We must make clear that evolution operates in the present, without looking ahead or planning for a preordained future.
Rogue One doesn't really go rogue at any stage, and it isn't a pop culture event like The Force Awakens, in whose slipstream this appears; part of its charm resides in the eerie, almost dreamlike effect of continually producing familiar elements, reshuffled and reconfigured, a reaching back to the past and hinting at a preordained future.
The writer wonders when the impeachment process will catch up to its preordained result.
Instead, we have After Earth, a listlessly written, lackadaisically executed story which can't seem to do much more than march through its preordained paces.
Was it preordained that the measure of a summer hit would be not the wealth of its imaginings but the immensity of its funding?
What was necessary to preordain the future?
Is the technological future preordained — printed in the circuits of today's technology — or will it surprise us? (If the latter: In a good or a bad way?) Finally, in experimenting with nature, how much are we actually experimenting with ourselves?
On March 18th, Russia will hold an event that it calls an election, which it isn't, considering that its execution is tightly controlled, and its outcome is preordained.
This was how Alam found the eight girls: hustling to earn a dollar or two a day, the weight of their families on their slim shoulders, their futures preordained.
Its specialty was preordained.
And then there is the vote, but its outcome is preordained.
