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

Today, realism tells us that the future will get worse before it might get better – and it can only get better if we reject fatalism and get on with organizing.

From Salon • Jun. 17, 2025

Maybe the rift in their relationship was the cause of Julian’s present state of fatalism and gloom.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques