How to Use fatalism in a Sentence

fatalism

noun
  • Many people seem to have developed a sense of fatalism about the war.
  • The scene in a diner at the end has a tasty tongue-in-cheek fatalism.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 1 Sep. 2024
  • But in most countries doubt has not yet slipped into fatalism.
    — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
  • For starters, van der Lugt writes, pessimism is not the same as fatalism.
    — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Then there is our fatalism problem.
    — Solitaire Townsend, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Doomer lit doesn’t have to be dour—it is distinguished by its core fatalism rather than its tone.
    — Kate Knibbs, Wired, 17 Feb. 2020
  • Protests in Iran often carry with them a grim sense of fatalism.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2022
  • For critics, that sort of fatalism is a key problem with aid-in-dying laws.
    — Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2019
  • The big problem to me in the Party, at that point, was fatalism.
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The inability to see that and fatalism is what sets us up to be slaughtered the next time.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Still, Powell pushed back against fatalism.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The machinery of the plot is propelled by a grim sense of lower-depth fatalism.
    — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2017
  • There’s fatalism in both the left and the right about the way that our economy is designed today.
    — David Weigel, semafor.com, 17 June 2026
  • Mournful fatalism is the requisite emotion, even when mad fury would be more apt.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
  • And there is fatalism on the part of some physicians as well, which may keep them from mentioning screening.
    — Gail Rosenblum, Star Tribune, 19 Mar. 2021
  • There is a curious mix of fatalism and hope in Miyazaki’s work.
    — New York Times, 23 Nov. 2021
  • But its own breezy way, the episode does internalize a lot of King’s fatalism.
    — Noel Murray, The Verge, 27 July 2018
  • By nature and nurture, a certain fatalism courses through the fans here.
    — Ben Shpigel, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2018
  • The show’s fatalism leaves the impression that suicide can’t be stopped, experts said.
    — Catherine Saint Louis, The Seattle Times, 1 May 2017
  • This is neither nihilism nor fatalism.
    — Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 14 June 2026
  • The poetry of the image almost inspires you to lose sight of its fatalism.
    — New York Times, 13 May 2021
  • Many of the letters narrate his thoughts that were a strange mixture of fatalism and optimism.
    — Literary Hub, 14 May 2026
  • But while most fans sank into a very understandable fatalism, there was one man who refused.
    — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 5 May 2026
  • The constant threat of a sudden, brutal death has left many Afghans with a sense of despair and fatalism.
    — New York Times, 12 Jan. 2021
  • Even several survivors of the stampede expressed more fatalism than anger for the tragedy.
    — Washington Post, 1 May 2021
  • The Afghan women saw the war with the fatalism of hard experience.
    — George Packer, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Indeed, the show’s ace up its sleeve is its wicked (and, with its pitch-black fatalism, notably British) sense of humor.
    — Liam Hess, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2023
  • But in 2025, the doomers are tilting closer and closer to a sort of fatalism.
    — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2025
  • In the book, this lament alternates with hope stemming from figures who find the words and the moments to overcome this fatalism.
    — Nikil Saval, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Writerly and raggedly stitched, SOS is a reminder of how fun fatalism can be.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 14 Dec. 2022

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