But Musk's approach has always been more fatalistic than inspiring.
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Many in London are fatalistic about this sort of thing.
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At times, they seemed to embrace that outcome as fatalistic.
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There's an attitude on here that's very kind of fatalistic.
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"I'm somewhat fatalistic: if it happens, it happens," he said.
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I choose not to be as fatalistic as the filmmaker.
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Still, Trump seemed optimistic rather than fatalistic about the future.
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Who better to guide us through our own fatalistic age?
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On Gili Trawangan, visitors and locals were not so fatalistic.
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Other conference attendees expressed a particularly fatalistic view of mass shootings.
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Mr. Atlan said he has a fatalistic view of his collection.
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"My father, as ever, was fatalistic about his own destiny," Kennedy writes.
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It all suddenly felt inevitable, the fatalistic promise of a third shift.
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She said she had adopted a fatalistic approach to the final round.
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There's something fatalistic about watching Gervais continually do this to his characters.
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The humor fades into fatalistic meditations on life lived while straddling worlds.
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Mr. Trump also sounded fatalistic about the possibility of an Iranian escalation.
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The moralism that Tin Nyo explores can only be described as fatalistic.
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But he was fatalistic on the prospect of another spot kick ordeal.
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Others were more fatalistic about future penalties from President Donald Trump's administration.
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But I am not fatalistic, and I am not ready to give up.
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It's easy to read Like Me as a fatalistic commentary on social media.
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Jordan has even done some fatalistic rapping about believing he would die young.
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Certainly, the script is as forbiddingly fatalistic as that of a Greek tragedy.
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Hats off to Katagari for her disarmingly earnest yet cheerfully fatalistic, wearable sculptures.
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The old wax fatalistic, and the young don't really believe they'll grow old.
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There may also be a more fatalistic dimension to Thiel's support for Trump.
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That may seem reminiscent of the city's fatalistic attitude to crime in the 1980s.
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The song's fatalistic despair at its own rush to stereotype is its crowning humor.
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The End of Eddy takes a fatalistic approach to the circumstances of Hallencourt's workers.
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Where those works are righteous and angry, The Vietnam War is fatalistic and resigned.
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He's emotional, tender, violent, sensual, fickle, determined, fatalistic, unpredictable, unreliable, hedonistic, and from Louisiana.
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Characters are always on the verge of betrayal or doom; the aura is fatalistic.
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"Fatalistic, hopeful, worried and uncertain," he wrote about the results in the report's foreword.
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One takes a structured, purposeful, proactive approach; the other is more passive and fatalistic.
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One takes a structured, purposeful, proactive approach; the other is more passive and fatalistic.
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Soto had shrunk his world to a grunt's regimen and assumed a fatalistic view.
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Moss plays Offred as detached, fatalistic, but quietly resilient in the face of these threats.
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" This fatalistic stance relies on widely-held but mistaken assumptions about what constitutes "normal aging.
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Myth No. 9: Karma is fatalistic Reality: Everyone has the ability to choose life's actions.
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Smith doesn't buy into the fatalistic notion that this type of violence is inevitable, though.
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With the Biles-led American team so strong, some competitors are feeling a bit fatalistic.
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I also imagine you might even kind of create a fatalistic map for people's lives.
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If that's not an invitation to a dark, fatalistic journey, I don't know what is.
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There is another way to read that title, though: as fatalistic disillusionment with show business.
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Unperturbed, Thais are fatalistic and stoic — an absence of hysteria that contrasts favorably with Westerners.
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This was epic superhero sturm und drang with a fatalistic twist, and it sold like crazy.
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Speculation, as both financial activity and futurological metaphor, has an urgent and fatalistic tang these days.
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I grew up in a so-called communist society, but it really is a fatalistic society.
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"Turks are a bit fatalistic, we believe our fate is written on our foreheads," he said.
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He points out that it embraces a fatalistic outlook that can keep real progress from happening.
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In the beginning, it was neither exclusively male nor dedicated to a fatalistic anti-woman ideology.
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His two films from the 1980s, "The Dark Crystal" and "Labyrinth," skew darker and more fatalistic.
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This seems to be the same fatalistic approach we now employ when dealing with mass murder.
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Even Mr. Gantz's admirers can sound fatalistic about the political ramifications of renewed fighting in Gaza.
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As for himself, he has adopted a surprisingly fatalistic attitude ... 'It's life,' he said of the investigation.
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That's funny coming from you, because you seem particularly fatalistic about the fate of the natural world.
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Both Huntington and Lewis were sophisticated conservatives whose arguments, though fatalistic and deeply flawed, are worth reading.
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By the time he checked into Room 306, he was, for good reason, feeling vulnerable and fatalistic.
