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  • In line with our family's fatalistic attitude, we stayed put.†   (source)
  • We sit silently, listening to the rain on the thatched roof, a numb, damp, fatalistic feeling among us.†   (source)
  • And at the same time he felt a fatalistic certainty that he would not be coming back from this trip.†   (source)
  • I could see Terry becoming more fatalistic about our predicament.†   (source)
  • He was fatalistic about it.†   (source)
  • As she thought about it, several more examples of fatalism occurrd to her.†   (source)
  • But they seldom attracted the best black players; and since the early 1970s the Ole Miss football team has had about it a delicious fatalism.†   (source)
  • The men all knew that they would be imprisoned for some time, and this fate was accepted with what to a Westerner would be surprising fatalism.†   (source)
  • From youthful enthusiasm he had moved to a position that he himself defined as fatalistic humanism: "Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain."†   (source)
  • It did not make him happy, but it did bring him a certain fatalistic acceptance.†   (source)
  • His father's words carried futility, a sense of fatalism that left the boy with an empty feeling in his chest.†   (source)
  • There was just something about him, some sad foreshadowing that was almost fatalistic.†   (source)
  • Though he soon discovered otherwise, he was too proud or too fatalistic to attempt to correct his mistake.†   (source)
  • He'd brought his mother here, prevailing over her own fatalism and his wife's practical misgivings.†   (source)
  • Somewhere in my fatalism I had expected to die, accidentally, and never have the chance to walk up the stairs in the auditorium and gracefully receive my hard-earned diploma.†   (source)
  • 'Why can't you be a fatalist about it the way I am?†   (source)
  • People who refused fatalism because they could invent small resources insisted on culpability.†   (source)
  • In addition, some believe that John Kennedy's personal tragedies—the death of his brother and of his infant child, and his own brushes with death—have given him a fatalistic attitude.†   (source)
  • But his grim fatalism had not left him.†   (source)
  • Fatalism.†   (source)
  • A driver here must embrace fatalism, she writes, otherwise he "could never summon up enough courage to drive an overloaded, badly balanced, and mechanically imperfect jeep along track where for hours on end one minor misjudgement could send the vehicle hurtling hundreds of feet into the Indus.†   (source)
  • I wasn't surprised; I had become fatalistic.†   (source)
  • It was as if a reserve of hope had been found in the recesses of his own destructive fatalism.†   (source)
  • The most brash of peoples was seized by despair, fatalism, and fear.†   (source)
  • I think I am pretty much of a fatalist.†   (source)
  • And I suppose it's very advanced of you to have accepted my mortality so fatalistically—everything dies, blah, blah—but how do you think that makes me feel?†   (source)
  • My attitude was becoming more and more fatalistic and hopeless.†   (source)
  • She busrode and walked on into the lightening morning, giving herself up to a fatalism rare for her.†   (source)
  • Dr. King and Dick Gregory became almost fatalistic in accepting the fact that they were dead men and that it was only a matter of time before that fact became a reality.†   (source)
  • But with me the fatalism was bogus; I cared very much about the world and wished to renounce nothing.†   (source)
  • With eyes blue and shimmering, yet serious and fatalistic, he described a German soldier's head rising above a rooftop ledge, how he waited until he could see the German's whole head, until he could see the face was young and unlined.†   (source)
  • BERENGER: That's fatalism.†   (source)
  • "Oh, I always get seasick!" cried the young wife in fatalistic enthusiastic tones, only distantly watching the baby, who, although he stretched his little hand against the glass, was not being kidnaped now.†   (source)
  • If someone did an unforgiveable thing, like touching one of the King's women, he would submit fatalistically to punishment, which was likely to be impalement over an ant heap on a stake, or something equally unpleasant.†   (source)
  • She doesn't worry about such things. She has a fatalistic attitude.
