Sentence examples for treacherous fate from inspiring English sources

Ben Crane might have shot a four-under 66, but he sounded like he had just escaped a treacherous fate.

And there is something treacherous about equating the Gypsies' fate at places like Auschwitz with the Dutch passion for social control, which put them into postwar "educational camps," where loudspeakers told them when to take a shower and grandfathers were rationed to two beers a night.

The story is horrifying and superbly plotted by Slobodzianek, who follows the fate of each individual: in particular the treacherous Zygmunt, who betrays one of his colleagues to the Soviets and then later joins him attacking the Jews.

The cinematic action of this nerve-tingling debut thriller sweeps from the gritty streets of Glasgow to the treacherous wilderness of the Scottish Highlands, hanging on the fate of a 9-year-old boy who knows too much and the heroic woman determined to save him from the clutches of an international crime boss.

The House of Mirth (Terence Davies, 2000) Unlike Scorsese's luxurious Wharton adaptation The Age of Innocence, Davies' period masterpiece achieves a tragic effect, leaving the audience devastated and harrowed at the fate of Lily Bart as she scales the treacherous upper echelons of fin-de-siecle Manhattan society.

We know that a viable future for the biosphere depends on leaving most of the known reserves of fossil fuel in the ground, so finding treacherous new locations from which to extract what activists call extreme oil, does not just tempt fate – it punches fate in the face.

In his storytelling Chaucer links the fates of Troy and Troilus, the mutual downturn in fortune following the exchange of Criseyde for the treacherous Antenor being the most significant parallel.

And in the treacherous world of Senate leadership elections, even a hint of acting before Mr. Reid's fate is known could be costly.

As Mata Hari awaits her fate, a lawyer named Bouchardon presses her for facts, trying to elicit proof of treacherous misdeeds to "trap her in a life she did not lead".

The fate of the farm animals was so grim, the pigs were so mean and mendacious and treacherous, the sheep were so stupid.

New head of the Corleone crime family, Michael Al Pacinoo), embraces his treacherous big brother, Fredo (John Cazale), who tried to have him assassinated at the start of the film, with a fate-sealing kiss and the words: "I know it was you, Fredo.