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All of these battles infected the country's politics with a particularly fatalistic, death-seeking variety of nationalism.
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Past, present and future all look ominously cloudy as forecast by the young, precociously fatalistic Mr. Stoppard.
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"The fatalistic conclusion that Trump can erase Obama's achievements is overstated — perhaps even completely false," Chait writes.
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The near-death experiences -- overseas and at home -- gave Ojeda a fatalistic way of looking at politics.
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He's become much more fatalistic, but he has less energy for the fight than he did before.
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In nontheme news, I liked Mr. Halperin's choice of long Down entries: MINDBENDER, FATALISTIC, JETPOWERED and UNBIRTHDAY.
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For example, we subscribe to a deeply engrained and fatalistic notion that we are powerless against Mother Nature.
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The first verse would be preachy and flat if it didn't lead immediately to a soaring, fatalistic chorus.
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As for himself, he has adopted a surprisingly fatalistic attitude, according to several people he speaks with regularly.
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Others are more fatalistic, like Mr. Eira, who sued to try to block the Statnett project, and lost.
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When it came to the prospect of individual recovery from mental disorders, clinicians were fatalistic rather than hopeful.
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Until now, the films of Corneliu Porumboiu have been austere, rigorously linear and leavened with understated, fatalistic humor.
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" But, he adds, "the fatalistic conclusion that Trump can erase Obama's achievements is overstated — perhaps even completely false.
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It begins with a restless and fatalistic Miyazaki, keeping his idle hands busy with sketches, strong coffee, and cigarettes.
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His estranged gaze on aging, illness and lost love has a urgency that feels relevant in a fatalistic age.
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Party leaders who are fatalistic about Democrats' chances in 2020 are musing about possible late entrants to the race.
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But the reality is that ordinary Chinese often feel powerless and fatalistic when it comes to censorship and surveillance.
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He's won five straight in his career's second act at welterweight, and his last three performances have looked thoroughly fatalistic.
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Her approach to child-rearing is loving, fatalistic and far removed from the "helicopter parenting" so common in rich countries.
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Bannon, who served as a naval officer in the Pacific, has offered similarly fatalistic views toward the US-China relationship.
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While he admits that he could have made some different choices, the essay as a whole takes a fatalistic tone.
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A dark, fatalistic exhibition of 30 artists, mostly Americans, examines a country that has lost its grip on the truth.
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A dark, fatalistic exhibition of 21212 artists, mostly Americans, examines a country that has lost its grip on the truth.
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Giachino is furious with local politicians and says he'll vote for Bacelar, even if he is fatalistic about her chances.
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In the wake of incident, there were even moments where Girardi seemed somewhat fatalistic about his future with the team.
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There's a fatalistic streak running through these selections, but it's one that might help us bring about a fairer world.
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Bret: Maybe it's because I'm Jewish, but I have a fatalistic outlook on life and a bad feeling about 2020.
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A dark, fatalistic exhibition of 2116 artists, mostly Americans, examines a country that has lost its grip on the truth.
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A dark, fatalistic exhibition of 230 artists, mostly Americans, examines a country that has lost its grip on the truth.
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White is alive to drifts in his readership, and "The Unpunished Vice" finds him fatalistic about the future of literature.
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The two flit and play on tenuous thresholds, darkness and comedy, delving into a man's pain and his fatalistic insanity.
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Ms. Wells sings in a smoky alto, diffident but beckoning, and her fatalistic languor can be reminiscent of Lana Del Rey.
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Andrew Yang has been a bit more fatalistic, telling supporters that he needs a strong finish to stay in the race.
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The teams will be separated into three categories—"Growing long shots", "The fatalistic upper-middle class", and "(Maybe) one player away".
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While the surface of these lines puts a measure of despondency on display, I don't take the book, finally, as fatalistic.
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Yet other depictions are refreshingly nuanced, moving far beyond the fatalistic narrative of a perverted, predatory woman rejecting her reproductive abilities.
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Despite skepticism about this fatalistic view of history, Strauss and Howe's thinking about generations—and particularly about millennials—had outsize influence.
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That may reflect the same fatalistic outlook that dissuades the majority of Italian householders in seismic areas from buying earthquake insurance.
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Then, also from '68, Mr. Gil's "Marginalia II," a slyly fatalistic diagnosis of the national condition, set against springy baião rhythm.
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It stood motionless, its wings together, waiting with the fatalistic calm of a creature that lives for only a short time.
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Thus, even though a majority of Americans consider the president unfit for office, a fatalistic sense of stasis has set in.
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The same pattern takes over my mind when I dive down those rabbit holes, where I become fatalistic rather than proactive.
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But it is also steeped in a fatalistic dread with which the characters of "Road" and "Disco Pigs" might well identify.
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So his production, first presented in 2014 at the Festival Hall in Baden-Baden, Germany, has hints of shadowy, fatalistic 1940s films.
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Jyoti Kumar, 47, the owner of a supermarket chain in New Delhi, said that many Indians had become fatalistic about the air.
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His estranged gaze on aging, illness and lost love has a urgency that feels all too relevant in a newly fatalistic age.
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People often have fatalistic attitudes when it comes to plane crashes, which can lead to apathy when it comes to safety briefings.
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He said he was convinced the impasse would continue without war, but he was fatalistic about the possibility that it would not.
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Older players often exhibited what now seems like a fatalistic attitude about dishonest opponents, even in cases they believed to be obvious.
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The collective voice of the villagers, a chorus in Jamaican dialect, echoes the bewilderment — occasionally expressed with fatalistic humor — that grips Gibbeah.
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The old stereotypes of the fatalistic Russian peasant willing to endure any hardship for the motherland are long since out of date.
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More than in any science fiction movie I've seen — maybe any movie — Sunshine's characters face this knowledge with a kind of fatalistic grace.
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And yet Robin argues that Thomas has always been a "black nationalist" with a very coherent and fatalistic view of race in America.
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I tried not to be too fatalistic, and I really don't want to leave the impression that there aren't steps we can take.
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The dry humor and detached, fatalistic attitude rings true for a game where you can essentially do what you want without serious consequences.
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"He's like shockingly fatalistic," said friend Jim Trusty, an attorney at Ifrah Law in Washington who's a former Justice Department colleague of Rosenstein's.
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Yoshiki's always having himself filmed because I think early on there was this fatalistic impulse of film everything because he could die tomorrow.
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And Saturday night, after the Yankees were eliminated by the Astros, Girardi had an almost fatalistic tone as he discussed his baseball future.
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But in the decade leading up to his sudden death in 226, at 22020, Warhol's art gradually changed in tone, grew darker, fatalistic.
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It's Blake Shelton's latest paean to rural life, a song about hard-working, churchgoing farmers that's not cozy and nostalgic, but grimly fatalistic.
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Also frustrating, said Sergeant Kennett, was an almost fatalistic outlook among some Amish elders that tragedies such as buggy accidents were God's will.
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Professor Cumings said many of its citizens now know little about the conflict and have "a fatalistic orientation" toward the economically isolated North.
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How I wish I were fatalistic, someone who tells himself I did all I could and now will leave my destiny to fate.
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"A Parallelogram" is filled with them, but as they are all variations on the same fatalistic theme, they offer diminishing returns of pleasure.
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The safest bet is to go geographical — Top of Asia — though I wonder if fatalistic might work best: Knocked Out In Group Stage.
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His caricatural renderings invoke George Grosz's cutting social satire, but he replaces Grosz's dark humor with grotesque and fatalistic images, haunted by death.
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Those ambitions, coupled with a fatalistic world view that places little value on human life or individual rights makes Putin a very dangerous man.
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The notion that we were completely over was hard to fathom due to my fatalistic tendencies: There is no one out there for me.
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David Llewellyn, also of Exeter University, said the findings held an important message that undermined what he described as "a fatalistic view of dementia".
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Haiti's models of government-private sector relations and wealth creation are archaic, and the culture is event-driven and fatalistic, which makes development harder.
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There's a tendency to be fatalistic, to say, 'God willing, everything will be fine,' or 'I'll deal with it when the baby is born.
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She didn't have "a particularly happy growing-up," with parents who, having survived the war, had a rather fatalistic and cautious outlook on life.
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If anything, though, it looks like the Trump administration is getting overly fatalistic, assuming that everything they try will get held up in court.
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Despite the public's often fatalistic attitudes when it comes to flying, there are some things you can do to increase their chances of survival.
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Many Indians have become fatalistic about the government taking tougher steps to clean the air, if they even know how dangerous it has become.
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Comensal moves through several responses to Ramón's worsening situation, most of which encourage the proud atheist's fatalistic, interior raging and bleak flights of fancy.
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Year in and year out, with fatalistic regularity, envelopes bearing that name would invade the homes of the unwary, the unwilling and the unready.
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My conquests began to feel fatalistic; they saw me as part of a lineage of queer black excellence that they could quantify and consume.
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Playing underneath this series of images is a fatalistic drumbeat that sounds like a battlecry for war from a two-bit action hero movie.
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This fatalistic vision is brought to you by the very disturbing news that cockroaches have apparently begun to develop a cross-resistance to powerful insecticides.
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Her ongoing aesthetic evolution — one sign among others of her artistic greatness — belies her supposition that art-making today is a form of fatalistic acceptance.
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That fatalistic note would disappear on Friday night, when Trump again floated the idea that a massive voter fraud scheme could deliver Clinton the presidency.
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The same can't be said for the fatalistic ethos of Vince Staples's Summertime '06, an acerbic project that offers a very different, very valid worldview.
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As a low-post mastodon with incomparable vision and a picture-perfect fadeaway jumper, he creates some of the most fatalistic scenarios in NBA history.
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" As for Cuban, he tells Bloomberg that his warnings may sound "fatalistic," but we see the "direction everything is going, and how quickly it's going.
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But while Bowie's nihilism grew darker as he grew older—Blackstar is a rarity in his catalog, a bleak album—he was never fatalistic or despairing.
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These data may lend themselves to a fatalistic view of innovation, but the authors provide strong evidence that a child's surroundings matter more than his genes.
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In a recent interview with Noisey, art school starter pack mainstay Mac DeMarco was fatalistic about the friction between his heavily ironic aesthetic and his music.
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Right of boom planning is no more fatalistic than aggressively treating the growth of a cancer cell or building a sea wall as the oceans rise.
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Surrounded by rubble in the village of Arquata di Tronto, 65-year-old Altiero Cinaglia sounded fatalistic about bringing Japanese-style safety standards to creaking Italy.
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John Thune, the majority whip from South Dakota, told CNN that there was a bit of "a fatalistic view" that the time had come to vote.
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But others, including several lawmakers who have pushed for major gun control bills in the past, were largely fatalistic about the prospects of a policy response.
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"I don't think you can describe Mexico without describing this fatalistic humor," said Jennifer Clement, a novelist and president of PEN International who grew up in Mexico.
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His record does indeed imply a humble view of both America's interests and its influence: a fatalistic accommodation with what he sees as a tragically intractable world.
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"Weathering With You" loses its way with a diffuse ending that leans heavily on pop songs and includes a fatalistic shrug and a romantic deluge of tears.
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You can't stop a hurricane -- only try to limit its impact ...This seems to be the same fatalistic approach we now employ when dealing with mass murder.
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Mr. Russell has said in interviews with the British news media that after Molly's death, he discovered she followed accounts that posted this sort of "fatalistic" messaging.
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The track is vintage Lana, all simpering vocals set against a booming, fatalistic instrumental, and The Weeknd actually fits in surprisingly well to her highly specific mold.
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But after dinner, when it was time to say goodbye, after relaxing and some booze, we were in a more fatalistic mood—like, let's hug and kiss goodbye.
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To be born into the ranks of the Filipino poor is to be condemned to the fatalistic knowledge of perpetual hardship, and the dangerous futility of seeking improvement.
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Many Russian consumers, having spent months already watching the value of the rubles in their pockets fall against the dollar, have adopted a fatalistic approach to the ruble's decline.
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Marked by perpetual cycles between life and death, nature has always had its morbid qualities, but there are some objects within the exhibition that flirt with the downright fatalistic.
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Re-creating the Obama coalition Statistics showing key facets of his coalition turning out in smaller early vote numbers this year have driven the President to almost fatalistic language.
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Apparently his fatalistic supporters know what he is, and, if they don't exactly love him for it, in a face-off with his opponent, they prefer their charlatanry straight.
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Ms. Day, who summed up her fatalistic philosophy in the words of one of her biggest hits, "Que Sera, Sera" ("What will be, will be"), never liked unhappy endings.
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Suspicion existed, albeit furtively, in the early Middle Ages, for example among those who practised medicine and rejected the fatalistic idea that a human lifespan was up to God.
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And yet, despite the good fortune that's followed them, their third album Morbid Stuff is true to its name, jam-packed with the most fatalistic songs they've ever written.
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In a written statement, Trump painted a dark portrait of immigration in the United States, one that harkens back to some of his more fatalistic speeches, including his inaugural address.
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As a director, he brought the same sensibility to August Strindberg's fatalistic "Creditors," which located the fire and the ice with an almost scientific precision in a destructive romantic triangle.
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The aggressive prosecution of Barriss seems designed to deter others who might be tempted to seek swatting's buzz of power—a stratagem that has made Barriss fatalistic about his future.
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" Liking a band like The Smiths, he says, signals an intrinsic part of someone's character, since the band has "a specific sense of humor" and are somewhat "romantic" and "fatalistic.
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But the inadvertent result is a dark, fatalistic spin on a genre traditionally defined by freedom of movement and ultimate triumph, a feeling present even in the lightest of fare.
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For all its quips and quotes, "The Dead Don't Die" is also an outright horror movie, one suffused with a melancholy that a journalist at the news conference deemed fatalistic.
