Sentence examples for fatalistic mood from inspiring English sources

An anxious, fatalistic mood permeates newsrooms, journalists' watering holes, and expense-account lunch spots.

The wit is mordant, the language honed, the status calibration elegantly exact — and it all enriches the fatalistic mood.

Its fatalistic mood is set in an opening monologue in which she recalls a miserable childhood whose emptiness she filled with cheap fantasies of stardom and true love.

The emotion (or is it instinct?) conveyed by the luminous foundling in Katherine Dieckmann's debut film, "A Good Baby," is the driving force in a movie that has the structure and fatalistic mood of an Appalachian folk ballad.

Wallander's fatalistic mood intensifies when a life raft drifts ashore on a provincial town beach carrying two dead men from an Eastern bloc country, their bodies "tortured pretty comprehensively," as Laurie Thompson's fastidious translation puts it.

With its fatalistic mood and enigmatic, carefully layered symbolism applied to a realistic setting, the cycle suggests a broader, more balanced and cosmopolitan descendant of Ingmar Bergman's anguished soundings of the soul in its dark night.

The troubled answers about the campaign against terrorism at home and abroad conveyed a similar fatalistic, slightly cranky mood.

Both have tasted celebrity, and as they sink into obscurity and despair, the film sustains a mood of fatalistic sadness.

Together they distill the verve of that cosmopolitan city, and the mood of fatalistic nostalgia that has long defined classical Chinese painting.

When the subject turns to death, the mood shifts from gloomy to fatalistic.

"We're all resolved to the probability that's she's not going to win New Hampshire, and the mood has turned very despondent — fatalistic, probably," one of Mrs. Clinton's leading fund-raisers and supporters said on Monday on condition of anonymity.