The phrase "a sort of fate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or outcome that feels predetermined or influenced by destiny, often in a vague or uncertain manner.
Example: "As I stood there, watching the events unfold, I couldn't help but feel it was a sort of fate that brought us together."
Alternatives: "a kind of destiny" or "a type of fortune".
Fyodor Dostoevsky, a compulsive gambler, described the lure of the bet as a "sort of defiance of fate, a desire to challenge it".
"I ought to have gone away," he says of his first turn at the tables, "but a strange sensation rose up in me, a sort of defiance of fate, a desire to challenge it, to put out my tongue at it".
"I ought to have gone away," he says of his first turn at the tables, "but a strange sensation rose up in me, a sort of defiance of fate, a desire to challenge it, to put out my tongue at it". One night, he wins so much that he breaks the bank, but in the process he permanently loses touch with reality.
Those blueprints are also a kind of map, almost a palm-reading sort of fate that ultimately draws Charlie away from his city life and toward what feels like an inescapable reckoning.
And even though I had stayed away from her poems, out of a sort of dread of her fate and many women's fate, my debt to Plath is incalculable: her fierceness and originality and embodiment of family passions had been long and powerfully present when I began to write the poems of my adult life.
During a series of conversations with his uncle, Dirk Wittenborn, a novelist and screenwriter, he came up with the idea for "Born Rich," which he describes as a sort of inoculation against the fate that befalls many wealthy people.
That both these countries are now governed by technocrats rather than by democratically elected leaders shows the sort of fate that can follow a loss of trust in a country's political institutions.
But the presence of God is signaled in Matarazzo's work by far subtler means: the assertion of a sort of global symmetry, of a fate that takes away and a grace that restores, returning the most chaotic, convoluted situations to a state of order and justice.
