Sentences with phrase «fate than their victims»

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The call was to become the master rather than the victim of my fate, and the captain rather than the passenger of my soul.

Any other proof that Jonathan, despite his personal fecklessness, was only the logical victim of an irredeemable system of corruption and rot fated to collapse, sooner than later?

Even forgetting the completely silly and incongruous ending — which, in characteristic Italian fashion, implies that marriage is a fate far worse than death — «The 10th Victim» is a messed - up ball of competing impulses and half - baked ideas, and probably most famous among younger cinephiles, in pay - it - forward fashion, for inspiring the machine - gun - bosom lampooned in «Austin Powers.»

They are victims not of fate but of an overheated screenplay, and Gino and Bénédicte devolve from characters who determine their own destiny into ciphers who arouse more pity than sympathy.

If for no other reason than to save face, I would love to claim that I too was victim of the mysterious Colony Collapse Disorder, but the thousands of dead little bee faces looking up at me when I opened up the hive suggest that my furry flying buddies met a more mundane, yet equally deadly, fate.