Sentence examples for a distant fate from inspiring English sources

Just raising the subject shatters a soft-edged communal fiction to the effect that ground zero, hallowed by horror and silent since the last steel column was removed in May, awaits a distant fate.

And in his autobiography Darwin writes of his dismay at the distant fate of Earth's organic life as the planet cools: "Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he is now, it is an intolerable thought that he and all other sentient beings are doomed to complete annihilation after such long-continued slow progress".

This of course causes Jax to flee across the mighty Cold Mountains to a distant land where his fate unfolds, while Emily is left to fend for herself, as the High Council assassinates her parents and invades Kingdom Kraig (their home) in an attempt to lure Jax back.

The fact that he's learning it over the phone is going to fall a distant, distant second to the fate itself.

A woman in a black chador, Abu Rashida, a distant relation, cried: "This is the fate of our people, even those who are already suffering must suffer a terrible death".

But if GE's repair job were complete and the credit crunch a distant memory, there would be fewer hurdles to a sale.Whatever the ultimate fate of GE Capital, a bigger question remains: does GE itself still make sense?

The Chekhovian aspects show up here, often referencing "The Cherry Orchard": Dinwiddie and Medlyn debate the fate of trees; others describe a house and its grounds; Hawkins gives us the famous stage direction "A distant sound is heard.

A distant siren cried.

A distant foghorn blows.

They finished a distant third.

This is a distant prospect.