59 Sentences With "a fate worse than death"

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For my mother, this would be a fate worse than death.
"For me, retirement is a fate worse than death," she tells Money.
In medieval society, being exiled from your town was a fate worse than death.
This punishment of damnatio memoriae, Latin for "condemnation of memory," was considered a fate worse than death.
"For me, retirement is a fate worse than death," she told Money in 2018 after her book release.
Wendig has given Jar Jar a fate worse than death, effectively snuffing out the joy of Jar Jar bashing.
According to surveys, outliving your savings in retirement is a significant fear and even a fate worse than death.
But there can be a fate worse than death, if you're taken away from what you know and the people you love.
I came of age believing that Neal Adams, Frank Miller, and a handful of other comics creators had rescued Batman from a fate worse than death.
For the rest of his life Trump has equated losing with a fate worse than death and thus, insisted that he was a natural-born winner.
Despite treating its marginalized characters with an unusual level of compassion for the time, the movie still poses being made like them as a fate worse than death.
There are many other reports of people dying from a heart attack as a result of taking Viagra, but one gentleman nearly suffered a fate worse than death after trying to impress his wife by super-dosing.
The slight possibility of getting any form of herpes might be enough to scare some people off of VR, although treating the virus as a fate worse than death arguably just makes the stigma against it even worse.
But we still live in a world where many people consider disability a fate worse than death, and are all too willing to murder disabled people (and people on the autism spectrum, like me) for being an inconvenience.
"In case you forgot that being vice anything is a fate worse than death: "General George Washington could climb out of his grave right now and I would rather eat out his zombified wooden asshole than be his vice fucking anything!
If just a fraction of these people with undiagnosed atrial fibrillation became aware of the condition and were treated earlier with medications, thousands of people could prevent a stroke from happening, which many regards as a fate worse than death.
"A FATE worse than death" is a journalistic cliché, used this week alone to describe a visit to the dentist (in a British newspaper) and the plot arc of a character in J.K. Rowling's new "Harry Potter" play (in an American magazine).
Instead of allowing her children to grow up motherless in an unkind world, or face what she views as a fate worse than death, the mother thinks she's acting in their best interest, says Philip Resnick, a leading filicide researcher who co-authored the analysis.
In putting my video on YouTube, I was hoping to reach those scared young Russian men and women, the ones who've been told homosexuality is a fate worse than death, and expose them to a new reality -- one where some Russians, myself included, are gay and surviving.
A recent report published by the National Council on Disability (NCD) pointed out that people with disabilities regularly experience demoralization both because the need for help is perceived as undignified and burdensome, but also because many think that life with a disability is a fate worse than death.
More are carrying canes and using walkers than before, but many more who could benefit shun them because, to them, canes and walkers imply infirmity, a fate worse than death (80 percent of elderly women told researchers in one study that they would rather die than have to live with a debilitating hip fracture).
But from the moment the series debuted in 2017 to the moment I started having the dream the next year, The Handmaid's Tale felt magnetic to some part of me, particularly its story of a handmaid named Emily, who watched her wife and son flee to Canada, then found herself suffering a fate worse than death.
Ruth Jordan is a gentlewoman rescued from a fate worse than death by Stephen Ghent—facing Dutch, the nastiest man in the West.
Defined as absurdly young for his job, Burr is claimed to be George Smiley's crown prince for years after being saved by Smiley from 'a fate worse than death' at All Souls. Personnel: The eponymous head of Circus staff who distributes assignments and conducts inquiries. Monty Arbuck: Head of the Watchers, who briefs and commands Circus clandestine observation teams. Mabel: Ned's wife.
However this never happened because they were beaten 6–2 by Shrewsbury in the replay. Arsenal were said to be "saved from a fate worse than death – a trip to Tow Law in January." In 1974, they won the Northern League Cup, beating Ashington 2–1 in the final at Crook. In the summer of 1978, Chris Waddle started playing for the club.
She also draws attention to the possibility that the idea that rape in war is a fate worse than death, which is advocated by some feminist circles, has downsides. These include a tendency to classify some armed conflicts in which war rapes occurred as "wars against women", despite the clear suffering they have inflicted on men too. She urges for suspicion towards such comparisons in legal advocacy.
