A sense of fatalism came over him, as of one doomed.
Young Gourlay was yielding to a peculiar fatalism of minds diseased: all that affects them seems different from all that affects everybody else; they are even proud of their separate and peculiar doom.
The fear felt by most people of the doctrine that denies the freedom of the will is a fear of the fatalism of the Turk.
The fatalism of the Turk has this fundamental defect, that it contrasts man and fate as two distinct things.
Can Mussulman fatalism fit in with a real effort on the road to progress?
If some criticisms are justified by the way in which fatalism is understood by certain followers of the Murabitun, it has never possessed the importance ascribed to it.
I see in the march of society a plan, a harmony, but not a blind necessity; I do not believe that events are mingled up together indiscriminately in the dark urn of destiny, nor that fatalism holds the world enclosed in an iron circle.
He had made this tank his home, and with that fatalism which is so characteristic of the Hindoo, the usual ablutions and bathings went on as if no such monster existed.
As an instance of their fatalism or apathetic indolence, I can remember a village on the estate I was managing taking fire.
Slavery and concubinage and, nearly everywhere, polygamy and divorce are fearfully common and fatalism has paralysed enterprise.
As for fatalism paralysing enterprise there, perhaps it does to a certain extent, but it cannot compare with our own organised strikes in that direction.
In America the Marxist fatalism has found a sort of supreme simplification in the gospel of Mr. H.
Such a fatalism is morally bad for the adherent; it releases him from the inspiring sense of uncertain victory, it leads him to believe the stars in their courses will do his job for him.
The man had an odd streak of fatalism in his nature--that will have come of his Southern blood--and it came to him now in his need.
Marie had occasion to be grateful for the Southern blood that was in him, the strong tinge of fatalism which is common alike to Latin and to Oriental.
But, for all that, they have been inoculated with far too strong a dose of Western culture, religion, and habits of thought to display the apathy or submit to the fatalism which characterises the conduct of the true Eastern.
Whether we are dealing with science or with history we must beware of the ignorance which takes shelter under the shibboleth of fatalism Nature was formerly full of a host of fatalities which science is slowly contriving to avoid.
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The Theory of Fatalism in respect of the Revolution.
Their doctrines were by no means complicated; a historic fatalism prevails generally in their work.
The fatalism of his resignation accepted a like ending for himself and Ora Pinsent.
They wait to have the situation ended for them from without; a sort of fatalism gains sway over them and is intensified by every growth of the difficulty in which they find themselves.
It is as consistent with fatalism as could be desired by the most extravagant supporters of that odious system.
The stern and unrelenting features of fatalism cannot always be so intimately present to the mind, as entirely to exclude it from the contemplation of a milder and more captivating system of philosophy.
Had we possessed the blind fatalism of our grandmothers, we should probably have suffered less, but with culture, as so often happens, we began to doubt the wisdom of the Faith which should have been our consolation.
It is only since I have seen other Governments and other peoples that I can fully realise the passionate fatalism of the Turks.
Syncretism in religion andfatalism in politics--these were the twin symptoms of the decay of faith among the upper classes in Jerusalem.
He needed all her assistance and all her loyalty in these new conjunctures hisfatalism had already accepted.
Though Mr Verloc’s fatalism accepted his undoing as a secret agent, he had no mind to be utterly ruined, mostly, it must be owned, from regard for his wife.
They are often found holding positions of great responsibility, but in all mattersfatalism seems to play a strange rôle in their life.
Its chief characteristics are love of solitude, prudence, quiet determination, the study of serious sombre things, the belief in fatalism and in the ultimate destiny of all things.
But the contradiction disappears when we reflect that so necessary is authority to man that he will bow to fatalism or force if he has no legitimate authority to which to turn.
These are made to harmonize with the fatalism which bears all men along with irresistible energy, the reprobate to perdition, the redeemed to blessedness.
To beings under moral government, personal agency is essential; but Calvinistic fatalism reduces all agency to that of the Deity alone.
Supposing the doctrine of Calvinistic fatalism to be correct, no explanation can be given of the general tenor of Divine revelation, none which can be made to harmonize with that doctrine.
He was impelled by his creed of morbid fatalism to seek this test, whereby his fate might be sharply decided.
In his gloomy fatalism he thought that the wrath of the gods pursued him for the neglect of his duty to his murdered brother, and he submitted to the failure of this adventure as the beginning of his punishment.
His belief in the value and weight of number is without recall; his absolute trust in what Bryce calls "the fatalism of multitude" is beyond appeal.
This certainly is not a blind adherence dictated by fear or fatalism as some would lead the unwary to believe; but rather, as St. Paul states, the reasonable subjugation of the mind .
Epikurus rejected the inexorable and all-comprehensive fatalism contained in the theories of some Stoics, though seemingly not construed in its full application even by them.
With a curious fatalism he began to dissect his emotions.
Leading the Arab, who, with the fatalism of his race, was quiet as a sheep now that he had found a master, the young officer took the direction pointed out by the lady.
He ceased to wonder at the indifference, the passivity, the fatalism, of these mysterious men amongst whom he lived; for he felt something of that fatalism invading himself.
Behind the fatalism of the common people lies the recognition that there is plan and perspective in their life too; such and such a thing is so because it must be so.
He was not afraid to consider the fate of the masses; when he could not see ahead, his old fatalism came to his help.
The unshakable fatalism which hitherto had kept them on their difficult path was shattered; the masses would no longer allow themselves to be held down in stupid resignation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fatalism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: determinism; election; stoicism
