Instead, Mr. Cheney spoke of a future dominated by terrorist threats.

The network coverage was in a similar lame-duck position: rooted in the present and tentatively glancing toward a future dominated by cable and the Internet.

I am puzzled, though, by the statement that music must be saved "from a future dominated by social scientists instead of creative minds.

In Flesh (1960) astronauts return to an Earth 800 years in their future dominated by a pagan Goddess-worshiping religion.

Mr. Cheney, in unscripted remarks that began several of the events, was bleak, the harbinger of a future dominated by terrorist threats.

Even so, Pugh, who lost his opening singles match here to Boris Becker, has reservations about a future dominated by doubles.

Throughout the campaign, Mr. Cheney has offering a picture of a bleak future dominated by terrorist threats.

Although Dean writes ominously of a future dominated by government surveillance and political paralysis, the tone of her book is more cheerful than melancholy.

It is a plea to rescue music from a future dominated by social scientists instead of creative minds.

That prospect may be less depressing than a future dominated by the BJP, but it leaves little room for optimism.