Nobody seems happy, though many counsel a fatalistic acceptance, as ameliorating the situation seems impossible.
Father LOZANO: The people have to come out of that attitude of almost being fatalistic, you know.
Well, reluctantly, in my more fatalistic moments, I may have to concede that you could be right.
It's, you know, that fatalistic part that really comes out in the study.
But this kind of disregard for personal safety is also symptomatic of a fatalistic attitude for which Filipinos often mock themselves.
He later repeated the charge, with a swipe at the Malays themselves for being overly fatalistic, in his book The Malay Dilemma.
Perhaps they do have a fatalistic view, that they're going to get cancer because - or heart disease because many of their family members did.
' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic, depressed but determined to keep the party going, " White writes in "The Farewell Symphony.
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Another cabbie, Kassam Kalil(ph), echoes the sentiment of many fatalistic drivers.
Citizens were cynical or fatalistic about the Mubarak health scare Tuesday.
"I don't want to be fatalistic but, unfortunately, we have had two deaths in quick succession and both have happened to be on night trains, " he said.
Do they become fatalistic about the prospect of success and stop prodding their kids to do their homework, behave in class, and get to school on time?
People without a college degree felt a lot more confused, helpless and fatalistic than people who had graduated college - so really suggesting that there's an educational component here.
"They have skills and ambitions - but they have a fatalistic sense that there are barriers that make it pointless to try in the first place, " says Prof Chapman.
His skill at word-play, coupled with a self-destructive and fatalistic attitude to life (in a Russian intellectual, no less) lands him a job first as a copywriter, and then as something more sinister.
The Kagan thesis is bleak but not fatalistic.
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Yet when deputy White House counsel Cheryl Mills brought him the news, first disclosed by TIME, Clinton responded in private much as he did last week in public: with frustration, but also with fatalistic detachment.
And so at some point, patients become numb to the messages, and they do become fatalistic because they feel like it doesn't really matter what I do, because it's going to be wrong in a week.
Yeah, well, since the study found that people with college degrees were less likely to be fatalistic, might that reflect the fact that they're probably a little wealthier and probably have better access to health care?
It shows that the world's current approach to the problem of climate change is a mostly ineffective mess, and that although there are alternative approaches this is not a fatalistic book they will be hard and time-consuming to get up and running.
That Mr Putin, who enjoys approval ratings of nearly 50%, wants to stay in power is not surprising. (If he runs for two terms he could stay in office until 2024.) But it is the fatalistic acceptance of his decision by most of the country that makes it possible.
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