Sentence examples for distant fate from inspiring English sources

Just raising the subject shatters a soft-edged communal fiction to the effect that ground zero, hallowed by horror and silent since the last steel column was removed in May, awaits a distant fate.

And in his autobiography Darwin writes of his dismay at the distant fate of Earth's organic life as the planet cools: "Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he is now, it is an intolerable thought that he and all other sentient beings are doomed to complete annihilation after such long-continued slow progress".

The prince had a reputation for being stern and distant; the fate of Russia and his purposeful exile concerned him more than the evening's amusement and the glamorous company who stood around.

In 1994 Back Bay Books reissued it in paperback with a preface by the novelist John Barth and an afterword by the author, who in the meantime had returned to the sea in "Distant Water: The Fate of the North Atlantic Fisherman" (1983), a look into the world of giant commercial trawlers.

For other descendants, the fire has receded into the dimness that is the fate of distant ancestors.

"Often with Achilles," she writes, "the distant thunder of the fate he almost had and the god he almost was rumbles behind his words and actions".

I saw him from time to time in London or in the South of France, and he continued to keep up a benign, though distant, interest in my fate.

I agree with Mr. Cronon that the debate over the refuge "is as much about our dependency on petroleum as it is about the fate of distant caribou and other wild creatures".

The debate over the refuge, in other words, is as much about our dependency on petroleum as it is about the fate of distant caribou and other wild creatures.

It has been recently shown that gut microbes modulate whole host immune and hormonal factors impacting the fate of distant preneoplastic lesions toward malignancy or regression.

This of course causes Jax to flee across the mighty Cold Mountains to a distant land where his fate unfolds, while Emily is left to fend for herself, as the High Council assassinates her parents and invades Kingdom Kraig (their home) in an attempt to lure Jax back.