Adjective : a fateful meeting between the leaders of the two countries. From Dictionary.com.
Besides the confusion that is hidden by this debate about the "fatefulness" of the Lebanese elections, despite their extreme importance, the debate also hides other issues, whether by underestimating or overestimating their importance, such as. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Unhampered by emotion, Carl's fatefulness looked geometric. From Wordnik.com. [In Other Worlds]
It evokes a sense of inevitability, a fatefulness, to the event. From Wordnik.com. [George Tiller’s clinic has closed « Dating Jesus] Reference
And at the end of the night, she goes back into the room to say goodbye to him, and you see the fatefulness of encounters. From Wordnik.com. [Tina Brown's Must-Reads: The Lives Of Others] Reference
Some of Auster's tics or techniques — the incestuous literary connections, the skewed autobiography, the ambiguous blurring of fact and fiction, the pervasive fatefulness — might sink any ordinary novel from sheer portentousness. From Wordnik.com. [Spellbound] Reference
It goes painfully to one's heart to think that the embargo, if it is ever lifted, will not be lifted in time for most of the events which we all most desire, events that clamour to be recorded in the large black type that for so many years Londoners have associated with fatefulness. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 4, 1917] Reference
To say this is to acknowledge the fatefulness of sheer feeling. From Wordnik.com. [Abraham Lincoln and the Union; a chronicle of the embattled North] Reference
He realized its importance; but the feeling of its fatefulness had utterly gone. From Wordnik.com. [The Rules of the Game] Reference
There was an awful fatefulness about it that made Mr Teal want to burst into tears. From Wordnik.com. [The Saint in Action]
Another peculiarity that may be briefly alluded to as eminently characteristic of the Sagas is their fatefulness. From Wordnik.com. [Eric Brighteyes] Reference
Also defense officials who maybe conscious of the fatefulness of the things they advocate dwell in a world of money and promotions. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
She had little carking anxieties; a curious fatefulness seemed to rule her, and she experienced a mournful want of some one to confide in. From Wordnik.com. [The Woodlanders] Reference
In his present frame of mind there was a certain fatefulness in this that precluded his once free agency, and to that extent relieved and absolved. From Wordnik.com. [A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories] Reference
Perhaps his strangely sensitive mind felt too powerfully the fatefulness of the moment and reacted with a sort of lightness that did not really represent the real man. From Wordnik.com. [Abraham Lincoln and the Union; a chronicle of the embattled North] Reference
Just as in this spring night Felix felt so much, so very much, lying out there behind the still and moony dark, such marvellous holding of breath and waiting sentiency, so behind this innocent petition, he could not help the feeling of a lurking fatefulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Freelands] Reference
As one stood by the side of the windmill and gazed over the battle-ground, one seemed to get war in its true perspective, something not quite as horrible or sensational as one gathers from special correspondents at the front, and yet something full of a deadly earnestness, intensity, and most impressive fatefulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography] Reference
Disraeli to Russia from the time of the re-opening of the Balkan problem in 1875-76; and the consideration of the events to be described in the following chapter will add one more to the many proofs already existing as to the fatefulness of the blunder committed by him when he wrecked the Berlin Memorandum, dissolved the Concert of the Powers, and rendered hopeless a peaceful solution of the Eastern Question. From Wordnik.com. [The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.)] Reference
A ring of Heaven in it, full of that strange fatefulness that followed his short life, till he died, nearly twenty years ago, foully poisoned by a layman singer in envy of a gift not matched in the memory of man. From Wordnik.com. [Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome] Reference
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