Sentence examples for famous fate from inspiring English sources

'Benjamin's famous fate,' wrote Lesley Chamberlain in the Times Literary Supplement earlier this year, 'was to fall afoul of the Spanish police...who determined to put him on a train to France the next day.

In the first movement of Beethoven's fifth symphony, whose famous "fate" motif propels us into a light-brigade charge from the off, there is one brief moment of repose: a solo oboe which, like the sudden appearance of a peacock on display, brings all to an astonished halt with a languid, preening little cadenza.

The celluloid world is looking to inflict on Scotland's most famous poet a fate similar to that meted out by Hollywood to that Scottish warrior hero William Wallace.

If, having read this book, you read Grossman's most famous novel, Life and Fate, you will recognise a great many of the characters and events.

The first two of these — on the size of the House and Congressional pay — didn't pass muster in the states, and so the third recommended amendment became, as if by fate, our famous First.

As many of the band's songs featured lyrics about Satanism and the occult and King Diamond was among the first black metal musicians to use the now famous corpse paint, Mercyful Fate was a pioneer in developing black metal, although their musical style was not as much an influence as that of other first wave bands.

If shopping was an emotional minefield, then strategic marketing could be a gold mine for companies.Between the late 1930s and 1960s Dichter became famous for transforming the fates of businesses such as Procter & Gamble, Exxon, Chrysler, General Mills and DuPont.

Bess Lovejoy is the author of "Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses". Allison C. Meier is a senior editor at Atlas Obscura and a staff writer at Hyperallergic.

In cutting some songs and introducing new ones, and in rewriting and rearranging some of the script, the creative team has expanded the warmer empathy that could always be detected beneath all the fancy dropped names and nudging references to the fates of famous characters.

Bess Lovejoy is the author of Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses, named one of the best books of 2013 by Amazon.

Troy's famous war, and Priam's fate I sing.