fatalism
Example Sentences
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Cotton's outlook is a similar mix of faith and fatalism, tested by experience.
From BBC
For his part, Youra has advice for those who are suffering from the same sort of fatalism that he once felt.
From Washington Post
Yet in the trenches he wrote poetry of bitter fatalism, and by the war’s third year he had grown so disillusioned he could not hold his tongue.
From New York Times
He maintained a soldier’s fatalism after avoiding a violent death that always seemed to be stalking him as Islamic militants twice targeted him for assassination.
From Seattle Times
This may result, in part, from the media’s focus on disasters rather than solutions, which can make many people feel a sense of hopelessness or fatalism.
From Scientific American
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