  • She looked at Stilgar, saw his fatalism, knew how the fight had seemed to him.†   (source)
  • "The children are awake too," the Indian said with her fatalistic conviction.†   (source)
  • He grew more fatalistic about it, each time.†   (source)
  • Fatalism is the belief that whatever happens is predestined.†   (source)
  • In both these areas the Greeks were great believers in fatalism.†   (source)
  • And Owen's particular brand of fatalism would have been challenging for a good psychiatrist;.†   (source)
  • Harlon confessed the same fatalistic thoughts to Leo as he had to the others.†   (source)
  • Then a kind of fatalistic apathy had settled in as certain emotional circuits quietly shut themselves down.†   (source)
  • His sister stayed because her fatalistic heart told her that the lethal sickness would follow her, no matter what, to the farthest corner of the earth.†   (source)
  • She is solicitous of him, tender almost, yet there is something cringing about her, as if she's waiting for a slap, a kick, a flat-handed blow, which she knows with dreary fatalism will surely come sooner or later.†   (source)
  • At that very same moment, the thieves disappeared, and the only sound Mr. van D. could hear was the frightened pounding of his fatalistic wife's heart.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Beaverbrook, the fatalist, practically burst into tears and said in a timid little voice, "Oh, it's so awful.†   (source)
  • And so they drove half the night, at first morose and then angry and then fatalistic and then plain shaking scared, chests tight with the knowledge of how little it would take to make the thing happen—the first night on earth when the Unthinkable crept up over the horizon line and waited in an animal squat, and all the time they drove they heard the keening of that undisguisable Jewish voice repeating the line that had made them bust their guts laughing, astonishingly, only a few hours earlier.†   (source)
  • By the end of the first week in August, his mood had turned fatalistic: "Well I was offered another chance to go to communication school and be promoted fast and get away from this rough life.†   (source)
  • If he decided to grow cotton for the first time, cotton slumped that year, and if there was a swarm of locusts, then he took it for granted, with a kind of angry but determined fatalism, that they would make straight for his most promising patch of mealies.†   (source)
  • It was all in keeping with his profound fatalism.†   (source)
  • With an insane fatalism they had surrendered to the savage chaos of life.†   (source)
  • He made no doubt that the ugly word "fatalism" would be applied to what he said.†   (source)
  • I had said nothing of the kind and, what's more, am not a fatalist.†   (source)
  • Surely Bon could not have corrupted her to fatalism in twelve days, who not only had not tried to corrupt her to unchastity but not even to defy her father.†   (source)
  • In the rife, pinkwomansmelling, obscurity behind the curtain he squatted, pinkfoamed, listening to his insides, waiting with astonished fatalism for what was about to happen to him.†   (source)
  • It's a fact," the Boss admitted ruefully, lifting his face under the light, and shaking his head in fatalistic sadness.†   (source)
  • You're like me, you're a fatalist.'†   (source)
  • But it was in the nature of things that the initial shock of their arrival should have left them with slender reserves either of indignation or astonishment; even Mallinson, after his first outburst, subsided into a mood of half-bewildered fatalism.†   (source)
  • But something held him, as the fatalist can always be held: by curiosity, pessimism, by sheer inertia.†   (source)
  • she would quit the kitchen from time to time and search the rooms downstairs until she found that little strange lonely boy sitting quietly on a straight hard chair in the dim and shadowy library or parlor, with his four names and his sixteenth-part black blood and his expensive esoteric Fauntleroy clothing who regarded with an aghast fatalistic terror the grim coffee-colored woman who would come on bare feet to the door and look in at him, who gave him not teacakes but the coarsest cornbread spread with as coarse molasses (this surreptitiously, not that the mother or the duenna might object, but because the household did not have food for eating between meals), gave it to him, thrust i†   (source)
  • Not just the outside, the way he walked and talked and wore his clothes and handed Ellen into the dining room or into the carriage and (perhaps, probably) kissed her hand and which Ellen envied for Henry, but the man himself—that fatalistic and impenetrable imperturbability with which he watched them while he waited for them to do whatever it would be that they would do, as if he had known all the while that the occasion would arise when he would have to wait and that all he would need to do would be to wait; that he had seduced Henry and Judith both too thoroughly to have any fear that he might not marry Judith when he wished to.†   (source)
