Italians of all ages feel a weary fatalism after a decade of almost no economic growth.
Fatalism in the face of the earth's convulsions, however, may no longer be appropriate, for two reasons.
In a speech earlier this year, the party's charismatic leader, Hassan Nasrallah, signalled both stridency and fatalism.
Then complacency that the plan will be met sets in, or fatalism that it cannot be met.
Each tale is marked by tragic fatalism and an explosive fury which tears up its otherwise picturesque imagery.
Fatalism seems to be the principal mood though that may change at or before the annual party conference in September.
The gloomy fatalism that has long pervaded most of the developing world is under assault by a new mindset.
War was not caused by the exaggerated fatalism and sentimentality of European cultural pessimism, but it was conditioned by it.
That leaves two options, other than fatalism: to put up better buildings, and to improve planning for responding to disasters.
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Such political fatalism may protect Mr Yadav's base, but it also feeds the follow-the-leader voting his rivals are counting on.
It is the sense of Puritan fatalism that underscores New England life.
He was well-mannered and rather shy, schooled in respect by his Irish mother and reinforced in fatalism by his fervent Catholic faith.
George Costanza expressed this kind of mystical fatalism in a Seinfeld episode, during which he was obsessing about a white discoloration over his lip.
Previous studies have looked at a different kind of fatalism, and that's the idea that if you get cancer, you're going to die from it.
Some of those interviewed expressed a sense of futility and fatalism.
Even worse, the researchers found that such fatalism spilled over into a generalized failure to take preventative measures to control other health problems, particularly heart disease.
But fear of the unknown and resistance to change can be matched by a zen fatalism when it seems that nothing can be done about a situation.
Fatalism, pessimism, cynicism and complacency all support the status quo despite the fact that changes to lifestyle can have profound benefits to health even in the short term.
There is certain fatalism to it all, with the U.S. gradually accepting the hard reality that it can only be driven by events rather than helping to drive them.
Forbes.com contributor Stephen Harner has been following the larger China-Japan issue for months, and I commend his posts, even if I do not share all his fatalism about Chinese dominance.
By reducing the reimbursement for certain office-based specialists while enhancing related payment to hospitals, the administration is compelling more and more physicians many of them with an any-port-in-a-storm fatalism to seek employment with health systems or large physician groups.
When it comes to fatalism about cancer prevention, however, we found the opposite, in fact, that African-American and Hispanic Latino populations were less likely to think that everything causes cancer and that there's nothing they can do about it.
"It's not that we fell into a kind of geopolitical fatalism with regard to the United States, but historically speaking they have been interfering in our country since the last century, and so we said, "The Yankees will inevitably interfere.
Perhaps worse, there was a fatalism, cultivated assiduously by those opposed to public spending on ideological principle, that this was the natural order of things, that somehow there was a 'British disease' which meant we were culturally destined to have second-rate education and health and rising crime.
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