Sentence examples for predetermined destinies from inspiring English sources
Could it inspire parents to push their specifically-enhanced children toward predetermined destinies that could make them miserable?
Our friend Raymond mentioned Crash in his post about Gran Torino, which is a perfect comparison, another movie where the characters are simply chess pieces sailing across the board to their predetermined destinies -- redemption or damnation, with nothing in between.
He has predetermined human destiny yet justly holds individuals accountable for their choices in life.
With strict laws, these ordering sources imply a stronger obligation than with what is, e.g. predetermined by destiny (Meisterernst 2011, 2012).
Eighteen-year-old Saba lives in a home fashioned from salvaged tires near a lake that's steadily evaporating, with a father who believes destiny is predetermined and two siblings who've "bin watchin the land die". It's this difficult, isolated life that forms the beginning of "Blood Red Road," the kickoff to a captivating trilogy for young adults from debut author Moira Young.
But even in less repressive regimes, the notion that your destiny is not predetermined by that of your parents carries a lot of currency.
In rejecting any link between fortune (i.e., destiny conceived as a function of qi endowment) and one's residence (i.e., environmental factors), Ruan Kan was in effect saying that destiny is entirely predetermined.
Deen and others described a kind of vertigo upon leaving the highly structured confines of a religious upbringing, and facing the onset of the modern condition, all at once, in which every person must carve out a destiny, and nothing is predetermined.
My fate is predetermined.
Any candidate, therefore, Republican, Democrat or Independent, who believes that it is the destiny of humanity to deplete natural resources...who believes humans are predetermined to damage the ecological system beyond repair...or who denies that global warming is actually occurring has surrendered his or her right to be regarded as a serious candidate.