  • He rode to the River with Bon and then returned; after a time Sutpen returned home too, from where and for what purpose none were to know until the next Christmas, and that summer passed, the last summer, the last summer of peace and content, with Henry, doubtless without deliberate intent, pleading Bon's suit far better than Bon, than that indolent fatalist had ever bothered to plead it himself, and Judith listening with that serenity, that impenetrable tranquillity which a year or so before had been the young girl's vague and pointless and dreamy unvolition but was now already a mature woman's—a mature woman in love—repose.†   (source)
  • off the boat in New Orleans, which Henry had never seen before (whose entire cosmopolitan experience, apart from his sojourn at the school, consisted probably of one or two trips to Memphis with his father to buy live stock or slaves) and had no time to look at now—Henry who knew yet did not believe, and Bon whom Mr Compson had called a fatalist but who, according to Shreve and Quentin, did not resist Henry's dictum and design for the reason that he neither knew or cared what Henry intended to do because he had long since realised that he did not know yet what he himself was going to do, —four of them who sat in that drawing room of baroque and fusty magnificence which Shreve had invente†   (source)
  • needed watching, because Sutpen must have known about the probation too, what Henry was doing now: holding all three of them—himself and Judith and Bon—in that suspension while he wrestled with his conscience to make it come to terms with what he wanted to do just like his father had that time more than thirty years ago, maybe even turned fatalist like Bon now and giving the war a chance to settle the whole business by killing him or Bon or both of them (but with no help, no fudging, on his part because it was him that carried Bon to the rear after Pittsburg Landing) or maybe he knew that the South would be whipped and then there wouldn't be anything left that mattered that much, wort†   (source)
  • of scuppernong claret or bought champagne; —music, the nightly repetitive last waltz as the days passed and the company waited to move, the brave trivial glitter against a black night not catastrophic but merely background, the perennial last scented spring of youth; and Judith not there and Henry the romantic not there and Bon the fatalist, hidden somewhere, the watcher and the watched: and the recurrent flower-laden dawns of that April and May and June filled with bugles, entering a hundred windows where a hundred still unbrided widows dreamed virgin unmeditant upon the locks of black or brown or yellow hair and Judith not one of these: and five of the company, mounted, with groom†   (source)
  • Perhaps in his fatalism he loved Henry the better of the two, seeing perhaps in the sister merely the shadow, the woman vessel with which to consummate the love whose actual object was the youth: —this cerebral Don Juan who, reversing the order, had learned to love what he had injured; perhaps it was even more than Judith or Henry either: perhaps the life, the existence, which they represented.†   (source)
  • For four years now I have given chance the opportunity to renounce for me, but it seems that I am doomed to live, that she and I both are doomed to live, —the defiance and the ultimatum delivered beside a bivouac fire, the ultimatum discharged before the gate to which the two of them must have ridden side by side almost: the one calm and undeviating, perhaps unresisting even, the fatalist to the last; the other remorseless with implacable and unalterable grief and despair " (It seemed to Quentin that he could actually see them, facing one another at the gate.†   (source)
  • It came to him, and he accepted it with a sort of eager fatalism.†   (source)
  • Her early, somewhat Bohemian training had made her something of a fatalist.†   (source)
  • She handed her feelings over to the actors with a kind of fatalistic resignation.†   (source)
  • But I am something of a fatalist, like all good Orientals, and I entered ready, for anything.†   (source)
  • Like the animals, though no philosopher, he was, without knowing it, practically a fatalist.†   (source)
  • Then Captain and crew become practical fatalists.†   (source)
  • I'm no fatalist.†   (source)
  • Chapter 12 Miss Bart had in fact been treading a devious way, and none of her critics could have been more alive to the fact than herself; but she had a fatalistic sense of being drawn from one wrong turning to another, without ever perceiving the right road till it was too late to take it.†   (source)
  • As Tess's own people down in those retreats are never tired of saying among each other in their fatalistic way: "It was to be."†   (source)
