fatalism
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In other hands, a film of such unadorned fatalism might seem useless, an exercise in emotional sadism.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
And so the chance has arrived at last, decades in the waiting, decades largely made up of frustration, false dawns and fatalism.
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026
It’s a luxury, a quantum leap, one that can save your imagination from a propensity to meek fatalism or received social patterns.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2025
But it cleared the fog of legal fatalism and said, at least, that the possibility of truth still has standing.
From Slate • Jun. 26, 2025
There was a dignity to her grief and an acceptance of the fait accompli—the fatalism that the pilot’s wife must beget whenever her mate forsakes her for his aircraft.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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