Hazel unknowingly drinks the Pretty Potion, a fate worse than death for a woman who relishes her ugliness. Transformed into a young, beautiful woman, Hazel asks her magic mirror if she is still ugly. The genie in her mirror instantly falls in love with her. Hazel flies off into the night on her flying broomstick and the genie chases after her on his magic carpet.
When the girl returns, the mother sends her lazy daughter down the well to work for Mother Hulda to be showered in gold as well. But the lazy daughter refuses to help in the chores her stepsister did and justly is punished by being forever covered with pitch. While Märchen considers it the cutest revenge he orchestrated, Elise amusingly calls it a fate worse than death.
In a fit of rage, he killed her. In revenge, Jacob threw his brother into the cavern which emitted the light, an act which he was told by his mother would lead to a fate "worse than death". The Man in Black emerged later as the Smoke Monster and was now trapped on the island. Wanting to escape, he wanted to kill Jacob, but was unable to do so.
In the patriarchal world of invasion literature, interracial sexual relations were "a fate worse than death" for a white woman, afterwards, she was a sexual untouchable to white men. In the 1890s, that moralistic theme was the anti-Chinese message of the feminist and labor organizer Rose Summerfield who voiced the White woman's sexual fear of the Yellow Peril, by warning society of the Chinese man's unnaturally lustful gaze upon the pulchritude of Australian women.
They escape when she morphs to grizzly to scare them. David also tries escaping, and Rachel frees Cassie, but tells her to leave without her, telling her she is going after David. Ultimately failing to escape after Rachel follows him, David finds himself in Rachel's clutches again and he begs her to kill him, insisting putting him back on the island would be a fate worse than death. David's ultimate fate is unexplained.
The director and producer, Jim Abrahams, was inspired to make the film as a result of his own experiences with his son Charlie. Charlie developed a very serious seizure condition that proved intractable despite several medications and surgery. His cognitive decline was described by Abrahams as "a fate worse than death". He came across the diet in a book on childhood epilepsy by John Freeman, director of the Pediatric Epilepsy Center at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Nevertheless, Chu Chu will lose his citizenship for being a convict, something he considers a "fate worse than death." Feeling that injustice has been done, Chu Chu's cousin and friends camp just outside the Ames property, staring at the Ameses, playing Mexican songs and doing other things that constantly remind the Ameses of Chu Chu. Nancy, who is still ill, arrives and accuses Mrs. Ames of destroying Chu Chu before she collapses and is rushed to the hospital.
He gives Claudia a secret mission to retrieve the egg at all costs, even Soren's life. Later, Viren visits Runaan, the last assassin, whom he offers to free in exchange for information about the mirror that was found in the Dragon King's lair and threatens a fate worse than death if Runaan yields nothing useful. Runaan recognizes the mirror, but refuses to reveal its nature. As punishment, Viren uses dark magic to trap Runaan inside a coin.
The outcasts then declare their intention to make them suffer a fate worse than death, as revenge for the years they have suffered from bullying. In their first act of violence, Jack shoots Miles, a loud-mouthed teenager, with a cattle gun to his face and knee. One boy, Tommy, flees for help, but steps into a bear trap in the woods. Three boys nicknamed The Triplets, who help the outcasts, capture and bring him back to the house.
Jason and Medea, by John William Waterhouse, 1907 Rama on the way Exile is an early motif in ancient Greek tragedy. In the ancient Greek world, this was seen as a fate worse than death. The motif reaches its peak on the play Medea, written by Euripides in the fifth century BC, and rooted in the very old oral traditions of Greek mythology. Euripides’ Medea has remained the most frequently performed Greek tragedy through the 20th century.
An ancient alien life force, after lying dormant for centuries, awakens with a hunger for humans. It is up to an elite SWAT team led by a fierce assassin to save mankind from a fate worse than death. For centuries, the extraterrestrial waited for human knowledge to evolve enough to unlock the source of its deadly potential. When a mad scientist finally breaks the genetic code, a horde of mutant creatures begins to spawn, each a killing machine.
