defeatism

His life could be described as a struggle against defeatism.

There is a sense of defeatism among the American people when it comes to the federal courts.

He did not know how to fight this creeping defeatism.

Despite all the suffering, there is no defeatism in Bosnia.

After that, "many boomers developed a real sense of defeatism," he said.

It's too soon to accept the defeatism that seems to have gripped so many.

Defeatism was rife among his people and in the armed forces.

None of the youths expressed any defeatism until the subject was race.

Once the fighting begins, I will not tolerate doubt and defeatism.

"It's your kind of defeatism that's brought us to this.

Some Democratic members spoke grimly of the need to guard against defeatism.

The defeatism comes next-Felix has no faith that he will live.

"Defeatism is hardly the order of the day, old dear.

To suggest otherwise was defeatism and would be punished accordingly.

So let's have an end to pessimism and defeatism.

Defeatism and despair about drugs simply will not do.

I don't want to hear your defeatism any longer.

Curiously, this followed just hours after another bout of literary defeatism.

And the records include some startling admissions of indifference or defeatism by workers.

"You can't imagine the sense of defeatism after the Invasion," he said.

Matt had tired of the admiral's defeatism, but it was beginning to spread to him, too.

There were voices raised in protest against this defeatism, but the man demanded the right to be heard.

He would not think himself into any defeatism.

Hitler did not want to accept this, however, because any retreat would associate him with defeatism.

Roosevelt and Truman would have regarded those troop levels as defeatism.