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  • He drew in a tortured breath and spoke in a doom-laden voice.

    2009 July « Official Harry Harrison News Blog 2009

  • He drew in a tortured breath and spoke in a doom-laden voice.

    The Stainless Steel Rat Returns – Chapter 3 « Official Harry Harrison News Blog 2009

  • And if the sound of the surf crashing against the rocks isn't doom-laden enough, Flanders is sure to echo the sound by walking to center stage and intoning "Boom!" every once in a while in a meaningful manner.

    Michael Giltz: Theater Reviews: "Nixon In China!" Olympia Dukakis On A Milkcart! Bloody Ethan Hawke! More! Michael Giltz 2011

  • Nowadays they tend to be gloomy affairs such as Anton Corbijn's biography of Ian Curtis, that take their doom-laden heroes at their own valuation.

    Powder – review 2011

  • And it was, understandably, an uneven production, coddled in Sky Sports-style doom-laden graphics, given weight by the restrained but nicely persistent questioning of Gabriel Clarke in the stadium, and siphoned rather jarringly through the expert but gurglingly partisan commentary of Clive Tyldesley "Ji-sung Park SWEEPS in the equaliser!"

    Adrian Chiles's chumminess strikes right tone as ITV treads carefully | Barney Ronay 2012

  • And if the sound of the surf crashing against the rocks isn't doom-laden enough, Flanders is sure to echo the sound by walking to center stage and intoning "Boom!" every once in a while in a meaningful manner.

    Michael Giltz: Theater Reviews: "Nixon In China!" Olympia Dukakis On A Milkcart! Bloody Ethan Hawke! More! Michael Giltz 2011

  • It looks like I'll be spouting some spoken word tomorrow night at O'Henry's, on Drury Lane (just along from Stereo,) for anyone in the Glasgow area who fancies a brief performance of doom-laden poetry along with some very loud doom-laden music.

    Archive 2010-06-01 Hal Duncan 2010

  • It looks like I'll be spouting some spoken word tomorrow night at O'Henry's, on Drury Lane (just along from Stereo,) for anyone in the Glasgow area who fancies a brief performance of doom-laden poetry along with some very loud doom-laden music.

    Gig Tomorrow Hal Duncan 2010

  • Great post here in London Underground Tube Diary - Going Underground's Blog about yesterday's Central Line "accident", which was being repeatedly announced in doom-laden tomes as I made my way home yesterday evening.

    Media Maxine 2009

  • In spite of doom-laden predictions a few years ago that the age of recorded opera was dead, fascinating new discs are being produced, often of obscure rarities – and it would be hard to be more obscure than the operas of Domènec Terradellas, who worked for a while at the King's theatre in London in the mid-1740s but whose music has completely disappeared from view.

    Terradellas: Sesostri – review 2011

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