| 单词 | defeatist |
| 例句 | A dangerous lassitude hovered just out of range in his body; it was accompanied by a defeatist torpor. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z "We're at war! We can't permit such defeatist talk. Complainers and grumblers, doubters and agitators—they only serve to embolden the enemy." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z “If by defeatist you mean honest, then I agree.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z In the end, both of these perspectives are defeatist. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z But I believe we have a duty not to be so defeatist in this matter. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z I shook off my defeatist attitude and gave Fig a confident nod, followed by a scratch under his chin. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z It doesn’t feel good to say it; it feels like a betrayal, and wrong, and defeatist. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z In my view, then, it was rather defeatist from a vocational standpoint to adopt a stance like Mr Graham's. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z It is easy to slip into defeatist pessimism in this kind of political environment, but houseplants require us to be optimists. My houseplant garden is a tiny national park Donald Trump can never destroy 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z "Balanced modernization, which falls within our Islamic values, is an important demand in an era where there is no place for defeatist or hesitant people," he said. Saudi king: Women can vote in 2015 2011-09-25T16:21:00Z Lockyer had some moments of panic, but would have nothing to do with that defeatist attitude. Tonya Lockyer: ‘powerhouse personality’ turns Velocity around 2013-07-04T11:51:19Z Mexican soap operas and French talk shows send a more defeatist message: Get out of Haiti. The TV Watch: In Haiti TV Tries to Educate, With Mixed Results 2012-07-11T21:54:55Z “We are nothing now but the reminder of our loss,” concludes a resigned, defeatist Khalil. Activists love and lose in the Cairo novel, 'The City Always Wins' 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z The “American Fiction” series, begun by Birch Lane Press and now published by New Rivers, has an inauspicious subtitle, at once hopeful and defeatist: “The Best Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers.” ArtsBeat: Anthologies That (Mostly) Stand the Test of Time 2013-05-17T15:41:49Z While serving in Italy, Jünger’s beloved son Ernstel pronounces some defeatist criticism of the Reich, which ultimately leads to the young man’s death, quite possibly from an S.S. bullet in the back. Review | A fascinating look inside the journal of a controversial German war hero 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Why would someone so defeatist, after all, dedicate energy to producing nine of these 10 tracks when he’s got a buffet of producers at his demand? Earl Sweatshirt's 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z The message — that science cannot succeed without a politics of solidarity — is important, but the film ends on a note of uncertainty that feels defeatist rather than urgent. ‘How to Survive a Pandemic’ Review: Racing for a Shot 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z Some people thought that writing a memoir was defeatist or pessimistic — it wasn’t for me. After I survived cancer, I celebrated with a birthday cake 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z I don't want to sound totally defeatist, but I would think I am in the second category. Doyenne of Irish fiction 2011-02-06T00:05:42Z When her middle granddaughter, Lady Edith, frets that she will end up a spinster, Lady Violet says briskly, “Don’t be defeatist, Dear, it’s very middle class.” Critic?s Notebook: ?Downton Abbey? Stokes Flames for Season 2 - Review 2012-01-06T17:33:23Z Claudel has the grace to make a wry defeatist joke out of this. The Investigation by Philippe Claudel – review 2013-02-07T09:00:02Z Jaison has demonstrated an amusing propensity for casting situations in defeatist terms. Will "Survivor" mastermind Russell reign supreme? 2009-12-13T01:30:00Z When William Phillips arrives for a summer weekend, he believes that war will be avoided, but, Origo records, he admits a “danger point”—Hitler’s belief that England is a “defeatist” nation. Not a Moment Too Soon: Iris Origo’s War Diary 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z It pains me, the defeatist feeling that there's nothing I can do to keep my basil alive. How to stop your basil from wilting immediately 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z He delivers a final performance, equal in breathtaking courage and beauty, that embodies precisely what allows Goodman to explore the staggering numbers and many defeats without ever falling to its knees as defeatist. PBS' 'Cancer' documentary cuts to the heart of the matter 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z It also feels a little bit defeatist for that much effort to go into heirloom tomatoes. George Packer: Don’t CEOs have any shame? 2013-05-26T18:00:00Z Counter defeatist attitudes by nurturing your kid’s character. How to raise an optimistic human in a pessimistic world 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z Some see it as ineffective, a defeatist position that denies the power of expression itself to effect change. Protesting Trump, Christo Halts River Project in Colorado 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z We watch the old defeatist regain a figurative spring in his step, though in reality he limps. The Defense Rests? Scott Turow’s Favorite Lawyer Is 85 and Still Arguing 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z We Americans are addicted to the happy lie and to the associated notion that to critique something—to call it what it is—is a form of negativity; a defeatist buzzkill. Grace Paley, the Saint of Seeing 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z But these takes are defeatist, critics say, and a growing chorus of voices is urging the entertainment industry to tell more stories that show humans adapting and reforming to ward off the worst climate threats. Why Is Hollywood So Scared of Climate Change? 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z There's also, incidentally, a pretty good slap at the defeatist French. Film review: Went the Day Well? 2010-07-08T22:20:00Z Some 3 million Russian soldiers died in German captivity, while the final stages of the war saw fanatical Hitler loyalists hand out thousands of death sentences to deserting German soldiers and so-called defeatists. TV drama reopens debate over Germans' war guilt 2013-03-28T15:43:07Z Regardless, it seems to me that the woman who made the comment about her husband was most likely taking a defeatist position that degrades both of them. Cultural Studies: The Sex Drive, Idling in Neutral 2011-04-15T22:03:59Z It’s a very good thing director James Marsh isn’t a defeatist. Hawking in Hollywood: How "The Theory of Everything" Got Made 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Sir Jeffrey has now bitten back calling it "defeatist and negative". Sir Jeffrey Donaldson: Can the DUP negotiate its way out of deep water? 