Sentence examples for a grim destiny from inspiring English sources

Demography need not dictate for Republicans a grim destiny but it soon will, unless they act to counter adverse trends.

Directed by Ciaran O'Reilly, this is a one-foot-in-front-of-the-other march into a grim destiny that even Thomas Hardy might have deemed excessive (2 30).

A year ago it did not seem likely that Mexico would elect a left-wing president and sweep into power hundreds of progressive candidates, many of them women, but that happened on the first day of this month; with that clean sweep the country may have rewritten what for many years seemed to be a grim destiny.

While attending the Milton Boarding School, Booth met a Gypsy fortune-teller who read his palm and pronounced a grim destiny, telling Booth that he would have a grand but short life, doomed to die young and "meeting a bad end".

Were the Russian people programmed somehow in the Stone Age to an eternally grim destiny?

Lake Urmia's grim destiny unfortunately reflects a wider trend.

Katniss's only hope is to find a way to break from the script, to somehow sidestep grim destiny and lay the ground for an unlikely sequel.

Howard Hawks's first sound film, "The Dawn Patrol," a First World War drama about the grim destiny of fighter pilots, is also filled with music — the singing of officers in the canteen as they await their perilous missions or hear the bad news about the missions of others.

A fervid, exhilarating evocation of faith versus hypocrisy, empathy versus disclocation and desperate rebellion versus grim destiny, The Prophets of Eternal Fjord is a slow-release depth-charge of a novel whose reverberations bear the terrible poignancy of global and timeless relevance.

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Would she survive what seemed the grim destiny of her family?