But their sorry fate proves to be paleontology heaven.
Matthew Goode decides to become a used car salesman, the sorry fate of all ex-athletes.
It is the sorry fate of each wave of likely lads to be compared to the bunch that preceded them.
When the suitcase bursts open, the laughter bags erupt in an ensemble hollow chuckle at the salesmen's sorry fate.
She died in childbirth, aged 30, her infant following her two months later, the sorry fate of many in this settlement that lasted just two years.
Mitchell took something that wasn't beautiful, the sorry fate of a broken man, and made it beautiful — a fable about art.
A carve-up of BHF would be a sorry fate for one of the few German banks which did not mess up during the credit crisis and still has an esprit de corps.
The killing grounds of the recent past were for me a foretaste of things to come, and the sorry fate of all those scared but uncomplaining guys we'd said goodbye to seemed to foreshadow my own.
That would be a sorry fate, for the Irish hare is unique, a great survivor, and one of the few mammals in Ireland not to have perished during the Ice Age.
Yet as the pre-intermission cliffhanger establishes, Barjatya has something more substantial on his mind – and it's something he can use Khan's considerable clout to address: the sorry fate of women in patriarchal societies.
Break a Leg (1979) opened and closed on the same night, a sorry fate for so wittily ingenious a play, set in an early 20th-century city, perhaps Berlin or Vienna, and starring Julie Harris.