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z He said: "It's defeatist and sends a terrible signal to potential overseas investors that the UK simply cannot deliver large national transport infrastructure schemes." HS2: Decision to axe North high speed rail 'just so wrong' 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z While Kadyrov initially praised Prigozhin and backed some of his criticism of the military leaders, he later shifted course and criticized him for sounding defeatist. Infighting among Putin’s lieutenants seems to reveal signs of ‘deep dysfunction’ 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z Her words might sound defeatist, but her tone is resolute. Walk the beat with an outreach worker helping people who live on Seattle streets 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z Scientists warn that this defeatist attitude is setting our world up for another catastrophe. The next deadly pandemic is just a forest clearing away — but we're not even trying to prevent it 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z Betting on your opponent to make a mistake is off-putting and defeatist! Rant & Rave: ‘Hi, you are being recorded’ 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z In one comment, Olesya is accused of writing "provocative posts of a defeatist and extremist character. This is out of place for war-time. It must be nipped in the bud". Ukraine war: The Russian student under arrest for an Instagram story 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Green drew the scene, that defeatist dog lives on as a viral meme — one that has, in a way, spoken to all of us. 10 years later, ‘This is fine’ meme creator wants to put out the fire 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z Part of me wants to give up and just buy store-bought, but I hate being defeatist. 10 cooking resolutions you might actually be able to stick with 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z He promised no “defeatist attitude” in light of a potential recession, saying addressing homelessness remains the state’s top priority. Newsom proposes cuts to climate change programs amid cloudy economic outlook 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z The mood inside the Tory Party is "defeatist". Laura Kuenssberg: 'No coups, no plots - nobody cares' 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z Our state should be a leader on clean energy, not setting a defeatist timeline that would lock in fossil fuel pollution. Op-Ed: California's ambitious decarbonization plan hasn't been future-proofed 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z “But I feel like there’s a defeatist attitude with national races.” Biden, Dem leaders join Hochul in bid to lift her stalling gubernatorial campaign 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z Some may feel that reaching such a conclusion — and then sharing it — is unhelpful or "defeatist." Did the Jan. 6 hearings even matter? Maybe to history — but they haven't turned the tide 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z He acknowledges this sounds defeatist, but adds, "At least with our work, we are recording for posterity more of what is going extinct, which otherwise we would never know existed." Another dam(n) extinction: Another rare plant destroyed by a hydroelectric dam 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z But we are not starting with a defeatist attitude that these things cannot be resolved. Premier League captains in talks on taking a knee 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z There is no technological substitute for social trust, which the proliferation of guns corrodes like acid, producing a defeatist sense that mass shootings are "inevitable." An endless arms race: How to fight the NRA's absurd solution to mass shootings 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z To submit to such a scenario is, in the view of this retired military officer and educator, a thoroughly defeatist approach to both safety and education. Despite right-wing narrative, "hardening" schools is taking the easy way out 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z Yes, it sounds defeatist and cynical to allow people to do deadly drugs without demanding anything from them. Column: In San Francisco's dystopian Tenderloin, the city goes rogue to slow drug overdoses 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z The Georgian prime minister, Irakli Garibashvili, also dismissed the effectiveness of sanctions, suggesting that no external actor could save Ukraine — a comment that many Georgians found needlessly defeatist. Ukraine Reminds Georgia of Its Own War With Russia. That Creates a Dilemma. 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z Critics see them as illegal and defeatist answers to the harm that drugs wreak on users and communities. ‘They make sure you don’t die’: Inside NYC’s drug use sites 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z The proliferation of guns erodes that trust like the strongest acid, and produces a defeatist sense that mass shootings are "inevitable." An endless arms race: How to fight the NRA's absurd solution to mass shootings 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z He’d be an example and admonishment to the defeatists in his orbit. Opinion | One Day, I Couldn’t See Right. My Life Hasn’t Been the Same Since. 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z For no good reason, Democrats have sunk into a sour, defeatist mood. Opinion | Breyer’s retirement is an opportunity for Democrats to rally. They shouldn’t squander it. 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Repeated failure to arrest murder suspects can create a defeatist mentality, Fox News Digital learned. Only 42% of DC murder cases were closed after anti-police movement and it could get worse, criminologists say 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z “The ‘let it rip’ strategy and defeatist narrative that ‘we are all going to get it’ ignores the stark lived reality of the vulnerable of our society.” As nations decide to live with the virus, some disease experts warn of surrendering too soon 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z It's an effective and logical conclusion for the fictional storyline of the film, but makes for a rather defeatist message in the context of climate mobilization. "Don’t Look Up" is a Netflix hit. Is that also a win for the climate? 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z Ms. Psaki said concerns that Democrats have already lost the framing battle “sounds awfully defeatist to me,” pointing to polls showing that the underlying policies of Mr. Biden’s legislative agenda remain broadly popular. Biden’s Low-Key Media Strategy Draws Allies’ Concern 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z “Managed retreat” is too technical for some and too defeatist for others. Communities consider ‘managed retreat’ from climate change 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z However, Mr Swann said he was not going to be defeatist and explained they were not inevitable. Coronavirus: Elective surgery hubs planned for winter 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z This isn’t defeatist, he says — “it just means that the progress narratives they inscribe on all of our lives weren’t inscribed by people who love our insides.” The Black Recovery Stories Speaking to Individual and Collective Wellness 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z As such, “Reminiscence” is a great illustration of how strangely passive and defeatist an industry full of Prius early adopters has been about the biggest challenge of our time. Opinion | ‘Reminiscence’ is another pessimistic climate change movie. Filmmakers should get more creative. 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z Republicans also expressed frustration with what former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the Biden administration’s “defeatist mentality,” including Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s claim that he lacked the “capability” to extend operations beyond Kabul. Biden seeks to regain footing with administration underwater on Afghanistan 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z But while the video may be unrestrained in its romantic feelings for Big Tech’s quest to dominate our lives, the lyrics are actually a little more nuanced, even kind of defeatist. Khalid’s latest music video is a big, sloppy kiss to Silicon Valley 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z Without being defeatist, Akron’s role in solving this problem is somewhat limited. Editorial Roundup: Ohio 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z “It’s not about protecting and shielding them. That’s too passive and too defeatist,” Lee said. Asian Americans wary about school amid virus, violence 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z Such gloomy talk infuriated Trump, who made clear to the Pentagon that he would not tolerate defeatist rhetoric. The war in Afghanistan: Promises to win, but no vision for victory 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z Honestly, we’re both defeatists and didn’t think it would work long distance. Many of our lives became static during the past year. These people chose new directions. It’s pretty spot on, in an unsettling, defeatist way. 'Dungeons & Democracy': British comic Nish Kumar skewers U.S. voting system 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z To argue that such primal violence and discrimination extended to the modern day struck him as defeatist. ‘White Supremacy’ Once Meant David Duke and the Klan. Now It Refers to Much More. 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z People are scared, but talking about Trump's inevitable and ongoing attempts to steal the election is not defeatist at all. Trump just can't keep a secret — especially when it comes to his plans to stage a coup 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z “My father isn’t deterred by defeatist thinkers. The word impossible, well it only motivates him. Donald Trump rejects the cynical notion that our biggest accomplishments are behind us,” she said. RNC: Trump paints Biden as a 'radical' candidate and a danger to America 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z Hughes and other sages reject Feynman’s stance as defeatist. Quantum Escapism 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z Even Trump has taken to sounding defeatist at times, as if he had given up trying to save lives. The lost days of summer: How Trump fell short in containing the virus 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z Following Trump’s lead, the GOP faithful seem to have taken a thoroughly defeatist attitude toward the pandemic. Column: As COVID-19 pandemic tightens grip on U.S., Trump ratchets up the cruelty 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z Last night Durán bemoaned “a defeatist attitude” claiming “the team stopped fighting.” Espanyol slip away to Barcelona's tune but the silence will sting too | Sid Lowe 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Can a cynical defeatist actually be considered an innovator? Tech barons dream of a better world — without the rest of us 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z The advocates with whom I spoke are shockingly defeatist about Israel’s diplomatic future and vainly indifferent to the danger they are courting. Perspective | I’m an ardent Zionist. But Israel’s annexation makes no sense. 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z "It's often quite a defeatist feeling. It's not right, but this is where we are and I've got to keep it moving and I've got to pay my bills." Black singers can feel 'defeated' in music industry 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z It becomes easy for perennial bogey shooters to think of an automatic two-putt even from modest distances; and such defeatist thinking breeds, from farther out, those dreadful three-putts. John Updike: My innermost swing thoughts - Golf Digest 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z That was partly because the job of any opposition is to get into government, and it would have appeared defeatist to target fewer seats than Labour needed for a majority. 'Crushed by Brexit': how Labour lost the election 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z “Don’t be defeatist, dear. It is very middle class.” Our 100 favorite pop culture moments of the millennium (so far) 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z The chorus of “Loser”—“I’m a loser, baby, so why don’t you kill me?”