How To Use Destiny In A Sentence
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Destiny's Wild even went so far as to gripe that Neapolitan had stolen their idea of singing the song a Capella, which is hardly a novel concept.
IGN TV
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Her blood-red lips and hooded eyes, her large hands firmly grasping the wheel, all convey a woman in control of her destiny.
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These cells change their ultimate destiny, or fate, as the disc regenerates tissue so that, for example, instead of regenerating leg structures they form wing structures.
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True it is, that one can scarcely call _that_ education which teaches woman everything except herself, -- _except_ the things that relate to her own peculiar womanly destiny, and, on plea of the holiness of ignorance, sends her without one word of just counsel into the temptations of life.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859
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His essay ‘Our America’ sought to contest the cultural and linguistic destiny of America as a signifier.
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The magic word Literacy campaigns push back the boundaries of ignorance and give people more chance of controlling their own destiny.
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To discipline your character is to ensure a bright destiny. To pamper your character is to invite a bleak destiny. Dr T.P.Chia
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As the younger became more wilful and wayward, making the most of her privileged status, the elder became more withdrawn, worried about her destiny.
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The failing to do this is the greatest mistake of the present generation, for if girls be capable of nothing but morbid sentiment or what we term flirtation, they will naturally look to matrimony as their destiny and as a means of support -- a self-abasement from which no woman can fully recover, even under the most favorable circumstances.
How to Train Girls.
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Bonaparte could only fulfil what he called his destiny, by continual agitation; and this was well understood by himself and by his enemies.
A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges
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Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny. C. S. Lewis
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A repetitive set-top game called Search for the Spear of Destiny requires a beginner's level of dexterity, and delivers trivial lost-civilization factoids as reward cookies for successful play.
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The lightness of heart which had dressed them in masquerade habits, had decorated their tents, and assembled them in fantastic groups, appeared a sin against, and a provocative to, the awful destiny that had laid its palsying hand upon hope and life.
II.6
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This is what you call controlling your own destiny - something most people including everyone here don't have the backbone to do.
Undefined
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He wants to be in control of his own destiny.
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We invent a false name, invent a destiny, purchase a firearm through the mall.
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Negative emotions, such as the feelings of hatred, meanness, low self-esteem and confidence, and pessimism, create an unpleasant person and a bleak destiny. Dr T.P.Chia
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An inscription on the base confirms the new destiny of the monument.
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Smoothly steering between R&B and Eurodance, she's breathily seductive on Motivation – by contrast, guest Lil Wayne is positively anaemic – while I'm Dat Chick updates the jumpy minimalism of Destiny's Child's No, No, No.
Kelly Rowland: Here I Am – review
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She had made up her mind, screw what anyone else thought, she was going there and she was going to find out what her destiny was.
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It might be that the price of controlling our destiny is one worth paying.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nevertheless, your long-term astrological omens demand that I invoke them to describe your destiny.
Hey, not fair, Universe!
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The destiny of our nation depends on this vote!
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Marriage comes by destiny.
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These are characters who want perfect lives, but who keep finding out that destiny has other plans for them.
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By the time the rain woke me the next morning my stomach rumbled like the epicentre of an earthquake and I realized I had no choice but to take destiny into my own hands.
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The losses and sacrifices suffered in terms of academic advancement had been construed to be the destiny of life.
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Why is it, in the 21st century,when we should be making progress, that so many people seem to have handed over their life destiny to either the government (and thus effectively other taxpayers who are providing the benefits and the credits) or some sort of unpindownable other party?
The Guardian World News
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He was Carl Schirmer, the avatar of ennui, the eternal ephebe, always more eager for ambience than destiny.
In Other Worlds
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Jeanne Tripplehorn pairs with Dylan McDermott in this comedy about a ridiculous romantic and an utter realist brought together by destiny.
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To be able to specify those key attributes, Destiny selects Complex for the type of the business item, and then adds some attributes.
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His reserve might by the ill-natured have been termed dissimulation, inasmuch as when asked by the ladies of the embassy what had become of the young person who had amused them that day so cleverly he gave it out that her whereabouts was uncertain and her destiny probably obscure; he let it be supposed in a word that his benevolence had scarcely survived an accidental, a charitable occasion.
