How To Use Defeatism In A Sentence
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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.
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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.
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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"
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They were accused of defeatism by some of their enemies; of shoddy metaphysics by others.
EVERVILLE
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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.
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But what was less explicable than this working-class defeatism was to hear those who regarded themselves as progressive liberals conniving in it.
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You choose to be in that position, because you have always put self-perpetuating defeatism ahead of moral integrity and political courage.
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Before concluding, we reiterate the importance of high morale and caution against false rumors, defeatism, uncertainty, and discouragement.
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I don't believe that the sporting gods will punish us for contemplating victory and I'm all for shedding our national defeatism.
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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.
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Self-pity and defeatism are quickly banished from his mind whenever they turn up.
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Tales were exchanged in hushed tones of lack of enthusiasm, of obstruction of Party work: above all, of defeatism.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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Such defeatism is akin to standing at the starting blocks of a race while loudly professing that you cannot win.
Think Progress » U.S. military reports 40 percent spike in Baghdad attacks.
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I can think of no greater expression of defeatism.
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As defeatism spread from meetings and rallies into the social clubs of the wealthy and renowned, the Unionist patriciate expressed dismay.
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To argue that we are powerless to change the political environment in the face of irrational fanaticism is a perverse form of defeatism.
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Mr. Armstrong is particularly illuminating on decadence, which he defines as "defeatism before the consequences of defeat have been felt.
Hidden Treasure
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Her defeatism is a slap in the face of all Americans.
Think Progress » Bachmann’s Plan: To Deal With Debt, We Must ‘Wean Everybody’ Off Social Security, Medicare
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Many who had been, in one way or another, sympathetic to socialism before 1915, now distinguished themselves for their vitriolic attacks on the party of alleged defeatism.
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Which I think is wrong, but his defeatism and marginalism would be the true replay of 1972.
THE NEWS BLOG
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Learning to Fall is not a book for cowards, but it is ideal for all those moments in which the spirit yearns to rise high above self-pity and chronic misery and defeatism.
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McCain was in New Hampshire to deliver a tough speech on Iraq, criticizing what he called defeatism, asking voters to give the surge a chance, asking them to give him one, too.
CNN Transcript Jul 14, 2007
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Above all, I remember the overwhelming sense of defeatism and moral chaos that pervaded public discourse.
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These included a far-reaching mission to snuff out treachery and defeatism in an area which included his old home.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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The downbeat defeatism or hollow war cries have disappeared and while they made a rod for their own back with the opening-day draw with Aberdeen, the players and management evidently believe all is not lost and time is on their side.
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There is a spirit of defeatism among some members of the party.
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You know, what I sense is a sense of fatalism and defeatism that I just reject.
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They were accused of defeatism by some of their enemies; of shoddy metaphysics by others.
EVERVILLE
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Before concluding, we reiterate the importance of high morale and caution against false rumors, defeatism, uncertainty, and discouragement.
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McCain was in New Hampshire to deliver a touch speech on Iraq, criticizing what he called defeatism, asking voters to give the surge a chance, asking them to give him one, too.
CNN Transcript Jul 13, 2007
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In his brilliant first volume on the Second World War, Winston Churchill describes French statesmanship on the eve of war as ‘the quintessence of defeatism.’
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Such parental pressure, could lead to a distorted perspective, disappointment, defeatism, withdrawal, hurt, anger and much worse.
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Above all, I remember the overwhelming sense of defeatism and moral chaos that pervaded public discourse.
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Tales were exchanged in hushed tones of lack of enthusiasm, of obstruction of Party work: above all, of defeatism.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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At any rate, America will not be forced to do much any time soon no matter how much comfort it would give some on the Left to think their defeatism is actually realism.
Matthew Yglesias » Stabbing and Backs
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So far, the answers coming from governments have been a combination of short-termism and defeatism.
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Keane fumed at these failures and the defeatism that accompanied them as Chelsea dominated English football.
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Such parental pressure, could lead to a distorted perspective, disappointment, defeatism, withdrawal, hurt, anger and much worse.
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Criticizing what he called defeatism, he asked voters to give the surge a chance.
CNN Transcript Jul 13, 2007
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Such zero-damage expectations themselves risk creating a feeling of defeatism when the expectations understandably fail to come true.
