fated moment

Swift also dished about her Del Rey collab, “Snow on the Beach,” which captures the “cataclysmic, fated moment where you realize someone feels exactly the same way that you feel.”

It was as if each instant were a photograph, in an infinite cosmic flipbook, of a fated moment long passed.

It’s those wonky horns that reinforce the idea of the song as a single fated moment in time—an imperfectly perfect object found whole, dug out of the north Alabama dirt.

Can this art be really moribund, this Iphigenia, spreading her arms wide to receive the stroke, this Calchas, finger on lip, watching for the fated moment, this Perseus, this Ariadne!

From the moment, the fated moment, that Albert arrived to be her guide and her guard, he became so irresistibly the master of her heart, that her destiny was determined.