Sentence examples for Preordained fate from inspiring English sources

By mimicking an ancient author equally preoccupied by the tension between preordained fate and self-determination, Cal telegraphs a very modern question: Is "Middlesex" -- or any novel, for that matter -- the story of its hero/ine or the history of a particular configuration of DNA?

Characters sleepwalk through an existence that leads them to a preordained fate.

Given that almost no one knows anyone who actually bought a product out of the SkyMall catalog -- other than the occasional news writer desperate for cheap clickbait -- bankruptcy loomed as its preordained fate. .

The two films have thematic similarities, and both end with their protagonists being led to preordained fates by a 'child' they believe to be helping.

On movie screens, lovers and friends say it to each other a lot; it means that your encounter with someone was preordained by fate, and is therefore of the deepest importance.

Slowly you realise that Hailsham, with its vocabulary of euphemism and evasion - 'donors', 'completes', 'carers', 'possibles' - is no ordinary boarding school and its children are not even fully human, but the product of a scientific experiment, their lives preordained, the fate awaiting them desolating and monstrous.

Fighting a fate preordained as much by his genes as by his country, Thomas's narrator is a man perpetually at risk.

But despite the build up, the tonal closure makes the story one of an ill fate preordained, the final line let down that "one crowded hour would lead to my wreck and ruin".

Who else would use "preordained" and "destiny" in basketball?

Jose Maria Olazabal, like many Spaniards, has implicit faith in destino, the sense that his fate is preordained.

In the course of his preaching, Henry Ward Beecher came to reject his father Lyman's theology, which "combined the old belief that 'human fate was preordained by God's plan' with a faith in the capacity of rational men and women to purge society of its sinful ways".