Sentences with phrase «more by fate»

Since the two female protagonist's destinies are determined more by fate than their own actions, the novel also often feels a bit unmoored.

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Recently, the fate of CNOOC's bid for beleaguered Calgary oilsands producer Nexen became even more uncertain after the federal government blocked a $ 6 - billion takeover of Progress Energy Resources Corp. by Malaysia's Petronas at the eleventh hour.

If our decisions were fated or predetermined by God, then God could no more hold us accountable for the decisions we make than we could hold accountable a wind - up toy car for driving off a table if we are the ones who wound it up, put it on the table, and sent it driving off toward the edge.

More particularly, our consideration of the fate or future of religious liberalism is skewed from the start by unproved and, in most cases, unprovable assumptions about the past effectuality of institutional Protestantism.

Accordingly, the social sciences may be expected to play an increasingly important role in liberal learning, as it becomes ever more evident that the conditions of human existence are not simply imposed by fate, nor the results of the interplay of blind, impersonal forces, but the consequences of deliberale human action.

On a more immediate level, events were determined by Fate, Tyche and Fortuna; what happens to us is determined by transpersonal forces far beyond our control — by «principalities and powers,» by the stars, by demonic powers.

The merman has lifted her up in his arms, Agnes twines about his neck, with her whole soul she trustingly abandons herself to the stronger one; he already stands upon the brink, he leans over the sea, about to plunge into it with his prey — then Agnes looks at him once more, not timidly, not doubtingly, not proud of her good fortune, not intoxicated by pleasure, but with absolute faith in him, with absolute humility, like the lowly flower she conceived herself to be; by this look she entrusts to him with absolute confidence her whole fate — and, behold, the sea roars no more, its voice is mute, nature's passion which is the merman's strength leaves him in the lurch, a dead calm ensues — and still Agnes continues to look at him thus.

Rejection and shunning by the life - long source of one's psychological and social support can be a fate more painful to contemplate than death, a sort of living death.

The demand for diverse fates in Sheol, corresponding with diverse character, had already been voiced by Isaiah (Isaiah 14:18 - 20 and Ezekiel, (Ezekiel 32:8 - 32) and this demand became ever more imperative.

In the name of freeing us from suffering, modern medicine and its correlative ethical expressions have become our fate — which we now impose on our children by not understanding their suffering and death through a more determinative narrative.

It is an odd fate for a seventeenth - century Dutch philosopher who adopted an impersonal more geometrico style in his writing, one determined by the accident of his Jewish birth and his exodus, as a young man, from the Jewish community of Amsterdam.

Let's not forget the historical fate of Thomas Aquinas, who more or less fell into eclipse until the nineteenth century, and for whom we can say that the twentieth century was his biggest moment by far.

Regardless of how the stadium proceeds, by the time the Americans return with their schematics in June, they will already know a much more crucial fate, that is, whether or not they have secured a spot in next year's Champions League, the all - important lynchpin for the Americans» plans.

Cleveland avoided that dubious fate in Week 16 by defeating the San Diego Chargers and earning their first victory in more than a year.

BARRINGTON — To allow more public input on the fate of the former Jewel Tea Co. headquarters, the Barrington Plan Commission postponed a vote on a request by the Park District to raze the building and use the 55 - acre site as parkland.

On July 21 — more than a month after the initial payment was due — a letter from Deputy County Executive Kevin Plunkett to Standard granted the company an extension for its first payment until Sept. 30; a date that coincides with the county Board of Legislators» revised deadline for deciding the fate of the Playland pool, a decision that was initially supposed to be finalized by July 31.

These include the fate of more than $ 100 millions in state - to - city funding cuts proposed by Governor Andrew Cuomo; whether more than $ 1 billion in affordable housing funding will be released; final budgetary allocations toward

They change the fate of entire galaxies by stirring up the gas needed to build more stars.

More certainty about the lander's fate — and a diagnosis of what went wrong — will not come until the ExoMars team has analyzed detailed telemetry data on Schiaparelli's descent, as recorded and transmitted by its mother ship, TGO.

With time, the mental images become more detailed, and they often become buttressed by a distorted sense of what is just or moral, such as the need to avenge a perceived offense or the belief in a divine right to decide the fate of others.

After more than six years of research, the research team led by María Soengas, head of CNIO's Melanoma Group, showed that RAB7 acts as an orchestra director, determining the fate of melanoma cells: at high concentrations of RAB7, cellular autodigestion is very active, and this allows tumor cells to obtain energy, prevent the accumulation of toxic components and thus divide and proliferate; when RAB7 is reduced, cells use endosomes to recycle metastatic proteins, favouring their dispersal throughout the body.

«It's very exciting to see results that tell us more about their ultimate fate, and how the materials within them are slowly reworked by the planet's hot interior.

The fate of two further planned polar satellites, JPSS - 3 and JPSS - 4, remain uncertain in the proposal, which says NOAA will obtain cost savings in the program by «better reflecting the actual risk of a gap in polar satellite coverage,» along with opening up more opportunities for startup commercial weather satellites to provide data.

Evidence suggests that stellar companions can influence the fate of planets by changing the planets» orbits and even triggering some to grow more massive.

Metaphysics delves into these questions, and more, by addressing the fate of the human soul and our position in the universe.

A century later, the filmmaker seems more leftist, saving Beth from Davis» fate as a satirical target, when by dumb luck, she spots Freeway from her airplane seat, and becomes an accidental hero by concocting a fake emergency to fool the pilots into landing.

