Sentences with phrase «cruel fate of»

Although «Measure of a Man» is less gut - wrenching than director Jim Loach's only previous theatrical film, «Oranges and Sunshine» — about the cruel fate of unwanted children shipped from England to Australia during the United Kingdom's mid-20th-century «child migrant» program — the British filmmaker shows himself to have an affinity for tales of the abuse of power.

The Egyptians, then, dreaded the Israelites and reduced them to cruel slavery, making life bitter for them with hard work in mortar and brick and all kinds of field work — the whole cruel fate of slaves.»

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But will you let us «do without» without constantly reminding us of your belief that we are headed towards a cruel fate after death for not believing?

And the political reality is even redder than it looks, since a number of the blue dogs who did survive, having observed the cruel fate suffered by their colleagues, will now be less likely to sit and stay at the President's command.

They only want to be happy, and their cruel fate is that in the process of trying only to be happy against the grain of established culture they manage, more or less, to get civilized.

Being about as far away from an ocean as is geographically possible in the United States by living in St. Louis, I have to say, it's a cruel twist of fate, or God has a wicked sense of humor, or whatever, for me to be a seafood junkie.

Hundreds of thousands of people learned of the cruel fate awaited by unwanted dairy calves.

Oh, this is a cruel twist of fate.

Erik Kramer avoided both of those cruel fates better than any other regular NFL quarterback last season.

You have to feel a little bit sorry for the young Arsenal star Calum chambers, unless you are a German of course, because once again the three lions were knocked out of an international competition by the cruellest possible method, the ill - fated penalty shootout.

It was a cruel twist of fate that saw Pennington get injured after only 60 minutes in Leeds United's opening match at Bolton Wanderers.

With Arsenal fighting for the league title, Cazorla's injury — at precisely the same time as Francis Coquelin's in a cruel twist of fate — left them wondering if they could keep up the fight at the top, but they've managed it and could do with his return to the side.

In a cruel twist of fate it will be matches against the two Manchester clubs that will shape Liverpool's season.

It is accepted that all was done that could have been done, and that it was just a part of the family's journey in life, or a cruel hand of fate.

Cameron might reflect this morning that fate has a cruel sense of humour.

Now, in a cruel twist of fate, it turns out that saturated fats aren't that bad for us anyway and trans fats are killing us.

In some cruel twist of fate, we must ironically pay for the benefits of garlic with an offensive breath, a garlicy body odor, and annoyed coworkers and loved ones, as much of the benefit of chopped garlic is maximized when the pungency is present.

This personally seems to cause less bad breath afterwards, and several scientific studies actually confirm the strategy.72 Specifically eating foods high in water and fat after garlic seems to have the largest deodorizing effect.73 Unfortunately, in a cruel twist of fate, the strong and offensive smell of garlic often parallels the level of beneficial sulfur.74 Finally, if all else fails, a little swish and swallow of baking soda seems to adequately lessen the intensity of garlic and onion breath.

It's a cruel twist of fate, but if you end up with a bad back, achy knees, and a sore shoulder from lifting, you have only yourself to blame.

After a brief ellipsis in which he has taken her to the hospital, Ann returns in a wheelchair, debilitated by a stroke related to an obstruction in the carotid artery, with one arm paralyzed (a particularly cruel fate for a piano teacher, though the sadness of this fact is never spoken of, only reflective in Riva's eyes).

Which, in a cruel twist of fate, it will be, due to Paramount scrapping the film's international release out of concern that it's «too intellectual» for audiences.

But their relationship is damaged by a cruel and incredibly shocking twist of fate.

But this Emmy - winning international spy thriller suddenly feels much more topical and urgent again in its fourth season, where the only remaining remnant of the Brody storyline is the infant daughter — a ginger baby, naturally (hauntingly Damian Lewis in aspect)-- whom Carrie bore after witnessing the father's cruel fate.

In a cruel twist of fate, as soon as Smash + Grab went on sale for the weekend, the developer behind the multiplayer crime simulator reportedly closed its doors at the start of the week.

In a cruel twist of fate, Alberta King was shot and killed six years after her son's death, as she worshipped in church.

