| The film is an elementally emotional work, flooded everywhere by a deep, regretful sort of fatalism. |
| His eyewitness account describes the progressive stranglehold devised by the Turks and the sense of fatalism that developed within the city. |
| Fifth, there is a streak of melancholia in the English imagination, which can easily slide into a condition of fatalism. |
| Winter was over but there was room for a twinge of regret, it seemed to me, and a little mournful Polish fatalism. |
| This argument for fatalism does not commit the same fallacy as the first one that I gave. |
| People imbued with intensely tribal values often alternate between manic activism and depressed fatalism. |
