But Reynaud, crazily, chose to bring into the cabinet the defeatist generals Pétain and Weygand, and he was under the crucial influence of his equally defeatist lover, Madame de Portes.
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And still, the things that Gorbachev lobbied for weren't defeatist.
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But that doesn't necessarily mean you should go full defeatist.
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"We don't have a defeatist approach on this," Short said.
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But that's flawed thinking — and a defeatist attitude to boot.
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I completely object to the defeatist tone of this article.
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It sends the totally wrong signal because it is defeatist.
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"Many people will find this perspective disappointing, even defeatist," she concedes.
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That isn't defeatist or apologist; simply put, we never have been.
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Some unlikely Americans are sounding a defeatist note about North Korea.
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"There's a thoroughly defeatist culture within Oracle," one current employee said.
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Luckily, not everyone is buying into a defeatist-based economic policy.
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But it's too early to feel defeatist yet, Gregson told me.
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This election has already put a significant dent in that defeatist conclusion.
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A balance must be struck, he says, between being informed and being defeatist.
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But we refuse to be defeatist over our chances to get this apartment.
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"People are less defeatist about corporations than they are with governments," Mitchell said.
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Justin, like the rest of us, has no time for this defeatist chatter.
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And I became dissatisfied with classic American fiction that ends on a defeatist note.
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That's not a defeatist attitude, it's just a change in our way of thinking.
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"His mood and tone were so defeatist they couldn't make it work," she said.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The thing to do is to not become defeatist in a way.
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It was like a bolt of lightning that snapped many from their defeatist slumber.
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But Troy isn't a defeatist, either; he comes out swinging on just about everything.
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By doing so, he's perpetuating a defeatist attitude, and even a certain degree of misanthropy.
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Instead, it allows its characters to be frustrated and perplexed, but doesn't make them defeatist.
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But you don't have to be a great pessimist or a defeatist to be skeptical.
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Historians today see the group that first used that name as isolationist, defeatist and anti-Semitic.
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But it is defeatist to believe that the better parts of those countries' natures are doomed.
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"Musk added that he wasn't all defeatist, saying: "I'm a naturally optimistic person, to be clear.
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However, to indulge in hand-wringing over human rights is not just defeatist -- it is misdirected.
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For me, that would be a welcome respite to the defeatist political circus America has become.
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In short, don't fall for the defeatist line that the battle for net neutrality can't be won.
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I've long had a defeatist attitude that if I couldn't produce something that was perfect, why bother?
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Critics argued that Judge Sweet was defeatist, and that heroin and crack were more addictive than alcohol.
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This kind of defeatist thinking can feel like a kind of protection or preparation, but it's not.
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When problems are that large, it can be easy to become defeatist, to assume that change is impossible.
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This feels overly defeatist to me — and could disadvantage good candidates who don't yet have national name recognition.
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Duterte has been accused by critics of taking a defeatist position on China and on defending Philippine sovereignty.
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Because as defeatist, paranoid and neuralgic as the hard-line Brexiteers are, their resolve seems strong and sincere.
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I can't tell if this is an extremely realistic, or wildly defeatist, view of how the media works.
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Taking a rather defeatist stance on gun control, she pointed out that mass shooters don't obey the law.
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Things will change eventually, and I think that everybody saying that they won't is both defeatist and unrealistic.
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Some see it as ineffective, a defeatist position that denies the power of expression itself to effect change.
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All a direct result of a flaccid, defeatist Obama administration, where lack of foreign policy was considered policy.
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And as this defeatist alliance insists on avoiding the fight, a new Greatest Generation is forming before our eyes.
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Does it feel defeatist to have to deliver the same admonishment to another president, Trump, all this time later?
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Television audiences loved him because he was a welcome antidote to the defeatist attitudes of the post-Vietnam era.
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Mr. Lieberman accused Mr. Netanyahu's government of pursuing a "defeatist" policy designed to buy quiet instead of overthrowing Hamas.
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You at least attempt to do a good thing, and that saves the game from a simple, defeatist tone.
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"No one will want to hire someone old like me," is a common excuse for inaction and defeatist procrastination.
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But also a defeatist leftism that I think has shifted in the last in the last five years, right?
