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a submissive mental attitude resulting from acceptance of the doctrine that everything that happens is predetermined and inevitable

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a philosophical doctrine holding that all events are predetermined in advance for all time and human beings are powerless to change them

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Molly Hite mentions the piece more briefly in '"Fun Actually Was Becoming Quite Subversive': Herbert Marcuse, the Yippies, and the Value of System in Gravity's Rainbow" (2010), and Molloy cites it in relation to Vineland but argues that Pynchon fatalistically rejects all politics, including anarchism (see note 8).
commentators have noted that proposition gladly; others, fatalistically.
It explains fatalistically how you react to it: Nobody is to blame, so we have to learn to live with the disease.
Those who fatalistically surrendered to the environment were known in the camps as 'moslems' (Muselmanner) (1986, p.
ultimatums fatalistically stuck to stick-resistant pans.
He'll get me for it,' she said fatalistically. 'He's got this little set of rules.
Those subjected to these ministrations usually submitted fatalistically, in accord with that deferential age; as one woman told a reporter when asked about the razing of her neighborhood, "The Council want it and they'll have it.
People will say it's "going round" and sigh fatalistically about it - but I now understand why it goes round.
This is humorously reflected in the abbreviated nature of Mag's query, to which Maureen responds equally briefly and fatalistically, neither even bothering to include subject and verb.
(semantic reactions) and suggested our doctrines, creeds, which build our institutions, customs, habits, and finally, lead fatalistically to -catastrophes like the World War.
But if they do something like that, there's nothing one can do," he said fatalistically.
A campaigner told the BBC last month that they wanted the people to actively set social and physical bounds around the use of technologies and not just fatalistically accept the direction technology is heading in, the report added.
The subordinate person becomes a free ethical agent in the act of voluntarily acceding to subordination in the power of Christ instead of bowing to it either fatalistically or resentfully.