Advertisement
 ⇄Change Direction
 Translation for 'fatalist' from English to Dutch
NOUN   fatalist | fatalists
SYNO determinist | fatalist | fatalistic | ...
fatalist {de}fatalist
1 translation
To translate another word just start typing!

 ⇄ 
Translation for 'fatalist' from English to Dutch

fatalist
fatalist {de}
Advertisement
Usage Examples English
  • The character of Billy Pilgrim in Kurt Vonnegut's novel "Slaughterhouse-5: The Children's Crusade" is a clear homage to a similar journey to enlightenment experienced by Christian, although Billy's journey leads him to an existential acceptance of life and of a fatalist human condition.
  • Doomer and, by extension, doomerism are terms which arose primarily on the Internet to describe people who are extremely pessimistic or fatalist about global problems such as overpopulation, peak oil, climate change, and pollution.
  • The "romans éclatés", roughly translated "Novels broken apart", such as "Jacques le fataliste et son maître" (Eng: "Jacques the Fatalist and His Master") (1773) and "le Neveu de Rameau" (Eng: "The Nephew of Rameau") (1762) by Diderot are almost impossible to classify, but resemble the modernist novels that would come a century or more later.
  • He can be seen as a nihilist and fatalist. Later examples include Alexander Herzen's Beltov in "Who Is to Blame?
  • Averbakh called himself a fatalist.

  • Monism is a predominantly fatalist doctrine which does not tend to treat individual motivation as anything more than an illusion, claiming that everything – including our sense of self and an environment we perceive to be external – exists as part of a single supreme being.
  • Nam’s work has strong religious and fatalist themes.
  • Among the psychoanalytic concepts introduced by what Élisabeth Roudinesco called Pichon's “fatalist genius”, were those of oblatory, scotomization, and foreclosure.
  • In 1984 he won the Louis d'Or, the most prestigious award in stage acting in The Netherlands, for his lead role in "Jacques de fatalist en zijn meester".
  • Max Payne has been put into a fatalist situation against his will, in the style of a classic element of many noir films, the fall guy.

  • "Van Zorn" is about a fatalist who, attempting to play the part of destiny in a love affair, runs counter to a man with a destiny better than his own.
  • A fatalist reading would emphasize the actual helplessness of Galeriebesucher2 as a reflection of Kafka's perceived impotence and perhaps emblematic of the futility of the human condition.
  • The protagonist is an energetic young man from Citro Village who eventually ends up fighting a mysterious organization that preaches a fatalist philosophy in which the future is predetermined.
Advertisement
© dict.cc Dutch-English dictionary 2024
Contains translations by TU Chemnitz and Mr Honey's Business Dictionary (German-English only).
Links to this dictionary or to individual translations are very welcome!