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The conventional wisdom on Europe's ability to protect its interests may be too defeatist, suggests Kori Schake of the IISS.
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In April 2013 his pick as governor of the BoJ, Haruhiko Kuroda, broke decisively with the central bank's defeatist past.
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President Trump will undoubtedly take advantage of their socialist tendencies by contrasting their defeatist economic policies with his own agenda.
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Admittedly, right of boom planning can seem defeatist or less aggressive than saying that we will stop all the terrorists.
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And so for Democrats to play into the hands of the corporate gun lobby, and just letting them define what the realm of possible is, it's so defeatist to me — at a time with the levels of carnage in our country, we don't need people who are defeatist in their thinking about what's possible.
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Being defeatist or focusing on what others have that you don't isn't just distracting, it can stop you from moving forward.
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What Geraldo is describing a cowardly approach, a defeatist approach, if he can&apost get a truck, he will get a knife.
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Of course, telling someone to avoid entire weather patterns can feel little defeatist, but that's where strong skin-care habits come in.
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After pushing back against Chinese coercion for years, the Philippines has turned defeatist under the year-old government of President Rodrigo Duterte.
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He makes Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's right-wing premier, seem like a "leftwing defeatist", commented Chemi Shalev, a columnist for Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper.
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And it's scary to say that, because I think it almost sounds like a defeatist attitude, but I feel it's a realistic attitude.
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Pretor-Pinney had initially turned defeatist after shooting the documentary and never bothered reaching out to the W.M.O.; the bureaucracy seemed too formidable.
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How to raise a good human in a digital world Talk about what you're grateful for Counter defeatist attitudes by nurturing your kid's character.
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The success of this strategy "should be major wake-up call for defeatist liberal democrats," Mudde, the UGA expert on the far right, writes.
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No one in American Honey overcomes his or her circumstances: There's a permanence to the poverty in this film that isn't defeatist, but rather perceptive.
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If you're going through a tough time on the career front, it's easy to succumb to negative thoughts and to fall into a defeatist funk.
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None are prepared to risk being accused of opening the way for the return of the defeatist left with its dangerous ideas of relinquishing territory.
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"One day we'll all have to learn Russian," he was overheard saying — a dangerously defeatist statement and possibly, my grandmother speculated, the cause for his arrest.
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Voltaire's advice in "Candide" that "Il faut cultiver notre jardin" ("It is necessary to look after our garden") always struck me as ironic, flippant and defeatist.
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You might look at all the options on the market — a consumer category unto itself, complete with peppy YouTube ads — and shame yourself for feeling so defeatist.
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As recently as April, Lieberman called this approach "defeatist and weak," arguing for more far-reaching measures including the execution of terrorists and the deportation of their families.
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In liberal WeChat groups, the mood swings between bravado, defeatist humor, and gloom; rumors about collapsed trade talks are often accompanied by whispered warnings of a coming storm.
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Jimmy Carter served as a placeholder/caretaker president with a similar defeatist foreign policy, combined with obeisance to OPEC and another plea to Americans to save energy voluntarily.
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The right called Mr. Peres a defeatist for ceding some control of the West Bank, the left called him an expansionist because the agreement didn't end the occupation.
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The basic income is defeatist — the solution to our jobs problem is not to give up on equipping workers with the skills they need for a changing economy.
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That defeatist stand sounds like the countries that, in Trump's vernacular, are "ripping us off" should be doing the country a favor by buying more American goods and services.
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Aside from ego — and don't underestimate that factor in Hollywood — actors and actresses, from their earliest days auditioning, don't make it very far if they have a defeatist attitude.
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That suggests the board's hawks, who think easing is unwarranted, have been joined by defeatist doves, who think further easing would be warranted but doubt it would be effective.
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Giving up on finding Marina, Rico, and Katelyn might seem defeatist, but it's the same sort of triage that the companies offering genealogy services to the cops are now doing.
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Leading the majority 'against' camp is the Council of French Jewish Institutions or CRIF, which released a statement Tuesday accusing Ammar of a "defeatist attitude" and of "surrendering" to jihadists.
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Before the super tiebreaker, Federer gave Zverev, 22, an expletive-laced speech, telling the youngster he needed to carry himself like a winner and to shed his defeatist attitude after losing points.
