Sentence examples for plaything of fate from inspiring English sources

Her fate is not just to be seduced by the bullying Alec d'Urberville, and abandoned by the moralistic Angel Clare, but to become the plaything of Fate.

The self in question here is an unremarkable young academic named Adam Kindred, who has become, with awful suddenness, a victim of dire circumstance, a puzzled plaything of fate: he is the only suspect in the murder of a man he barely knows, and the instinct he follows, blindly, is the one that tells him to run like hell.

They believe that people determine their own destinies rather than being the mere playthings of fate.

In that sense, she is as much the author's victim as a plaything of 18th-century fate.

In the underlying play, poverty turns Woyzeck into the plaything of faith, science and nature.

"Out-of-fate Baileys?

What kind of fate was unclear.

Talk about cruel twists of fate.

Kind of a strange twist of fate".

A sense of fate closing in.

A quirk of fate?