How to Use fatalism in a Sentence

fatalism

noun

• Many people seem to have developed a sense of fatalism about the war.
• As the fatalism of Trumpism builds, even that might change.
  — al, 5 Oct. 2020
• The inability to see that and fatalism is what sets us up to be slaughtered the next time.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2023
• The machinery of the plot is propelled by a grim sense of lower-depth fatalism.
  — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2017
• The Afghan women saw the war with the fatalism of hard experience.
  — George Packer, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2022
• Protests in Iran often carry with them a grim sense of fatalism.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2022
• The constant threat of a sudden, brutal death has left many Afghans with a sense of despair and fatalism.
  — New York Times, 12 Jan. 2021
• Doomer lit doesn’t have to be dour—it is distinguished by its core fatalism rather than its tone.
  — Kate Knibbs, Wired, 17 Feb. 2020
• But its own breezy way, the episode does internalize a lot of King’s fatalism.
  — Noel Murray, The Verge, 27 July 2018
• Indeed, the show’s ace up its sleeve is its wicked (and, with its pitch-black fatalism, notably British) sense of humor.
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2023
• But by now there must be a sort of convulsive fatalism.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 9 Aug. 2017
• But the fatalism of this story is countered by the beauty of Mbue’s prose and the purity of her vision.
  — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2021
• From very early in his life, Einstein gave hints of a deep-seated streak of fatalism.
  — Thomas Levenson, The Atlantic, 9 June 2017
• For critics, that sort of fatalism is a key problem with aid-in-dying laws.
  — Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2019
• There are a couple of a rock ‘n’ roll interludes at the bar, and these scenes do a good job of breaking up the gumdrop fatalism.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 23 May 2023
• There is a curious mix of fatalism and hope in Miyazaki’s work.
  — New York Times, 23 Nov. 2021
• Writerly and raggedly stitched, SOS is a reminder of how fun fatalism can be.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 14 Dec. 2022
• And there is fatalism on the part of some physicians as well, which may keep them from mentioning screening.
  — Gail Rosenblum, Star Tribune, 19 Mar. 2021
• In the book, this lament alternates with hope stemming from figures who find the words and the moments to overcome this fatalism.
  — Nikil Saval, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2022
• The poetry of the image almost inspires you to lose sight of its fatalism.
  — New York Times, 13 May 2021
• This is bus-crash logic: the fatalism of knowing life’s fragility.
  — John Sherman, Longreads, 15 Sep. 2017
• But in most countries doubt has not yet slipped into fatalism.
  — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
• The show’s fatalism leaves the impression that suicide can’t be stopped, experts said.
  — Catherine Saint Louis, The Seattle Times, 1 May 2017
• But for so many of the people who live here — the people who’ve learned how to see what’s being lost — this is an occasion for fear, but not for fatalism.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2019
• Joel takes in the climax of the game—ingeniously underlined the fatalism of the plot, the notion that our futures are shaped by the traumas of our past.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 10 Jan. 2023
• In Paul, Courtney found a rakish, lovable Irish rogue, a man who had been to the depths of hell and made it back with his wicked black Belfast sense of humor and fatalism intact.
  — Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2019
• Joyce, 65, comes to this post with the right mix of uncontained optimism and total fatalism.
  — Paul Kane, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Dec. 2022
• Even several survivors of the stampede expressed more fatalism than anger for the tragedy.
  — Washington Post, 1 May 2021
• Filmed in snowy Vancouver and set to some of the most melancholy songs Leonard Cohen ever recorded, the film lets a sense of fatalism hang over even its lightest moments.
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2024
• Perhaps nothing is an expression of greater faith in her mother than this rejection of the fatalism that defined her.
  — Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024