| Once I heard a man telling of a doomful hour in which his fortune won by years of hard work, broke and vanished like a bubble. |
| There was a time, not so very long ago, when any such doomful pronouncement would have sounded far-fetched. |
| While his doomful assertion smacked of melodrama, there was a kind of skewed logic in it, given that the artist came of age in Manhattan when the pandemic was decimating the creative community out of which he emerged. |
| And surprisingly, despite a near constant din of doomful economic news, that market is by all accounts robust. |
