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. |
This is what makes men stoical with a fatalism that is so complete it allows for neither optimism nor pessimism. |
This argument for fatalism does not commit the same fallacy as the first one that I gave. |
Each president had a seam of fatalism, but neither acted as if he lacked the power to shape the course of the conflict. |
The film is an elementally emotional work, flooded everywhere by a deep, regretful sort of fatalism. |