Word: fatefulness
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...card game! We grant that high-stakes poker has its tension, especially if it's your hand and your multimillion-dollar stake. But dramatically there's something lacking in a movie climax that needs the hero to be holding higher cards than the villain. Luck is not fate...
...included “karma” as a possible factor.) But we have resisted the temptation to trivialize the matter through any of these means because we firmly believe that this is a time of reflection on irony of the highest caliber presented by the twisted hand of fate. For perhaps this is the only time you will hear of Eliot residents seeking to be placed in Dunster in order to escape getting the bum-end of the deal...
...disastrous day trip to Mexico; and the deaf Japanese girl improbably connected to all these events. TV dramas like Lost and Heroes have global ensembles whose lives are intertwined before they ever meet. One man's winning lottery numbers are another man's key to the universe (Lost); the fate of the world depends on a Japanese nerd's saving an American cheerleader he doesn't know (Heroes...
...documents stacked up, Hussein's bluster faded. He seemed to take on a growing sense of resignation about his fate until, finally, he snapped. Without warning, Hussein rose March 1 and offered a statement in which he essentially admitted everything and urged the court to hold him responsible...
...Hussein was never really the same in court after that. For the remainder of the trial, Hussein was generally more subdued, realizing no doubt the fate closing in on him. Even Hussein's outburst today, as the judge sentenced him to death, was much paler than the rages he's shown the court before...