The Tragic Muse
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So the vision such nihilists offered 20 th-century man was of a destiny no more elevated than a dog or cat, emancipated from morality other than subservience to the state.
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And inspired once more, the great king strides forth to meet his destiny… Cue glorious sunset and skirl of bagpipes.
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Every man lives at the mercy of his inner self - his character - that is the master of his destiny. A positive character gives birth to a good destiny, while a negative character produces a bad destiny. Dr T.P.Chia
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So while she grooms her son for leadership, she is also fulfilling her own destiny.
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He had long considered it his destiny to be the next president of Pakistan, but latterly his political career has faltered.
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We believe that human beings have a divine origin and an eternal destiny.
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We are all therefore of infinite value, glorious destiny and enormous potential.
Times, Sunday Times
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I came here out of sheer chance, out of luck, destiny, fate or the alignment of the stars.
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It came to him curiously that it was his destiny ever to stand on this high place, looking down on unending hordes of black trouble that required control, bullying, and cajolery.
Chapter 11
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Then Destiny stopped walking and turned back around and walked deeper into the cave.
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I just know who i am, have no idea where i'm going" ... it's an autoscopy and the fact that one doesn't own his destiny completely, and there's nobody in the world that has everything figured out ...
Studio-Central Community
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We invent a false name, invent a destiny, purchase a firearm through the mall.
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Destiny put her stuff in one of the empty drawers in her dresser and sat back down at the table with tears in her eyes.
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A sense of destiny pervades your every waking moment, and you prepare with great detail for destiny fulfilled.
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His work was infused with a deep pessimism about his fellow creatures, whom he often portrayed as being unable to control their destiny.
Times, Sunday Times
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Joseph's parents know that he is a miracle child with a special destiny ordained by God.
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Refusing to believe that Jesus Christ is Lord, and refusing the destiny he has for you, is accepting eternal damnation.
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I feel a pang of guilt as I realise his destiny is a stark lab.
The Sun
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Your character is the master of your destiny. Your destiny will smile if you are in control of a positive character. Your destiny will frown if you are ruled by a negative character. Dr T.P.Chia
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And, besides, it's such good fun to see how one virtuous man can so disconcert you captains of industry and arbiters of destiny.
THEFT
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No matter how cruel the destiny treats one with tribulation and misfortune, it will correspondingly treat him with happiness and sweetness. Even if the happiness is short and false, it's enough to light up the whole future life.
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She was spurred on by a strong sense of destiny and ambition.
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Although it is variously described as a devouring beast that is never satisfied (see Proverbs 27:20) and a gloomy abode (see Job 10:21), it was not a place of punishment, but rather the destiny of all human souls.
Mysteries & Intrigues of the Bible
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If contrariness is my inheritance and destiny, so be it.
March « 2010 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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Fate, karma, destiny... Careful with those words; I've been using them too often.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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Marriage comes by destiny.
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The contemporary hero is one who stands out against the crowd to fulfil a personal destiny.
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Nancy wondered whether it was her destiny to live in England and marry Melvyn.
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Once she'd taken Destiny and named her, Put had been amused enough to call the filly's half-brother by a matching name.
Beast Master's Circus
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From what is here stated, it must be obvious, that no more appropriate name than that of "Fenian" could be given to the organization which now holds the destiny of Ireland in its hands, and which has ramified itself throughout almost every portion of the habitable globe.
Ridgeway An Historical Romance of the Fenian Invasion of Canada
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The plan was to carve out an existence in the new country based on the pure and simple logic of freedom... well, that and Manifest Destiny and its messy imperialistic annihilation of the Native People but that's another article.
Lorraine Devon Wilke: No, Virginia, There's No War on Christmas
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By the time the rain woke me the next morning my stomach rumbled like the epicentre of an earthquake and I realized I had no choice but to take destiny into my own hands.
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Twelve men and women plucked at random off a metaphorical Clapham omnibus to hold her destiny in their collective hands.
A DEAD LIBERTY
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When government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates, and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies.
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For the young lovers, Pelléas and Mélisande, the only ‘happiness’ is acquiescence in their destiny - what happens to them; and acquiescence becomes identified with inanition.