—seemed slyly defeatist, a rallying cry for the slacker Zeitgeist, and it briefly turned Beck into a Gen X pinup. Beck Is Home 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z This feels overly defeatist to me — and could disadvantage good candidates who don’t yet have national name recognition. Why social networks keep tripping over their own content moderation policies 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z I get the fear that we live in a post-truth world where people just believe whatever their party’s Facebook ad tells them to believe, but it also seems defeatist and more than a little patronizing. Why Facebook doesn’t follow the First Amendment 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Perhaps I’m just being defeatist: there’s an extension of motivational psychology for that too. Hillary Clinton says when life’s tough, ‘keep going’. I’m not so sure | Emma Brockes 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z You may be in the habit of being somewhat defeatist about it, expecting the worst. Your new manager has no idea who you are. Here’s how to fix that | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z It was through such feckless, defeatist policies that the United States theorized that conciliation and engagement would lead the Party rulers and their military henchmen away from communism and toward democracy and free markets. Book reveals how Chinese intelligence steals U.S. tech secrets to dominate world 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z In turbulent scenarios there will be foreign capitals, collaborationist civil servants and defeatist remainers to blame. Just as in 1914, the Brexit buildup is making calamity feel inevitable | Rafael Behr 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Johnson swatted away their criticisms as the moans of “defeatists” and “gloomsters.” New U.K. prime minister Boris Johnson promises a ‘golden era’ — and Brexit 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z Neither of these defeatist strategies bespeaks much confidence. Can Amy McGrath take down Mitch McConnell? Maybe not — but Democrats still could 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z Brexit took up much of their time, with Mr Johnson calling his rival "defeatist" over the 31 October deadline, and Mr Hunt claiming that Mr Johnson was just telling people what they "want to hear". In a hurry? Here's what you need to know in five minutes 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z That said, it’s important not to be defeatist about the fight against dangerous chemicals. Modern life is toxic. Here are four tips for how to stay healthy | Katie Wells 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z “Right now, I think people are feeling particularly fatalistic and defeatist. I feel that way too,” he says. Summer Movie Preview: Horror takes a holiday 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z Avenatti sounded somewhat defeatist during a recent interview when he admitted that he’s “nervous” and “scared” about potentially being put behind bars. Michael Avenatti's latest accusations of extorting Nike mark end of his shot at redemption after spectacular fall from grace 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z Contrary to the defeatist narrative that many on the left will surely advance, this economic success is a direct result of the president’s pro-growth policies. Opinion | Defying pessimists, the U.S. economy just keeps sprinting ahead 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z For the rest of us the idea that it is fine for supporters to be needlessly priced out because this is the will of The Market could be dismissed as defeatist rot. The transfer window is a circus – one that is laughing right back at you | Barney Ronay 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z In a piece titled “Act Like the Majority We Already Are,” Roychoudhuri applies logic to defeatist arguments. The Fake Washington Post and the Future Americans Would Like to See 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Carter, who was “unflappable and never defeatist,” he said, was the best person for the gig. 'Black Panther' costume designer Ruth E. Carter is Hollywood royalty — with or without the awards 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Such thinking is defeatist, but it is their reality. Georgia editorial roundup 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Everyone insists that such a defeatist sentiment never took hold within the team, with the struggles galvanizing them to get on track and prove the doubters wrong. Texans shake off terrible start with 6-game winning streak 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z He also points out how the defeatist mood in the US led to a push for “remasculinization,” expressed through paramilitarisation far-right subcultures. Why is the far right dominated by men? | Cas Mudde 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z That was fine while gunning for their unlikely promotion and even more unlikely survival in the Premier League, but one wonders how much longer he can get away with it without creating a defeatist attitude. Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Too often, the industry sounds a defeatist alarm about the inability to compete with millennials’ “addiction” to streaming, video games, and smartphones. MoviePass was doomed to fail — but we also need to learn from its success 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z “It can kind of just suck you into depression to be constantly looking at forums like Incels.me, because of the content, and because of how defeatist some of the attitudes can be.” 'Not as ironic as I imagined': the incels spokesman on why he is renouncing them 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z There is nothing defeatist in understanding the limitations of the scientific approach to knowledge. How Much Can We Know? 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z “Unfortunately, you get conditioned to where there are times you can be defeatist. And you try not to be. But you just don’t give up.” Buffalo buzzing over Bills draft picks, Sabres lottery win 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z “Many people will find this perspective disappointing, even defeatist,” she concedes. Life is too precious to worry about death 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z By contrast, Ryan’s retirement, along with the retirements of many other mainstream GOP House members, sends a defeatist signal. Opinion | Ryan and Comey made the same mistake: They thought Clinton would win 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z The album title itself, plus tracks like opener People Give In and final track The Left Behind, appear at first glance defeatist - yet the songs themselves sound anything but. Manics: We are all 'confused and bewildered' 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z “Some of the defeatist Democrats are saying we just want to defend against the status quo,” he told another audience that day. As Trump Leads a ‘War’ on California, Who Will Lead California? 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z He says this is both “defeatist” and naive: “Struggles between economic interest groups can’t ever be entirely resolved.” Post-work: the radical idea of a world without jobs 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z Klopp insists he is being realistic rather than defeatist and that finishing above United, Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League, or beating City in the Champions League, remain “fantastic targets” for Liverpool. Jürgen Klopp believes Manchester City already have the title in the bag 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z “It creates a defeatist mentality. People say: ‘The hell with it.’” Venezuela's opposition in disarray over boycott of mayoral elections 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Urging supervisors to spend more time preparing students for the day they must leave academia seems unnecessarily defeatist. PhD jobs: Revamp funding structures This applies even if some of that criticism reflects the defeatist assumptions of neoliberal reformism, and even if it has been clumsily co-opted in the service of power. Intersectional-what? Feminism's problem with jargon is that any idiot can pick it up and have a go 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z And yet McPhee’s work is not melancholy, macabre, sad or defeatist. The Mind of John McPhee 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Accepting Trump’s view of the world as the new norm is not only defeatist, it is plain wrong. Trump’s global vision is a nightmare. The UN has to act | Mark Seddon 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z “There wasn’t a cynical or defeatist bone in Edie’s body,” Clinton said. The Resistance Now: activists call for action as they mourn Edith Windsor 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z “The other way, that's a defeatist attitude,” Nuggets coach Michael Malone said. NBA notes: Pelicans reportedly agree to one-year contract with Rajon Rondo 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z Lewis Hamilton has been speaking, and he does not sound quite so defeatist this morning. F1: Monaco Grand Prix – live! 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z Perhaps that sounds defeatist, allowing Brexit to be a foregone conclusion without any clear sense of how destructive it will be. Don’t rejoice in Brexit failings. We remoaners must shape the future | Zoe Williams 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z That might sound defeatist, but it is entirely realistic. Chelsea Nears a Championship by Excelling at the Predictable 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z For example, the median Fed policy maker viewed the economy’s long-term rate of G.D.P. growth as only 1.8 percent a year, very much in the ballpark that Trump advisers would view as unnecessarily defeatist. Donald Trump and Janet Yellen Look to Be on a Collision Course 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z This starts by putting the rise of the far right in proper perspective, and by creating an inspiring, rather than a defeatist, narrative. Rejoice – these are great days for liberalism in the western world | Cas Mudde 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z It is this fatalism, this defeatist sense among his fellow Israelis that the situation with the Palestinians is immutable, an act of God or nature that cannot be reversed, that incenses Grossman most. David Grossman: ‘You have to act against the gravity of grief – to decide you won’t fall’ 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z The gloom and doom reflected in these comments is defeatist and accomplishes nothing. Presidential Election Live: Donald Trump’s Victory 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z Now is not the time for defeatist attitudes. Zero chance: Browns coach determined to avoid 0-16 season 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z A white paper by advisers to Mr. Trump released in the fall assessed the view that this lower growth rate reflected demographics and amounted to a “new normal,” and declared it “incomplete — and unnecessarily defeatist.” Donald Trump and Janet Yellen Look to Be on a Collision Course 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z Is this metropolitan area so defeatist and woebegone that it can’t rescue Metro? Is the District truly the can’t-do capital of the world? Metro’s ‘reality check’ 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z Predicting failure of U.S. forces in battle is not only defeatist and counterproductive, it’s akin to trumpeting the propaganda line of the Islamic State itself. Why is Trump rooting against U.S. troops in Mosul? 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z "We can't keep sending climate deniers and defeatists to Congress and certainly not to the White House." Al Gore Rallies for Hillary Clinton in Florida 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z The Trump advisers reject the idea that aging demographics or automation are to blame for subpar U.S. growth, calling such mainstream analyses “unnecessarily defeatist.” Trump Advisers Estimate Big Revenue Surge from Trade, Regulation Policies 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z Slogans like “Back to the 1950s” and “Make America Great Again” are defeatist—and we haven’t even lost. Donald ‘Wrong Way’ Trump 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z A substance that could “integrate shirkers, malingerers, defeatists and whiners” into the labour market might even be sanctioned. High Hitler: how Nazi drug abuse steered the course of history 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z EU Council President Donald Tusk agreed, saying the mood in the EU now was “sober but not defeatist.” European Union Leaders Commit to New Roadmap for the Region's Crises 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z "Yes, it's a major setback, but we are not defeatist," Funsho declared of the latest cases. Nigeria's urgent polio vaccination drive targets 25 million 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z As public companies with investors to satisfy, that defeatist philosophy won't work. Where Twitter (TWTR) Is Quietly Destroying Facebook (FB) 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z Rather than taking on a defeatist, "can't-do" attitude, there is much to be gained by paying attention to what's gone right in Rio. The Olympics Changed Rio for the Better 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z In short, this is a defeatist “Star-Spangled Banner,” and it is broadcast, around the globe, at a moment of ecstatic, international triumph. At Rio Olympics, the National Anthem Sounds … Sad? 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z But giving up and loving an unhealthy weight seems a defeatist position. Why You Can’t Lose Weight on a Diet 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z “I hate to sound defeatist—I strongly support this bill and I’m certainly willing to sit down with anyone, to discuss what it takes to get it through, but I don’t see it happening.” Bill to Keep Guns From Suspected Terrorists May Get New Push 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z Pretor-Pinney had initially turned defeatist after shooting the documentary and never bothered reaching out to the W.M.O.; the bureaucracy seemed too formidable. The Amateur Cloud Society That (Sort Of) Rattled the Scientific Community 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Yet indulging the archaic taxi network is defeatist. Uber Hits a Buenos Aires Pothole 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z Because as defeatist, paranoid and neuralgic as the hard-line Brexiteers are, their resolve seems strong and sincere. B for Brexit 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Changing a defeatist attitude is more important than changing bits of strategy. Trade deadline conjecture lessens with Tampa Bay Lightning's Steven Stamkos off the market 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z But she was hardly defeatist, despite the 51%-45% loss. Taiwan's Tsai Ying-wen has presidency, and history, within her reach 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z "We cannot afford to be slowed by the climate skeptics or deterred by the defeatists who doubt America's ability to meet this challenge," she said. Republican presidential candidates go their own way on climate change despite Paris agreement 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z In his defeatist op-ed concerning climate change, “Can we set the planet’s temperature?” A defeatist stance on climate change 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z The public is impatient with the restrained style of the president as much as his pragmatic prudence, but it is defeatist to decry everything that has been done. Waging a Smarter, Better War 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z The effect is to induce a terrible ennui, a defeatist sense that, no matter how much evidence there is that something is unacceptable, we accept it anyway. From Fifa to guns, let’s stop accepting the unacceptable | Jonathan Freedland 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z They demonstrate, once again, the power of defeatist thinking. Congress Moves to Sabotage the Paris Climate Summit 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z The one-time front-runner needed to send a signal to wary donors and voters that he still wants to be a candidate after sounding increasingly defeatist on the campaign trail. Who Won and Lost at the Debate 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z “If you took the position that no single thing solves the problem, then you would never do anything — it’s a defeatist attitude,” said Rajesh De, the former general counsel of the National Security Agency. Senate Approves Cybersecurity Bill Despite Flaws 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z Dipping in the polls and in the midst of a massive campaign shakeup, Bush seemed defeatist Saturday as he lamented the anger taking root in the Republican Party. What to Watch For At the CNBC Republican Debate 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z Ellis called such an idea not only “inaccurate,” but defeatist. How humans are driving the sixth mass extinction 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z Recalling the cavernous tones of the Birthday Party, Joy Division, Public Image Ltd. and other beaten-and-broken defeatists, the band's fiery approach suggests that losing at life can pay dividends in the art department. Julia Holter's 'Have You in My Wilderness' is a breathtaking and rewarding listen 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z But his son, Robert Barker, who is the company’s president, was standing next to him, and he sounded anything but defeatist. Prison Vendors See Continued Signs of a Captive Market 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton pledged Sunday that if elected she will build on a new White House clean-energy program and defend it against those she called "Republican doubters and defeatists." Hillary Clinton promises to build on Obama climate plan as industry and environmental groups weigh in 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z "It will need defending. Because Republican doubters and defeatists - including every Republican candidate for president - won't offer any credible solution," she said. Climate change: Obama to unveil Clean Power Plan - BBC News 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z Because Republican doubters and defeatists — including every Republican candidate for president — won’t offer any credible solution.” Obama Policy Could Force Robust Climate Discussion From 2016 Candidates 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z “What’s the weather like? Does any enquiry about the weather forecast at this stage of the match indicate a defeatist mindset?” asks Naren Radhakrishnan. Ashes 2015: England v Australia, third Test, day one – live! 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z But it is unsettling to perpetuate the defeatist narrative that student poverty is destiny in our nation’s classrooms. We know the strategies to help students in poverty learn 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z Because Republican doubters and defeatists — including every Republican candidate for president — won’t offer any credible solution. Hillary Clinton promises to build on Obama climate plan as industry and environmental groups weigh in 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z She had made no secret of her belief that her husband’s White House advisers were too defeatist for what could be a difficult reelection fight, one aide recalled. What Hillary Clinton’s private e-mails tell us about her management style 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z Lawmakers called that attitude defeatist and said there were ways for Leonhart and other agency leader to crack down on bad behavior. House lawmakers say they've lost confidence in DEA chief 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z Former chiefs of the Bank of Japan had adopted a defeatist stance towards Japan’s deflationary morass. End of the affair 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Vilifying Labour as defeatist leftists during the campaign, and then enlisting them as a “moderating” influence in government, would be no surprise. The price of Bibi’s comeback 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Instead, she should rewrite her talking points, surrender her defeatist attitude and give a convincing argument on how to stop the recruitment of militants. Recruits Join Islamic State Group Because of Its Ideology, Not Economics 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z Let’s dispense with defeatist talk that we can’t afford to