Sentence examples for random fate from inspiring English sources

But that year drove home to him how frighteningly random fate can be.

An alternative hypothesis is that proliferating basal cells have random fate, the probability of generating cycling or differentiated cells being balanced so homeostasis is achieved.

Will we be punished further if we forsake our faith and conclude that we are blameless victims of a random fate?

Nothing save random fortune separated the fate of the man who died from that of the one telling the story.

In the 71 years since the Yankees slugger Lou Gehrig declared himself "the luckiest man on the face of the earth," despite dying from a disease that would soon bear his name, he has stood as America's leading icon of athletic valor struck down by random, inexplicable fate.

The noir stories that are regarded as most characteristic tell of people trapped in unwanted situations (which, in general, they did not cause but are responsible for exacerbating), striving against random, uncaring fate, and frequently doomed.

That Bucky is such a one-dimensional character makes for a pallid, predictable story line in which the random workings of fate and the fate of temperament — rather than genuine free choice — are the narrative drivers.

For Hazell, a 6-foot-5 senior, it was a random brush with fate that nearly ended badly.

No random twists of fate, no plots set in motion by jealous rivals keep the lovers apart; even the disapproving parents have been sidelined.

It was heard from parents who saw their children butchered, from Tutsis who by some random stroke of fate eluded the Hutu machetes only to discover almost everyone they loved was dead.

What makes "The Art of Fielding" so affecting is that it captures these people at that tipping point in their lives when their dreams, seemingly within reach, suddenly lurch out of their grasp (perhaps temporarily, perhaps forever), reminding them of their limitations and the random workings of fate.