Fatalist

Instead of one Ben Bernanke, we got a whole roomful: Bernanke the Job Creator, Bernanke the Budget Cutter, Bernanke the Activist, Bernanke the Fatalist ...

Richard (RJ) Eskow: Bernankemania! Empty Golden Words From the Leader of the Temple RJ 2011

Indeed, many of the early works of prose fiction, Gulliver's Travels, Robinson Crusoe, Jacques the Fatalist, could be described as "prose works" seeking their own conventions rather than novels per se.

Experimental Fiction 2010

Instead of one Ben Bernanke, we got a whole roomful: Bernanke the Job Creator, Bernanke the Budget Cutter, Bernanke the Activist, Bernanke the Fatalist ...

Richard (RJ) Eskow: Bernankemania! Empty Golden Words From the Leader of the Temple RJ 2011

The Fatalist, though at times intentionally choppy, is nonetheless stubbornly three-dimensional.

Poetry: What Does It Accomplish? 2010

The passages of The Fatalist are weighted with various dimensions and tones: the sensuous gratifications of nature, the history of other persons 'sayings.

Poetry: What Does It Accomplish? 2010

As a result, there are plenty of passages in The Fatalist which make me happier in the reading -- partly because of their diffidence -- than most other recent poetry.

Poetry: What Does It Accomplish? 2010

In its passionate, compassionate worldliness, The Fatalist offers the presence of a reassuring adult, who has been around the non-Newtonian block.

Poetry: What Does It Accomplish? 2010

One feels in The Fatalist the fluency of a lifetime of thinking and practice, and a dexterity in improvisation that doesn't have to be forced or rehearsed any longer.

Poetry: What Does It Accomplish? 2010

Thus The Fatalist -- as a non-beginning-middle-end kind of project, is not notable for its dramatic arc.

Poetry: What Does It Accomplish? 2010

Many people adopt a Fatalist time perspective from religious beliefs that center on predestination.

The Time Paradox Philip Zimbardo 2008