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"I think the majority of people don't have that defeatist attitude, but they sometimes just don't see the way, and that's where government can come in and be very helpful," he added.
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By focusing almost exclusively on how girls suffer, Sales repeats the usual unhelpful and defeatist refrain: It's a terrible world out there, and girls have to navigate it all on their own.
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Word of the Day : someone who is resigned to defeat without offering positive suggestions _________ The word defeatist has appeared in 21 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Feb.
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But my motivation and follow-through were on separate footing, and I found it difficult to scrounge up enough energy to overthrow my defeatist attitude, which grew stronger by my taking layoffs personally.
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"The decision refutes a defeatist and widespread opinion that once a technology is established, you can't stop it in its tracks," said Evan Selinger, a philosophy professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
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" However, during the "pretty tortured" recording process for "Lost in the Dream," Mr. Hartley recalled Mr. Granduciel as a self-lacerating defeatist: "There was not a single time we'd listen and be stoked.
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For Ryan Standfest to give off a defeatist vibe in the face of adversity is nothing new, but for him to use humor as a coping mechanism rather than a distancing device is refreshing.
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But one of the under-told storylines of the 2020 campaign to date is that despite the defeatist conventional wisdom, the support for the former vice president has -- and continues -- to show surprising resilience.
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" In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, Thune had struck a far more defeatist tone, telling NBC News: "I think people are going to have to take steps in their own lives to take precautions.
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For example, the median Fed policy maker viewed the economy's long-term rate of G.D.P. growth as only 1.8 percent a year, very much in the ballpark that Trump advisers would view as unnecessarily defeatist.
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" One of the signatories of the letter, brain injury specialist Dr. Ford Vox, called the WHO's response "defeatist, depressing, and quite a bit too quick for anyone to believe they gave the letter due consideration.
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I get the fear that we live in a post-truth world where people just believe whatever their party's Facebook ad tells them to believe, but it also seems defeatist and more than a little patronizing.
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I don't want to sound defeatist here, Western Conference teams, but there's a good chance that the salary cap is pretty much all that's going to keep the Oilers from running over you for years to come.
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However, some Jewish leaders disagreed with Ammar's advice, with one calling it "defeatist" and the Grand Rabbi of France, Haim Korsia, tweeting that "we must not cede to emotion" — remarks he made in an interview on TV5.
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The aesthetics are the politics, but people have managed to augment them and bend them toward goals that aren't nihilistic and defeatist, but abandon the "original" cyberpunk and what it "meant" to do something different and new entirely.
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Altogether, the sketch seemed to be a largely defeatist take on a tumultuous week that has left politicians largely divided over whether Trump crossed an ethical line, and left Trump himself defensive ... or, the sketch suggests, perhaps not.
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Alejano accused Duterte of high crimes and betrayal of public trust by concealing assets, supporting summary executions of thousands of Filipinos in his war on drugs, and having a "defeatist" approach towards Beijing's assertiveness in the South China Sea.
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His unrealistic schemes put Henry in a consistently defeatist mood; that mood is heightened after Henry has an awkward would-be romantic encounter with Betsy Small (Rachel Korine), daughter of the patrician landowner for whom the town is named.
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"For Democrats to play into the hands of the corporate gun lobby, and just letting them define what the realm of possible is, it's so defeatist to me," the New Jersey senator told me during an interview this week.
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He says: But given how much the web has changed in the past 30 years, it would be defeatist and unimaginative to assume that the web as we know it can't be changed for the better in the next 30.
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Photo by Marcos del Mazo/LightRocket via Getty Images Another reader wrote in: "I am a resolute defender of human rights, but the world is the world" [a quote from my analysis] This statement is not only defeatist, it is meaningless.
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"Using children to hawk a fatalist message about the world going up in flames, and skipping school and going on strike, that is a deeply defeatist approach," Jordan Bardella, an RN member of the European Parliament, told France 2 television.
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"We are not defeatist out here," he wrote from his office in Langley, Va. Yet the report plainly suggested that the scale of America's involvement in Vietnam was out of line with that country's actual importance to the United States.
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The target of this humor is not President Trump but rather what the far left sees as a defeatist and servile center-left that values compromise over belief and denigrates the social reforms beloved by the very same voters it seeks.
