fatalism
Example Sentences
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The idea that “there will be no victor or vanquished” is not poetic fatalism, it is empirical reality.
From Salon
A constitutionally cyclical outlook encouraged adaptability and sustainability rather than fatalism.
But if the movie’s just-so fatalism is less than galvanizing, it’s also soberly convincing.
And so the chance has arrived at last, decades in the waiting, decades largely made up of frustration, false dawns and fatalism.
From BBC
In the soporific Irish midlands, Marty Hawkins is reminded that “fields breed fatalism,” which suits his mood.
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