Example sentences for: fatalistic

How can you use “fatalistic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • While this teaching has served to sustain the rigid hierarchy of the caste system, it is not so “fatalistic” as some would have it.

  • ) Sprawled on a motel sofa, fielding awestruck questions from a couple of junior FBI agents, Pistone expounds on the meaning of the phrase "Fuh-get about it" (which, depending on one's inflection, can signal fatalistic acceptance, doomed resignation, murderous rage, enthusiastic agreement, or nothing in particular) in a speech that will live long in the hearts of gangster-movie mavens.

  • My closing comment referred to current research that attempts to show that homosexuality is gene-related, which I termed “fatalistic” because it would appear to relieve any individual of responsibility for his actions: as we learn from frequent press reports, defense attorneys are seeking exoneration for their clients on the grounds that although they committed the crime in question, it was circumstances--abuse when they were children is quite popular--that were responsible for their actions, and they should be let off.

  • The irony is that Soutine seems to have viewed the arrival of the Nazis, at least initially, with a certain equanimity, more cheerful than fatalistic.

  • That being the case, maybe, like the fatalistic protagonist of the 1908 operetta Algeria , we should light up one last time:


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