educate our people. Free tuition at community college should just be the start 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z You could have a defeatist attitude about this and think ‘nobody wants to hire me’ or you could adopt a different one — that you bring a lot to the party. How To Lead Breakthrough Change At Work 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z In many circles, the talk is more than just a defeatist attitude. No One Should Be Excited About Winning the Senate 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z “Better together” not only sounds defeatist, but also oddly detached. Advertising Disasters: Scotland's "No" Campaign 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z There was the Hamas spokesman who explicitly called on Gazans to stay in their homes despite IDF warnings to leave, and later belittling “defeatist” Palestinians who lament the high death toll. Hamas's Blood-Drenched Cynicism 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Klinsman’s comments not words of a defeatist; they are words of a realist. Jurgen Klinsmann: Defeatist or Master Motivator? 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z It amounts to a fundamentally defeatist view of the country that Thatcher herself wanted to be ‘great.’ The Iron Lady’s American obsession: Thatcher and Reagan’s desperate political alliance 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z President Dilma Rousseff took to nationwide television this week, pleading with her country to support the tournament, dismissing the alarms sounded by “pessimists” and “defeatists.” World Cup fervor begins winning out over opposition in Brazil as tournament begins He says the expectations surrounding his current team are significantly different than those facing Germany or hosts Brazil but insists there is nothing defeatist about his position. Talk of U.S. World Cup win 'unrealistic', says Klinsmann 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Back home, the mood was sombre; defeatist, even. World Cup: 25 stunning moments … No17: France implode in South Africa 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Self-monitoring is the voice of doubt, that defeatist nag, our inner critic. The Science of Peak Human Performance 2014-04-30T04:01:39Z The policy focus was squarely on reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, and even talking about adaptation was often seen as defeatist. Brace for impacts 2014-04-02T17:20:00.763Z But the Nats would be one strange, defeatist club if they looked at it any other way. Boswell: Washington Nationals must find their identity, and Manager Matt Williams is key to it 2014-03-24T01:12:18Z And more often than not, their response is defeatist. This New Year, Resolve to Treat Yourself With Love and Respect 2013-12-11T15:59:00Z Chatterjee, a former Indian special forces officer who survived polio as a child, urged global public health officials and donors to the fight against polio not to be defeatist, despite the disease's re-emergence. In Syria outbreak, polio exploits conflict once more 2013-10-29T19:24:40Z He says he is "not that defeatist about the process". Subdued hopes for Mid-East talks 2013-07-31T13:06:39Z Blair and Brown were defeatists, convinced Britain was essentially conservative, individualist, imbued with Thatcherism. Labour's spending worked. Why don't they defend it? 2013-07-02T06:00:34Z Lester often seemed sullen, showing displeasure with umpires and defeatist body language when things went wrong. On Baseball: In Boston, John Farrell’s Return Gives Pitching Staff a Boost 2013-06-02T01:30:57Z He is a crusader against a defeatist mentality, but admits the company has lost credibility. Japan's Samurai CEOs (1) Panasonic's Tsuga Kazuhiro 2013-04-13T22:02:01Z “I hope she picks Mark Penn”–her longtime pollster and close advisor–”to run her campaign again,” said one swing-state state chair who was loath to share his defeatist attitude publicly. GOP Fears Hillary in 2016 Race 2013-04-12T09:35:00Z And Modell’s war of attrition was not perpetrated on a defeatist sports community: in the mid-1990s, two of the region’s three major league teams were playing in new arenas. In-Box: N.F.L. Game Plan Could Be Altered by the Courts 2013-02-02T18:48:31Z The Columbia Journalism Review got defeatist, calling it the “fiscal whatchamacallit.” Fiscal Cliff? Slope? Debtpocalypse? It Means Austerity 2012-11-17T03:46:09Z This is not a defeatist but a realistic assessment. Austerity is here to stay, and we'd better get used to it 2012-11-14T21:00:05Z That defeatist attitude made a big impression on Guttmann and the experience stayed with him. Searching for Paralympic heroes – in a basement 2012-11-14T12:31:54Z But you don't embrace challenges by some negative, defeatist attitude. Cougars fall to 2-6 in Leach's first year, but the coach makes for good theater 2012-10-28T07:18:56Z Pakistan remains deeply polarised and confused about the nature of the security threats it faces "The president sounded defeatist and he exposed the weakness of the state," he said. Malala Yousafzai: Has Pakistan missed the chance to move on militancy? 2012-10-26T12:38:15Z Critics will argue that some of these claims are contestable, but Ms Hedegaard told BBC News: "If we are defeatist over the climate we will get nowhere." EU rebrands green energy campaign 2012-10-08T14:38:15Z City can afford to stick rather than twist, but United keeping the chequebook closed not only appears uncharacteristically defeatist, it raises suspicions that the owners are being tight with funds. Premier League 2012-13: club-by-club guide to how the summer has gone 2012-08-11T18:07:11Z The folk around here don't like to sound defeatist. Why US drought could affect us all 2012-08-09T12:14:53Z Be clear that this is not just some inert, defeatist process. News industry struggles with the fear that general interest has had its day 2012-07-21T23:03:10Z If only they retained the potential for action rather than defeatist, corrupted degeneration. Is there too much press freedom? Ask 72 dead journalists 2012-06-30T23:05:53Z You need to address the problem as soon as possible after you begin noticing bad behavior; even one employee's defeatist and contrarian talk can have great influence with his colleagues. Does Your Rock Star Have a Bad Attitude? 