Sentences with phrase «defeatist ideas»

Forget «low pressure», defeatist ideas.

Putting aside Human's repetetiveness, the whole song is spent pushing this defeatist idea that being human is a catchall excuse for mistakes.

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.

At the same time, the idea of an athlete simply participating, turning their brain into mush for a crowd pop, rather than trying to learn and improve and try to be the best, just seems so defeatist to me.

Unfortunately, because of the achievements of drug - using professional, amateur and recreational bodybuilders, many natural lifters either have no idea of their actual potentials, they over-estimate what they can realistically achieve or they adopt a defeatist attitude and set their goals too low.

There is manufactured conflict between Ray and an outspoken defeatist who dismisses everyone else's ideas.

His work introduces the idea of a defeatist hermeticism: total, and yet not reassuring.