“Self-pity and defeatism are quickly banished from his mind whenever they turn up.”

“But what was less explicable than this working-class defeatism was to hear those who regarded themselves as progressive liberals conniving in it.”

“Keane fumed at these failures and the defeatism that accompanied them as Chelsea dominated English football.”

“Certeau has been interpreted as everything from a utopian dreamer to a cynical defeatist.”

“He created his movement resigned from the start that it would end up this way, which is why he's a defeatist.”

“There were lots of partisan shots, calling people either winners or losers or defeatists.”

“That won him the derision of Western sophisticates, intellectuals and defeatists of all kinds.”

“Rather than admit this, our dovish defeatists have turned themselves into the hardest of hardliners.”