(a.) Implying, or partaking of the nature of, fatalism.
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.
Serendipitous
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The inappropriate placement of a patient's central venous catheter in the pleural space by the serendipitous injection of Tc-99m labeled red blood cells through the catheter during a GI bleeding study was discovered.
(2) Furthermore, serendipitly we found that PIP2-PLC activity was increased in liver membranes from obese patients with type II diabetes when compared to obese and lean controls.
(3) This serendipitous observation antedates clinical signs and symptoms of dysphagia.
(4) Surprisingly and serendipitously, these studies also revealed genetic heterogeneity of the fibrillin proteins and established linkage between one of these loci and a Marfan-related disorder, congenital contractural arachnodactyly.
(5) Finally, the history of the development of understanding of the disease has been a fascinating mixture of parental concern, serendipitous discovery, and correlation of clinical syndromes and serological evaluations across continents.
(6) None of us would be here, though, if it wasn't for one serendipitous night four years ago in Stockholm.
(7) His charmed team, on salaries of about £350,000, are all getting bonuses: there's Paul Plummer, the strategy director, landing a serendipitous £59,759; Robin "fluky" Gisby, the operations director, and Simon "butter side up" Kirby, the infrastructure projects managing director, who are getting £63,708 each; and, last but not least, group finance director Patrick "the scratchcard wonder" Butcher whose Thank You for Turning Up to Work present this year is £67,658.
(8) New compounds can be discovered by screening, modification of existing compounds, rational drug design, and serendipitous basic research observations.
(9) Serendipitous findings were especially important in finding fetal anomalies.
(10) Included are one case of a "false negative" ABR in a patient with an intracanalicular acoustic neuroma, a case of a "false positive" CT scan in a patient with Meniere's disease, and a case of a patient with normal hearing in whom an acoustic neuroma was discovered serendipitously.
(11) Although the diagnosis can be made on physical examination and on plain radiography, it is important to recognize its appearance on CT since it may constitute a serendipitous finding that should be differentiated from more serious diseases that have a similar appearance.
(12) The patient serendipitously illustrates a multimodality approach to aortic dissection imaging.
(13) The major advantage of electrophysiologic studies over other forms of arrhythmia evaluation, particularly passive monitoring techniques, is the ability to detect the arrhythmia by provocative stimulation techniques, eliminating the need for serendipitous recording of a sporadic event.
(14) A serendipitous finding of tonus changes in the frog skin during nerve stimulation is also described.
(15) Every brain is different – the serendipitous product of evolution and personal experience.
(16) An additional serendipitous finding was a dissociation between two types of tongue movement: licking from a ventrally-located surface survived cortical removal but tongue protrusion did not.
(17) Sheehan's syndrome was not produced with massive hypovolemic shock but failure to obtain true pregnancy has given serendipitous information on the long-term action of norlestrin on the pituitary and its target organs.
(18) Its origin relates to a serendipitous substitution of water in the London laboratory of Sydney Ringer in the 1880s.
(19) We report a completely asymptomatic patient with normal hepatic function whose cyst was discovered serendipitously during sonogram to determine renal size.
(20) A serendipitous finding was the dissociation in time between synthesis of anti-GBM antibodies and development of proteinuria, suggesting a role for cellular effector mechanisms in the induction of proteinuria.