What is "fatalistic"

Usage examples of "fatalistic".

Not exactly fatalistic resignation, but a kind of dangerous indifference.

Proteus thought it was probably his fatalistic attitude that allowed him to infuse his voice with an hypnotic calm.

With a sinking feeling, Proteus observed that the leader was slipping into one of his black, fatalistic moods.

And she has become as fatalistic as he, and now she sings verses to the guzla, like Boris, or talks in corners with Michael, which makes the two enraged each with the other.

Actually Hamilton himself, so smart and handsome when he travels, soon looked as grimy and fatalistic as everybody else.

The woman had crossed my path so often lately that I was beginning to have a fatalistic feeling about her.

But when I refused to give up the picture, Carla dropped helplessly back into her fatalistic attitude.

Normal enemies, such as Zaugir bands, Kshatriya legions, or the defending troops of invaded western nations he had faced with the fatalistic hardihood of the seasoned warrior.

On the other hand, there was about them, Anne felt, something essentially alien to her instinctively modern ideas--the very type of countenance, with its fatalistic expression, the mingling amongst them of civilisation and barbarism, the beauty and coarseness, the ignorance and yet culture of a primitive sort, the superstition which for ages had dominated the nation, confining it within the narrow precincts of this rock refuge--all revolted her.

Indeed, Anne sometimes wondered to herself whether this strange impassive people knew what love was--whether that fatalistic calm was ever broken by the deeper human feelings.

Doubtless many a one has at times felt the stupendous truths of astronomy thus palsying him with a crushing sense of his own nothingness and burying him in fatalistic despair.

For while Anglo cowhands preferred to fall clear of a cart-wheeling pony when things went wrong, the Mexican vaquero was inclined to be more fatalistic about the possible future, and preferred his ass comfortable in the here and now.

IWW, says that the Wobblies were not as active against the war as the Socialists, perhaps because they were fatalistic, saw the war as inevitable, and thought that only victory in class struggle, only revolutionary change, could end war.

Serge, the fatalistic hero of "Conjugal Happiness," calmly acquiesces in the inevitableness of "love's sad satiety" amid the scent of roses and the songs of nightingales.

The loud-speaker dangling from the air pipe roused him from his fatalistic reverie.