Example Sentences

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After this jaunty opening, the mood of the ballet darkened to one of mystery and fatefulness.

From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2018

That certainty wanes, but the sense of thwarted fatefulness, and of a nagging missed opportunity, rises.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2018

The fatefulness of their climb haunts many million others.

From BBC • Jun. 15, 2012

I cannot overemphasize the fatefulness of such a step.

From Time Magazine Archive

To say this is to acknowledge the fatefulness of sheer feeling.

From Abraham Lincoln and the Union; a chronicle of the embattled North by Stephenson, Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright)