Примеры defeatism

• If this sounds like pre-modern defeatism, it also indicates a way forward to the modern sublime in which astonishment forces a recoil to rational analysis.

• The hierarchy was prepared to lighten this canonical obligation in terms of external observances, but to forego it entirely would have smacked of defeatism.

• It was proof of defeatism, they said; it would demoralize the troops and perhaps even lead to disaster on the field of battle.

• The result, as you will have guessed by now, was that people generally behaved not with panic and defeatism but with 'a high degree of popular resilience, endurance and resolution'.

• It is the fundamental defeatism of the party opposite that distresses me.

• The one carries with it just a suspicion of defeatism; the other a commendable degree of optimism.

• It is they and such as they who give a quite false impression to the foreign observer that this is a city stinking of defeatism.

• We have passed away from the deplorable era of defeatism, decadence and depression of the immediate post-war era after the last war.