Madame LaLaurie awakes after taking the "love potion" from Marie Laveau, she goes outside to face Laveau with a lynch mob of dozens of the black slaves she's been abusing for years. Her own husband and three daughters are hung up dead. She explains it wasn't a love potion but an immortality potion she gave LaLaurie. Laveau condemns her to a fate worse than death as the crowd puts her in a wooden box and buries her alive for all eternity.
Still raging, Rolando storms out to lead the Milanese troops into battle, but as he leaves, he locks the tower door on Arrigo and Lida, declaring that Arrigo will suffer a fate worse than death: the infamy of being absent from the battle in which he had promised to fight, and so will lose his honour. As trumpets signal the beginning of the battle, Arrigo, in desperation, leaps from the tower into the moat, shouting "Long Live Italy!". Lida remains in anguish.
This statement relates to Socrates' understanding and attitude towards death and his commitment to fulfill his goal of investigating and understanding the statement of the Pythia (i.e. that there was no one wiser than Socrates). Socrates understood the Pythia's response to Chaerephon's question as a communication from the god Apollo and this became Socrates's prime directive, his raison d'etre. For Socrates, to be separated from elenchus by exile (preventing him from investigating the statement) was therefore a fate worse than death.
Pettigrew is unmasked, and, most importantly, Harry stops Sirius and Lupin from murdering Pettigrew, arguing that his father would not want his friends to commit murder. Harry begins to view Sirius as a surrogate father, although events swiftly turn against him again – Pettigrew escapes, and Sirius is captured by the dementors at Hogwarts and sentenced to the "Dementor's Kiss", a fate worse than death. Harry and Hermione help him escape with Buckbeak, a hippogriff who had also been unjustly condemned. Sirius is once again a wanted man.
David Goldbaum was born in 1858 in Mexico.David Goldbaum, Son of Jewish Pioneer in Mexico, Dies at 71, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, March 12, 1930 His father was a Jewish Pole who emigrated to Mexico as a pioneer. His paternal uncle, Marcus Goldbaum, was a German-born settler in the Arizona Territory who tried to bargain with Native Americans to release their captives in 1866-1870,Susan Michno, A Fate Worse Than Death: Indian Captivities in the West, 1830-1885, Caxton Press, 2007, pp. 278-280 and was later murdered by the Apaches in 1886.
Dissection was generally viewed as "a fate worse than death"; giving judges the ability to substitute gibbeting with dissection was an attempt to invoke that horror. While the Act gave anatomists statutory access to many more cadavers than were previously available, it proved insufficient. Attempting to bolster the supply, some surgeons offered money to pay the prison expenses and funeral clothing costs of condemned prisoners, while bribes were paid to officials present at the gallows, sometimes leading to an unfortunate situation in which corpses not legally given over for dissection were taken anyway.
The Doctor is frustrated until he remembers why he took the form of Caecilius: to always save someone, no matter what. He "breaks the rules" and modifies two chips from the Mire's helmets, one which he implants in Ashildr, and the other he gives to her father for later use. The chip rapidly regenerates Ashildr's body and she regains consciousness. As they leave, the Doctor tells Clara he fears he gave Ashildr a fate worse than death as the chip will never fail, effectively making her immortal and alone.
The Master (1914), by Carlos Bonvalot, shows an Anatomy lesson in the early 20th century The growth of medical science and medical practice created an increased demand for human cadavers for use in medical colleges, particularly for anatomy demonstrations. Before the 19th century, most were bodies of executed criminals or, more rarely, corpses donated by relatives. The reason being, having the body dissected after death was considered to be a fate worse than death. The Murder Act of 1752 permitted that the bodies of murderers be dissected after death to contribute to medical knowledge.
Shane escapes the prison soon after and Piper confesses that he knows that Shane killed Billy on purpose, heartbroken that his friend would do something so careless. Angus summons another group of zombies who turn out to be Shane's family, including his brother Troy, his nephew Nicky and his mother. Shane pleads with Angus to turn them back but when he is refused he tearfully makes the decision to kill his family members to spare them a fate worse than death. With Shane emotionally broken, Angus summons more zombies and Shane is finally overpowered and killed.
