Sentences with phrase «but defeatist»

Not liking the odds, Jane treats the first few days on assignment like a paid vacation, dozing off during strategy meetings and offering nothing but defeatist naysaying in the face of the team's plan of attack.

Not exact matches

We must not be defeatist and cry that the whole Church is heading for disaster, but neither should we have the childish idea of a crazy avant - garde that the Church should move ever faster, that what has been achieved is nothing and that everything that is new in the Church is but a modest beginning leading to unheard - of things.

You might think me defeatist, but what I'm trying to be is pragmatic.

the second: divorcees are weak, wimpy, defeatist ingrates yeah I haven't seen anything about this, granted I've only been subscribed to matt's blog for a few months now, but the closest I've seen to that is a general message that maybe you should try just a little harder to be with the love of your life

AverageJoe76, There are many things that bother me about the «we are all born sinners» mentaility (like the fact that it is defeatist and ignorant), but one of the big things is that it is part of a pretty obvious control scheme.

It is not strange that in a city straining every faculty toward the very faint hope of survival, such a line as Jeremiah's would be regarded not merely with distaste, but as defeatist if not downright seditious.

All i want is EPL at the end of the season but with kind of money Manchester clubs are spending, the arsenal indecisiveness, with the defeatist attitude of us fans and the media bull....

Don't know about anyone else but I can see Sanchez playing with that defeatist look already..!!!

I am sorry if this sounds defeatist Arsenal fans, but I think it is purely realistic and we may as well make the best of a bad situation don't you think?

But hey, why not act like complete idiots instead, create an atmosphere of toxic hostility, fly banners and organize pathetic, defeatist protests and media spectacles that embarrasses everyone associated with the club and see how well that works in propelling your team to victory.

That's a defeatist remark yes we are poor now but when normal buisness resumes we will be there, it's just at the moment you can tell who is the week players and the back up is poor standard.

Bundesliga teams haven't been quite as a defeatist since the Catalan's departure but few have seen fit to go toe - to - toe with Bayern to the extent that Heiko Herrlich's Leverkusen did on Tuesday night.

You could say that we're losing the battle but actually that's defeatist and I refuse to let my children grown up without me as a role model or «leader» as Beth would say.

I have many Influencer and Blogger friends (myself included sometimes) struggling with anything from not feeling pretty / good enough, instagram algorithms, likes, work... But sometimes it feels as though we're in a whirlwind of negativity which can be self perpetuating and defeatist!

Here is what we can say to this: if you are one of these losers and share their defeatist opinion, most likely you are quite a miserable failure as far as women are concerned, but for entirely different reasons.

Marlo, once she gives birth to her daughter, begins to exhibit selfish and self - defeatist behavior that brings to mind that of Theron's character in Reitman and Cody's previous collaboration, Young Adult, but Marlo's conduct is more intriguingly sketched throughout Tully — understood to stem from her frustration at not being able to protect and provide for her children in the way she wants.

Maybe that's a defeatist, «Eh, what does the story really matter» kind of shoulder shrug, but I enjoyed Insurgent without really knowing or caring much what it was about.

And that comes across like a defeatist attitude, but this is the way that it is and there's nothing wrong with that.

By denigrating the movement to end shelter killing as akin to warehousing and abuse, and by ignoring the protocols of shelters which have truly achieved No Kill, these naysayers not only do so to provide political cover for their own killing but in order to embrace a nation of shelters grounded in killing — a defeatist mentality, inherently unethical and antithetical to animal welfare.

Great post, above, but what does anyone expect (though it's always fun catching the hive out doing violence to the norms (sentimental, bourgeois, defeatist - wrecker, class - enemy «norms», to be sure) of the scientific method, if that's, indeed, what we have here)?

That insight is not meant to make you a defeatist, but to help steel you.

I admit that was quite a defeatist mentality, but I'll blame it in large part on my disillusioned, angst - ridden adolescent self.