His understanding of dependency grew from a progressive, albeit masculinist, perspective that certainly rejected the fatalistic conservatism of his day.
The certainty offered by religious or spiritual conviction provided a counterbalance to an otherwise fatalistic acceptance of the vicissitudes of eventful and difficult lives.
By the time she takes her fatalistic attitude to the settlement, ' 'everything human had been crushed out of her.
However, the moderate success and many difficulties facing psychiatric genetics have by no means led to fatalistic attitude.
Education may inculcate a greater sense of personal responsibility for the welfare of children, replacing the more fatalistic approach of the uneducated father.
We must not be fatalistic about this, pointing as is our wont, to nature and animals.
Men who agreed were classified as expressing a fatalistic attitude towards pregnancy avoidance, versus those with less fatalistic feelings about the issue.
However, the position appears almost fatalistic as to the goal of science.