The promising atmosphere is perpetuated by an engrossing early sequence in which the central foursome debate the fates of three seemingly innocent bystanders, and yet it's equally clear that the movie begins to peter out almost immediately following that electrifying interlude - as writer / director Berg's less - than - cinematic visual choices result in a lack of thrills that grows more and more problematic as time progresses.

In a more ironic and satisfying twist of fate, Kinnear was then hired back by E! to host Talk Soup, the network's new talk show.

What human intrigue there is finds itself secured by consistently inspired performances, the highlights of which include the dashing, then - up - and - coming Jude Law as Lord Alfred «Bosie» Douglas, - a man who must choose between embracing his lover and escaping the tragic fate of this lover - and, of course, leading man Stephen Fry, whose capturing of Oscar Wilde's classic charisma, broken by a profound vulnerability which Fry captures through striking dramatic layers, molds a leading man more consistently engrossing than the film itself.

Laura is more a symbol of the collateral damage of Mexico's billion - dollar drug war than a character, and she kind of becomes a numb zombie by the movie's latter half, perhaps accepting her doomed fate.

The film's energy and passion (and no doubt, eye for detail) can't be faulted, but a tighter film could have more pointedly made the connection between the subjects» brief lifespans and the fate of a young culture of refusal that arguably died when the system it questioned was replaced by a differently oppressive social order.

The concept — a bumbling out - of - shape Panda named Po (voiced by Jack Black) finds himself living his dreams when fate decrees he join the Kung Fu elite of Tigress (Angelina Jolie), Mantis (Seth Rogen), Crane (David Cross), Monkey (Jackie Chan) and Viper (Lucy Liu) and overseen by the diminutive but mighty Master Shifu (Dustin Hoffman)-- seemed pretty silly, designed to sell stuffed panda dolls more than anything else.

The Men in Black reboot, directed by Straight Outta Compton, Friday and Fate of the Furious director F. Gary Gray, will feature brand new Agents as opposed to series protagonists J and K. Unlike the first three films, which were set in and around New York, the spinoff will be much more global, and more of an ensemble piece.

«Manchester - By - The - Sea» As if to ensure that this sprawling family epic from Kenneth Lonergan does not suffer the same ignominious fate as as his meddled - with, wrangled over and eventually more or less buried masterpiece «Margaret,» Sundance critics greeted the premiere of «Manchester - By - The - Sea» with a veritable stampede of superlatives.

Nelly's fate is rendered by a recurring motif of enclosing her within frames, mostly windows — a woman trapped by more than corsets.

The higher production values do wonders for connecting with the more enthusiastic cast and dialogue (compared to other recent FE games) and the great work done by returning specialist localisation company 8 - 4 (who also worked on 2013's Fire Emblem Awakening) deserve massive props; it vastly overshadows the English localisation in predecessor Fire Emblem Fates, which was handled entirely in - house by Nintendo.

For arthouse absurdity, I was more tickled by The Brand New Testament (Metrodome, 15), Belgian director Jaco van Dormael's antic scriptural satire, in which God turns out to be most emphatically alive — as a schlubby, unhappily married loser in Brussels, sadistically determining our individual fates via a clunky computer monitor.

I would be more jealous of you, but knowing that the fate of the United States (possibly the world) basically hinges on the result of a series of hand - to - hand combat scenes, my envy is curtailed by my impatience and inability to take it all as seriously as anyone on - screen.

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).

As Weir, Miller and Starck uncover more about the fate of the Event Horizon, they begin to suspect that by violating the fundamental laws of the universe, it unleashed something unholy.

But it's far from just empty spectacle either; the director, and his script (by David Magee) engages intelligently and wholeheartedly with the novel's themes of religion, fate and storytelling, without becoming overbearing or tiresome — in fact, it's arguably more successful than the novel in that respect.

I've grown surprisingly attached to many of these characters — again, the strength of the MCU has always been relationship — so why wasn't I more affected by the various fates they meet in Infinity War's final moments?

I've grown surprisingly attached to many of these characters — again, the strength of the MCU has always been relationship — so why wasn't I more affected by the various fates they meet in

Cancer is an awful thing (recently having taken legendary actors like Alan Rickman and iconic musicians such as David Bowie), so for those brief moments of emotional content where Deadpool accepts his fate, or decides to ditch the love of his life feeling that the top - secret experimental treatment that went wrong has left him far too horribly disfigured for anyone to properly love him, by extension we also grow to hate the villain Ajax increasingly more.

Quote from our Review by Andrew Gonzalez: «After my time with Fate / Extella: The Umbral Star, I craved more.

Yorick Le Saux's camera is duly magnetized by the lovely faces and bodies that cross its path, but Guadagnino's visual construction feels more prosaic this time, in thrall to a busy narrative machinery that occasionally creaks as it pushes the characters toward their respective fates.

The few who escape this fate include Carrie - Anne Moss as a hardnosed detective (whose lines might as well have come from a screenwriting template for hardnosed detectives) and Faye Dunaway, who appears briefly — to spout even more redundant background information, naturally — as the widow of a man who was driven to mass murder by the Bye Bye Man almost 50 years ago (The prologue is cruelly effective, and even that is ruined by the constant call - backs to it).

Yet by the same token its wink - wink sensibility diminishes its ability to terrify, exacerbated by the fact that we know right from the start that much more is at stake than the mere fates of the five pretty young puppets, played by an assortment of up - and - comers, a few of them Whedon television alumni.

Within three months, the region where he grew up suffered its predicated fate, as waters from a levee damaged by Hurricane Katrina submerged 80 percent of the city, sometimes rising to more than 10 feet.

There's the requisite coach along the way (more than one, in fact), but also cameos by a psychotherapist, a biomechanics expert and an ill - fated friend, all of whom have lessons to impart.