Bryan's "matter of choice," not "chance"

Usage examples of destiny.

Long ago authors as diverse as Lenin, Horkheimer and Adorno, and Debord recognized this spectacle as the destiny oftriumphant capitalism.

They cry and they crow and they make false images to mirror their imaginary affections, as if the effluent of their tiny minds could alter the course of aeonic destiny.

He wondered if this eternal lonely darkness was what every man found in the afterworld, or if it was some special torment reserved for generals who died without fulfilling their destinies.

He watched, uneasy with what she might see in his destiny as Aisling held the amber before the flames.

But Gummitch was a man now in all but form, the kitten reminded himself after these failures, and it was part of his destiny to shoulder secrets alone when necessary.

Gummitch was a man now in all but form, the kitten reminded himself after these failures, and it was part of his destiny to shoulder secrets alone when necessary.

And Jeremy, running downstairs, left dog, father and all to their proper destinies.

Like beautiful yachts on a stormy lake, without pilot, without hands to steady the white sail to catch the favorable wind, Alvira and Aloysia were tossed on a sea of trial which cast a baneful shadow over their future destinies.

A magnificent, an unforeseen destiny now engrossed him, a destiny owed not wholly to his own merit nor to Angevin contrivance, but also to some happy conjunction of the planets.

But, as her destiny was, Argemone found herself, in the course of the evening, alone with Lancelot, at the open window.

Now Raider and Wasp are outlaws hunted by the very Blades whose ranks they were a breath away from entering, and joined together by a destiny that binds them more securely than any knot tradition and sorcery might tie.

Precisely herein consists the fundamental distinction of the Christian from the Brahmanic doctrine of human destiny.

Nicky Brompton, the urge to pay back evil destiny by a sin of her own.

In ages past, the Shapers of Destiny believed that Chislev herself reached out to them during their time of meditation.

It was one of those bizarre twists of destiny in which he had become inextricably entangled, the moment he had stepped out of his car on the Cholon Road and tried to prevent that monk from doing what he believed he had to do.