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And I don't have much time for destiny or fate, which is what fado means.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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So we can say that in all his films the plot leads to a fatal end, a tragic destiny which the characters cannot avoid because it is presented as an absolute truth.
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Now is the time to grasp firmly the reins of your own destiny.
23 Steps to Successful Achievement
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Your destiny is interwoven with mine.
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If you do not control your destiny, your destiny will control you. If you leave your destiny to luck and chance, you are likely to be disappointed. Dr T.P.Chia
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The only argument you can make is that the clone is aware of the specifics of his predestiny, and maybe that interferes with his subjective enjoyment of his (still predetermined) life.
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I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement to leave off eating animals. Henry David Thoreau
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However, hospitalism is not necessarily the destiny of all children brought up without their mothers.
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Prof. Easterly's subtle intimation that we must master the debate before we can master our destiny is an important lesson to be learned from the Columbia experience.
Alemayehu G. Mariam: Lessons From Columbia U.
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Choice, not chance, determines human destiny.
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When the infant Heracles caught Hera"s two serpents in its hands, it was Tiresias who cast the child"s fortune and revealed the divine origin and destiny of the boy .
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They should see it as their future, their destiny.
Times, Sunday Times
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Of course, this is part of Coolidge's larger view of history, a view that may be termed "Augustinian," with elements of a devotion to "manifest destiny" in it.
Undefined
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I could neither laugh with nor at the solemn utterances of men I esteemed ponderous asses; nor could I laugh, nor engage in my old-time lightsome persiflage, with the silly superficial chatterings of women, who, underneath all their silliness and softness, were as primitive, direct, and deadly in their pursuit of biological destiny as the monkeys women were before they shed their furry coats and replaced them with the furs of other animals.
Chapter 29
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At twilight, as I rode out through the great gate of the capital, I saw the jaded horse fall and the exhausted rider stagger in on foot; and I little dreamed that that man carried my destiny with him into Keijo.
Chapter 15
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To discipline your character is to ensure a bright destiny. To pamper your character is to invite a bleak destiny. Dr T.P.Chia
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O destiny! to what a life of pain and sorrow didst thou bear me beyond all men that ever were, e'en from the very first; yea for when I was yet unborn, or ever I had left my mother's womb and seen the light, Apollo foretold to Laius that I should become my father's murderer; woe is me!
The Phoenissae
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To the Greeks, your destiny was in the hands of the Fates, three heartless old women.
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In their eyes, the destiny of bioethicists is to sit on bioethics committees and set public policy.
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And I prefer to go forth and meet my destiny, not skulk at home in hiding waiting for fate to overtake me.
THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
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But one day, he was chosen as the Dragon Warrior by accidents in a tounament, so he had to fulfill his destiny to defeat Tai Long, a ferocious and powerful leopard.
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They show it was possible to reject one 's destiny of breeding in the shires.
Times, Sunday Times
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Shriya is a firm believer in God and destiny and says she took up whatever came her way.
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However, this map only adds to the confusion when the lovers meet their destiny at a beach not too far from outback Australia.
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Perhaps, like Manifest Destiny, it will continue to expand until the land runs out to the sea.
Gregory Unruh: Red Queen Sustainability
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We meet those who believe in reincarnation, those who believe in destiny and those who refuse to believe.
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I, Madame Zoe, chiromancer, lifelong student of the moldings and markings of the human hand; I, Madame Zoe, to whom no facet of your character or destiny is not readily revealed, I am prepared to ...
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
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We are all therefore of infinite value, glorious destiny and enormous potential.
Times, Sunday Times
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These considerations should be borne in mind, as they can determine the ultimate destiny of our music.
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No matter how cruel the destiny treats one with tribulation and misfortune, it will correspondingly treat him with happiness and sweetness. Even if the happiness is short and false, it's enough to light up the whole future life.
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To ignore this is to run your business on a wing and a prayer, which is pure chance and takes your destiny out of your own hands.
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This Indian fighter firmly grasped the notion of Manifest Destiny saying that America's extermination of the Indians and thefts our their lands was ultimately beneficial as it was inevitable.
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Your destiny also depends on the quality of your physical, mental and emotional health, as well as your attitude toward life and your lifestyle. Dr T.P.Chia
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Otherwise, your destiny is like a manatee.
