What's the difference between dooming and looming?
Dooming
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Doom
Example Sentences:
(1) NGOs and even the Red Crescent are unwelcome: peacekeepers are rebuffed, hospitals doomed to failure.
(2) They’ve already collaborated with folks like DOOM, Ghostface Killah and Frank Ocean; I was lucky enough to hear a sneak peek of their incredible collaboration with Future Islands’ Sam Herring from their forthcoming album.
(3) The doom-laden voiceover claims Miliband could only secure power through a deal with the SNP and that Salmond would be able to “call the tune”.
(4) With the White House backing away and fellow Republicans openly considering successors, Mr Lott's hard-fought campaign to sit out the controversy appeared doomed.
(5) Some of them, pulled together for the manifesto, are silly, or doomed, or simply there for shock value - information points in the form of holograms of Dixon of Dock Green, the legalisation of soft drugs, official brothels opposite Westminster, complete with division bells.
(6) Dombey treads proudly towards his doom with the author's unheard warnings ringing in his ears.
(7) Rather than suggest paid-for content was doomed, they called for a new model to collect revenues.
(8) Ross loved a girl of 17, so he married her when he was 28; a field-day for predictors of doom who must now be bewildered that two decades and three children proved them wrong.
(9) Iran’s supreme leader has accused Saudi Arabia of committing genocide in Yemen and said air strikes against Houthi rebels are doomed to fail, in a sharp escalation of tensions between the two rivals over the outcome of yet another bruising conflict in the Middle East.
(10) Stephen King tried it, and gave up the effort because he thought it was doomed.
(11) We did not all travel together because I want focus in my squad.” Louis van Gaal was doomed at Manchester United by refusal to adapt | Amy Lawrence Read more Alan Pardew was a disappointed runner-up, as might be expected, though at least he did not have to face questions about not being in the same job next season.
(12) Lord of the Rings made him the doomed anti-hero , he was easily the best thing in the disastrous Troy, giving Odysseus guile, wit and that familiar, rough-edged charm, and he terrified TV viewers as property developer John Dawson in the dark and brilliant Red Riding .
(13) Hemsworth cut his chops on Home And Away before quitting in 2007, moving to LA and almost immediately being cast as Kirk's doomed dad in JJ Abrams 's Star Trek.
(14) There has to be a better way.” I n the winter of 2013, soon after Hartgerink began working with Van Assen, they began to investigate another social psychology researcher who they noticed was reporting suspiciously large effect sizes, one of the “tells” that doomed Stapel.
(15) : "Of all the cells you've been in, your first cell is a very special one, the place where you first encountered others like yourself, doomed to the same fate.
(16) Although it's not nearly as surprising as the Pittsburgh Pirates fighting toward the playoffs after 20 years of losing seasons , or the Kansas City Royals playing meaningful, September baseball for the first time in over a decade , but since stealing manager John Farrell away from the Toronto Blue Jays, the Red Sox have established themselves as the best team in the American League despite preseason predictions dooming them to repeat as the worst.
(17) Unfortunately, the commercials are so bland and empty that they’re almost certainly doomed to failure.
(18) • Facebook gets in a row with games firm Zenimax over who actually owns key parts of technology behind Oculus Rift, with Doom-creator John Carmack at its heart
(19) Despite fears that large carnivores are doomed to extinction because of rising human populations and overconsumption, a study published in Science has found that large predator populations are stable or rising in Europe.
(20) Clegg urged the Conservatives not to shift to the right in a doomed bid to head off Ukip.
Looming
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loom
(n.) The indistinct and magnified appearance of objects seen in particular states of the atmosphere. See Mirage.
Example Sentences:
(1) City landed the former Barcelona chief executive, Ferran Soriano , and many thought the two former Barça men's recruitment looked a threat to the Italian, especially with Pep Guardiola on sabbatical and looming over any potential vacancies at Europe's top clubs.
(2) The initial impact was felt on the local currency market where a shortage of foreign exchange caused a looming crisis.
(3) And you’re doing it three weeks after the initial revelations, and only when your position is obviously under threat and with a no confidence motion in your position as Speaker looming.
(4) And few people say they are feeling much better off, or view the future with great optimism, as further cuts loom.
(5) In the longer term, a summer of crisis eurozone summits to discuss the fate of Greece looms.
(6) The New South Wales and South Australian premiers have joined forces to tell treasurer Scott Morrison that finding extra federal funding to head off a looming hospitals and schools funding “cliff” is a “non negotiable” condition of their support for increasing the GST.
(7) The impact of such reforms will be reflected in slower growth in both the short and long terms.” “But the biggest unknown, without question, is the looming trade war with the US.
(8) An investigation by the Competition and Markets Authority is looming.
(9) The first series of Jed Mercurio's Line of Duty on BBC2 missed out at awards time two years ago; expect it to loom large next year.
(10) Updated at 11.27am BST 11.18am BST Another reminder that the debt ceiling is looming: James Pethokoukis (@JimPethokoukis) Washington fell off the government shutdown cliff ... and there is not another cliff to break its fall until Oct. 17 - Wash. Research Group October 1, 2013 11.16am BST How much will the shutdown cost?
(11) Hammond’s budget measures promised to stave off the looming crisis for Southwold – at least temporarily.
(12) But the talks risk being overshadowed by the looming Greek crisis.
(13) It charts a path ahead for the NHS that will largely hold good, whatever the outcome of the looming general election.
(14) 4 October 2009: George Papandreou becomes prime minister Papandreou's Panhellenic Socialist Movement (Pasok) party wins power after New Democracy calls a snap general election, asking the Greek people for a new mandate to tackle the looming financial crisis.
(15) In an economy still struggling with high joblessness and the threat of renewed recession still looming, convincing some of the party's stressed base might not be easy.
(16) Extra supplies are also looming from the US, where stockpiles are growing as extra drilling rigs are put into operation.
(17) Abbott said the government “wanted to ensure we have all the tools we need” to address a looming terrorist threat and that the democratic process of getting the changes through parliament would be “the most important safeguard” to ensure the legal rights of the innocent were protected.
(18) Maybe it will do him good to go away with England.” Such is the cyclical life of goalscorers, there are times when those fractions that can be the difference between a ball ending up nestled in the net, or agonisingly wide, or foiled by a goalkeeper that probably seems 10 feet tall, loom large.
(19) Next week's meeting of the Fed's monetary policy committee is already looming over markets -- after last Friday's Non-Farm Payroll showed more new US jobs created in November than expected.
(20) On Wednesday the protests were large but a lot calmer At the intersection of North Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue in West Baltimore a small group of protesters congregated as the curfew loomed but gradually departed, leaving empty streets.