fatalism

Example Sentences

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But if the movie’s just-so fatalism is less than galvanizing, it’s also soberly convincing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 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

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

Much of that has to do with the way he holds hope in one hand and fatalism in the other, but Cassian borrows plenty of sorrow from the people surrounding him.

From Salon • Apr. 22, 2025

That’s the kind of fatalism and pessimism typical of a repressive feudal system, where peasants have no reason to believe in the efficacy of their own work.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell