| Keane fumed at these failures and the defeatism that accompanied them as Chelsea dominated English football. |
| 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. |
| I don't believe that the sporting gods will punish us for contemplating victory and I'm all for shedding our national defeatism. |
| Contrary to Levin's assumption, most fraternizers were motivated by factors other than revenge or defeatism. |
