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

One that refuses both fatalism and false neutrality.

From Salon • Jun. 29, 2025

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

Somewhere in my fatalism I had expected to die, accidentally, and never have the chance to walk up the stairs in the auditorium and gracefully receive my hard-earned diploma.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou