Foredoom

They must be of the style prevalent at the date of the play; Colonial clothes in a Mid-Victorian setting foredoom the play to failure. ❋ Lillian Eichler Watson (N/A)

It is impossible that God can love the whole world, and yet foredoom millions to be lost. ❋ Robert Wallace (N/A)

There is no halfway business of ghastly wounds which foredoom survival as a cripple. ❋ Frederick Palmer (1915)

Therefore racial heredity does not foredoom any people to remain in a low status of culture; only it must be taken into account in explaining the cultural conditions of all peoples, and especially in planning for a people's social amelioration. ❋ Unknown (1909)

To make his first experiment in maneuvering against such an expert in the science of war as Lee, would have been to foredoom himself to defeat. ❋ Frederick Trevor Hill (1898)

She then did sow, and France nigh unto death foredoom. ❋ George Meredith (1868)

"It pleased the Lord," continued Mr. Jekyl, "to foredoom the race of Ham --" ❋ Unknown (1856)

The performers were anything but word perfect and hopelessly forgot or confused their business, which, more especially in a play of such a type as this romantic comedy so full of busy and complicated detail demanding close and continuous attention, was enough to mystify the audience completely and foredoom the piece to failure. ❋ Aphra Behn (1664)

Vhen next he looks through Galilaeo's eyes; ind hence th 'egregious wizard fhall foredoom The fate of Louis, and the fall of Rome. ❋ Unknown (1779)

Here Britain's ftatefmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign Tyrants, and of Nymphs at home; ❋ Unknown (1767)

Let’s not forget, though, that a less than ideal strategy directed by a less than superb commander doesn’t foredoom us to defeat. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Office, and a hideously irreverent reception for poor Libby at Bunny's now even drearier flat, Bunny and son depart on a sometimes chilling, often aimless, and always Bacchanalian sales-trip around the Brighton suburbs attended by numerous omens of Bunny's foredoom-the apparition of his dead wife, a ubiquitous cement-mixing truck, news reports of a horned killer whose rampage is slowly tending south towards Brighton-and punctuated by Bunny's increasingly hyper-real sexual exploits that serve to foreground the emotional impasse between father and son, which itself serves as the novel's sincere, if a bit flimsy, emotional core. ❋ Unknown (2009)