Sentence examples for face of fate from inspiring English sources

"For Muslims, in the face of fate there is often acceptance.

And that's exactly why, in this context, smoking becomes an oddly heroic gesture, an assertion of personality in the impassive face of fate.

If you need religion to explain the human capacity to care, then that is fair enough and the enormity of that with which we are faced everyday can certainly give rise to the feeling that we are powerless in the face of fate.

At least as typified by Prometheus, human beings can rejoice in their own sufferings, and by this defiance uphold their individuality in the face of Fate.

But on February 2006, New Orleans celebrated Mardi Gras as usual, laughing in the face of fate.

Rally she did, offering a penetrating rendition that resonated with what felt like biographical portent: a fist shaken defiantly by an isolated, impoverished composer in the face of indifferent fate and final illness.

He did not swerve from it, but he still had to solve the problem of living and hoping in the face of his fate.

The measurement of character has less to do with righteousness than it does with resourcefulness and bravery, and the grace with which one faces the embarrassments of fate, which can include sudden, violent death.

But some chose to laugh in the face of an escapable fate; how brave To pass on the buck to the unborn, how brave.

She comes closest to hitting that Paleyan tone of wry humor in the face of an ill fate in a story narrated by the devoted mother of a girl with chronic heart problems, a mother who has recently heard that the son from whom she is estranged is getting married.

It's music that gives you a glimpse of the heat-death of the universe – and the necessity to keep going, to keep composing, to keep living in the face of that nihilistic fate that awaits us, even if it all, in the end, amounts to nothing.