| 单词 | fatalist |
| 例句 | Mrs. Beaverbrook, the fatalist, practically burst into tears and said in a timid little voice, “Oh, it’s so awful. Oh, the guns are so loud!”—which is another way of saying “I’m so scared.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Her children came to regard her as “an extreme fatalist,” who calmly looked peril in the eye. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “It looks very bad,” says Abel’s lawyer, a skillful worrier played by Albert Brooks, American cinema’s greatest fatalist. 'A Most Violent Year,’ With Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z The fatalists were sure that it was arm trouble, that Lincecum’s unusual delivery had finally caught up with him. T Magazine: Little Big Man 2011-03-11T18:01:47Z But for all its variation, what unified his work was a wry observer’s arched eyebrow, the pointed humor and witty rue of a fatalist. William King, Sculptor Who Used Wit, Dies at 90 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z "Any grunt who is not a fatalist is foolish," West writes. A gripping 'One Million Steps' examines Marines in Afghanistan 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z And the film then ordains the necessary marriage of two fatalists – Rick and Louis, Claude Rains' Vichy policeman. Casablanca: The story of a scene 2010-10-16T10:53:00Z As far as love stories go, it’s a little more vanilla than Sid and Nancy—grump away, fatalist Village romantics—but it’s not Nick Sparks. Robert Christgau: How One Man Survived Writing 13,000 Album Reviews 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Not a fatalist, but I'm surrounded by retro things and movies with sepia colors that are as if you are living in a nostalgic, or retro, world. "Undine" is an exquisite, romantic reimagining of an underwater myth using a phallic CGI catfish 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z “I’m not for negativity. I’m not a fatalist. I’m for the survival of beauty. I’m for the mystery of life.” Jim Jarmusch: ‘I’m for the survival of beauty. I’m for the mystery of life’ 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z “We Disappear,” the group’s latest and seventh record, streamlines both fatalist angst and misty-eyed ardor through head-bobbing guitar riffs. Pop & Rock Listings for April 22-28 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z He had observed, as he wrote many years later, that the animals serving alongside the soldiers had, like them, become “fatalists,” trudging into the same hail of artillery fire. Doctor Dolittle’s Talking Animals Still Have Much to Say 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z Faye’s fatalist bent is an unpopular one in the modern Western world. Rachel Cusk Strips the Novel Down to Its Frame. Again. 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Within these stories, fatalists and optimists need each other for argument’s sake, but the question of whether men and women need each other remains open. Where Every Coupling Depends on Lies, and Men Are Aliens 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z As a self-professed fatalist, he said, he was prepared for Tuesday’s elimination show. Washington’s Owen Danoff performs on his biggest stage yet: ‘The Voice’ 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z There’s a song on the new album in which Swift takes a fatalist view of romance. 22 Things You Learn Hanging Out With Taylor Swift 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z Beethoven, however, was no fatalist but, rather, a spiritually transcendent discontent. Danish String Quartet makes a truly fab four in Santa Barbara 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z As a dramatist, Ms. Skinner might be described as a fatalist feminist. Review: In ‘Linda,’ the Lures and Snares of Leaning In 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z The beneficent power of this civilisation makes human beings spectators of their own endeavours – fatalists all. Use of Weapons by Iain M Banks 2012-07-27T21:50:00Z Polanski, by contrast, was a fatalist and dire pessimist — not surprising, given that the course of his life was so violently rewritten by Hitler and Manson. My Sister, My Daughter: Behind the Scenes of a Great American Film 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z This permissive attitude about joke theft was probably at least partially fatalist — it’s awfully tough to prove a joke’s origin when acts are constantly touring from town-to-town. So a thief walks into a comedy club: Trevor Noah, Louis C.K. and the war over plagiarized punch-lines 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z One of the most satisfying parts of his book comes when he brutally dispatches with “climate fatalists” like Jonathan Franzen, who argue that we should all just give up. Three Books Offer New Ways to Think About Environmental Disaster 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z For a man who likes to define life on his terms — he’s an existentialist, in practice — he talks like a fatalist, resigned to the chaotic but predetermined mechanics of the universe. ‘It doesn’t matter.’ ‘We’ll see.’ The Trump Doctrine is sounding more fatalistic every day. 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z I was a fatalist; I didn’t waste my energy on wishing for miracles. I chose to have my legs amputated 2013-09-06T23:00:00Z Spengler, author of The Decline of the West pops up repeatedly only to be exposed as a fatalist who confuses his own hang-ups about women with a wider crisis in European civilisation. 1913: The Year Before the Storm by Florian Illies – review 2013-07-19T09:00:01Z Perhaps, as antic Mitteleuropean fatalists who had both fled Europe before the catastrophe, their temperaments were too similar, too agreeable, for effective self-assessment. Billy Wilder, still less than meets the eye 2012-06-08T23:05:00Z “I’m very much a fatalist,” he told the New York Times in 2016, when asked about the hereditary specter of Alzheimer’s disease, which afflicted his father. ‘It doesn’t matter.’ ‘We’ll see.’ The Trump Doctrine is sounding more fatalistic every day. 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z “This area has the lifestyle we like and the values we like,” he said, taking a fatalist view of natural hazards. Retired North Cascades smokejumper Bill Moody reflects on a lifetime in the hot seat 2023-07-09T04:00:00Z But Dubus is no fatalist; we are on a difficult journey of redemption. 'Sand and Fog' author Andre Dubus III crafts a white-working-class Buddha story 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z As much as Rockwell astutely limns how lives are shaped by forces out of their control, she’s no fatalist: She gives Inez and Terry their happy ending, as hard-won and ambiguous as it is. Review | ‘A Thousand and One’: A film worth not just seeing — but celebrating 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z “I got used to it. What can we do? I am a fatalist.” Odesa Is Defiant. It’s Also Putin’s Ultimate Target. 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z It was an environmental warning repeated in many variations during a more than 80-year career of remarkable scientific range and originality — winning widespread praise as a visionary and scorn as a doomsday fatalist. James Lovelock, creator of Gaia theory of ‘living’ Earth, dies at 103 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z My father was a fatalist, a mathematician who believed in gambling in the stock market while his own mantra was, “When your number’s up, it’s up.” Perspective | You finally got me, covid, after all I did to avoid you 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z But none of that seemed to matter to Ms. Zhyvaga, whose fatalist detachment from the battle raging around her was common among those who still lived in the surrounding neighborhoods. A Shopping Trip for Apples, Over the Last Bridge in Lysychansk 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z Still, Farhadi’s view on the modern world’s ubiquitous exchange of information feels more neutral than fatalist. Oscar winner Asghar Farhadi on 'A Hero' and his own complicated feelings on fame in Iran 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z “I’m a fatalist,” he told The Los Angeles Times. I Had a Chance to Travel Anywhere. Why Did I Pick Spokane? 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z With so much dirty money trying to get clean, the prosecutions take on a kind of fatalist logic. Libertarians built a crypto mecca in New Hampshire — then Feds tore it down 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z Jonathan Ashworth, who speaks for the opposition Labour Party on health matters, accused the government of pursuing a “high-risk, indeed fatalist, approach” that would allow cases to climb. ‘Freedom Day’ Coming to England, Ready or Not 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z “Whatever happens, happens,” he said in 1991, declaring himself a “great fatalist” as his business fortunes wobbled. Trump Confronts a New Form of Risk, More Personal and Perilous 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z “I’m not a sentimentalist — I’m a dedicated fatalist — but I do feel I was very lucky,” he told People magazine. Peter Beard, uninhibited artist and wildlife photographer, dies at 82 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z He noted the insufficiently strict quarantine laws introduced in Istanbul and declared that the Turks were “fatalists” because of their religion, Islam. Opinion | What the Great Pandemic Novels Teach Us 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z This idea of avoiding the fatalist notion that bad times in a game will lead to more bad times is a real thing. Nicklas Backstrom saves Capitals from a disaster in the making 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z I’m not a fatalist about history, but I think a certain amount of friction and a certain number of collisions were built into the equation. A Diplomat Compares the Foreign-Policy Establishment with Donald Trump 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z That fatalist mind-set is pervasive among today’s conservative voters. Opinion | The GOP is the party of Trump — but not for the reasons anti-Trump conservatives think 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z And even apparent fatalists are wandering to the corner store for a shot at the jackpot. So many people are buying Mega Millions tickets that unique number combinations are shrinking 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Often, the loudest skeptics come from the fatalists in their own party. Black, Female and Running for Governor: Can She Win in the South? 