  • Those whose eyes twenty-five and more years before had seen "the glory of the coming of the Lord," saw in every present hindrance or help a dark fatalism bound to bring all things right in His own good time.†   (source)
  • But that's fatalism.'†   (source)
  • She did not think of the future or plan to meet it; she lived in the present and felt the encroaching of an old morbid and fatalistic mood, long a stranger to her.†   (source)
  • There was about Alexandra something of the impervious calm of the fatalist, always disconcerting to very young people, who cannot feel that the heart lives at all unless it is still at the mercy of storms; unless its strings can scream to the touch of pain.†   (source)
  • Archer raised his eyebrows enquiringly at Nastasia, who raised hers in return with a fatalistic "Gia!" as she threw open the drawing-room door.†   (source)
  • This deep religious fatalism, painted so beautifully in "Uncle Tom," came soon to breed, as all fatalistic faiths will, the sensualist side by side with the martyr.†   (source)
  • Her naturally bright intelligence had begun to admit the fatalistic convictions common to field-folk and those who associate more extensively with natural phenomena than with their fellow-creatures; and she accordingly drifted into that passive responsiveness to all things her lover suggested, characteristic of the frame of mind.†   (source)
  • The chances of his returning to find Milly safe and well were very much greater than otherwise; yet he could not forget the last few moments they had been together, when under stress of fear and sorrow she had betrayed Jett's real status and her own fatalism.†   (source)
  • They were generous young souls; they had been reared in the lonely country nooks where fatalism is a strong sentiment, and they did not blame her.†   (source)
  • Later days transfigured his fatalism, and amid the dust and dirt the toiler sang: "Dust, dust and ashes, fly over my grave, But the Lord shall bear my spirit home."†   (source)
  • This deep religious fatalism, painted so beautifully in "Uncle Tom," came soon to breed, as all fatalistic faiths will, the sensualist side by side with the martyr.†   (source)
  • On a previous occasion when he had declared during a fuddle that he would dispose of her as he had done, she had replied that she would not hear him say that many times more before it happened, in the resigned tones of a fatalist...."Yet she knows I am not in my senses when I do that!" he exclaimed.†   (source)
  • Oh, shall I then, again become a fatalist, whom fourteen years of despair and ten of hope had rendered a believer in providence?†   (source)
  • If I could convince myself that I have any right to be satisfied with men as they are, and to treat them accordingly, and not according, in some respects, to my requisitions and expectations of what they and I ought to be, then, like a good Mussulman and fatalist, I should endeavor to be satisfied with things as they are, and say it is the will of God.†   (source)
  • We are forced to fall back on fatalism as an explanation of irrational events (that is to say, events the reasonableness of which we do not understand).†   (source)
  • While exploring on horseback at one o'clock on the preceding night, in storm and rain, in company with Bertrand, the communes in the neighborhood of Rossomme, satisfied at the sight of the long line of the English camp-fires illuminating the whole horizon from Frischemont to Braine-l'Alleud, it had seemed to him that fate, to whom he had assigned a day on the field of Waterloo, was exact to the appointment; he stopped his horse, and remained for some time motionless, gazing at the lightning and listening to the thunder; and this fatalist was heard to cast into the darkness this mysterious saying, "We are in accord."†   (source)
  • What was Hans thinking of—that man of the far West, but who seemed ruled by the fatalist doctrines of the East?†   (source)
  • A new outbreak of laughter, while Mrs. Poyser was speaking, was caused, less by her sudden conversion to a fatalistic view of jug-breaking than by that strange appearance of Hetty, which had startled her aunt.†   (source)
  • As the frantic old man thus spoke and thus trampled with his live and dead feet, a sneering triumph that seemed meant for Ahab, and a fatalistic despair that seemed meant for himself—these passed over the mute, motionless Parsee's face.†   (source)
  • He shrugged, with a fatalistic acceptance of the inevitabilities of life.†   (source)
  • One thing to be said for life in the Highlands was that it apparently gave one a certain fatalistic attitude.†   (source)
  • Though I'd never told this to my mother and went to church regularly to please her, I'd grown up a fatalist with little faith.†   (source)
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