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At the time of the documentary the cancer had gone into remission, but Mr. Hall was fatalistic in the film, saying the odds were against his living another 21953 years.
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The book is full of both cheerful and fatalistic waiting, whether in line at church or for a letter to arrive or for the rain to stop (or start again).
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A week later, he ended Expedia's quarterly earnings call by saying: "Hopefully we will all be alive to see the end of next year," an apparent dig at Trump's fatalistic proclivities.
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The one thing Welsh fans must do is enjoy this experience, because – without wishing to sound too much like a fatalistic Welshman – it will quite possibly never be this good again.
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John Cook, a professor at George Mason University's Center for Climate Change Communication, said that fatalistic scenarios run the risk of being self-fulfilling, but he added that fear is effective.
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This brand of humor is part of Sorrow-scopes's appeal: It's absurd and fatalistic — the adjectives of our time — without sacrificing the sense of mysterious insight that makes astrology so attractive.
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These stories, exploring the fatalistic territory that has held her interest ever since, often send Americans to a foreign land, where their ancient conflicts and compulsions show up in sharp relief.
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The title of Andy Bragen's new autobiographical show, "Notes on My Mother's Decline," forecasts exactly what's in store: It is just as collected, fatalistic and grief-stricken as you might expect.
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Blankfein also registered his disagreement with the fatalistic rhetoric used by Democrats during Trump's impeachment proceedings, which had concluded days earlier with the president's acquittal at the time of the interview.
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I'll remember the unbudging stubbornness, the infuriating inflexibility and the fatalistic idealism that have characterised late-era Wenger, with far greater clarity than I'll remember his radical years as the pioneering Professeur.
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In the 2010's, Zayn and Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey and Ke$ha have all released fatalistic songs about checking out early that make the prospect sound almost an attractive one.
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I think I am a bit of fatalistic person, but the 'the glow of something magic' is an optimistic beautiful picture, but it is attached to a thing that is so sad.
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However, more than just a fatalistic warning, Mattingly's incongruous forest, in its ability to grow fruit, is also a proposition on how future generations might find sustenance in midst of tragic displacement.
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A meeting between two German soldiers in this cratered deathscape has been singled out as the essence of Germany's fatalistic mood, trapped between one war and another that is yet to come.
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Through scores of professional and romantic rejections, through draft upon draft of seemingly unfinishable novels, through years of trying to have a baby with my wife, I held onto my fatalistic optimism.
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Bob Pappas, 73, who was a communications sergeant at an ammunition depot in Long Binh, said he had grown fatalistic after hearing that several of their Inwood buddies were killed in action.
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This fatalistic indifference is something that drives the optimistic American liberal quite mad; he is prone, in his more exasperated moments, to refer to Negroes as political children, an appellation not entirely just.
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"Our understanding about risk factors and how you can prevent them have really made it possible for people not to be sort of fatalistic but to fight against both of these diseases," Jessup said.
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But a storm that can't be stopped is being discussed in grave and fatalistic tones by the East African women we meet in the first scene of this unresolved work, directed by Whitney White.
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The main evidence for this fatalistic argument lies in Michael's admission that he doesn't actually know how to get to The Good Place—a pretty major knowledge gap for an allegedly all-knowing being.
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To talk to many residents of these neighborhoods is to inevitably find two attitudes: assurances that they will be voting for Mr. Jones and a fatalistic certitude that, of course, Mr. Moore will win.
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The song "(That's Your) Red Wagon," delivered by the dancer-vocalist Marie Bryant, a star of the Cotton Club who toured with Duke Ellington, is a showstopper, but nothing slows the movie's fatalistic trajectory.
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There's a twisty flute sample, but this isn't the fatalistic drug-hell of "Mask Off"—you'll find Cordae advocating for prayer while explaining that he paints pictures and other MCs just fiddle with crayons.
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Humor, of course, is often the refuge of the disenfranchised and disaffected, but there's a difference in both tenor and objective between hypocrisy-dicing irony and its weak cousin: detached, fatalistic, teenage-style sarcasm.
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Although she makes a strong case for belligerence as part and parcel of the human animal, I don't see Bernstein's art as fatalistic — that we are by nature doomed to repeat historical cycles of violence.
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From its scrawled cover art which could well have passed as a page of a high school art sketchbook, to the power chord-heavy breakdowns over which powerhouse frontwoman Hayley Williams wailed fatalistic lyrics, Riot!
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"Our results speak against a fatalistic view about the nature [of] altruism—namely, that it does not exist and people only do good things for self-serving motives and not to actually help," he said.