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z “I’ve become a bit of a fatalist about Seattle,” he wrote. What if a historic church is torn down, but nobody notices? 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Dosunmu, a Nigerian-born director with a background in photography, isn't a fatalist at heart, though like many other filmmakers he seems enthralled by the spectacle of a woman on the verge. 'Where Is Kyra?': Michelle Pfeiffer's brilliant performance holds the answer 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z While Nunez-Mujica has a fatalist view of Venezuela’s ability to regain its economic footing, his own experience has taught him how immigration can jumpstart one’s career and creativity. US tech worker helps fellow Venezuelans flee economic mayhem 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z But it turns out the eternal optimist is also a fatalist. Does Gary Player have the secret to better golf? We're all ears - Golf Digest 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z In northeast Ohio, where cynics and fatalists have shared church pews, bar rails and work rooms for generations, there's a feeling that anything is possible. Title drought over, Cleveland thirsts for more championships 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Morgan is not a fatalist; she clearly believes that we can and must refuse to perpetuate the sins of our fathers. A Sweeping Novel About Race in America 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z “Russians are fatalists, most of them,” she said. As energy prices drop, ordinary Russians are protesting 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z But — not to be a fatalist, but you find yourself asking questions you'd never asked yourself before. Sleight director J.D. Dillard talks about his proto-superhero Sundance debut 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z My reaction really surprised me as I consider myself quite cynical and fatalist regarding these type of events. 'I feel Parisian, I feel French. They can't win': Paris after the attacks 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z When the smoking prohibition took effect, fatalists predicted the decline of eating out, the end of fun, the death of the city. Smoking Returns as a Hot Issue in New York Public Housing 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z The fatalists sat back in their chairs and waited for the pummelling that never came. Heartbroken Scotland will rise again 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z But the fatalist streak puts the song in tension with the film’s plot, since the plot is full of decisions that feel as if they will affect the family’s future, maybe catastrophically. The Melancholy Mystery of Lullabies 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z You become fatalist thinking that it's the way it is in France, you have to get used to that. Has the DSK trial changed French attitudes to sex? - BBC News 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z “Am I a product of nature or of nurture? Can I create my own path, or am I a fatalist?” he asked. Richard Fuld Breaks His Silence Since Lehman’s Collapse 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Most are familiar with the old fatalist saw: Hey, when it’s your time, it’s your time. A monster in the cockpit of the Germanwings airliner 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z This fatalist approach is the complete opposite of his placating 2011 congressional speech about evacuating settlements and achieving a historic peace. Netanyahu Has Rejected a Two-State Solution 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z He smiled and nodded, and we both continued on our separate ways into the early winter gloaming, two contented fatalists. A Walk in Green-Wood Cemetery 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z Houellebecq despises contemporary consumer society, and though he is not an enthusiast, merely a fatalist, about its possible Islamic replacement, he thinks that this is the apocalypse we’ve been asking for. Michel Houellebecq’s Francophobia 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z Wistfulness for the way things were in New York before pedestrian plazas and Pinkberrys and hedge funds has become a thriving posture but Mr. Price isn’t so much a nostalgist as he is a fatalist. Big City Book Club Discusses 'Lush Life' 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z “Perhaps the Chinese are all fatalists. I never expected to survive the war. So I was adamant that my death be honorable, be spectacular.” Maj. Kurt Chew-Een Lee, Daring Marine Who Fought Chinese in Korea, Dies at 88 2014-03-10T19:58:01Z The Minister, lost in a fatalist haze, turned to his captor with a mournful face and said, matter-of-factly, “But of course you’re going to kill us.” Zadie Smith: “Moonlit Landscape with Bridge.” 2014-02-03T05:00:00Z For these people, finding a group of like-minded fatalists is reassuring. Psychology Reveals the Comforts of the Apocalypse 2012-12-18T15:15:29.107Z While anti-Semitism has always been the active, evil form of extreme traditionalist ideology—get them out of here and we’ll be pure—Houellebecq’s half-infatuated fascination with Islam has always been the more fatalist form. Michel Houellebecq’s Francophobia 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z That is an all-too-common sentiment, a kind of fatalist view of America’s place in the modern global economy. Exporters are doing better than you think 2012-10-11T14:49:00Z Neither was she a fatalist, and yet she had a feeling that for good or ill, her life was in some way or other bound up with this stranger. A Gamble with Life 2012-04-11T02:00:33.587Z The evident fact that Thomas Hardy is a fatalist is responsible for the common and absurd idea that he is a pagan. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z What a vast and curious field of research and reflection! what an argument for the fatalist! Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Yet, like fatalists they continued on the very shores to which Providence had directed them. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z It is not easy to shake off the grip of fatalism in the society of a fatalist. The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z I am enough of a fatalist to believe that whatever the world needs it gets. Unfettered A Novel 2012-02-12T03:00:15.143Z However hollow may have been mirth of the pagan fatalists, it was at any rate loud and general. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z He courted death, and resigned himself to living, like a fatalist, only on becoming convinced that death would have nothing to do with him. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z I have all my life been a fatalist. Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? 2011-12-24T03:07:56.830Z As for De Vere, he was a fatalist of the newest French school, and a man that carried his life in his hand. Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" 2011-12-15T03:00:12.560Z If you were a fatalist you would believe that it was preordained by the gods; and you would be resigned. The Outcaste 2011-12-12T03:00:25.380Z And there can be no doubt that by a kind of self-hypnosis these fatalists were able to give their joy a convincingness and a continuity—they "were always drunken," in Baudelaire's sense. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z Well, Henry Harper was something of a fatalist now. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z He was in one sense a fatalist, and so died. Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? 2011-12-24T03:07:56.830Z I am a fatalist; destiny has sent me, and it will aid me.... The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. I (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors 2011-10-25T02:00:28.357Z "It is a monstrous belief!" cried Wenaston, moved in spite of himself as he glanced at Ananda overshadowed by fear, and at Coomara on whose countenance was written the hopeless resignation of the fatalist. The Outcaste 2011-12-12T03:00:25.380Z In religious belief he is perhaps, a fatalist. Rambles with John Burroughs 2011-10-22T02:00:31.317Z He did nothing for the higher learning, and even banished the philosopher Christian Wolff at forty-eight hours’ notice “on pain of the halter,” for teaching, as he believed, fatalist doctrines. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" 2011-10-22T02:00:29.487Z Mr. Ruck was unhappy, but he was a touching fatalist. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z She was enough of a fatalist in this instance at least to accept their intimacy as the result of His ordination. The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado 2011-09-22T02:00:25.630Z Jews are fatalists, and are convinced that the decrees of fate are unalterable, yet they imagine that Providence may be cheated and thus deterred from its purposes. Turkey Peeps at Many Lands 2011-09-21T02:00:31.190Z They were fatalists, and maintained that the elect could commit no sin. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z Barnes approached with all the deliberation and unconcern of a pronounced fatalist. Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles 2011-09-08T02:00:22.323Z Superstitious and a fatalist, as many a man of superior mind has been, her only sincere belief was in the occult sciences. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z The fatalists shipped their poles and paddles, and abandoned themselves to the line of least resistance. The Sixth Sense A Novel 2011-08-24T02:00:18.870Z Or they may be fatalists who assume whatever will be, will be. Personal Health: Doctors Hone Message on Kidney Disease 2011-08-22T20:20:06Z After worrying a great deal he consoled himself with the soothing philosophies of the fatalists, that fate alone governs the world. Tales of the Sun or Folklore of Southern India 2011-08-09T02:00:29.493Z They were saturated with superstition, and as pagan fatalists they accepted the position without a word. Jock of the Bushveld 2011-08-04T02:00:24.987Z I am no fatalist, but the continual influence of an unerring Providence is a truth which was early impressed on my heart, and which daily observation has confirmed and strengthened. Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. 2011-08-02T02:00:25.157Z The Seraph had turned fatalist and was being squeezed nearer and nearer the "Desdemona." The Sixth Sense A Novel 2011-08-24T02:00:18.870Z Andrews, in Wilson's opinion, was somewhat of a fatalist, or at least was haunted with a presentiment of coming doom from the time he had fairly entered upon this expedition. Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. 2011-07-19T02:00:19.070Z Not in dumb resignation, We lift our hands on high; Not like the nerveless fatalist, Content to do and die. Religion and the War 2011-07-18T02:00:22.307Z We are fatalists, as your people call us. One Maid's Mischief 2011-07-15T02:00:22.283Z But he was a very fatalist, prone to take things as they came, not philosophically it must be owned. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z The subject peoples were becoming more restless under the burden of tribute; and the ruler, Montezuma II, was a superstitious fatalist. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z “Are you a fatalist, Mr Wagram?” she said. The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z He was a bit of a fatalist, too, and this partially supported him now. The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan 2011-07-05T02:00:28.367Z “But I’ve had so many narrow shaves—more than fall to the lot of most people—that I have become a bit of a fatalist.” The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z "I am too much of a fatalist," he replied, "to take any precautions against assassination." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z Moreover, as he had informed me on another occasion, he was a fatalist. The Kidnapped President 2011-06-23T02:00:29.120Z He was a fatalist and he probably reserved his opinion. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z In vain the mistress threatened, and her companions, fatalists all, argued. Gunpowder Treason and Plot And Other Stories for Boys 2011-06-08T02:00:16.797Z Clark, as I have said, was a fatalist, though he had no religion. Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman 2011-06-04T02:00:12.520Z He may have been a fatalist, but that was not the only reason: he knew without bragging that he was a good shot. Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 2011-05-19T02:00:07.643Z The action, symbolically interpreted, illustrates the fatalist's doctrine that man is nothing but a toy in the hands of dark and dangerous powers. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Were the object accomplished life would be valueless; its interest would be gone; there would be nothing left to live for, and we should be unable to die; we should be fatalists by experience. Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. 2011-05-16T02:00:19.270Z But Greville Howard, like all his kind, was a fatalist as well as something of a philosopher. Love and hatred 2011-05-13T02:00:08.103Z Further, you know, I have the misfortune to be a fatalist, and to believe in the influence of the stars. The Prussian Terror 2011-05-04T02:00:15.170Z The reasoning would be very fair, as far as it goes, if employed against fatalists, but amounts to nothing when employed against those who hold to the self-determining power of the will. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z Hence it is no wonder that we find the same definition of liberty in the writings of the most absolute fatalists. An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will 2011-04-14T02:00:52.727Z That man should submit to the inevitable; they were fatalists; did not believe in exhibiting joy or sorrow; lived lives of sternness and austerity and many believed in the immortality of the soul. Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant 2011-03-28T02:00:27.040Z But “it was not so written,” said Antonio, who, like many of his countrymen, was a fatalist. The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] 2011-03-27T02:00:17.093Z "It might only lead to complications; besides, as I said before, we really must try to be fatalists." The Treasure of the Tigris A Tale of Mesopotamia 2011-03-22T02:00:16.873Z As for Hayston, he was a fatalist by constitution and theory. A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z And no more than this is contended for by any one but an Asiatic fatalist. A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. I 2011-03-01T03:00:43.470Z But by this time I had discovered that nothing matters at all, and I quietly turned up the light again, being by then a confirmed and age-old fatalist. A Woman's Experience in the Great War 2011-02-26T03:00:48.257Z I am not a fatalist, but I regard myself as the chosen instrument of fate—or something. The Dreamers A Club 2011-02-25T03:01:06.720Z Mozey, a fatalist, felt half disposed to submit to a destiny that could not be averted; and even Tipperary Tom began to despair of the power of his prayers to Saint Patrick. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z This was a cheerful prospect, but I had come through many perils, and missed the grim veteran by so many close shaves, that I had grown to be something of a fatalist like Hayston. A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z But I am a consistent fatalist in these matters. The Crooked Stick or Pollies's Probation 2011-02-06T03:01:00.547Z Neither," said the American; "they are merely fatalists by virtue of their faith. The Blind Mother and The Last Confession 2011-02-03T03:00:11.867Z Singularly enough, sailors are not only fatalists, which they may well be, but superstitious. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z “The only reason you are not afraid is because you are a fatalist.” After the Bombing, It?s Business as Usual 2011-01-25T05:38:50Z I’m not fatalist enough to believe that we crawl or run or soar through our allotted span of years according to some prearranged scheme which we are powerless to modify. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z They are fatalists, and hence fearless in battle, and their priests teach them that for every Christian slain they will be rewarded with a new peri in paradise. The Outlook: Uncle Sam's Place and Prospects in International Politics 2010-12-30T03:00:21Z Be a cringing fatalist, like a Turk or Arab, and let day follow day; never think; for behind thought lurks impulse!—Fight? Footsteps of Fate 2010-12-20T17:11:56.663Z I turn to Petnit, who is a peculiar kind of Dutch fan: a fatalist who thinks his team will lose. World Cup 2010: it's Holland v Spain in Woking 2010-07-09T18:56:00Z I said this to try the feeling of the applicant, who, expressing admiration of my knowledge, urged me to be quick, lest the men should die; thus showing himself to be no unconditional fatalist. The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments The East, with its fatalist superstitions, its apotheosis of lofty earthly sovereignty, its enthronement of an evil power beside the good, was completing the overthrow of the national faith. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius He was a mystic and a fatalist, like so many of his compatriots. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli After you have conceded every fatalist argument, you know that it is wrong. The Man Who Rose Again I am a fatalist, in fact, like a Mahometan, and I believe that all that we do for the progress of humanity is of no use. The Life-Work of Flaubert From the Russian of Merejowski Though the name had not hitherto occurred to him, he became a fatalist. The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath But it was in its divinisation of the elemental powers and heavenly bodies that this religion probably obtained its most powerful hold on an age profoundly fatalist and superstitious. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius He was fond of boasting that he had no creed, but, in his way, Francis Vennor was a better fatalist than many who assume the name. A Romance in Transit He was no longer a fatalist philosopher, the thoughtful Eastern gentleman who laughed quietly at conventional notions. The Man Who Rose Again They are fatalists, and bear calamities with surprising resignation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" The Emperor himself, always a mystical fatalist rather than the hewer of his own fortune, felt the growing inertia of his final malady. A History of the Third French Republic His religion, in spite of its astrology, was not one of fatalist reverie; it was a religion of struggle and combat. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius He who reads Jean Jacques lives like Rousseau; he who pores over Diderot acts the fatalist.' Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier This German told me that the man with the fez is a fatalist, and does not believe in right or wrong. The Man Who Rose Again The fatalist may persist in regarding limits and conditions as the all in all of life; we shall see them as a foothold for growth. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 I don't call myself a philosopher," he went on, "nor am I a fatalist, but I think that most men can face the inevitable with a certain calmness that is only born of absolute despair. Guy in the Jungle A Boy's Adventure in the Wilds of Africa This fatalist superstition infected nearly all the successors of Augustus in the first and second centuries. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Every gambler is a fatalist by nature; the chance was, after all, more than he had any logical right to expect under the circumstances. The Song of the Wolf Does the reading of history make us fatalists? The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse He was somewhat of a fatalist in his interpretation of affairs and would hang on with the faith that his luck would turn. The "Genius" He was a fatalist, and had that confidence in his star and his mission which is often characteristic of minds in which superstition—for he was superstitious—and a certain morbid taint may be discerned. Studies in Contemporary Biography Once, when a very young man, he had thought himself a fatalist. A Monk of Cruta By the thousands, the starved children of the campaign, the Russian foot-soldiers, stoics and fatalists, sacrificing their lives for a strange and incomprehensible cause, pass before the eyes of the reader. Contemporary Russian Novelists They are fatalists to a very great extent. Tales from the Lands of Nuts and Grapes Spanish and Portuguese Folklore I am something of a fatalist, Mr. Fitzroy, though the phrase sounds strange on my lips. Cynthia's Chauffeur You know also that I am somewhat of a fatalist, and that I maintain that our destiny in life is marked out for us in a manner which we can neither withstand nor counteract. Ellen Middleton—A Tale Perhaps he is a little of a fatalist. Home Life of Great Authors With scarcely an exception, they are all indolent and fatalists. Porto Rico Its History, Products and Possibilities... The man is more than a little fatalist. My Three Years in America ‘Can an Arabian steed submit to be a vile drudge?’ cries the fatalist. Lavengro The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest A man may have heart enough to love more than one woman at a time, but unless he is a fatalist he should have brains enough not to try it. A Guide to Men Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl Thus he labored with the Inditos, his terrible little fatalists in combat. The Missourian “You see, I am a fatalist,” he went on. The Magnificent Adventure Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration and the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman They did not say God was good and that Mahomet was His prophet, but they were fatalists all the same. The Quality of Mercy We may also note by the way that judgment can be given without belief in free arbitration, as is shown by the Mahometan fatalists and the judgments of Haroun-al-Raschid, for example. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study So that in this sense we may all be considered 'fatalists,' and all things fated. Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy It seems to belong to the gay, smiling, easy-going East of Scheherazade and Aladdin, not to the sombre and reserved Orient of fierce mystics and fanatical fatalists. Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit Some fatalists, seeing that a certain thing is likely to happen, say that God has ordained that it shall be, and they fold their hands, and make no effort to avert a catastrophe. General Gordon A Christian Hero He was fatalist enough to be willing to risk what had to be risked. Battling the Clouds or, For a Comrade's Honor If I were what my schoolmaster used to call a fatalist, I'd say she was the evil prophetess who used to play ducks and drakes with the soldier boys at Athens. The Man Who Drove the Car Not in dumb resignation We lift our hands on high; Not like the nerveless fatalist, Content to do and die. Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul Beulah was a fatalist, although she had never analyzed her own beliefs enough to know it, but she knew that Destiny had linked her life with his and that Destiny would not be balked. The Homesteaders A Novel of the Canadian West It is a delightful thing to be a fatalist, not as that word is generally employed, but to accept that, when things happen and not before, God has for some wise reason so ordained them. General Gordon A Christian Hero If he was a fatalist, he was a fighting fatalist, and I am sure he believed in his fortune. Hurricane Island I thought you were a fatalist and never wanted anything. The Invader A Novel It is wonderful what fatalists we become in the trenches. "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders Of course this reasoning was purely negative, and might not have gone far towards convincing the Coromantee,—whose fatalist tendencies at times strongly inclined him to inaction. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Though sufficiently reckless in my temperament, I have never been a fatalist. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Does he once enter a protest against the doctrine of the Stoics, or of the materialistic fatalists, according to which all things in heaven and earth are involved in an “implex series of causes?” A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory I have observed that these Frenchmen are fatalists. A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself. The stock-broker's wife, mother of six children and portly, was a fatalist. A Book Without A Title But I don't worry for we get to be fatalists and say if it is going to be well it has to be, so what's the odds. Over the top with the 25th Chronicle of events at Vimy Ridge and Courcellette The boy himself did not mind going, when he was called, for he was something of a fatalist, being so young, and besides, he could not foresee things. The Backwash of War The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse And if this be so, then let the Calvinist decide whether he will join with the Pantheist and fatalist, or give some little quarter to the Arminian. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory He set up his rain-making machinery with the smile of a fatalist. Omega, the Man For the time being, at least, they were rank fatalists. Lewis and Clark Meriwether Lewis and William Clark It savored of the indifference of the fatalist. A Virginia Scout For the moment she was no longer the fatalist, foreseeing inevitable exposure and punishment. Children of the Desert But they are not thoroughgoing fatalists, inasmuch as disappointment quickly turns to resentment against something handy to blame. A Poor Man's House The Wyandot perhaps was a fatalist and he resigned himself to the end. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" What pleases him in Lord Byron, is the facility which is offered to him of proving the truth of this fatalist philosophy which appears at every page of his book. My Recollections of Lord Byron Malthus, that is, is a fatalist, a materialist, and an anarchist. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill The Mohammedans are said to be fatalists; and in what they regard as a holy cause they have no fear of death, for they believe it bears them directly to paradise. Asiatic Breezes Students on The Wing A thoroughgoing fatalist would blame, if he did not acquiesce in, fate itself or his luck. A Poor Man's House Joe Williams was a fatalist, and believed every word he read in his little book of prophecies, so that the dawn of September 4th found him glum and depressed. Mud and Khaki Sketches from Flanders and France And the attempt of the Eugenists and other fatalists to treat all men as irresponsible is the largest and flattest folly in philosophy. Eugenics and Other Evils But in the main Tommy is a fatalist; he does not pray, he does not depend on God. "The Pomp of Yesterday" Something of a fatalist, in the final analysis, he no longer wasted time in anger or regrets. Hidden Gold But over there a man is a fatalist—his part is allotted to him, and he can but tread the beaten path blindly. Mufti This, of course, is the chronic condition of all users of the slot-meters, and she accepted the discovery with the calm of the fatalist. The Green Rust He is a stoic and a fatalist by nature, but an emotionalist as well. The Great White Tribe in Filipinia I am a fatalist, and I know that you two will meet, and read your destinies in each other's souls. Princess Zara Sometimes he forgot his part, and displayed the shrewd, calculating, hard-working man behind the mask, who was less a fatalist than a personified fate, less a child of fortune than its maker. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) He screamed once, tried to rise, turned blindly to seize the jaws that clutched him; and suddenly crouched, loose-jointed, cringing like a trapped wolf — the true fatalist among our lesser brothers. The Flaming Jewel Though not much of a fatalist, I believe that when a person’s time is to come, it comes. Valerie It is advisable to hinder it with anting-antings and medallions; but when it comes, the Filipino fatalist will take it philosophically. The Great White Tribe in Filipinia For, despite his practical, Yankee common-sense, the old soldier was something of a fatalist, and in the one most critical relation of his life, he had always felt himself subject to mysterious and irresistible influences. A Venetian June Sorrow and disappointment had made him a fatalist—he looked the part. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers No fatalist convert to Mohammed had so sure faith in the eternity of his institutions. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War But Ortensia was a fatalist, like most Venetian maidens of her time. Stradella I am not a fatalist, and I therefore resolved not to rely upon mere destiny, but, if possible, to help it a little in its evolution. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse A Christian by race and belief, he has absorbed much of the fatalism of the Oriental races, and his courage is of the fatalist kind, reckless and devoted. Paul Patoff The Materialistic Conception of History does not involve the fatalist resignation summed up in the phrase, "Whatever is, is natural, and, therefore, right." Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles But a purely circumstantial explanation of an important departure in a man's life will only appear satisfactory to fatalists who worship the blind god Environment. John Lyly The Russian peasant, of course, in true fatalist fashion calmly accepted this situation as an inevitable act of Providence, which made the task of the Red Cross workers and others more difficult. The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 Yet the men were far from fatalists, and the psychic stimulus of being able to tell your patient that he was ordered to "Blighty" was demonstrable on his history chart. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell You cannot argue with a fatalist, any more than with a prophet. Impressions of South Africa The last of the great fatalists in English literature is Mr. Thomas Hardy. Personality in Literature The power of this fatalist conception during antiquity may be measured by its long persistence, at least in the Orient, where it originated. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism In that moment of metamorphosis he became a fatalist. Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles "Oh, I must take my chance," with the air of a fatalist. The Lure of the Mask I escorted Madame Murrah in a splendid costume, tamed but very dignified still, and playing her part with noble airs, like a fatalist. French and Oriental Love in a Harem “My dear Blunt, I had no idea you were such a fatalist,” said Sharp in surprise. Personal Reminiscences in Book Making and Some Short Stories He was a fatalist in a certain sense—not in the religious, but rather in the physical sense. The Dictator He is a fatalist, and he studies the workings of fate in the chief vivifying and disturbing influence in life, women. Figures of Several Centuries He is a fatalist, and quietly says to himself what is to be will be, and he resigns himself to his fate. Middy and Ensign Without knowing it, he was becoming a practical fatalist, inclined to do what seemed best at the moment, and let things slide, forming no plans for a future which was so very uncertain. For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War “I am not a fatalist in the sense you mean,” returned his friend. Personal Reminiscences in Book Making and Some Short Stories "Oh, I've become a fatalist on the subject of my engagements." The Girl on the Boat To go kow-towing before the facts of change, as gamblers and fortune-readers and fatalists do, is merely a perverting of the soul's proud integral priority, a rearing up of idiotic idols and fetishes. Fantasia of the Unconscious Mr. Buckle was a fatalist in every sense of the word. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Evidently he was a fatalist, like the people he lived amongst. For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War You wouldn't believe that I was a fatalist, would you? Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo Then, too, as we have already said, one is a fatalist when one is a Bonaparte. Napoleon the Little I made no doubt that all, indeed, was known in that quarter, but the fatalist who planned and schemed there would meet these men the next day with his gentle smile, betraying nothing. Dross A fatalist above all things, even now, when everything seemed lost, he did not despair. Orrain A Romance I think I expressed the view of a fatalist. The Call of the Blood That Joffre was a fatalist is evinced by another incident of this march in Soudan. Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers The Turks have a second-rate religion; they are fatalists, and that keeps them down. The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II) Thus at every stage the primitive believer is a mystic—a fatalist in one stage, a beast worshiper in another, a thaumaturgist in a third, yet ever and first of all a mystic. The Siouan Indians They are all fatalists, but all noble in their pessimism; they reflect the mind of the artist. Michael Angelo Buonarroti Still, Geoffrey was a young man, too young to have wholly learned to be a fatalist; but the more he thought of escape, the more hopeless it seemed. The King's Men A Tale of To-morrow He calls the fatalist’s question: “Can an Arabian steed submit to be a vile drudge?” George Borrow The Man and His Books Death or the chance of death is everywhere, and we meet it not as fatalists do or those who believe they can earn eternal glory with a sacrifice, but lightly and with a song. My War Experiences in Two Continents Yet I have always been rather a fatalist and incline to Worship some star. The Story of a Summer Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua In other words, he asserts that the ordinary man is a fatalist—for Froude knew very well that between the fatalist and the believer in a possibility of miracle there is no conceivable position. Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc We are neither cowards nor fatalists; but, believing that God has placed the means for our preservation in our own hands, we will use those means to our utmost. The Last Man When they went up the line Rutherford was damnably cool and efficient, a fatalist who went about his grim business unmoved. The Hidden Places Were we creatures of circumstances, as the fatalists declared; or could we master and bend circumstances to human will? The Freebooters of the Wilderness He was not of the potter's common clay of which fatalists are made. The Story of Isaac Brock Hero, Defender and Saviour of Upper Canada, 1812 More or less of a fatalist, he was inspired by the sudden and disturbing thought that they had happened by inevitable necessity. The Courage of Marge O'Doone A few minutes ago, when he had spoken of death, he had been a mysterious and cruel fatalist. Bella Donna A Novel Miss Dorn found it difficult to lead him away from serious subjects; his ideas on mental telepathy did not amuse her, nor the fact that he was a fatalist. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908 Dr. S., like many men who lead such lives as he does, was a rigid fatalist. The Land of the Black Mountain The Adventures of Two Englishmen in Montenegro They, like true fatalists, submitted in silence; and their bodies were gathered together into a pyramid, where, after the lapse of thirty years, their bones are still visible whitening the sand. The History of Napoleon Buonaparte If with no fatalist weakness, Battling in boldness and meekness, We are determined to master Every defeat and disaster? My Life as an Author On the other hand, I am rather a fatalist. Nobody's Man He was a fatalist, and although for a moment he regretted having come single-handed to such an obvious trap, he prepared for his task. The Black Box Do your duty, have the courage of your thought, and walk off with the old fatalist's verse soothing your soul and brain, and let the disturbed ones clamor. The Young Man and the World The older people gazed straight in front of them with the stolid despair of the fatalist East, and did not utter a word. Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation And so it had been from the beginning, poor soul, poor wavering fatalist! with a nature too innately weak to make an inception either of good or evil, the predestined prey of circumstance. A Comedy of Masks A Novel He was a fatalist, he told her; what would be would be, and mortals like himself and herself were just scattered leaves, like barks floating down a current where were mostly rocks ahead. Beyond The Rocks A Love Story He may admit being superstitious and even boast about it, or declare himself to be a fatalist. Over the Top With the Third Australian Division Always a fatalist, he took things as they came, but had never yet gone out of his way to tempt the possibilities. The Ridin' Kid from Powder River Now I am to a great extent a fatalist, though I hope it really is something higher than that. World's War Events Volume 3 Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919. Yet after all there is much to be said in favour of the fatalists who put theirPg 139 trust in a Power greater than human agencies or foresight can control. Four Months Besieged The Story of Ladysmith I couldn't think why you didn't ask that before, you little fatalist, taking it all in such a predestined way. Bluebell A Novel We have shown that Luther is no fatalist. Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation If this were all, we might indeed adopt the fatalist conception which I sketched for you but a short while ago. Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals While his thoughts were drifting in this direction, the squire's letter was received; and the young man, who was something of a fatalist, accepted it as the solution of a difficulty. The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance The ancient Egyptian peasants, like their modern descendants, were fatalists, and a happy carelessness seems to have softened the strenuousness of their daily tasks. The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology A fatalist, for I have seen him walk into the enemy's fire, laughing. The Grey Cloak We are bound to the wheel, say the sociological fatalists. The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 The following war song of the Wollof, though it lacks the sonorous and metrical elements of real poetry, contains true military aggressiveness, mixed with the theology of the fatalist. History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens He was neither elated nor depressed, but found himself confronting fancies he had not confronted before, and at times regarding the course of events with something of the feeling of a fatalist. His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality The young peasant is a fatalist to the core; but fatalists are not afraid of death. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary She was a fatalist—perhaps, had always been so, as her mother before her; yet she knew it not. The Spinners The Turks are fatalists, who believe that whatever is to be will be, and that if they are fated to die in battle, nothing can save them. The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 18, March 11, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls He's a combination of optimist and fatalist, I judge. A Hoosier Chronicle The fatalist, and those who conceive every human volition and action to be the effect of divine agency, have no rational motive, to do, or suffer for religion. Sermons on Various Important Subjects It was a fatalist view of life, a dim and obscurantist groping after truth induced by the overpowering nature of present difficulties. The Wings of the Morning But Hindu fatalists, noble Aryans as they were at first, have been conquered by every race of invaders that has chosen to assail them. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 Children, being helpless, are of course fatalists and imitators. The Feast of St. Friend The knight confesses with his lips to a belief in the new doctrine of absorption, but at heart he is a fatalist. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Ferrier was anything but a fatalist, yet he had a happy and useful way of taking short views of life. A Dream of the North Sea His religion had done one thing for him: it had made him a fatalist, and fatalists are self-contained. Lancashire Idylls (1898) Perhaps he was, in his way, something of a fatalist—London breeds so many among such as he: starved things that find every boat chained, every effort thrust back upon them unrewarded. Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces He was also not a little of a fatalist, as he himself once stated to his friend Arnold. Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters (Selections) Unconscious fatalist, he nourished the conviction as he nourished the coals of his fire. Half A Chance They talked for the best part of an hour and Mark perceived that the old sailor was something of a fatalist. The Red Redmaynes Yes, you are probably right," said Lincoln; and then, with a musing, dreamy look, he added: "I have all my life been a fatalist. The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him He dwells piously and at considerable length upon our obligations to submit to the will of Allah, not forgetting a liberal use of the Oriental fatalist's favorite expression: "kismet." Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama They are not like Mohammedan fatalists who so love to die for their illusions that they bare their breasts to bullets. The Last Shot The strange light of another world, of the fatalist East, looked plainly out of his eyes. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 We shall do as before, and science is a fatalist. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. Such healthiness we find in Browning, although he wrote with Carlyle at his side, and within earshot of the infinite wail of this moral fatalist. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher As to that, I am fatalist enough to believe that we should have met in any case. The Rocks of Valpre At last Wallace's letter cleared still further the issues of the conflict; or rather, it led to Kendal's making a fatalist compact with himself. Miss Bretherton We are all fatalists when we strike against power, and I hope he put care from him as the soldiers marched him out. The Insurrection in Dublin Personally, I'm a bit of a fatalist regarding love. The Lilac Girl Assert yourself to be unalterable, and you assert yourself a fatalist. The Human Machine "Yea, yea," cry loudly the French fatalists; and "Yea, yea," respond with firm assurance Buckle & Co. in England; and "Yea," there are many to say in our own land. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 She was, poor child, supremely confident, and that not through conceit or vanity, but simply because she was a fatalist and believed that destiny had brought Lawrence to her feet…. The Secret City Man of Destiny, name given to Napoleon Bonaparte as reflecting his own belief, for he was a fatalist. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge But I am rather a fatalist about friendship, and I think that most of us get about as much as we deserve. Father Payne Assert yourself a fatalist, and you free yourself from all moral responsibility—and other people, too. The Human Machine I was a fatalist, though without my own intention or knowledge. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters In any such sense anybody is a fatalist who believes in a relation between cause and effect. Studies in Literature He was so warped by his religious training as to have become a fatalist as well as a fanatic. Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 But if you begin to dwell on unalterable things, you become a fatalist, and I'm always trying to get away from that. Father Payne He was a fatalist worthy of his city, which is now being besieged and ruined not for the first time. Over There War Scenes on the Western Front They had acquired, therefore, a mental outlook which was determinist without being fatalist, and which combined the most absolute submission to Nature with untiring energy in thought and action. Human Nature in Politics Third Edition The author of Ionica seems to bring the old Greek fatalist to modern England, and to conduct him to church upon a Sunday morning. Gossip in a Library Fabiani shrugged his shoulders and raised his brows to the sky, with the resignation of the fatalist. Madcap Perhaps there may have been a few more wife murders than necessary, but, if one assumes to call wife murder a crime, he must be reminded that the natives of Japat were fatalists. The Man from Brodney's If he had thought it worth while to profess an "ism" at all, he would have been a fatalist. This Is the End Every man at the front, it seemed to me, was a fatalist. A Minstrel in France After all that, it would hardly seem possible to avoid becoming a fatalist? A Hero of Our Time At any rate I was a fatalist in creed, believing that what was willed would happen, and that man was but a puppet in the hands of his Maker. Prester John But ‘it was not so written’—said my man, who is a Greek and a fatalist. Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society Her early, somewhat Bohemian training had made her something of a fatalist. The Scarlet Pimpernel We were fatalists now, believing in Kismet, and that is a comfortable faith. Greenmantle The fatalists do not deny it, for, by the strangest blunder, it is the presence of evil which has made them fatalists. System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery I was always a fatalist, and in that hour of strained body and soul I became something of a mystic. Prester John She was, moreover, a fatalist, and as she did not attempt to direct things beyond her control, she found a good deal of time to enjoy the ways of man and nature. The Song of the Lark Do not allow this letter to affect you too much, and do not think that I give way to dejection or despondency; no, I am a fatalist, and I believe in my star. What is Property? "I suppose you mean that for a cheerful way of announcing that you are a fatalist." The Flirt It is a very superficial argument to say that if a man holds the views of a fatalist he will therefore cease to strive, and will wait resignedly for what fate may send him. The Stark Munro Letters But I am something of a fatalist, like all good Orientals, and I entered ready, for anything. The Phantom of the Opera Theron found himself watching this man with the stern composure of a fatalist. The Damnation of Theron Ware "Without being a fatalist to the point of nonresistance," said he, "I have always found