(n.) One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three constructs of TUA were identified: passive fatalistic, egoistic, and conscientious.
(2) A fatalistic attitude to the disease is combined with rumination and social withdrawal.
(3) David Birch, director of digital currency consultants Hyperion, argued that the fatalistic view of Scotland's previous experiment with multiple currencies was wrong, and that they more successful than history gives credit.
(4) When asked whether the task was economically viable when British companies faced competition from foreign, lower-paying multinationals, Miliband said: "I don't subscribe to that fatalistic view" and pointed out his examples of better models came from Germany, which has stayed competitive with countries such as China.
(5) Thirteen variables were examined for their association with compliance; these were age, sex, duration of hypertension since diagnosis, adequacy of blood pressure control, complexity of drug regimen and side-effect of drug, history of previous admission for hypertension related reason, patient's knowledge of hypertensive complications, patient's belief that drug was 'panas' or 'san', previous use of traditional treatment for hypertension, patient's fatalistic attitude, their social support and satisfaction with the health services.
(6) Generally, she is one of life's fatalists: Take a Little Pill and Illegitimate Children are desert-dry and bleak with it.
(7) Yet it is also not hard to find people who are fatalistic.
(8) It grinds us down until we adopt a worldview that is pessimistic, desensitised, sarcastic and fatalistic.
(9) The above consideration probably plays a major role in our attitudes of almost fatalistic resignation towards the youthful victims of trauma.
(10) According to Tim Briercliffe of the HTA, fatalistic-sounding civil servants told him that as the disease was already endemic on the continent it was likely to come to the UK.
(11) He was fatalistic about that, as sportspeople who persist through severe injury often are.
(12) All around the country, Sons of Iraq leaders, also known as members of the Awakening Council, or al-Sahwa, rattle off similar numbers of attempts on their lives with a fatalistic calm.
(13) I’m fatalistic – whatever is meant to be, will be.” Which isn’t to say you don’t put the work in.
(14) Although current smokers were cognitively aware of their added health risk, in comparison to past and "never" smokers, they minimized the salience of awareness by fatalistically attributing their health to chance factors such as luck and by minimizing the dangers of smoking, the benefits of smoking cessation, and their own increased vulnerability to life-threatening illnesses.
(15) A positive correlation was found between uncertainty about the future and fatalistic coping, and a negative correlation between depression and optimistic coping.
(16) Yet the response to them is no longer quite as fatalistic as it once was.
(17) Ali, my Aleppan taxi driver, was unfazed but fatalistic.
(18) But don't get me wrong, there are still Poles who remain good, old-fashioned fatalists.
(19) The results indicated a highly significant association between scores for the tendency to control emotional reactions and a fatalistic attitude toward cancer.
(20) And he thinks that what he offers on Thursday morning is an optimistic and less fatalistic message that can overcome those daunting poll numbers.
Necessity
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.
(n.) The condition of being needy or necessitous; pressing need; indigence; want.
(n.) That which is necessary; a necessary; a requisite; something indispensable; -- often in the plural.
(n.) That which makes an act or an event unavoidable; irresistible force; overruling power; compulsion, physical or moral; fate; fatality.
(n.) The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
Example Sentences:
(1) The indication of the DNA probe method would be considered in the four cases as follows, 1. necessity of the special equipment to isolate the pathogen, 2. necessity of the long period to isolate the pathogen, 3. existence of the cross reaction among the pathogen and relative organisms in the immunological procedure, 4. existence of the difficulty to identify the species of the pathogen by the ordinary procedure.
(2) Among 159 patients studied, the severity most frequent was Yahr stage 3 (63%) at first examination, indicating the necessity of earlier diagnosis.
(3) When a product is selected for a patient, consideration should be given to necessity, efficacy, adverse effects, and cost-effectiveness.
(4) Discussion deals with the plurality, specificity, variability, perceived necessity, sufficiency, international utility and career significance of British postgraduate qualifications.
(5) As a result of recent environmental changes in the health care industry, marketing has become a vital necessity for the survival of most hospitals.
(6) There is a necessity for early definitive decision-making in the borderline orthognathic surgery patient and the role of orthodontic camouflage is pointed out.
(7) For Kohut, interpretation depends on the prior establishment of a stable, sustaining transference; human connexion is a lifelong necessity and full understanding an achievable aim.
(8) Management and treatment issues are surveyed, such as the necessity to recognize that in some adolescents violence erupts not from narcissitic rage but from strong wishes for affectionate contact.
(9) A prospective study of the necessity of sedation, or analgesia, or both in total colonoscopy was performed.
(10) The authors report on the casuistry of aorto-coronary by-pass operations they performed between April 1971 and December 1974, discussing the criteria which indicate the necessity of operating, the principles of the operative techniques, and the results obtained.
(11) This case, despite the fatal outcome, emphasises the necessity for a comprehensive approach to the diagnosis of atypical pneumonia, including culture for Legionella, especially in immunocompromised patients.
(12) The sonographic method, with a 97.7% specificity and a negative predictive value of 89.5%, proved to be specific enough to eliminate the necessity of routine catheterization for measuring residual bladder volumes of greater than or equal to 150 cm3, thus decreasing the incidence of some major postoperative complications that can occur due to unnecessary catheterization.
(13) The development of gallstones following this procedure, however, has become more problematic in that further opeation becomes a real necessity.
(14) The necessity of using immunohistochemistry in the diagnosis of sinonasal tumours of fibromatous nature is emphasized.
(15) The experience with 1896 restorative operations on injured nerve trunks shows a necessity to consider the problems of diagnosis, prognosis and choice of the treatment, and especially the results of the nerve suture, not in all patients with nerve injury but only in separate groups being comparable with respect to the kind and severity of the trauma.
(16) Clinico-immunological studies on the use of drugs containing synthetic and biological polymers revealed their high immunomodulating activity and necessity of differentiated use of these drugs with relation to the pathogenetic mechanisms of development of bronchopulmonary diseases as well as mechanisms of their immunological action determined by the molecular mass of polymers as constituents of blood substitutes.
(17) We consider that the rarity of stricture rules out the necessity of any change in management, whether or not erosive oesophagitis is observed at endoscopy.
(18) The discrepancy between the judgement of the insurance company based upon the medical records and the patients complaints also 4-7 years after injury as well as the diversification of therapeutical procedures used in the long term patients career are indicating a necessity of prospective study on cervical spine injury.
(19) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
(20) In light of the AIDS epidemic and the necessity for safe-sex practices, the topic of caution and prevention is an emerging and critical discourse for the sexual encounter.