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I do not say this to be fatalistic, but as a reminder that we have spent considerable time buttressing our defenses and very little effort on minimizing other risks, mainly the risk of massive gun violence.
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Related: Chile Is Prosecuting a Group of Suspected Anarchist Subway Bombers The fatalistic tone of Bachelet's State of the Nation address last month appears to have been the straw that broke the back of student patience.
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There was Loretta Lynn's "Dear Uncle Sam"; Jimmy Webb's "Galveston," popularized by Glen Campbell; and "Green, Green Grass of Home," a haunting, fatalistic ballad told, it's revealed in the final verse, by an inmate facing execution.
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The President and other administration officials have also directed their anger at Dr. Nancy Messonnier, the CDC official who has been a public face of the coronavirus response, for what officials claim is overly fatalistic messaging.
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Read more " _____ • David Corn in Mother Jones: "What makes Trump's loose talk — and ignorance — about nuclear weapons particularly worrisome is that in the past, he has taken a fatalistic approach toward the notion of nuclear war.
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Why not mesh the lyrics' fatalistic take on the inescapable nature of death with a sequence in which David discovers how lethal it would be to free himself from the grasp of his nemesis, the Shadow King?
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"It's easy to fall into a fatalistic attitude that our cognition will get worse as we get older, but we can do things now to keep it as healthy as we can," he said in a telephone interview.
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Even at its most fatalistic, the old neo-realism was grounded in an idea of progress, in the leftist faith that after feudal paternalism and capitalist predation a better, more humane future could be imagined and struggled toward.
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It would take a Herculean effort to chronicle all the fatalistic missives that have been issued in the postwar era, but one of the most notable comes from Henry Kissinger, perhaps the best-known statesman-cum-strategist alive today.
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The problem with climate change is that it distracts us from those really urgent problems, or even worse, it makes us so fatalistic and so depressed about the fate of the natural world that we just give up. Wait.
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That the year's biggest Ryan Gosling movie could be a *crushingly* fatalistic sci-fi cinematography spectacle, SFX-gasm, and sequel is a testament to the fact that even if our imaginations hurt right now, our hearts can still soar.
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"Using a combination of bleak realism, fatalistic humor and a healthy dose of sentimentality, Mr. de Heer traces the downward spiral of a man who has become a refugee in his own homeland," Nicolas Rapold wrote in The Times.
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The form in which the husband-and-wife team of Shaun and Abigail Bengson couch their response is a sort of luxuriant, sentimental-cool folk rock, in which fatalistic and angry drumming figures prominently, along with sweet, swirling chords.
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Although the syntax of film noir is apparent — the fatalistic voiceover, the flashbacks, the high-contrast black and white lighting, and especially the proximity of sex and death — there is no retribution, only disappointment; no assertion of law, order, or meaning.
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Even Fritz Lang at his most fatalistic, in films like " Scarlet Street" (1945) and " Human Desire " (1954), allowed his heroes some freedom, if only the freedom to fall for the wrong dame, but Lanthimos's characters are in lockdown from the start.
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Then he upped the ante: He had a makeup artist use prosthetics to transform him into a character in any number of fatalistic fantasies, so that Phil could live out and actually photograph himself experiencing every possible future he could imagine.
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And he frames his critique generously, stipulating that it isn't laziness that's destroying hillbilly culture but what the psychologist Martin Seligman calls "learned helplessness" — the fatalistic belief, born of too much adversity, that nothing can be done to change your lot.
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"Reading about a list of traits or fatalistic predictions out of context can create a great deal of misunderstanding and/or fear that an astrologer can walk you through," Belgrave explained, adding that online charts can even end up contradicting themselves.
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" Though recognizing that nuclear abolition is a distant hope, he argues for urgency in pursuing this goal, because the alternative amounts to fatalistic acceptance of an inevitable nuclear holocaust — a posture that is, in his words, "dizzyingly insane and immoral.
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From a practical point of view, the political scientist Cedric Johnson has recently argued that whiteness studies promote a fatalistic view of white workers as too hopelessly committed to their racial identity to be won over to a multiracial left coalition.
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The cynical, fatalistic hardboiled detective novel and film noir of the nineteen-forties and fifties—popular genres that Auster has often invoked—murmured of the suppressed memory of the war's horrors, the trauma and doubt scrubbed out of American triumphalism.
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But even if you find Peterson or Douthat's ideas retrograde, there's still a huge gap between those viewpoints and extreme incels' fatalistic millenarianism — the same way there's a gap between condoning racial discrimination and wanting to imminently establish an all-white ethnostate.
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However, I'm not sure if this means that young people's attitudes to money become quite as fatalistic as many articles suggest (the "I'll never be able to afford a house so I may as well blow everything on a nice holiday" argument).
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During a 36-hour trip to India in February, Trump grew irate upon hearing that some administration officials, including National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases director Nancy Messonnier, were offering what he determined was an overly fatalistic assessment of the crisis.
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You were talking about Richard Dawkins and "The Selfish Gene" and you suggested that the reason we find these fatalistic ideas about genetics appealing is because they let us off the hook for all our failed attempts to make the world a better place.
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We like to believe that contemporary ecological art engages in a struggle for positive cultural change, but Chang entertains the possibility that such work is actually engaged in a struggle with its own fatalistic and disempowered sense of grief over the culture's impending demise.
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For Mr. Nikitin, the urban planning expert, however, the growing readiness of many Muscovites to follow pedestrian traffic signals "is the very opposite of Soviet attitudes" of fatalistic patience bred by the need to wait in long lines at shops and fear of punishment.
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Though it's jumped forward from the funeral to tackle more obviously comedic moments and topics, the death continues to hang over everything, causing Cam to take a more fatalistic view of his life, hoping to make a difference before his time, too, is up.
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Ever since Snowden, everyone I know has dwelled in a similar fatalistic confusion; we know that so much of our info is already out in the world—all our humiliating correspondences, our cash and coordinates, our nipples, wieners, and booties—that we shrug and do whatever's convenient.
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Yet the longer I thought about it, particularly from the perspective of someone who (obsessively) reports on mental health, the more I realized Petersen's honest but fatalistic diagnosis might lead some down a misguided path in which they give up hope that their burnout will ever improve.
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At Religion Dispatches, the University of Pennsylvania's Dr. Anthea Butler breaks down the most noteworthy results: The group with the most fatalistic view of American cultural change are white evangelical Protestants, three quarters of whom (74%) say that American culture has changed for the worse since 1950.
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It is a regular, if not quite quadrennial, tradition for a party that can be fatalistic about its prospects and recalls similar Maalox moments Democrats endured in 1992, 2004 and in the last primary, when it was Mr. Biden who nearly entered the race in October.
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A decade later, he is one of the most exciting, sought-after singers in the world — but the fatalistic warning was still ringing in my ears a few Sundays ago when Mr. Fabiano, who likes to pilot planes on his days off, took me for a flight.
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Hewson Baltzell, who made his money founding a research firm called Innovest, which rates publicly traded stocks, bonds, mutual funds and exchange-traded funds on environmental, social and governance criteria, takes a fatalistic approach to his private investments, which are guided by his passion to avoid waste.
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"I don't want to be so fatalistic and say it was only a matter of time, but when you have an unchecked area that is aggressively dangerous to be in ... you definitely end up with disaster, unfortunately," Les Stroud, host of the show "Survivorman," told CNN on Tuesday.
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Today is a hard day, and at times like this, it can feel frivolous and even morally wrong to do anything but watch the news, and bear witness, and think fatalistic thoughts about how democracy is ending and we were all stupid to ever think it could be otherwise.
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Here's Goldberg: Over the course of our conversations, I came to see Obama as a president who has grown steadily more fatalistic about the constraints on America's ability to direct global events, even as he has, late in his presidency, accumulated a set of potentially historic foreign-policy achievements.
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So when Skype announced last week that it can now accommodate 50 people on a video call at once (up from the 25-person groups it previously allowed) I felt compelled, in an extremely fatalistic, masochistic way, to see what would happen in a 50-person Skype clown car.
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" He rattles off a chain of internal rhymes, historical references, and dense metaphors when Jay Electronica shows up for "How Great" and recreates the fatalistic children's choir of his favorite Kanye song "We Don't Care" when he finally gets West on a record of his own with "All We Got.
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By changing up the usual fatalistic dope-fiend hedonism with new verbiage and situations—I direct sex fiends to the cunt-lapping relish of "I Will"—Brown's first proper album means to show us he's got a right to "Die Like a Rockstar," meaning rich, high, and verging on bored.
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But for all the repeated viewings, I did not recall many of Short Circuit's more horrible aspects, such as Fisher Stevens browning up to mug an East Indian accent and deliver terrible jokes, the implication that killer drones were around the corner and the lazy, fatalistic attitude toward thermonuclear Armageddon.
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The show orbits around a gallery of self-portraits, ranging from a smoky youthful vision, done in 1886 and abraded with a palette knife, to a fatalistic painting of 1940–43, in which the old, gaunt Munch pictures himself trapped between a grandfather clock and the bed he will die in.
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The show orbits around a gallery of self-portraits, ranging from a smoky youthful vision, done in 1886 and abraded with a palate knife, to a fatalistic painting of 1940–43, in which the old, gaunt Munch pictures himself trapped between a grandfather clock and the bed he will die in.
