fate-like

Crazy fate-like things happen, and it's beyond bizarre.

I'm Not Crazy, But I Do A Damn Fine Impression Of It emu-head 2007

The forces which act according to these laws, and the various forms of the so-called _matter_, or concrete forces, are often spoken of as if they were blind agencies and existences, acting by an inherent fate-like power of their own.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Various

Against this fate-like division of the world Russia is going to contend and fight whenever she gets a chance.

The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 Joseph Wild

The expression of the creatures was watchful, still, grave, passionless, fate-like, suggesting a cold malignity that seemed to be waiting for its opportunity.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various

'The expression of the creatures,' he writes, 'was watchful, still, grave, passionless, fate-like, suggesting a cold malignity which seemed to be waiting for its opportunity.

Nature's Serial Story Edward Payson Roe 1863

The expression of the creatures was watchful, still, grave, passionless, fate-like, suggesting a cold malignity which seemed to be waiting for its opportunity.

Elsie Venner Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

The expression of the creatures was watchful, still, grave, passionless, fate-like, suggesting a cold malignity which seemed to be waiting for its opportunity.

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

This American Life Producer Alex Blumberg and his wife, Nazanin Rafsanjani, reveal the subject of their first fight: They were in love, walking in the park, when Nazanin asked him if it felt like fate-like she was the only one for him.

This American Life 2010