Breivik expressed hope at being declared sane in a letter sent to several Norwegian newspapers shortly before his trial, he wrote about the prospect of being sent to a psychiatric ward: "I must admit this is the worst thing that could have happened to me as it is the ultimate humiliation. To send a political activist to a mental hospital is more sadistic and evil than to kill him! It is a fate worse than death." On 8 June 2012, Professor of Psychiatry Ulrik Fredrik Malt testified in court as an expert witness, saying he found it unlikely that Breivik had schizophrenia.
Time to Depart is a 1995 historical mystery crime novel by Lindsey Davis and the seventh book of the Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries series. Set in Rome during AD 72, the novel stars Marcus Didius Falco, an informer and imperial agent. The title refers to the law which stated that no Roman citizen who had been sentenced to death might be arrested, even after the verdict, until he has been given time to depart, the idea being that for a Roman citizen to choose exile outside the boundaries of the Empire would have been a fate worse than death itself.
The British popular imagination portrayed the Limehouse district of London as a center of moral depravity and vice, i.e. sexual prostitution, opium smoking, and gambling. The popular press warned of the dangers of miscegenation, of Chinese men marrying British women as a racial threat to white Britain, and warned that Triad gangsters kidnapped British women into white slavery, "a fate worse than death" in Western popular culture. In 1914, at the start of the First World War, the Defense of the Realm Act was amended to include the smoking of opium as proof of moral depravity that merited deportation, a legalistic pretext for deporting the Chinese inhabitants of Britain.
Shortly after takeoff, both Blackadder and Baldrick are shot down by a German plane and captured by Baron von Richthofen (Adrian Edmondson), who wants to learn the subtleties of British humour. He informs them of their fate, which entails teaching home economics to young German girls in a convent outside Heidelberg, which the Baron thinks will be a fate worse than death to a British soldier; Blackadder feigns sorrow, but he is, of course, overjoyed. George, in the meantime, attempts to rescue Blackadder with the help of Darling and Melchett, but is informed that it would be pointless. He is shown a map showing the land they have recaptured – 17 square feet, in actual size.
The film is a tragedy based on a tawaif (courtesan) 'Anjuman' played by Rani,a "tawaiif" who flirts with the emotions of a wealthy Nawab Wahahat Ali (Santosh Kumar) and later falls in love with his younger brother Nawab Asif Ali played by Waheed Murad. In order to save his older brother's marriage, Asif decides to frequent Anjuman's "kotha" in an "exchange" demanded by Anjuman, although Asif being in love with another girl Nudrat (played by Deeba).Noorulain Zartaj (Sabiha Khanum) ,wife of Nawab Wajahat Ali, eventually implores Anjuman to forsake her own love so that Asif can live happily. At the end, Anjuman has to face a fate worse than death, where she is invited to sing at the wedding of her lover.
Ord was able to contact his homeworld to alert them that Colossus was also aboard, an event deliberately engineered by Agent Brand to draw Breakworld's forces away from Earth. When the S.W.O.R.D. starship was captured by the Breakworlders, Ord was taken prisoner, charged with the failure of his mission, a crime punishable by death.Astonishing X-Men #17 He meets his final fate trying to save Colossus from Aghanne, the rebellious prophet trying to use Colossus' organic metal body to rip off the energy core of the Breakworld, which would ultimately spell the planet's destruction. This was because in Aghanne's eyes living under the tyrannical rule of Kruun in a world that valued strength and violence over love and compassion is a fate worse than death itself.
The motives behind what would seem to be deliberate omissions from the trial record, and the statements ascribed to Mallin, would indicate that there were some old scores to settle with Mallin; not least from Mallin's former career in the British Army; and this was an opportunity to settle that score.[9] Irish Times (6 July), article by Frank McNally – An Irishman's Diary. A fate worse than death the court-martial of Michael Mallin This court-martial record [4] in itself was a double edged sword designed to discredit Mallin and at the same time indict Countess Markievicz by providing evidence that would confirm her execution. General Maxwell, newly appointed Commander-in-Chief of British Army in Ireland, had already expressed his own motives for wanting to execute Markievicz.