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The achiever says his thoughts led him to success and the criminal says his thoughts led him to crime. Everybody thinks, but what we think determines our destiny. RVM
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Me forthinketh, said King Pellinore, that this shall me betide, but God may fordo well destiny.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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He crossed continents for the destiny of our people and humanity.
Times, Sunday Times
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In forgetting this wisdom, Pablo charted his destiny while consuming his friend's: for the rifle was robed in sudden death.
The Sanchez Ghost
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When creating him I saw him as being a slightly melancholy but essentially decent young man, and I imagined his destiny would involve being one of the people to finally bring peace between humanity and the elementals.
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Seiffmilts, in his great work concerning the divine order and regularity in the destiny of the human race, has a chapter entitled a confutation of this idea; I read it with great eagerness, and found therein that this idea militated against the glory and goodness of God, and must therefore be false, -- but further confutation found I none!
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
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A psychologist might interpret my conversion as sublimating my guilty feelings, but I prefer to think about it as fulfilling my Jewish destiny.
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As initiators of culture and producers of the societies in which we live, the destiny of modern man is our conscious choice.
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The master tactician took control of his own World Cup destiny with two key substitutions which paid instant dividends.
The Sun
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No amount of scientific progress, moreover, has separated the world from our apprehension of its innate destiny.
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They tinkered with the destiny of many species, on land and in the ocean.
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Does not use the worry, in this decision destiny time, in order to defend and saves us the common homeland Earth, anybody all should be duty-bound , bounden!
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Is that the end for what was once thought to be humanity's manifest destiny?
Times, Sunday Times
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She was innocent, easily corrupted by Destiny's ways.
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This true type, having found her man, was forced to accept that biology was indeed destiny.
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Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. So let us seize it, not in fear, but in gladness.——R.M.
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Nobody gets to write your destiny but you.
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He certainly used it in the sense of destiny that is carved out by immense human efforts.
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Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. So let us seize it, not in fear, but in gladness.——R.M.
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She's a sentimental woman who believes marriage comes by destiny.
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Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny. C. S. Lewis
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The only ways to overcome this curse of predestiny are clever writing and serious, believable realism.
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Negative emotions, such as the feelings of hatred, meanness, low self-esteem and confidence, and pessimism, create an unpleasant person and a bleak destiny. Dr T.P.Chia
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Next, it is one of the powers ‘which rule our earthly destiny,’ that is, _fortune_ rules _destiny_.
The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin
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Sir James Frazer, writing in the early 20th century, noted that ‘even in Europe many people still believe that a person's destiny is more or less bound up with that of his navel-string or afterbirth.’
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It's understandable that you have such faith in destiny, because that relieves you of any responsibility for searching for a good mate and actually testing how attractive you are inside and out.
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Your destiny or fate is determined by your choices and actions. If you do not control and shape your destiny or fate, your future will be determined by what will happen. Dr T.P.Chia
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The two turned resolutely toward Olympic stadium and Mephistopheles, the torch held high, rode in woozy disbelief as they carried him to his destiny.
Clarification
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But by progress must not be understood the imaginary and metaphysical _law of progress_, which should lead the generations of man with irresistible force to some unknown destiny, according to a providential plan which we can logically divine and understand.
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
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He and his friends, pursuing “a nobler destiny,” felt “no disposition to truckle to the petty usurper, who came into power against the wishes of the great men of his own party, and whose personal character was unworthy of the favor of the meanest minion that shouted in his train.”
A Country of Vast Designs
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The two statements quoted above contain diametrically opposite conceptions of this country, its future and its destiny.
VERWOERD'S GRIM PLOT
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Life gives up those who lack the desire, initiative and will to fight for a better life, and does not help those who leave their lives to luck, destiny or fate. Dr T.P.Chia
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But do we embrace our freedom and leave this pagan empire to embrace our destiny?
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The day of your destiny's over and the star of your fate is in the mullagatawny.
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
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The hope of these minorities is that a fissiparous Pakistan, with its history of dysfunctional civilian and military governments, will give way in the fullness of time to a sprawling Greater India, thus liberating Baluchistan to pursue its destiny as a truly autonomous region.
