fatalistic

• His presence was not completely unexpected, and the colonel was not shocked to see him; but he felt a kind of fatalistic incredulity, such as he might have experienced on hearing a gloomy prognosis from his doctor. —  F ;SF; - vol 103 issue 04-05 - October-November 2002
• Here we touch on the difficult question of motive; and it is perhaps impossible, except for dogmatists, to determine whether the enterprises that led to his ruin—the partition of Portugal, which slid easily into the occupation of Spain, together with his Moscow adventure—were prompted by ambition or by a semi-fatalistic feeling that they were necessary to the complete triumph of his Continental System. —  The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2)
• Let me She let it go, feeling fatalistic, and the other spoon lying on the counter rattled against the tiles until she picked it up and put it in the other mug. —  F ;SF - vol 088 issue 01 - January 1995
• Grumbling but fatalistic, the pair tugged on the nylon that attached them to a couple hundred pounds of dog, and staggered off in their wake. —  The Art of Detection
• God and matter exist in the nature of things, “Tout nous announce un Etre supreme, rien ne nous dit ce qu'il est.” God himself seems to be a kind of fatalistic necessity. —  Baron d'Holbach

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