The phrase "a hard fate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's difficult or unfortunate circumstances or destiny.
Example: "After losing his job and facing numerous challenges, he felt he had been dealt a hard fate."
Alternatives: "a tough destiny" or "a cruel fate."
I had abandoned him to a hard fate, one that I might at least have tried, somehow, to prevent.
The couscous restaurant represents his last stand, his grand gesture of protest against a hard fate, and its opening night, teetering on the tightrope between triumph and calamity, is Mr. Kechiche's tour de force.
As if sensing this, Kladstrup ends back in Iowa with a touching meditation on the hard fate of the time-displaced Oscar.
Like Mr. Hardwick's cocktail, this is the kind of drink you would want if you were marooned on a desert island: deep enough to reflect your hard fate and solitude, but coconutty enough to make you smile anyway.
By a different method, in speeches, he portrays the hard fate of the town of Plataea due to the long-embittered envy and cruelty of Thebes and the faithlessness of Sparta, and the harsh brutality of Cleon when he proposed to execute all the men of the Aegean island city of Mytilene.
Cavafy's history poems crash-test one eminence after another against the same hard fate.
We search them for clues: wondering how they found the courage to do what they did, whether it was wisdom or innocence that motivated them, and how to reconcile ourselves to their hard fate.
One of the most eloquent descriptions of that hard fate comes to us from more than 200 years ago, back in the days when opium and laudanum (a solution of opium in alcohol) were perfectly legal in England, and as widely available as, yes, aspirin is today.
So when he had fallen bloody death and hard fate seized on Astyanax.
If the next two seasons are all about ennui and the hard fate of having too much (or not enough) of what one wants, well, where's the suspense in that?
Of course, the Duffer brothers have previously confirmed Barb's death, but for whatever reason, Barb's fate seems like a hard pill to swallow for some fans.
