death knell

The death knell was the wretched failure of Christian nationalism as a governing style.

One senior Arab source told me it could be its "death knell".

Sometimes, that celebration of energy can obfuscate the real artistic merits of a film, a director’s blinkered vision becoming a death knell.

But whether history will look back on his appearance as the well-timed heralding of another economic boom - or a death knell - remains to be seen.

At the very least it will undoubtedly go down as the era that signaled the death knell for what many have come to regard as “traditional journalism.”