John Kubikek of BuddyTV wrote that the episode "delivered everything fans could've hoped for", remarking that it didn't end in an unsatisfying manner like The Sopranos finale. Writing for The A.V. Club, Steven Hyden gave the episode an "A" rating; he praised the ultimate fate of Vic Mackey, calling it "a stone cold masterstroke: predictable only retrospect, darkly comic, and the only possible fate for a man too clever to get caught and too damned to ever escape his demons", likening him to a castrated bull suffering a fate worse than death. In 2011, the finale was ranked #20 on the TV Guide Network special, TV's Most Unforgettable Finales. Noted television critic Alan Sepinwall ranked the finale #1 on his list of best series finales, in TV (The Book): Two Experts Pick the Greatest American Shows of All Time.
At the time of the NCAA sanctions, one columnist had characterized them (scholarship restrictions, a bowl ban, loss of revenue) as a fate "worse than death" for the Penn State football program - noncompetitiveness on the field. In addition to the expected damage to future recruiting from those sanctions, the NCAA had enacted a temporary exception to transfer rules which allowed current scholarship players to leave the tainted program. Only one high profile player left State College, and the football program did not experience a losing season between Paterno's firing and the first post-sanction bowl game. The football team posted winning records of 9-4 in 2011, 8-4 in 2012, 7-5 in 2013, and 7-6 in 2014. In 2015 the arrival of running back Saquon Barkley heralded 11 win seasons in 2016 and 2017.
With a roll of the dice, Death wins the lives of the crew members and Life-in- Death the life of the mariner, a prize she considers more valuable. Her name is a clue to the mariner's fate: he will endure a fate worse than death as punishment for his killing of the albatross. One by one, all of the crew members die, but the mariner lives on, seeing for seven days and nights the curse in the eyes of the crew's corpses, whose last expressions remain upon their faces: Eventually, this stage of the mariner's curse is lifted after he begins to appreciate the many sea creatures swimming in the water. Despite his cursing them as "slimy things" earlier in the poem, he suddenly sees their true beauty and blesses them ("A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware").
" A line from the song continues the theme of the previous song on Slow Train Coming, "Gotta Serve Somebody," stating that "You either got faith or you got unbelief and there ain't no neutral ground." In an echo of earlier songs such as "Positively 4th Street," Dylan later addresses his "so-called friends" who have "fallen under a spell" while thinking "all is well." their cluelessness further echoing Mr. Jones from 1965's "Ballad of a Thin Man." Dylan asks: :Can they imagine the darkness that will fall from on high :When men will beg God to kill them and they won’t be able to die? The notion of a fate worse than death has yet another biblical source, this time Book of Revelation 9:2 which states "In those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die and death shall flee from them.
Handsome young Jeffrey Wynne has just rescued pretty young Peg Ralston from a "fate worse than death"; she thought she was going to attend a French acting school, but soon learns that it is the "school for the French King's private brothel". Wynne was hired by Peg's father Sir Mortimer Ralston to retrieve her, possibly without the knowledge of Sir Mortimer's mistress, Lavinia Cresswell (and her brother, dangerous swordsman Hamnet Tawnish), who would like nothing better than to see Peg put in Bedlam. Wynne's ordinary job is somewhat similar; he is a thief-taker under the direction of Sir John Fielding, a real-life personage who was in charge of the Bow Street Runners despite his blindness. Wynne and young Miss Ralston soon become involved in the mysterious murder of an ancient bawd who lives on London Bridge; the old woman seems to have no mark of violence upon her body, but what might be a fortune in jewels is missing.
In the context of health, social death—when the ailing person no longer has the consciousness to communicate with others—can occur.Deborah C. Reidy, Stigma is Social Death: Mental Health Consumers/Survivors Talk About Stigma In Their Lives, Alaska Mental Health Consumer WebStuart Waldman, Surviving a Fate Worse than Death: The Plight of the Homebound Elderly, Loss, Grief & Care: A Journal of Professional Practice Vol. 6, No. 4 (May 14, 1993), ISSN 8756-4610 Social death occurs during the progression of Alzheimer's disease and to patients rendered unconscious through palliative sedation (a type of end-of-life care) to reduce pain before an imminent death.Brian Garavaglia, Avoiding the Tendency to Medicalize the Grieving Process: Reconciliation Rather Than Resolution, The New Social Worker Online, Summer 2006Trish Williams, Death, Dying and Grieving, Losing Tom: A Documentary Film Employees who retire from their careers can experience another example of social death because of their removal from the daily work lives of co-workers.

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