Sentence examples for the distant fate from inspiring English sources

And in his autobiography Darwin writes of his dismay at the distant fate of Earth's organic life as the planet cools: "Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he is now, it is an intolerable thought that he and all other sentient beings are doomed to complete annihilation after such long-continued slow progress".

The far distant fates of the Universe offer a number of possibilities, but if dark energy is truly a constant, as the data indicates, it will continue to follow the red curve.

The far distant fates of the Universe offer a number of possibilities, but if dark energy is truly a constant, as the data indicates, it will continue to follow the red curve, leading to the long-term scenario described here: of the eventual heat death of the Universe.

Just raising the subject shatters a soft-edged communal fiction to the effect that ground zero, hallowed by horror and silent since the last steel column was removed in May, awaits a distant fate.

"Often with Achilles," she writes, "the distant thunder of the fate he almost had and the god he almost was rumbles behind his words and actions".

This, after all, is the import of the epic's title, she writes: "The 'Iliad' relates the fate of the soon-to-be-extinct city of ­Ilion" — and, by extension, the fate of the Mycenaean cities from which the distant ancestors of Homer's audience fled; the fate of Carthage and then of Rome, in the imagination of cultured Romans; and ultimately, the fate of any human society subject to the sword.

The prince had a reputation for being stern and distant; the fate of Russia and his purposeful exile concerned him more than the evening's amusement and the glamorous company who stood around.

As fate would have it, the distant comet belt had also been predicted in two lesser-known papers in 1943 and 1949 by a retired Irish army officer and astronomer, Kenneth Edgeworth.

Last month I was out there most days, revisiting a soul-crushingly depressing but nonetheless unputdownable book from the distant period of 1992: Douglas H. Chadwick's The Fate of the Elephant.

The course will explore the consequences of the model as it is applied to the earliest moments after the Big Bang, as well as to the fate of the Universe in the distant future.

Lem's novel concerns a psychiatrist's attempts to comprehend the fate of a scientific expedition to the distant planet Solaris, a world shrouded in a nebulous living ocean.