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Example sentences for "fatalistic"

Lexicographically close words:
fatal; fatale; fatalest; fatalism; fatalist; fatalities; fatality; fatall; fatally; fate
  1. The Russian was shaking his head with a fatalistic expression.

  2. It is war, inevitable war," said the populace with a fatalistic expression.

  3. And he accepted these words with a fatalistic shrug.

  4. This facility in dying is partly due to their fatalistic philosophy, and partly it is the effect of climate.

  5. Sprenger, the historian is more fatalistic than most Sunnis.

  6. This fatalistic element is a leading feature in the Nights.

  7. To make creation eternal and necessary is to dethrone God and to enthrone a fatalistic development.

  8. Sin is simply a falling short, accounted for by the weakness and shortsightedness of man, inevitable in the fatalistic universe, or not remembered in wrath by the indulgent and merciful Father.

  9. Evolution is a fact, but it is only fatalistic evolution.

  10. Temporarily, then, the fatalistic strain is uppermost both in the philosophy and the poetry of the rising young author; and to make matters worse, his is the fatalism of pessimistic despair: Fate is forsworn against man.

  11. Rhodes replied vaguely as to the wisdom of Tio Polonio, for the girl was giving him the point of view of the peon, longing for freedom, yet fatalistic as the desert born ever are.

  12. He found himself more affected by that brave fatalistic recital, now loud and brave, now weirdly slow and tender, than if she had given way to tempests of tears.

  13. For the mass of the people, one can only wonder at their cheerfulness and realize what a really old and overcrowded country is and how Buddhism and stoic fatalistic cheerfulness develop.

  14. But one cannot always remain the same--one must change a little sometimes," replied Katenka, who had an inveterate habit of pleading some such fatalistic necessity whenever she did not know what else to say.

  15. The fatalistic formula with which I had concluded (and which was one that I often heard Nicola utter during my childhood) always produced in me, at the more difficult crises of my life, a momentarily soothing, beneficial effect.

  16. Blanquette relapsed into her fatalistic attitude towards life and seemed to dismiss the disastrous subject from her mind.

  17. Blanquette shrugged her shoulders and spoke in her dull fatalistic way.

  18. It may be said that this is a fatalistic theory, and leads to a mild inactivity; but the question rather is whether it is true, whether it is attested by experience.

  19. I am very fatalistic about writing; one is given a certain thing to say, and the power to say it; it does not come by effort, but by a pleasant felicity.

  20. What wonder if one grows fatalistic about writing; that one feels that one can only say what is given one to say!

  21. Its individuals and its children will survive, and the whole process is not nearly so fatalistic as the Marxists would have us believe.

  22. She was extraordinarily affected by the mere sight of the immense multitude of children; they were as helpless and as fatalistic as sheep, utterly at the mercy of the adults who had herded them.

  23. Mrs. Lessways had contracted a severe cold in the head, a malady to which she was subject and which she accepted with fatalistic submission, even pleasurably giving herself up to it, as a martyr to the rack.

  24. Since the singular hysterical embrace in the twilight of the kitchen, she had felt for her mother a curious, kind, forbearing, fatalistic indulgence.

  25. Everywhere it fosters the fatalistic mood of mind.

  26. When you have successfully crossed without serious accident a few hundred bridges of this kind you learn to be as cool and fatalistic as your yamstchik.

  27. Though generally fearless and fatalistic in a higher degree, they could not entirely overlook the dangers of the Steppe, and many of them preferred to encounter the hard work of the forest region.

  28. Their fatalistic belief in the "perhaps" (avos') came here to their aid.

  29. It is not at all strange, therefore, that the farmer feels drawn to fatalistic interpretations of experience which he carries over to lines of thought other than those connected with his business.

  30. Contact with nature is so close and constant that when spiritual insight is lacking there is bound to be a fatalistic and brutalizing tendency.

  31. I saw the Turkish owner and several of his sons looking on in fatalistic calm at about the outside edge of the ring of light, and it occurred to me to ask a question.

  32. He aimed a fourth blow, taking his time about it and making sure of his aim, and I waited in the nearest approach to fatalistic calm I ever experienced.

  33. Frankly and modestly, yet with a sort of fatalistic assurance, he discusses the kind of man he thinks himself to have become since he lost those potatoes.

  34. Generally, however, he infused his own courage into all who served under him with a touch, perhaps, of his own fatalistic mysticism.

  35. Those who made his acquaintance were fascinated by the charm of manner which he could always exert when he chose, and were confirmed in their hopes by his evident susceptibility to the magnetism of new ideas and fatalistic ambitions.

  36. Philip himself, in spite of his anxiety, could not help being amused at the quaint figure of the little shepherd with his wizened face and gentle, vaguely fatalistic manner.

  37. True enough, nothing is more abhorrent or more deadly to the striving soul of man than to be bound in a fatalistic doctrine.

  38. The only truly fatalistic systems which have had an important influence in the history of mankind, have been certain religious systems--the Christian religion among them.

  39. Nothing is as fatal as an accident; no universe as fatalistic as an accidental universe.

  40. Mercedes seemed to accept with fatalistic hopelessness a last and crowning misfortune.

  41. As Gale accepted a strange and fatalistic foreshadowing of toil, blood, and agony in this desert journey, so he believed in Mercedes's ultimate freedom and happiness, and his own return to the girl who had grown dearer than life.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fatalistic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.