They grow accustomed to controlling parking lot traffic and, to a certain extent, destiny.
While I stared into the darkness of the closet that so many people insisted was my certain destiny, I was fortunate because, decades before, Harvey Milk, a gay man, had asked his friends, his family, his neighbors and, ultimately, the world to break the devastating chains of LGBT silence.
"By taking strike action, they are trying to avoid their certain destiny of being chucked on the economic scrapheap.
It's about a scholar who becomes tangled in a bizarre crime, and I loved it right away for this line, nearly wrecking my car trying to scribble it down on an old parking ticket: "A good road will have character and a certain air of destiny, an indefinable intimation that it is going somewhere, be it east or west, and not coming back from there".
It's also a place where, if you had a certain last name, your destiny was laid out before you.
In this way, from a certain angle at least, Destiny exposes the alluring futility of the consumerist systems on the other side of the screen.
It's not that he disses the movie (well, he kind of does...) or decries Hollywood and all its artifice (no, wait, he does that, too) - but one detects a certain straining against the destiny that seems laid down before him.
Rivers, streams and creeks are indicative of flowing in a certain direction toward a destiny (more specific) and should be interpreted depending on the color of the water and any obstructions.
Geography determined the city's destiny, to a certain degree.
Most of them are female, as befits a novel about "a certain young woman affronting her destiny," in James's phrase — not merely "confronting" but squaring up to what was expected of her and, if the mood stirred her, doing the opposite.
