Sentence examples for play of fate from inspiring English sources

Individuals who enjoy nothing more than a liberty of this nature are, the incompatibilist claims, little more than "robots" or "puppets" subject to the play of fate.

Despite the obvious challenges this requirement poses, compatibilists have typically tried to satisfy these aspiration of the morality system by way of offering a variety of argument to show that compatibilist commitments do not render us vulnerable to the play of fate or luck in our moral lives (e.g. Dennett, 1984).

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Poor Matthew Golding is stuck playing a figure of Fate with a horned headdress.

Brazilian political history, expatriation, timeless human frailty and the inevitability of fate play a hand in Walter Salles's and Daniela Thomas's film.

This includes references to five-year plans, a map for the projected Soviet invasion of West Berlin and other works that play with the idea of fate versus meticulous intention.

The gods of Hinduism have never been up there in some cold palace playing cruel whimsical games of fate with us humans.

And the play turns on a twist of fate that is far too tidy to be credible.

At its best, Mason's novel, with its yearning parade of "nostoi", or homecomings, reminds us of the indeterminacy of stories, the play between fate and free will, and the enduring power of that cool tactician, that teller of tales, that master of exploits, that long-enduring man, Odysseus.

Downstairs in the Linbury Studio, injustice at the nameless hands of fate was played out to a different tune.

Carmen also plays Greek chorus and hand of fate, dispatching the others on ambulatory therapy sessions and sending bubbles of New Age wisdom into the mountain air.