Sentence examples for by a fate from inspiring English sources

But with "Wrecks" (2006), his play about a contemporary American businessman (an excellent Ed Harris) visited by a fate from Greek tragedy, came the faint whiff of a magician on autopilot practicing a set list of tricks.

What makes "Gigi" so anomalous is its fairy-tale ending: a girl of lowly provenance, destined for a life of high-class prostitution, followed, if she hasn't been savvy, by a fate like her mother's — obscure penury in middle age — finds a safe harbor in the form of a desirable husband.

The tragic power of many of the stories derives from the fact that Maupassant presents his characters, poor people or rich bourgeois, as the victims of ironic necessity, crushed by a fate that they have dared to defy yet still struggling against it hopelessly.

By inventing a fate worse than death, that's how.

But it's quickly followed by fat, a fate I would like to avoid.

He was afraid of the FBI, who visited his house more than once, and of abduction by aliens, a fate he saw as inevitable.

But on the flip side, a recession means fewer dollars for restoring or maintaining old buildings and thus more "demolition by neglect" — a fate that seems to have befallen St . Pauls.

By contrast, a fate control strategy is minimum phase, because differentiation (down a primary fate pathway) and renewal can be suppressed simultaneously (through up-regulation of progression toward an alternative fate).

But most are now closed and have been replaced by liquor stores, a fate shared by the nearby cinema whose front lobby has been divided up into low-rent stalls selling alcohol.

The 2004 appearance ended in a sweep by the Nets, a fate that may be repeated on Sunday.

Four spades would have failed by one trick, a fate that seemed about to befall von Zedtwitz, losing two clubs and one heart (the finesse failing).