fatalism

Example Sentences

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Science is also a source of both the bleak fatalism and the Platonic idealism that run through his fiction.

From Scientific American

There was a “fatalism” in fighting fires in Canada, said one French commander: Fighting them often meant letting them burn, especially in thinly populated areas, and trying to stop them from spreading.

From New York Times

A sense of stubborn fatalism runs through those who have chosen to stay, including Ms. Luhova, who says: “The people here need me.”

From New York Times

For Vera and her sister — and young people everywhere — the ordinary trials of growing up are roasted by scientific and political fatalism like the world has never known.

From Washington Post

Foreign leaders have watched him bounce back from so many disasters, according to diplomats and foreign policy experts, that they now regard his political resilience with something approaching fatalism.

From New York Times