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The show orbits around a gallery of self-portraits, ranging from a smoky youthful vision, done in 1886 and abraded with a palate knife, to a fatalistic painting of 1940–12, in which the old, gaunt Munch pictures himself trapped between a grandfather clock and the bed he will die in.
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You're as familiar as anybody, I imagine, with the false narratives that developed after the background check and assault weapons bill failed in Congress in 2013: the "nothing changed after Sandy Hook" narrative, and then the fatalistic "if Sandy Hook didn't cause an epiphany on guns, nothing ever will" narrative.
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Back then, when Clegane robbed the farmer of his remaining gold, he justified it to a distraught Arya by saying, "They'll both be dead come winter" — just one in a series of fatalistic decisions from a character who has never found much to support in the form of banners or basic human decency.
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When Wilkie suggests to Davenport that Waters's assailants were probably not Klansmen because his uniform was not defiled — "They usually take the stripes and stuff off, before they lynch us" — it now comes across as a double-barreled insight, both a clue in the case and a tiny poem of fatalistic despair.
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So for years the publication of every major paper, essay or book would be attended by a cloud of commentary debating its precise calibration of perspective and tone, with many of those articles seen by scientists as lacking an appropriate balance between bad news and optimism, and labeled "fatalistic" as a result.
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The incel community is notorious for rampant misogyny, violent rhetoric, and fatalistic attitudes toward modern relationships — attitudes that frequently serve as a gateway to the alt-right — but it's also rife with depression, a nihilistic communal celebration of low self-esteem, and a widespread resistance to seeking therapy and getting treatment for mental illness.
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For me, it's scary to think about divorce because I witnessed it, so my fatalistic perspective is always gonna be there, but in terms of "forever," if Isabel wanted to one day be with someone else, or she wanted to leave because she was unhappy, I would have to, of course, let her go.
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Here, again, he becomes the knowingly unreliable narrator: His obvious loathing of the social-media-driven news coverage pursued in recent years by most media organizations does capture the fatalistic mood of the industry, but betrays a sense of nostalgia for a better era that can be hard to locate anywhere outside of Foer's own memory.
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And Synecdoche, New York is a sprawling, wildly ambitious meta-movie about a fatalistic theater director who's so obsessed with capturing the totality of existence that he develops a play that expands in scale and scope until it is difficult to tell the difference between the play and reality (indeed, there may be no difference at all).
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Now that I write it out, it would be amazing if Rick shoots Dwight in the opening moments of the finale, only to realize at the end of the episode that Dwight could have helped him with some vital bit of info and then his entire team is captured again… but I suspect even The Walking Dead doesn't want to be that fatalistic.
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The assassination of his brother, President John F. Kennedy, is frequently cited as the watershed moment in Robert's life — the grief cracked open his "hard-as-nails shell" and sent him into a profound depression from which he would emerge transformed: more fatalistic, more empathetic, more inclined to display in public the tenderness his family and friends knew at home.
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Think of movies like the Coen brothers' quirky, existentialist version of True Grit; Steven Soderbergh's jazzy new-Hollywood-royalty riff on Ocean's Eleven; Brian de Palma's hyper-stylish, hyper-violent Scarface; Martin Scorsese's Boston crime take on The Departed; John Carpenter's grim, urban reimagining of Rio Bravo or Assault on Precinct 22.35; or Terry Gilliam's knotty, fatalistic sci-fi film 21 Monkeys.
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If people who love cats are self-assured (but self-absorbed), and people who love dogs are self-satisfied (but insecure), then it might be said that people who love turtles are, to some degree, fatalistic: Loving a turtle means pouring endless amounts of affection into a bucket that will never fill because it has a hole cut in its bottom.
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There are episodic mentions of a childhood lived in the vortex of a mother's suffocating love, a perennial reckoning with the fear of attachment, a haunting nihilism most likely fostered by a fatalistic father, and fondly remembered encounters with William Trevor, the late, great Irish short story writer — himself a master of self-effacement — who became a mentor and friend.
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Perhaps congressional Republicans have just become fatalistic about the losses they're likely to face in 2018, and so they're passing their tax cut because they believe in it, and they're larding it full of provisions to make their donors happy, because then at least then they'll have Super PACs ready to help them campaign and lobbying gigs and sinecures as payback if they lose.
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But her softer fans may be daunted by the steely class fable "The Trapper and the Furrier" and the fatalistic faux trifle "Sellers of Flowers," by quietly unrelenting five-minute bonus cuts in which an aged solitary celebrates New Year's and old friends compare their polar yet equally confining life paths—maybe even by her fond report that both her baby boy and his dad are better at dreaming than she is.
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