Sentence examples for capricious fate from inspiring English sources
"capricious fate" is correctly written and is an idiomatic English phrase
You can use this phrase to refer to situations where things seem to be determined in an unpredictable and arbitrary way. For example, "Despite our best efforts, it seemed that a capricious fate had other plans for us."
It was the end of all — my hopes and dreams and legacy bludgeoned by capricious fate.
The officer had either forgotten us or in a fit of melancholy delivered us into the hands of a capricious fate.
The director and writer don't judge their characters; rather they show how difficult it is to maintain morality, and that the actions of needy people set in motion a capricious fate that damages everyone.
Rebecca Eckler writes about falling in love with a "cute single man" while newly pregnant (Modern Love, March 20) as if her emotional response to the gentleman in question was a disturbingly inconvenient event that was, in effect, imposed upon her by capricious Fate -- "if only we could plan falling in love like a scheduled C-section".
Away, false fear! nor think capricious fate Would lodge a daemon in a form divine! Sooner the dove shall seek a tyger mate, Or the soft snow-drop round the thistle twine; Yet, yet, I dread to hope, nor dare to hate, Too proud to sue! too tender to resign!
Unprecedented though it is, in many ways the Islamic fundamentalist assault on America has thrown us back to the fundamentals of existence: death and dying, loss, the capricious workings of Fate or, if you prefer, chance.
He also said Baird had fallen victim to "the cold, capricious cruelty of fate".
The O'Neill woman — as seen in later works like "Strange Interlude" and "Mourning Becomes Electra" — is often rendered as the Other, a destructive and unknowable figure as capricious and relentless as fate.
Finally, just when all seems well, Fate, that capricious chess master, brings his queen into play: Postpistle discovers that Nurse Waxtrap has misread the lottery numbers and the ticket is worthless.
Medicine can be a minefield of uncertainties; no matter how thoughtful and careful we are, physiology is infinitely complex and fate is capricious, and occasionally something blows up in your face.
But, like Morgan Freeman's jaded jailbird in The Shawshank Redemption, the capricious parole board of Fate decided to free me at exactly the point where I had no options left, and my 2004 live standup "comeback" show was a critical hit.
