| Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. |
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| I am also surprised at the muted and fatalistic response so far from the local politicians. |
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| But Powell's fatalistic words do convey a career military man's appreciation of the arbitrary and capricious nature of war. |
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| Without the power to say no, all kinds of treachery is used and everyone involved becomes demoralized, cynical and fatalistic. |
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| For me, his best work are his fatalistic looks at uncomfortable, unavoidable love. |
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| I hate being so fatalistic, but I can't ignore the fear and tension bubbling up inside my mind right now. |
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| Osric brings Laertes' challenge to a fencing bout, which a fatalistic Hamlet, despite his forebodings, accepts. |
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| He created a low-budget, effectively fatalistic horror film about a man-made plague that wipes out humanity. |
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| At this stage, students look beyond fatalistic or cultural reasons for inequality to focus on structural, systemic explanations. |
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| Liitoja was definitely on the cranky side a few years ago when he came up with the title's fatalistic mouthful of words. |
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| The irrational fanatics might not heed to reason, but humanitarians must not become fatalistic and drop the guard of eternal vigilance. |
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| Without wanting to sound fatalistic, it's odd how your own warnings can sometimes trip you up. |
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| Audiences must have bought into the fatalistic inevitability of the plot devices. |
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| Contrary to what it might seem this is not a fatalistic or a pessimistic approach, but a realistic one. |
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| How many taunts, threats or downright abusive remarks have been reluctantly swallowed with a fatalistic shrug? |
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| A pessimistic attitude is an easy one to adopt, because it is passive, devoid of enthusiasm and fatalistic. |
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| Elements we interpret as romantically fatalistic must have seemed unbearably portentous immediately prior to the war. |
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| The objective has always been to ensure that no region is ever left behind in the name of a simplistic and fatalistic vision. |
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| As for a policy of risk-reduction, it could not do other than appear like fatalistic acceptance of the dangers. |
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| What a fatalistic comment, and what resignation, what contempt for the human condition! |
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| Faced with the difficulty of achieving real results, Member States sometimes cite cultural particularities to justify their fatalistic attitude. |
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| People who are fatalistic about accidents should look at the records made in many industries where carefulness has saved thousands of lives. |
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| It's my priority as leader to make sure we communicate to people that there is an alternative to a drab, fatalistic, neoliberal establishment. |
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| This is about avoiding a fatalistic approach to the future: about being proactive and provoking change, as much as anticipating it. |
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| To a degree, such fatalistic perceptions are also found among the indigenous Indian communities in Guatemala, Mexico and Peru. |
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| The rapporteur is of the opinion that a fatalistic outlook encourages drug abuse. |
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| Very many times we encounter a fatalistic attitude when faced with this powerful and allpervasive culture of secularism. |
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| Crises are explained by an increasing re-Islamization and the images of fatalistic Moslems who support violence are employed. |
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| The ceaseless thought that they are sinners has made many of them fatalistic. |
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| The Starks are fatalistic, duty-bound, honorable but kind of unsophisticated. |
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| Despite its fatalistic title, which suggests divine retribution, Nemesis is a realistic novel, not a parable. |
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| Nashe's attitude to his fate is fatalistic, he accepts that his freedom is taken from him and the building of the wall becomes a kind of atonement. |
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| Too much updating may be the tragic flaw here, as lines of dialogue clearly meant to signal fatalistic woe are delivered in knowing, modern tones that undermine the drama. |
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| The fatalistic quality of Javanese horoscopy is readily apparent in four different interpretations for Selasa Pon, which I have freely translated below. |
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| Finally, let us stop blaming parents and adopting a fatalistic attitude with respect to their potential to put aside their marital hostilities where children are involved. |
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| I reject the sceptical position and fatalistic view of those who think that fishing accidents are inevitable and that the victims of them are a price we have to pay to the sea. |
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| Therefore, one must not be fatalistic in the face of statistics. |
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| Most of all, these consultations demonstrate that NATO and Russia have not succumbed to the fatalistic logic of designating each other as permanent adversaries. |
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| Perhaps realism evinces no more than a resigned, even fatalistic, view of the role of self-interest in human interactions, both within and across national borders. |
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| That view may be hard to shift. Yet this argument is too fatalistic. |
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| So Cameron will have to get a grip, ditch under-performing ministers, cajole Osborne into a less fatalistic frame of mind and persuade voters he knows where he wants to take up. |
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| This being the situation, I have observed that some of the teams are becoming fatalistic and feel powerless, which is perhaps one of the factors behind the difficult labour relations in the spring. |
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| Hildebrandslied, English Song of Hildebrand, Old High German alliterative heroic poem on the fatalistic theme of a duel of honour between a father and a son. |
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| Yet, I do not think that it can be said that it is because the CAP is what it is that there is this specific medical and veterinary problem, unless one has a slightly theological or fatalistic vision. |
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| Montserratians are renowned as quietly proud, polite, and fatalistic people, and they are no strangers to the wrath of nature. |
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| A commitment for youth, especially with a view to creating a dynamic relationship between the generations, expresses confidence in the future and rejects the fatalistic view of ageing and scepticism. |
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| Some of his preciousness is a veneer, however, for his fatalistic streak. |
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| The implication was that children are direct and open, have not yet learned to obfuscate or become fatalistic about the possibility of redress or change. |
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