fatalism

How To Use fatalism In A Sentence

• School violence is being assimilated into the broader sense of fatalism and passivity about the perpetration of violence in our nation and in our world.
• I learned the word fatalism at a young age and after I got over the idea that it meant something about death, I grew very attached to it. The Kitchen Daughter
• The bluesy southern stomp of Beautiful Sorta, with its restless energy and reckless singing, is doused in drink and James Dean fatalism, and finds Adams flailing around for the arms of a good woman to cling to.
• Within this awareness there is both fatalism and intense emotion.
• The play is one of the most potent amalgams of the Bard's keen psychological observation, tragic fatalism, and bitingly intelligent verbal and conceptual humor.
• In such circumstances, cynicism, passivity and a sense of fatalism can influence public attitudes.
• Fifth, there is a streak of melancholia in the English imagination, which can easily slide into a condition of fatalism.
• Their fatalism is tempered only by the drivers' acknowledgement that the need for speed is stronger than the instinct for self-preservation.
• What we call fatalism," M. Bergson says, "is only the revenge of nature on man's will when the mind puts too much strain upon the flesh or acts as if it did not exist. Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air
• This book is an antidote to fatalism and provides up to date clinical, microbiological, and public health guidance on responding to possible bioterrorist attacks.