that the highest wisdom lies in an acquiescence with the actual." The Poison Belt It might be argued with reasonable plausibility that Americans are the greatest fatalists in the world; the readiest to take chances and the least given to whining when the cards go against them. The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation He is a philosopher, a fatalist, impervious to fear, a dreamer of distant dreams amid the most furious bombardment. A Visit to Three Fronts June 1916 In fact, will not every thing conduct to indulgence the fatalist whom experience has convinced of the necessity of things? The System of Nature, Volume 1 Hawthorne was not wholly a fatalist, or he never could have conceived the character of Donatello, but he was very largely so. Sketches from Concord and Appledore I am not a fatalist, old man, but it does seem that fate hasn't destined Thor to play football for old Bannister this season! T. Haviland Hicks Senior Allah-Akbar" of a philosophic fatalist—"I will live for the day. The Woman with the Fan Another application of the law of irony: Zeno, a fatalist by theory, makes his disciples heroes; Epicurus, the upholder of liberty, makes his disciples languid and effeminate. Amiel's Journal It is the fatalist who ought to be humble, who should be modest from principle: is he not obliged to acknowledge, that he possesses nothing that he has not previously received? The System of Nature, Volume 1 You know we are a sort of fatalists here in America. A Traveler from Altruria: Romance Well, said the Afghans among themselves, what must be must be, for they are all fatalists. The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 He preached "higher doctrine," i.e., more fatalist and antinomian than his gentler colleague,—and, having also a stentorian voice, was much the greater favourite at the chapel. Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography The fatalist Hamlet, whom we have seen coming ever closer to the doctrine of Predestination, answers as follows:— 'Not a whit; we defy augury; there is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. Shakspere and Montaigne "Madame has said it"—Henri was a fatalist—in his speech, at least, he lived up to his creed. In and out of Three Normady Inns He is a fatalist in philosophy, and this helps him too. Behind the Bungalow The Hindu accepts misfortune with the languid stoicism of the fatalist; injury and wrong rarely rouse him, especially, as in this case, when it comes too indirectly for him to trace the real injurer. The Native Born or, the Rajah's People He is no fatalist; he believes in man's work, therefore he urges her to let herself be the instrument by which God's work shall be done. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes The Colonel was a fatalist: he had often advanced this Oriental creed in his simple discourses with his son and Clive's friends. The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family She was never, as we know, one of those Christian fatalists whose optimism leads them to inaction. Letters of Catherine Benincasa Like many very young women with a vivid love of enjoyment and a fairly wide experience, she was something of a fatalist. An American Politician He was said to be, then, a fatalist, and so vented this command as if he believed "What must be, must be!" unlike the doubter who said: "No! what must be, won't be!" The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form Every one is busy; every one seems to be happy or at any rate not discontented; every one chatters and laughs and is, one feels, a fatalist. Roving East and Roving West II Lieutenant Tyeglev belonged precisely to the class of those "fatal" individuals, though he did not possess the exterior commonly associated with them; he was not, for instance, in the least like Lermontov's "fatalist." Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories He seems to have become a misanthrope, and a fatalist like myself. Erema — My Father's Sin Scarlet braces, a fatalist no more, came trotting up. Gone to Earth They certainly had no faith in the war, but neither did they believe in anything against it;—fatalists, pessimists all. Clerambault The Story of an Independent Spirit During the War He considered the foreign philosopher as a man zealous in the cause of religion; and with him he was willing to join against the system of the fatalists, and the doctrine of Leibnitz. Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes Unlike most "fatalists," he did not use particularly elaborate expressions in speaking and only had recourse to them in writing; his handwriting was quite like a child's. Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories We are fatalists, we Russians near the Tartar line! A Man and His Money I dismiss the fatalist as a quibbler and play on. The Boss of Little Arcady He had in his way the fatalist passivity of the people, which hides itself, on Gallic soil, behind a veil of ironic carelessness. Clerambault The Story of an Independent Spirit During the War The attitude of the Gael towards the supernatural, and his general outlook upon life in times gone by, was not associated with unbroken gloom; nor was he always an ineffectual dreamer and melancholy fatalist. Elves and Heroes I'm more like a fatalist—sometimes I hardly know what I am.' Tenterhooks The hard knocks of life have made me a fatalist, so now I shrug my shoulders. The Secrets of the German War Office I glance disdainfully at the fatalist whom I have refuted, and prepare again to lay down the first row of cards. The Boss of Little Arcady Lincoln was not a fatalist, but he did believe that he would live to complete his specific work and that he would not live beyond that. The Life of Abraham Lincoln As for Otter, he also believed that the hour of death was nigh, but being a fatalist this did not trouble him much. The People of the Mist A case in point, familiar to every seaman, was the last fight put up by that famous Plymouth sailor, Emanuel Herbert, another fatalist who, like Bingham, believed in having two strings to his bow. The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore The most reckless and daring fellows in the regiment were perfect fatalists in theur confidence that God would watch over them, and that if they died, it would be because theur time had come. Army Life in a Black Regiment I thought then, and have often thought since, how far the principle of moderation might be extended, and whether you could be a moderate agnostic or a moderate fatalist or a moderate logician. The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography He was a fatalist—a man without fear—and many times when surrounded by an overwhelming foe, he simply bided his time and fought his way through to safety. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers They become fatalists, not avowedly perhaps, but unconsciously. The People of the Mist You know, Maximilian, how much of a fatalist I am; I would have returned to the abbey, to spare myself the vexations which I foresaw; fate opposed it; I abandoned myself to my star. Mysteries of Paris, V3 So saying, the gloomy fatalist turned from her, and stalked off with sullen composure to the place of confinement allotted to him. The Abbot "It's a risk that we all take in war," said Dalton, who was more of a fatalist than any of the others. The Scouts of Stonewall The Story of the Great Valley Campaign "The old fatalist would have suspected her answer otherwise!" he told himself, for he knew that he himself suspected it. King of the Khyber Rifles Selfish desire had made of him a fatalist. Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness Of course this is a fatalistic doctrine, but then, as I have said before, within certain limits I am a fatalist. She and Allan Here he was known as a rigid Presbyterian, and a "fatalist," if it be fatalism to believe that "what will be will be,"—Jackson's constant motto. The Campaign of Chancellorsville On the other hand, neither are those who speak of institutions as if they were a kind of living organisms really the political fatalists they give themselves out to be. Considerations on Representative Government In her he saw typified all those who possessed the divine discontent, the yearning unsatisfied,—the fatalists and the dreamers. The Inside of the Cup — Complete In her he saw typified all those who possessed the: divine discontent, the yearning unsatisfied,—the fatalists and the dreamers. The Inside of the Cup — Volume 05 The Turk offered no further objection than a shrug of his fatalist shoulders and a muttered remark about Ermenie and bandits. The Eye of Zeitoon For my part I have long been a fatalist, to a certain extent. Allan and the Holy Flower Being by nature and religion fatalists, they cheerfully accept these undeserved hardships as the will of Allah. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran In that case the rationalist will usually also be in favor of what is called free-will, and the empiricist will be a fatalist— I use the terms most popularly current. Pragmatism Your old solitary, G. Sand What an admirable definition I rediscover with surprise in the fatalist Pascal! The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters It suited neither his national pride nor religious prejudices to be disarmed by a gipsy woman; but the Turk is an amazing fatalist, and unexpectedness is his peculiar quality. The Eye of Zeitoon Lively or slow she always assumed in them the accents of a fatalist impossibility, for the laws of arithmetic have preceded her, and there still remains, as it were, an atmosphere of proud rigidity. Chopin : the Man and His Music Thus I am somewhat of a fatalist about art, because it seems to depend upon a lucky union of conception and technical instinct. The Altar Fire I would not call her a fatalist, but she has little conception of the possibility of moulding character;—it's a rich mind, but perhaps an indecisive mind? Watersprings It is a delightful thing to be a fatalist"—meaning, commented Burton, "that the Divine direction and pre-ordination of all things saved him so much trouble of forethought and afterthought. The Life of Sir Richard Burton And for the moment Mallard was the truer fatalist. The Emancipated And in the country some get such stagnant habits of mind that they are almost fatalists.' North and South It is commonly believed that I am a fatalist; it is therefore very natural that I should not have forgotten my first coronation, and that it is still fresh in my memory. Empress Josephine An historical sketch of the days of Napoleon On the scientific plane one is a fatalist, the universe a system of inevitable consequences. First and Last Things We all must be fatalists to that extent, and once a course has been determined upon, accept it and make the best of it. Letters of Franklin K. Lane Most men who either from choice or necessity have knocked about the world for any length of time are more or less fatalists. The Intrusion of Jimmy "So you are a fatalist, Unorna," observed her companion, still stroking and twisting his beard. The Witch of Prague What was Hans thinking of - that man of the far West, but who seemed ruled by the fatalist doctrines of the East? A Journey to the Interior of the Earth I'm enough of a fatalist to believe that Mother is here because she was old and worn out. A Daughter of the Land Even then, months and months before he met Joan or knew of her existence, this very evening might have been mapped out He was a fatalist, and it fell into his creed to think so. Who Cares? a story of adolescence She was as much a fatalist as any one of them. The Garden of Allah Israel Kafka's nature was eastern, violently passionate and, at the same time, long-suffering in certain directions as only the fatalist can be. The Witch of Prague Hence the 'sic sinuerunt Fata,' will dash the fatalist ahead, and embolden him to knock down friend or foe, so as to carry out his conceit. The Eureka Stockade Tchekov, more of a fatalist, had no faith in these charming people extricating themselves. Heartbreak House He was not a fatalist, but it had been borne in upon him recently that this thing was inescapable. Children of the Whirlwind For I am, as you know, a fatalist. The Garden of Allah They became fatalists after a few fights, and believed in their luck, or their mascots—teddy-bears, a bullet that had missed them, china dolls, a girl's lock of hair, a silver ring. Now It Can Be Told For, agnostics, atheists or believers, are we not, most of us, fatalists at heart? Beatrice Half the Lieber-Dans are cowardly compromisers; half of them simple fatalists….” Ten Days That Shook the World But Mrs. Noel did not answer; and sweeping her glance from that crown of soft dark hair, down the soft white figure, to the very feet, Barbara cried: "I believe you are a fatalist." The Patrician For the rest, I did not interfere because I saw it was useless; also I am a fatalist like our friend, the Molimo, and believe in what is decreed. Benita, an African romance Most of the men became fatalists, with odd superstitions in the place of faith. Now It Can Be Told Oh, I grow fatalist—what must be must, Seeing that thou, beloved, art so sweet! The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 Samuel was a fatalist; he felt that his star had set, that Fate had conspired to ruin his hopes, that he was found guilty and condemned. Samuel Brohl and Company To the confidence which the heroic fatalist placed in his high destiny and in his sacred cause is to be partly attributed his singular indifference to danger. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 There was something in the way the mint bed burned and floated that made one a fatalist,—afraid to meddle. One of Ours It was the deep calm of the fatalist. Some Short Stories [by Henry James] If there were one of those friends whose lifetime was twisted with your own, I am enough of a fatalist to feel assured that you will meet that one again, wander whither you may. The Marble Faun - Volume 2 The Romance of Monte Beni But the poor are fatalists with regard to infection! and well for them it is so, for in their crowded dwellings no invalid can be isolated. Mary Barton Theoretically, the Chinese are fatalists in the fullest sense of the word. Historic China, and other sketches I'm afraid long residence in the East has rendered me something of a fatalist, Cavanagh! The Quest of the Sacred Slipper There are apparently fatalist governments as well as individuals, which, absorbed in the fancied prosperity of the present, legislate for temporal advantages only. Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon Many other great philosophers took and take the other view: the Lucretian pagans, the Moslem fatalists, the modern monists and determinists, all roughly confine themselves to saying that God gave man a law. A Miscellany of Men His quietude is equal to that of the fatalist; his resignation does truly enable him to bear all. The Brotherhood of Consolation He accepted the situation with the fortitude of a fatalist. Captain Blood But I am sure that in consenting to the recording of Miss Emily's story, she feels that she is doing what that gentle fatalist would call following the hand of Providence. The Confession To a fatalist it can matter but little whether a nation fulfills its duty, or whether, by neglecting it, punishment should be drawn down upon its head. Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon The fatalist acquiesces in the course of things because he cannot help it. The Crown of Thorns : a token for the sorrowing Above all these human lives stood a strong man, the skipper; no doubts assailed him, the chief, the king, the fatalist among them. Christ in Flanders Not even the shadow of the old superstition rested on his mind now—no fatalist suspicion of himself disturbed the steady resolution that was in him. Armadale As will be seen Fonseca was a fatalist, a belief which I do not altogether share, holding as I do that within certain limits we are allowed to shape our own characters and destinies. Montezuma's Daughter A fatalist might read in her appearance at this particular moment the signs of a prearranged doom. The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English Many a man has become a fatalist because he has fallen under the dominion of a single idea. Sophist Conspicuous was a certain trend in his thinking that was part of Herndon's warrant for calling him a fatalist. Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War His head sank on his breast, and the fatalist resignation which had once already quieted him on board the wreck now quieted him again. Armadale But I can't find it in me to behave like a fatalist, to sit down with folded hands. The Rescue A Romance of the Shallows I might not have to use it, but I was fatalist enough to fancy that I should. Dead Men Tell No Tales Marais, who was a fatalist, wished to go on, saying that the good Lord would protect us, as He had done in the past. Marie An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain All this is part of the phenomena which Herndon perceived more clearly than he comprehended it, which led him to call Lincoln a fatalist. Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War Hardened by the fatalist conviction that now possessed him, Midwinter read the rector's confession of defeat, from the first line to the last, without the slightest betrayal either of interest or surprise. Armadale The Spaniard, it will be seen, was a fatalist, like Napoleon, Mahomet, and many other great politicians. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life They were all fatalists, men of nerve and poesy, weary of leading flat and empty lives, driven toward Asiatic enjoyments by forces all the more excessive because, long dormant, they awoke furious. Ferragus In her quiet way she was an incurable fatalist, and a firm believer in the ghostly reality of apparitions from the dead. Little Novels As he sat there with folded arms, he was surely a fatalist. The Illustrious Prince He was a fatalist pure and simple, and took whatever came to him in a thoroughly fatalist spirit. London's Underworld As a fatalist, he lives devoted to the conviction that there are certain Higher Powers, whom man, particularly the soldier, cannot resist. Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Better almost the black resignation which the fatalist draws from his own hopelessness, from the fierce kisses of misery that hiss against his tears. Shelley; an essay You know I was always a fatalist, Paul. Paul Kelver, a Novel They didn't want a labourer now, but the Oracle was a vague fatalist, and Mitchell a decided one. Over the Sliprails Most men who have their way to make are more or less of fatalists, and Eugene was superstitious; he chose to consider that his luck was heaven's reward for his perseverance in the right way. Father Goriot The leaders, with the carelessness of fatalists, do not hesitate for an instant to publish their intentions to the world. War of the Classes Oh, shall I then, again become a fatalist, whom fourteen years of despair and ten of hope had rendered a believer in providence? The Count of Monte Cristo The ancient Germans were fatalists and believed only those would die in battle whom fate had so predestined. The Nibelungenlied |
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