Sentence examples for disturbing fate from inspiring English sources

Mrs. Pirro, like Chief Bradley, said the fight that the woman put up helped her avoid what could have been a disturbing fate.

The Ghanaian sections of the novel allow Schwartzman to lay out his grand theme: the tyranny of chance, the way a small act can unleash ever larger consequences, sending a person spinning unwittingly toward a disturbing fate.

Apparently, the prospect of having spent six summers up on the ice with essentially nothing to show for it was more disturbing than any fate that might lie in store for the planet.

What is more disturbing than the fate of the two rivals — one (Ouattara) who is holed up in a luxurious hotel in the city of Abidjan, while the other (Gbagbo) resides at the presidential palace — are the reports of mass graves surfacing around the country, and the fears of impending ethnic slaughters.

But, the mind-numbing arrogance of the negotiators for the Bakery Workers Union Local 50 is particularly disturbing because it sealed the fate of the workers whose jobs they were supposed to be protecting.

During a break in the proceedings, she said the parsing of words and evidence over Mr. Faison's fate had been both disturbing and maddening.

"And what makes these thoughts all the more disturbing is the knowledge that our fate could perhaps be sealed twenty or more years before the development of symptoms".

Disturbed people and disturbing images.

Malcolm Bradbury (1932-2000) by David Lodge From the 1950s to the 1990s Malcolm Bradbury wrote witty and sharply observant novels that used comedy to explore a serious subject, which he defined as "the fate of liberalism in a difficult and disturbing age".

One of the most disturbing elements of the ongoing refugee crisis is the fate of unaccompanied children.

The commercial fate of serious movies is now, to a disturbing extent, dependent on the Academy Awards.