| Contrary to Levin's assumption, most fraternizers were motivated by factors other than revenge or defeatism. |
| Before concluding, we reiterate the importance of high morale and caution against false rumors, defeatism, uncertainty, and discouragement. |
| Such parental pressure, could lead to a distorted perspective, disappointment, defeatism, withdrawal, hurt, anger and much worse. |
| Now is certainly not the time to play into the hands of Cassandras who fill our media with the molten lead of cultural defeatism. |
| But what was less explicable than this working-class defeatism was to hear those who regarded themselves as progressive liberals conniving in it. |
| You know, what I sense is a sense of fatalism and defeatism that I just reject. |
