Sentence examples for fatal thing from inspiring English sources

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Our meals reminded us of an epigram from Oscar Wilde: "Moderation is a fatal thing.

"I don't think that it is a fatal thing," he said.

You're damned if you do and damned if you don't, because this is such a fatal thing".

But I was doing that fatal thing of thinking, "Well, I wonder what it would be like".

This supposedly fatal thing I've got doesn't hurt, and on the whole I feel more old than sick.

The task is no easy one, for the opera has merits which are likely to be interpreted as its chief defects; that is to say, Puccini offers us, in this last effort of his, music that is both better than and different from what the public has come to expect of him – an admirable and a fatal thing for a popular composer to do.

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But as people become more aware and realise Ebola need not be fatal, things will change.

And while it'd definitely be beneficial to look hard at the way we use these lovely, fatal things, our reaction to further news of their deathliness need not be to cut them out completely.

Rather make the villain and hero have an intense fistfight and if possible try to make the villain survive a lot of normally fatal things that would fell anybody else but they keep on going.

After the Bachelor rejected her -- even he said, "I think Christi had a 'Fatal Attraction' thing" -- she could barely keep her hysteria under control as she cried and said, "I was supposed to have another opportunity to show Aaron that I'm not an emotional basket case".

Instead of a morality tale about excess and its certain fatal consequences, things look a lot more like real life.

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