And the great irony is that the person who tries hardest to save Yassen from this cold heartless fate, is the one whose actions finally push Yassen to kill.
The hot-blooded horror of the general's utter degradation as he is beaten and taunted by political vulgarians parallels his cold corporate fate when, as an extra, he is subjected to the impersonal contempt of studio ruffians, which Sternberg shows in a series of lateral tracking shots of a mechanistic inhumanity.
With the subtle tug of a Ouija board's pointer and spare hints of death and cold-blooded fate, Chaon twists the story's conclusion with a chilling break in the narration to address the reader, alone with his words, all struggling in our own way.
Rescued from the cold waters of fate at the last minute.
When they are ripped apart, in a twist of fate colder than any winter, the poor guy ends up drifting through some beautifully framed shots in the icy water, alone and frozen.
The rock is coming, the new Chicxulub, hurtling through the dark and the cold to remake our fate.
A sandstorm came and covered you up and your batteries drained, and in the dark and the cold you met your fate in silence.
Ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, the ultimate fate of the transatlantic alliance has been up in the air.
Kaliningrad itself is a legacy of the cold war, and its fate, in many ways, will determine Russia's place in Europe.
Even if cold peace is the fate of Israelis and Palestinians for the coming generation, cooperation of this kind will be the tip of the iceberg.
