"Sometimes that takes a split second, sometimes that takes an hour". There are so many cruelties in this, so many reasons he could lament the unfairness of fate.
Obama allows (as did Joe the Plumber, at least in this moment of their conversation) a role for chance, the blind vagaries of the global market, and the sheer unfairness of human fate.
Although Doinel is a thief and truant, no viewer of Les quatre cents coups could believe that he deserves his fate; his stoic endurance, his shrug at the unfairness of life win us over.
But in "My Man Godfrey" she's quiet, distracted, almost wispy, playing a goofy Park Avenue socialite who has, to her surprise, fallen in love with her family's new butler: for most of the picture she just follows suave Godfrey (William Powell) around their swanky digs, moonily, pausing only occasionally to meditate on the unfairness of life and/or the cruelty of fate.
Unfairness depends on the circumstances.
Also for any man with a conscience every abortion is a moral ordeal that leaves a mark, but certainly here the fate of the woman is in such a disproportionate condition of unfairness compared with the man's, that every male should bite his tongue three times before speaking about such things.
Filled with sorrow at his fate, he endured the passing years with an abiding belief in the unfairness of life.
Adele Stan wrote about the underlying sexism that she felt had been apparent at the forum at the time, pointing out that Lauer's journalistic choices were "not simply a problem of unfairness in the treatment of the individual candidates; such performances have serious consequences for the fate of the nation".
Leaving aside the relative unfairness suffered by fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico or pensioners whose money is invested in BP, the fates have not been too unkind to Tony Hayward.
