What is "fateful"

Usage examples of "fateful".

But the fateful decisions secretly made, the intrigues, the treachery, the motives and the aberrations which led up to them, the parts played by the principal actors behind the scenes, the extent of the terror they exercised and their technique of organizing it - all this and much more remained largely hidden from us until the secret German papers turned up.

By undermining his confidence, he again worried that maybe he had erred in administering the anesthesia that fateful day.

The sound was the fateful voice of Bosco, the great hound, raised in a distant cry that started as a yelp and turned into a bay.

Murdoch would be chafing now at being left behind to watch over young Philippe, just as he had been left behind that fateful night in Valletta.

My fateful meeting with diabetes often reminds me of the ancient Chinese character for crisis, a graceful nest of brush strokes, space, and symbolism that combines the elements of both challenge and opportunity.

A few minutes afterward it was learned that General von Hase, the Berlin commandant, who had started Major - now Colonel - Remer on his fateful errand, had been arrested and that the Nazi General, Reinecke, backed by the S.

Craw for a little experienced the first glimmerings of peace which he had known since that fateful hour at Kirkmichael when his Hejira began.

He knew full well that it was a fateful moment -- Hissa realized that the frozen body of Trioculus was on its way to Kadann, about to be destroyed aboard Space Station Scardia!

They were alone together in that library which had already been the stage of some fateful scenes, a room now dusty and disordered from the neglect and carelessness of its inquilines of these past weeks.

Some were garbed in fantastic armor, which had been wrought in the time since the fateful day of the Closingharnesses whose lamellae gleamed with the sheen of nacre or emerald, with the polish of lamplight flaring on snow, of starlight dancing on water, of moonlight imaged in ice or sunset reflected in steel.

Many of them were from Russia and knew about the fateful Herzl-Plehve meeting and how their old enemy Zubatov had backed the Poale Zionists against the Bund.

That fateful bell was tolling the death of Fred Ferris, the man who had dared the shadow of the rock.

Phillium, a world-renowned architect of vomitoriums, was given the fateful book by his niece, as a present on the occasion of the third anniversary of his successful buttocks-reduction surgery.

How could he explain to her what Wigg had told him on that fateful day?

The flagship ballista and the accompanying human warships closed in on their fateful confrontation, reaching the line that would trigger the senseless slaughter of millions of humans inside the Bridge.