A rumor that started circulating at the time of the disaster maintained that her sister ship, the Britannic, was supposed to have been called the Gigantic but was given a less fate-tempting name.
That, it transpires, was more or less its fate.
For the moment, a less ignominous fate appears to await Yanukovych's folly in the countryside.
But it has experienced a different and less predictable fate – it has become ubiquitous.
A different but no less tragic fate befell the Akuntsu tribe in Brazil.
More or less the fate of the Road Fund, set up in 1920 and abandoned in 1936.
Sofia, with her "wayward black curls" and her ambiguous pronouncements ("There is a whole day to kill on the Beach of the Dead"), appears to have a less brutal fate in prospect.
In a way, the machine suffered a less painful fate than the Mirror Fusion Test Facility, at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which was fully built before it was defunded, in 1986—without being used even once.
Perhaps what bothers me most is less the fate of our patient than the memory of those two doctors, both so young, efficiently dispatching a complicated decision in a matter of minutes, then dancing off without looking back.
In a way, the machine suffered a less painful fate than the Mirror Fusion Test Facility, at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which was fully built before it was defunded, in 1986 — without being used even once.
Still best known for an unlikely top three single, O Superman, Anderson's migration from the pop charts to the concert halls was less the fate of a one-hit wonder than the natural path for an artist whose brush with the mainstream was a fluke, perhaps even a bothersome distraction from her real business.
