so seem doomed for elimination anyway.

It seems all doom and gloom at the moment but I do believe that Arsene Wenger will leave in the summer.

Despite that seeming doom and gloom, bear one thing in mind: Group C is the group of death because Roma is there too, they won't simply rollover.

Going through the more formal, restricted process of proposing a specific Amendment that must be introduced in Congress, be passed by 2/3 majorities in both houses, and then be ratified by the required number of states (3/4, which would still have to approve amendments from a convention, as well) seems doomed to fail in this current period of hyper - partisanship and gridlock, but the alternative of calling a Constitutional Convention is so broad that it can easily have unexpected results, in the opposite direction that those originally organizing had hoped for.

They seem doomed to failure.

But as Ben Bradshaw MP must have seen on Tuesday night, any decent attempt to play ball with the new leadership seems doomed to end in the frustrating realisation that it is hopeless.

This «genetic set point» alone makes the happiness glass look half empty, because any upward swing in happiness seems doomed to fall back to near your baseline.

But even with the grim recommendation, WFIRST didn't seem doomed.

It is a film in which we see snapshots of a long - term love affair that seems doomed from the start.

Leia's hope of using him to spark the waning resistance seems doomed, until Ray's persistence, and uncanny affinity for The Force, convince him that perhaps in Ray he has found a student.

While Dopler's breakthrough is designed to help doctors perform intricate life - saving surgery, it seems doomed instead to fall into the hands of a power - hungry villain.

McKay's docudrama approach isn't entirely successful, but the movie's flaws are offset by some solid performances and a steady stream of humor that makes the infuriating subject matter a little easier to swallow, even if we seem doomed to repeat those same mistakes again.

Like many tragic romances, this one seems doomed from the start.

Nicola sets up a plan that seems doomed from the start — she tricks Guy into giving her tens of thousands of pounds so that she can save Keith from loan sharks.

On the other hand, like Greta Garbo, she seems doomed for ordinary and mediocre material — the kind of material that she must overcome rather than enhance, as in Home Fries.

And while the cast is uniformly strong, it's Romeo, the distraught and determined patriarch who tries to make right but seems doomed from the outset, that ferries us across these troubled and tempestuous waters.

For much of the picture, three survivors of a shooting seem doomed to «wander forever between the winds,» to quote a line from John Ford's The Searchers, a film Aoyama cites as an inspiration.

And together, the two form an unlikely, yet somehow relatable couple that becomes easier to root for even as their relationship seems doomed to fail.

In the context of continuing abuses of power and authority, all of it becomes a harsh reminder that, even though we may learn from the past, we still seem doomed to repeat it.