What You Need To Know: Director / writer Scott Cooper demonstrated he could handle gritty and soulful with the music drama «Crazy Heart,» but «Out of the Furnace» should prove to be something tonally much darker and rawer — a story about cruel fate, justice, redemption and brotherly love.

A cruel twist of fate lands the elder brother in prison (Christian Bale) and the younger (Casey Affleck) becomes involved with a violent Northeastern crime syndicate.

After his not quite satisfactory British excursions Bronson (2006) and Valhalla Rising (2009), Drive returns the Dane to the dark swagger of his early films - the fated criminality of Pusher (1996), and even crueller romance of Bleeder (1999), which finished with its anti-hero crucified with HIV - infecting syringes.

Not unlike Remy in «Ratatouille,» a movie to which «Free Birds» otherwise bears zero resemblance, Reggie (voiced by Owen Wilson) is introduced as the story's animal - misfit protagonist, a farm turkey of above - average intelligence who alone realizes the cruel fate that awaits his flock come November.

All four movies start off as if they intend to be just as scary as the novel but then wind up simplifying the issues, either by letting a doomed sympathetic character survive (as in Cruel Intentions) or by sentimentalizing the motives or the fates of the more evil characters (as in the other three movies).

But when a cruel twist of fate lands Russell in prison, his brother is lured into one of the most violent and ruthless crime rings in the Northeast - a mistake that will almost cost him everything.

But unlike the Dude who abides, or Larry Gopnik, who endures one cruel twist of fate after another or perhaps Barton Fink, who's in over his head, Llewyn is fighting against his own talent.

The plot holds some of its cruelest twists of fate in store for her.

Because Samuel Maoz's story tends to the absurd, much of Foxtrot feels like a dangling thread — a cruel jest of fate without meaning.

Did they suffer some kind of cruel, shocking fate between games?

Warning: contains spoilers In Inside Llewyn Davis, the titular protagonist (Oscar Isaac) is yet another one of Coens» unlucky characters, bewildered by the cruel twists of fate.

With a simple, reverent look up and at Solomon, renamed Platt by his captors, McQueen movingly conveys the moment when Solomon resigns himself to the cruel fate that's been handed to him by joining a chorus of slaves in the singing of a spiritual and, provocatively, appearing freed in his understanding of his enslavement.

But in a cruel twist of fate, Toyota's lead car crawled to a halt with only minutes to go, allowing Porsche to flash past and take the overall win for the 18th time.

But sometimes the sudden downturn in a producer's fortunes had nothing to do with the cruel hand of fate and everything to do with simple subterfuge.

As if Fate was playing some kind of cruel joke on me.

Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate become the property of a malicious New York City couple, the Locktons, who have no sympathy for the American Revolution and even less for Ruth and Isabel.

Even her aunt, in a cruel twist of fate, is not just her mom's sister, but her identical twin.

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«Though a cruel twist of fate makes life hard for aspiring hero Izuki, he is positive he's destined for something greater, and fans will cheer for Izuki on his journey as his life changes forever when All Might bestows his superpower upon him!»

In the end, the helpless dog can only suffer the frustration of watching the world go by in isolation - a cruel fate for what is by nature a highly social animal.

Statistics state that only 10 per cent of stolen pets ever make their way back to their families — others are used as bait for dog fights, bred in a puppy mill, sold to a lab, or face other cruel fates.

Because your allocation of resources is almost completely based upon the cruel whims of fate it's entirely possibly, and actually quite common, to get bogged down for multiple turns, unable to build or do anything, especially during the early phases of the game where you have just a few settlements under your control.

In a cruel twist of fate, though, Serious Sam's iconic gameplay is both its single greatest asset and its downfall.

In a cruel twist of fate, the first Metal Gear game (released for the MSX in 1987) saw Solid Snake, at the behest of the US government, tasked with taking down his «father», who had created an independent nation of soldiers in the «80s called Outer Heaven and built a walking nuclear - equipped tank to protect it.

If hundreds of the 1,300 Oregon schools estimated to be inadequately reinforced fall, will that be seen as a cruel twist of fate or somebody's fault?