"touch of fate" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a small or subtle influence of fate or destiny on a situation. Example: Despite all her careful planning and preparation, it was ultimately a touch of fate that led Mary to meet her future husband at the airport.
Their laboratory findings ultimately take the film into an array of unexpected places as "I Origins" touches on fate, reincarnation, spirituality versus science and love. .
WITH its sources in the gorgeous, lyrical kung-fu films directed in the 60's and 70's by the late King Hu ("A Touch of Zen," "The Fate of Lee Kahn"), "Crouching Tiger" welds a Chinese story to American techniques.
He was touched by something, an aura of fate.
When a stroke of fate recently touched the lives of two girls, that's exactly what happened.
(Those doomed couples Romeo and Juliet, undone by "love and fate and a touch of stupidity," and Jack and Jill show up as examples of what to avoid).
An offstage voice tells them what to do, and a sinister masked roadie controls their fate with the touch of a remote control that can freeze the show with the push of an imaginary button.
The story is embellished with surreal touches that suggest the professor's hubris shattered by the hand of fate.
AHR-1 specifies AVM touch neuron fate by elevating MEC-3 while simultaneously blocking expression of nociceptive genes such as the MEC-3 target, the claudin-like membrane protein HPO-30, that promotes the complex dendritic branching pattern of PVD.
He's the exact sort of character who would find himself in touch with weird happenstance, the kind of happenstance that transpires inside a crime narrative: arriving less out of fate (fate would be too structured) than out of a need, artistic and aesthetic, to fill page after page with snappy, wiseacre dialogue.
