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
The fatalism, the quarter of a century of not contending, the grinding down of expectation.
From BBC • Feb. 6, 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
O’Meara’s children believe she may have harbored a sense of fatalism about what was coming.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2025
People who refused fatalism because they could invent small resources insisted on culpability.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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