Pakistan’s Fatal Shore
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It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny. Tony Robbins
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This Great Moment in Black History has been sponsored by the same old ignoramuses who still think melanin is destiny.
January 2006
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It was like that instant when your car begins to skid out of control and, before your eyes, you see the burning wreck that is your destiny.
Times, Sunday Times
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They acquired the habit of blinking in the face of destiny.
Times, Sunday Times
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When you hear a catchy jingle, your destiny partner is close.
The Sun
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Choice, not chance, determines human destiny.
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The Prince's destiny was predetermined from the moment of his birth.
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Is he really behind Jill and her dream to fulfill her dead husband's destiny, or is there an ulterior motive behind his caring compassion?
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Stand back and allow destiny's exquisite plan to unfold, in ways as elegant as they are unexpected.
Times, Sunday Times
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In it, he argued that people were not prisoners of their own destiny, and that happiness was thus not to be found in simply following one's own inclinations, but in perfecting oneself through active cultivation.
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It starts with dreams - dreams create desires, desires create determination, which leads us to our destiny. RVM
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Most Stoics welcomed all forms of prognostication, for gaining knowledge of the future enabled the soul to accept its destiny, and astrology was especially favoured as demonstrating the harmony of the universe.
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Such incommunicable pasts, such fragile homes for memory, bear witness to the irony of destiny, showing it to be a story formed after the fact, a ‘predetermined’ road with an endless ability to change its very face.
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Man's destiny was to transcend his animal nature on a spiritual plane.
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No matter how cruel the destiny treats one with tribulation and misfortune, it will correspondingly treat him with happiness and sweetness. Even if the happiness is short and false, it's enough to light up the whole future life.
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Authentic or not, the fact that both men used essentially the same phrase conceivably could be merely "a pun of destiny," as Arthur Koestler once described the notion of coincidence.
A Pun Of Destiny?
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He consorted with anyone who had a feel for his destiny.
Greenwich Village Revisited
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Rachel I just want you to know that I believe that destiny will bring us back together.
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It is a fervent desire, but not a destiny.
Times, Sunday Times
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Right there, you've got all these questions about predestiny and free will and making the most of your numbered days.
Books
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In such a situation, novels are read for the sheer delight of the plot twists, which often reflect the detours of our own destiny in this hustle-bustle world.
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It may seem you are making your own destiny, but always you follow the path Fate ordained.
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It was a weird combination of exhilaration and sheer intimidation that had been building all morning as I waited for my drive with destiny.
The Sun
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Accursed be cruell destiny, that forced thee to so base a kind of life, and did not blesse thee with a fairer fortune.
The Decameron
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In the 19th century Americans believed in manifest destiny, meaning that they thought God wanted them to occupy the whole continent.
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Nevertheless, our personal philosophy and artistic goals must always play their important part in shaping our destiny.
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Work without vision is drudgery. Vision without work is dreaming. Work plus vision-this is destiny. Gordon B. Hinckley
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Her destiny lay in that city.
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In this untypical but engaging sports autobiography, he portrays himself as a man of destiny, overcoming all obstacles in the way of England's Rugby World Cup victory.
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Was this pilot's decision the result of luck, doctrine, guesswork, culture, logic or predestiny?
The Beginning of the End
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Anger is usually repressed and emerges only as frustration and hopelessness, a disbelief in the ability to control one's own destiny.
Mothers who Leave
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No matter how cruel the destiny treats one with tribulation and misfortune, it will correspondingly treat him with happiness and sweetness. Even if the happiness is short and false, it's enough to light up the whole future life.
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A third email quoted a line from the Tunisian national anthem, written by Aboul-Qacem Echebbi: " Lorsqu'un jour le peuple veut la vie, force est au destin d'obtempérer, force est aux ténèbres de s'évanouir, et force est aux chaînes de se briser" When a people aspire to live, destiny is doomed to comply, darkness is forced to dissipate and chains are forced to break loose.
Judie Fein: Why You Should Travel to Tunisia
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Othellos, the Don Juans that illustrate to us that the fable is a game of chess played over and over again, a thousand times with whatever pieces destiny throws up at any given time.
Camilo José Cela - Nobel Lecture
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The modern wedding breakfast, with its bridecake, is a survival from a very ancient mode of solemnizing the closest tie of all; and when Proserpine tasted a pomegranate she partook of a fruit of a specially symbolic character to signify acceptance of her new destiny as her captor's wife.
The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology
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We all live at the mercy of our emotions. Our motions influence and shape our desires, thoughts and behaviors and above all our destiny. Dr T.P.Chia
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It starts with dreams - dreams create desires, desires create determination, which leads us to our destiny. RVM
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Astrologers understand destiny so they are consulted to establish auspicious dates for important activities.
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Europe did not possess a manifest destiny to transform the politics of the rest of the world.
Ambassadors: From Ancient Greece to the Nation State
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Work without vision is drudgery. Vision without work is dreaming. Work plus vision-this is destiny. Gordon B. Hinckley
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It gives a particular direction to every sentiment and action, and carries a man forward, as by a kind of resistless impulse, or insuperable destiny.
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The contemporary hero is one who stands out against the crowd to fulfil a personal destiny.
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Control the destiny of the rudder is the struggle. Not a fantasy, do not give up the opportunity, do not stop on the.
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Europe did not possess a manifest destiny to transform the politics of the rest of the world.
Ambassadors: From Ancient Greece to the Nation State
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Durzo can be a shadow when he wants to be and no "deader" ever escapes their destiny when Durzo has been hired to do the killing.
The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks
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It is a mistake to minimize the impact of the new cosmology, but resources were available to protect a spiritual destiny.
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Pulled into a fantastic life of misunderstood sideshow freaks and creatures of the night, one teen will vanish from the safety of a boring existence and fulfill his destiny in a place drawn from nightmares.
VAMPIRE MANIA AND VAMPIRES GIVEAWAY! | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
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She was convinced that sooner or later she would fulfil her destiny.
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In life destiny or fate is something you can control unless you choose to be controlled. Dr T.P.Chia
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However, Alfred was not just appropriated by those wishing to extol racial destiny and/or imperial manhood in justification of the conduct of the war in South Africa.
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The liars, the traitors, the thugs, and the outlaws cannot be handed the destiny of a nation like India.
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So Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) exposes cheating in sumo wrestling; Eugene Jarecki (Why We Fight) looks at the 1990s 'drop in the crime rate; Heidi Ewing (Jesus Camp) discovers whether you can bribe ninth-graders to get good grades - and Morgan Spurlock (Super-Size Me) examines whether your name is your destiny (particularly if you're an African-American with a distinctly African-American name).
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Freakonomics
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Changing their destiny Shahidul Alam travels with the poor who chase a dream to distant lands.
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Such events remind us of the sameness of our human destiny, the fragility of our existence.
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No matter how cruel the destiny treats one with tribulation and misfortune, it will correspondingly treat him with happiness and sweetness. Even if the happiness is short and false, it's enough to light up the whole future life.
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Actions are the seeds of fate. Deeds grow into destiny. Harry S. Truman
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Anyone who thinks the "greed is good" culture started in the 1980s should look up David Edgar's play Destiny (1976), in which an ex-serviceman is appalled when developers tear down his beloved antique shop.
State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974 by Dominic Sandbrook
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No matter how cruel the destiny treats one with tribulation and misfortune, it will correspondingly treat him with happiness and sweetness. Even if the happiness is short and false, it's enough to light up the whole future life.
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I could neither laugh with nor at the solemn utterances of men I esteemed ponderous asses; nor could I laugh, nor engage in my old-time lightsome persiflage, with the silly superficial chatterings of women, who, underneath all their silliness and softness, were as primitive, direct, and deadly in their pursuit of biological destiny as the monkeys women were before they shed their furry coats and replaced them with the furs of other animals.
Chapter 29
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The concept that destiny is predetermined is a religious dogma and a philosophical delusion. Dr T.P.Chia
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It's rather apposite, then, that Kundera's most careful defender is also his former sparring partner on the question of "Czech Destiny".
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This is the evil that happens under the sun: The same destiny overtakes all.
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The contemporary hero is one who stands out against the crowd to fulfil a personal destiny.
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These are women who have been schooled into passivity, so they're left with the fantasy of being discovered, of someone else stepping in to make their destiny - a man, a talent scout or a headhunter.
