Sentence examples for fatalism on from inspiring English sources

The second, "Urne-Buriall," published in 1658, has Browne musing, with strangely uplifting fatalism, on some Anglo-Saxon urns found in nearby Norfolk.

If Cavafy's poem blamed national inaction and a too-easy fatalism on a long and tortuous history of invasion from without, León seemed intent on exploring ways to survive this period of gloom and impasse from within.

Listen to the four-way Camp David of fatalism on Mobb Deep's "Eye for an Eye (Your Beef Is Mines)" — Prodigy, Havoc, Nas and Raekwon make the dead-end life of crime sound just as cool as Chandler and Pelecanos do.

While Aristotle argued against a version of fatalism (On Interpretation, ch. 9), he may not have recognized the difference between it and the related possible threat of causal determinism.

Still another reason is a sense of fatalism on the part of some observers.

The show bypassed the kitchen-sink realism of "Hill Street Blues" and the operatic fatalism of "Homicide: Life on the Street".

In fact, the 1990 film version chickened out on the fatalism of the conclusion, though David Wood's theatrical adaptation remains faithful to the extremely bitter end.

We are in the birth-throes of a global move beyond "capitalism", beyond "communism", beyond the fatalism of understandings based on ignorance, superstition and divisive belief systems (theories, ideologies).

Although its elements point towards nailbiting tension, this isn't so much what Lift to the Scaffold is about; it draws more on the blanket fatalism of film noir rather than the savage irony so often associated with the genre.

There was a sense of fatalism to the attacks, one of dozens this week on pilgrims that the Shiite-led government grimly predicted but was powerless to stop.

The gloom and doom may be less poetically realized, but the combination of British eccentricity, fatalism and steady-on pluck remains irresistibly intact.