Word: defeatists
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...infuriated with him, screaming, "The minute I saw you ? with the new overalls and $200 boots?I new what to expect: a daddy's boy!" The key turning point arrives during a long sequence of Paul learning to climb the rock face of an intimidating cliff. Wobbly and self-defeatist at first, he overcomes his nerves by telling himself he's getting closer to the top rather than further from the bottom...
Doing nothing because one can’t do everything is not an ethical line of conduct, as far as I am concerned. No humanitarian aid organization would have ever been created upon such a defeatist logic. One has to start somewhere, if only to shake up the terrible apathy that settles in, the paralyzing depression. At the very least, a debate on this issue has to be launched...
...passage Ristelhueber quotes represents Thucydides' idea that conflict is inevitable and that people will by nature always abuse other people for their own gain to whatever extent they can. Her use of this passage is telling evidence of the general theme in Ristelhueber's work of a resigned, almost defeatist approach to the horrible things we humans do to each other...
...sure the effort to get bin Laden would succeed, his comments were splashed all over the world's press. Rumsfeld rushed to contain the damage, later saying at a Pentagon briefing "we hope and we expect to get him." Still, if Donald Rumsfeld can be mistaken for a defeatist, the Bush administration has its work cut out in preparing Americans for a protracted conflict...
...passage Ristelhueber quotes represents Thucydides' idea that conflict is inevitable and that people will by nature always abuse other people for their own gain to whatever extent they can. Her use of this passage is telling evidence of the general theme in Ristelhueber's work of a resigned, almost defeatist approach to the horrible things we humans do to each other...