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While some took a defeatist tone, pointing out that some concerns should be so-called Layer 1 concerns (Layer 1 is the fundamental layer of Bitcoin, the layer that this group was concerned with), and some should be Layer 2 concerns (i.e.
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While the move feels a bit defeatist, it's a smart one, at least in the short term — a fact that Wall Street has rewarded, with shares in the 131-year-old company jumping as much as 25-percent in this morning's trading.
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For Standfest to give off a morbid and defeatist vibe in the face of adversity is nothing new, but for him to tackle personal issues and present work that uses humor as a coping mechanism rather than a distancing device is refreshing.
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Mr. Just described the memoir, in which General Westmoreland placed much of the blame for the war's outcome on cynical and defeatist journalists, as "petulant" and self-justifying, showing more concern about the war's effects on his army than on his country.
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As I listened to him during his closing news conference, on July 20173, I was struck by the sad, tired, almost defeatist tone in the way the leader of the most powerful nation on earth addressed the divisions within American society, after that week's killings.
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After a while, however, the novelty wears off, and the show's coda — in which the audience sings along with the Beatles' "Because," a beautiful song (with tricky harmonies!) about appreciating the way things are — ends the show on a note at once sentimental and defeatist.
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The 2019 version contains its own revisions of the text, some of which seem completely superfluous, such as a brief excursion into an Italian villa, and it ends on a defeatist note, as opposed to the hopeful ending of the novel and the film.
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"When I first said I wanted to make sure these guys were caught, so many people looked at me with a defeatist attitude that justice like this couldn't be served with 'these dudes,' " the director said in a text to Max Marshall, who wrote the profile.
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"Let Me Hear Your Balalaikas Ringing Out" (season 6, episode 13) The introduction of Jess 2.0: Now Not a Complete Shitshow is a compelling inverse of "Teach Me Tonight," with high-achieving Jess telling defeatist Rory that she can do more than she's allowing herself to.
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I hate to sound so defeatist, but do you see a path to normalization any time soon for the Bank of Japan, given that, with the Fed now raising, with the dollar under pressure, we are going to see the yen strengthen yet again on risk aversion.
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Dr. Minden adds that if you tend get stuck in the defeatist mindset that nothing ever goes your way, you probably won't put much effort into trying to improve your situation, and if you think that people will think you're weird or awkward, you'll probably feel anxious about talking to them.
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Carving out activities and interests that I will never succeed at felt defeatist at first, but over time I have accepted the following: Despite attempting to play since I was five years old, I am terrible at chess because I don't posses the ability to see more than one move ahead.
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Tonight's live coast-to-coast episode of Saturday Night Live gave us a somewhat defeatist cold open, followed by a charming monologue in which host Melissa McCarthy gave a backstage tour to an audience member named Joan, and a sketch in which McCarthy had her face slammed repeatedly with a whipped cream pie.
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In 2016, a year where Meghan Trainor – who has literally won a Grammy for entertaining – can go on Graham Norton and manoeuvre through her latest single like a list of unpleasant chores, it feels a little defeatist to hurl a torrent of shit at someone operating so far outside the box of reality they make Picasso look basic.
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But my takeaway from Habitat III had next to nothing to do with the official agenda and a great deal to do with what I sense is a worldwide sea change, a generational shift, rejecting the glum, defeatist view toward cities and urban life that prevailed when Habitat first convened 40 years ago in Vancouver, Canada.
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And the reason I bring up these points is when somebody has this defeatist attitude that the current social media model where third parties are manipulating those who communicate with each other, "it's the only possibility," we should point out that there's actually a world of other economic models that have worked online, that do work with digital media and often work really well.
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Much has been made of García's defeatist attitude (during his news conference, he blamed the "golf gods" for being against him), but Rotella offered the most telling example of how Harrington's positive attitude may have been the bigger difference after he had wasted his lead in the tournament when he hit the ball in the water on the 72nd hole, not once but twice.
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Instead, he focuses on the word "fragile," inserting it again and again into his narrative of a fictional corporate maladjustee: "You're too fragile to hear the message and you'll just sue them if you can, so you live in a confused defeatist bubble wondering why your career options seem limited," he writes, speaking directly to anyone who hasn't embraced the idea of working endless overtime in a frenzied, unhealthy environment.
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