FacebookMark Zuckerberg seemingly oscillates between defensiveness and, uh, more defensiveness in perpetuity.
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He knows that even talking about masculinity can prompt defensiveness.
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But then he veered off into too many sidetrack defensiveness.
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Protesters demanded answers from the authorities, who reverted to defensiveness.
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Don't let that deter you and avoid responding with defensiveness.
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In the wake of tragedy, women deserve empathy, not defensiveness.
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And yet I feel a fierce defensiveness for this place.
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I now want to approach her, but without triggering defensiveness.
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Letters Insulting his moderate conservative supporters only increases their defensiveness.
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In a lot of cases, it exacerbates an already heightened defensiveness.
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Trump's own defensiveness will also be on display in future debates.
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One reason is defensiveness, as clients were so hurt in 2008.
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The details explain both the initial reticence and the subsequent defensiveness.
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Her lack of defensiveness is perhaps the book's most remarkable quality.
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You may even feel some degree of defensiveness for my client.
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Notice: Observe the feelings you're experiencing, for example anger or defensiveness.
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The defensiveness of my friends and fellow conservatives is wholly understandable.
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Kelly Cochran's defensiveness and evasions already had raised red flags, Ogden says.
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KELLY: I think that your defensiveness on this may speak volumes, sir.
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Defensiveness about the past is not a constructive vision for the future.
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Defensiveness or playing the victim during difficult situations can also cause problems.
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This year's Top Ten represent a nice combination of growth and defensiveness.
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The final tweet in that first triptych really drives that defensiveness home.
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A perennial issue, this reflexive defensiveness is especially pronounced at the moment.
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Lucca's inscrutability is now reframed as a mix of loneliness and defensiveness.
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The most narcissistic traits — defensiveness, authoritativeness, and stubbornness — were ranked at 5.
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But the president's defensiveness as Hurricane Florence rapidly approaches the Carolinas is worrisome.
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I've said the same sentence with equal amounts of defensiveness, hostility, and denial.
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Calling it out calmly and conversationally lets people talk about it without defensiveness.
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I finally managed to salvage the session by asking Mark about his defensiveness.
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But their defensiveness is belied by developments that surfaced only after the election.
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Empathy demands such emotional investment that this kind of defensiveness is almost inevitable.
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It had the petulance, the defensiveness, the scattershot accusations and the clipped complaint.
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Many questions invited the defensiveness and personal attacks that ran through the debate.
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Or to express frustration with the denial or defensiveness present in the room.
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Trump insists he is always playing offense but these tweets reek of defensiveness.
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Yeah, and you would get that sense of confusion from them, and defensiveness?
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There's the initial shock, then anger and defensiveness: Did they even read it?
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I have been taught to repent of fear, anxiety, defensiveness, mockery and anger.
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It's called "covert narcissism," which is denoted by introversion, hypersensitivity, defensiveness, and anxiety.
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Defensiveness makes you a better reader, a closer, more skeptical reader: a critic.
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I have found that bringing up the subject with friends can trigger defensiveness.
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The initial reaction might be one of surprise, defensiveness, frustration, sadness, or possibly anger.
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But ignorance isn't the only problem — denial and defensiveness are also barriers to change.
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Wild charges, interruptions, defensiveness all resurfaced -- some would say his persecution complex kicked in.
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Big banks, after nearly a decade of defensiveness, have roared back since the election.
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" The indignant defensiveness we may display when confronted by racial conflict is "white fragility.
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Despite the mainstream wine industry's defensiveness, natural wine has never been an organized movement.
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Arnelle Simpson spoke with humility and contrition — a stark contrast to Simpson's confidence and defensiveness.
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"I" statements are key in both cases—it can prevent much of that potential defensiveness.
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" Rather than retreat into defensiveness, Trump replied: "You're right -- nobody has ever told me that.
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But anyone can go through the same cycle of defensiveness and denial, with similar results.
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Once he got past his defensiveness to examine the criticism, he tried to do better.
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Too often, the response is a cocktail of defensiveness, avoidance, gaslighting, condescension and/or denial.
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Magnus depicts Gordimer in a probing close-up, her arms raised in openness, not defensiveness.
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If there's a fatal flaw – as in Greek tragedy – this may be it. 3. Defensiveness.
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How much of her Achilles'-heel defensiveness is a byproduct of her marriage to Bill?
