How To Use defeatism In A Sentence
- Perhaps they are missing because, however important, they do not bear hard on the immediate question of social defeatism - on the deep changes that might reawaken and remoralize the nation.
- Defeatism is about swapping Mother England for Sister Australia, the fear that one cannot make it in the big bad world, so New Zealand needs someone else's skirts to hide behind.
- But when three Canadian soldiers were killed in an ambush near Kandahar a few days later, there were big black headlines, and the usual parade of grief, with outriding sound bites to sell a cheap defeatism. Afstan: A very "quiet surge" indeed by US/Canadian "journalism"
- They were accused of defeatism by some of their enemies; of shoddy metaphysics by others. EVERVILLE
- But what I heard in Art's voice was a sound of such despair and defeatism, that, you know, it was clear that he'd given up.
- But what was less explicable than this working-class defeatism was to hear those who regarded themselves as progressive liberals conniving in it.
- You choose to be in that position, because you have always put self-perpetuating defeatism ahead of moral integrity and political courage.
- Before concluding, we reiterate the importance of high morale and caution against false rumors, defeatism, uncertainty, and discouragement.
- I don't believe that the sporting gods will punish us for contemplating victory and I'm all for shedding our national defeatism.
- In any case I ask all our friends not to be too emotional and weak stomached, and above all not to help the enemy in what he is desperate to achieve, i.e. defeatism and despair.
