| His eyewitness account describes the progressive stranglehold devised by the Turks and the sense of fatalism that developed within the city. |
| Their fatalism is tempered only by the drivers' acknowledgement that the need for speed is stronger than the instinct for self-preservation. |
| Winter was over but there was room for a twinge of regret, it seemed to me, and a little mournful Polish fatalism. |
| People imbued with intensely tribal values often alternate between manic activism and depressed fatalism. |
| Fifth, there is a streak of melancholia in the English imagination, which can easily slide into a condition of fatalism. |
| Each president had a seam of fatalism, but neither acted as if he lacked the power to shape the course of the conflict. |