2012-06-29T12:43:21Z “Over and above everything,” he continued, “I personally hope to get at least a number of players without a defeatist complex.” Bats: SNY's 'Yearbook' Series Set to Revisit 1962 Mets 2012-05-15T17:10:55Z We strongly buck the kind of defeatist attitude like Ms. Peel’s that limits life-saving innovation and a more effective healthcare system; and dictates this level of sophistication is only possible in the future. Why Peter Thiel Likes Electronic Health Record Provider Practice Fusion 2012-02-26T20:16:38Z But I don’t agree with so many of the defeatists in the industry who say that online piracy can’t be stopped. How To Fix Online Piracy 2012-01-17T16:05:53Z Newspapers were printed, wages paid, mail delivered, “defeatists” tried and executed. The End ? By Ian Kershaw ? Book Review 2011-10-21T19:19:14Z I will not classify the Nationalist leader and his dupes as "defeatists," who were ready to accept peace as the consequence of defeat. England, Canada and the Great War 2011-10-20T02:00:21.577Z Others find this position both defeatist and hopelessly theoretical, and point out that few triagists would be willing to recommend specific candidates for extinction. With so many species being endangered, which one should I help? 2011-03-15T04:00:00Z That line was celebrated by antiwar doves, who instantly claimed Gates as one of their own, and condemned by conservative hawks, who called him a defeatist. Libya's Conflict: The Case for U.S. Military Intervention 2011-03-07T08:05:00Z The phrase, the fiery Scotsman says, sometimes comes with defeatist undertones. Portland-Seattle soccer rivalry goes to new heights this season 2011-03-02T05:20:05Z Maybe it was being defeatist, yet he had to make sure that they had a way off this planet if the mission failed. Sense of Obligation 2011-02-09T03:00:52.337Z Obama cannily made budget cutting seem old-fashioned, even defeatist in the struggle for international economic gain. IPhone Public Distrusts Dial-Up Government: Michael Waldman 2011-02-04T02:24:40Z It criticises Treasury Secretary Danny Alexander for his "defeatist" stance on a variable "fuel price stabiliser". Newspaper review 2011-01-17T05:55:28Z "Our view is that they will eventually catch up with the West, and it is defeatist to deny them help." Sparking profits 2011-01-07T00:20:22Z Honestly, Bloomberg sounds pretty defeatist about the whole enterprise: "It's not clear that the average person feels themselves disenfranchised or wants a lot of the things we are advocating," Bloomberg said. H&R Block loses tax refund loan banking partner 2010-12-27T21:09:00Z But we should not be downhearted, nor treat the COP16 meeting as though it does not matter – there is too much at stake to be defeatist. Canc?n climate change summit: Let's show we mean business 2010-12-06T07:00:00Z I believe it's detrimental to suggest that creators should be defeatist and not participate in this evolution – that what they've created has no value so they may as well give it away. The real cost of free: a response 2010-11-19T10:15:00Z Initially when I read it, I was incensed and upset with the defeatist tone. The Way Forward in Iraq 2010-08-11T17:46:00Z Lippi, the silver-haired Tuscan who coached the Italians to the 2006 title, was not about to sound defeatist. Italy 1, Paraguay 1: Italy Starts Slowly but Salvages Tie in Opener 2010-06-15T01:50:00Z "But just because our opponent is a strong team, I don't think they will be defeatist." World Cup 2010: South Korea hold no fear of Lionel Messi's Argentina 2010-06-13T12:08:00Z Pointedly but perhaps excessively stated, is this a developing clash on Iran between American unilateralists and defeatists? Politicus: Giving No Quarter on Iran Issue 2010-05-17T11:10:00Z This is ultimately a defeatist approach to reducing deficits. UK needs a selective industrial policy 2010-05-03T09:00:00Z It is something Rochdale fans have become intimately acquainted with in recent decades but the club's latest manager seems poised to finally purge Spotland of a notoriously defeatist mindset. Louise Taylor: Rochdale on verge of great escape 2010-04-13T10:17:00Z This may sound defeatist given England's run of four straight wins over their opponents dating back to 2007, but the scoreboard does not lie on the final weekend of a Six Nations championship. England's 'Mad Dog' Lewis Moody leads assault on French grand slam hopes 2010-03-20T09:00:00Z In a university there is no proper place, among faculty or students, for the disillusioned, the cynical, the defeatist. Some War-time Lessons The Soldier's Standards of Conduct; The War As a Practical Test of American Scholarship; What Have We Learned? "Because you're a defeatist is no reason for us to be." The Enormous Room But do you honestly think I could entertain such a defeatist notion for one instant? Deathworld Maybe it was being defeatist, but he had to make sure that they had a way off this planet if the mission failed. Planet of the Damned There are a great many as you know mental diseases and troubles at present, and the one thing Bahá’ís must not do is take a defeatist attitude toward them. Unfolding Destiny An impression was broadcast that it was pacifist, even "defeatist," in its thinking, and that it harboured a weak humanitarianism which was disposed to look gently even upon the behaviour of the Prussians. The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I They, too, like the Socialist "defeatists," aimed to weaken and corrupt the morale of the army and to divide the nation. Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy A defeatist psychology, as they say, took possession of the Italian people and expressed itself in hatred of the war, of those responsible for the war, even of our army which had won our war. Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado A defeatist's attitude, some might say, but for this important difference. Oberheim (Voices) "You thought it odd in one who, when you last saw him, was well up in Group A of the defeatists." Right Ho, Jeeves They were the only Italian troops I saw during the retreat, who showed any sign of being under the influence of "defeatist" or German propaganda. With British Guns in Italy A Tribute to Italian Achievement The pacifists and "defeatist" Socialists represented a minority. Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy Somewhat earlier the French had suffered a severe and almost disastrous defeat in Champagne which produced mutinies in the army and a defeatist agitation among the civilians. Public Opinion Next came those "defeatist" cranks who always think their own side must be wrong, and who are of no more practical use than the out-and-out "pacifists" who think everybody wrong except themselves. Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray "Would that be a normal dose for an adult defeatist, do you think?" Right Ho, Jeeves It was a common thing to hear the Second Army spoken of as a whole Army of cowards and "defeatists." With British Guns in Italy A Tribute to Italian Achievement He said that it was impossible for either side to win a military victory, revamping all the defeatist arguments that were familiar in every country. Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy Moreover, now that I had had time to meditate upon it, I was more than ever defeatist about this scheme of Jeeves's. Right Ho, Jeeves |
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