Fatefulness about the survival of the species is not new.

I gazed at her and saw the fatefulness of every mother's choice.

And the less he is bothered by the fatefulness of the accident.

But the second piece needs a sense of iron, unavoidable fatefulness, and she caught that just as eloquently.

She gets her wish with the malevolent fatefulness of a ghost story or a campfire tale.

Now he walked with a sense of fatefulness which he would have mocked had it not been so inescapably serious.

The bomb gave the shape of life, outer and inner, an irreversible charge; a sense of fatefulness would now lie on all things.

What outside force can organize time in such a way that two things meet, like the Titanic and the iceberg, with such a sense of fatefulness?

But there was little of that terrible fatefulness - of ritualized desperation - in her hopeless attempts to break through to freedom.

Unhampered by emotion, Carl's fatefulness looked geometric.

Another peculiarity that may be briefly alluded to as eminently characteristic of the Sagas is their fatefulness.

While the Poles want to discuss economic relief, the future of the two Germanys and its fatefulness for Poland will also be on everybody's mind.

Vague impulses stirred and mingled: reluctance and a trembling dread, along with an unfamiliar sense of fatefulness.

In his account of her life, pieced together from anecdotes, Xiu Xiu's fate assumes an almost operatic fatefulness.

The fatefulness of wartime becomes an active presence in the characters' lives (something missing in "Back Before Day," which is set in a less specified post-Vietnam War present).

If plans proceed, ridiculously, to remake this candid documentary as a dramatic feature (and such plans are under way, with Spike Lee producing for TNT), that fascinating element of fatefulness will be the first thing lost.

And that strange fatefulness carries over to the brighter world of "Croupier," whose hero, Jack Manfred (Mr. Owen), though more sophisticated than the anxious pilgrims of "Black Rainbow," is no less a fool of fortune.

A Fateful Debate In an interview, Mr. Worner spoke of the fatefulness of the debate that has begun in the organization thanks largely to the bold arms-cutting moves by the Soviet leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev.

The fatefulness of that decision became clear to Dr. Eissler in 1981, when Dr. Masson, who was projects director of the archives, delivered a shocking paper to the Western New England Psychoanalytic Society, in New Haven.

In popular belief, fado is a form of music characterized by mournful tunes and lyrics, often about the sea or the life of the poor, and infused with a characteristic sentiment of resignation, fatefulness and melancholia (loosely captured by the word saudade, or "longing").