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" With only a hint of defensiveness, he added, "Originally, all science was supported by philanthropy.
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Bernstein said investors in Costco are overpaying for the quality of earnings, dividends and defensiveness.
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He said investors in Costco are overpaying for the quality of earnings, dividends and defensiveness.
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Morgan Stanley said it sees the company's defensiveness returning as well as outperformance in 2020.
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Each time, my father would attempt to answer, in various registers of defensiveness and apology.
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Trump shifted his defensiveness from white supremacists to the Confederate statues they seek to protect.
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I didn't detect any defensiveness in the editors when I spoke with them about this.
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But when you look at her history, it's easy to understand where her defensiveness comes from.
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As we have found to our dismay in the UK, defensiveness can swiftly turn into denialism.
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Perhaps out of a mere tendency toward defensiveness, I wanted to prove myself as "full" Iranian.
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Teigen's preemptive defensiveness isn't coming out of nowhere; she is no stranger to unsolicited mommy advice.
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Because of that defensiveness, it's sometimes hard to break through and make serious connection and change.
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There's guilt evident in Bobby's defensiveness, which he tries to suppress by working through a bottle.
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There was some defensiveness among Williamson's longtime followers, who seemed bothered by some of the jabs.
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The result is the widespread feeling of aggrieved defensiveness that dominates many cultural conversations about parenthood.
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She can be introverted to the point of defensiveness when confronted about her rather obvious eavesdropping.
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Either way yields guilt and defensiveness, states of mind that don't mix well with sleep-deprivation.
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Antoinette often displays a hair-trigger defensiveness that only the easygoing and persistent Stephen can penetrate.
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Often the criticism that lies behind this word is brushed off, met with defensiveness, taken personally.
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It also gives you more confidence to face anger and defensiveness that can come with confrontation.
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In fact, it reflects utilities' defensiveness, as modular devices located close to consumers are undermining their monopolies.
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A week ago, there was an undercurrent of self-deprecation and defensiveness in the Russian fan mood.
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Because I thought awareness would lead to action, but too often I see awareness leads to defensiveness.
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But there is a defensiveness about acceding to the denunciations from national Republicans and damning media reports.
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It reduced our fear and defensiveness, enhanced communication and introspection, and increased empathy and compassion between us.
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Implicit bias disassociates racism from overt villainy and, as a consequence, engenders less defensiveness in the dialogue.
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That's simply wrong, and the company's defensiveness is one reason that its image problems are becoming significant.
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This brings us, finally, to the kind of speaking "as a woman" that engenders defensiveness and hostility.
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But if you let her defensiveness trump an honest, human exchange, what's the point of the relationship?
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At that time, to raise the matter of my family's past was to risk defensiveness and ire.
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Often, defensiveness means that you are clinging to a position that should be examined — and perhaps abandoned.
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The shame is gone from television criticism, but a strain of defensiveness still lingers in her work.
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Yet there still seems to be a queasy defensiveness about whether it's profound enough for literary fiction.
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There's so much anger and defensiveness out there right now about any story where men come across badly.
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Such petty defensiveness is neither a fitting tribute to King Bhumibol nor a good way forward for Thailand.
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Russia's economic defensiveness is good for its credit rating, but may have an unwelcome side-effect: squashing growth.
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Currently, the indicator suggests defensiveness is greater than it has been about 90% of the time since 1990.
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And all of us agreed to feeling some heightened sense of anxiety and defensiveness in majority-white spaces.
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But getting people to the whole story without hesitation or resistance or defensiveness is very, very, very difficult.
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While conservatives and the Republican Party are stuck as the vehicle for male defensiveness and anti-#MeToo backlash.
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Though they disapproved of Westboro, they approached her with curiosity and humor instead of scorn, lowering her defensiveness.
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Ms. Robertson convincingly portrays Sophia's defensiveness and irritating energy, but there's a pinched, limited quality to her performance.
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Instead — in what's become something of a recurring theme — he projected arrogance, defensiveness and smarminess in speaking with reporters.
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For example, crossed arms communicate resistance and a sense of defensiveness, whereas open arms make you appear more approachable.
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If you can both be patient and lay aside defensiveness for an hour, it may be a great start.
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Open questions are best for drawing out insightful responses, while "why" questions can provoke defensiveness and should be avoided.
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"It's something people do when they're thinking, but I think it conveyed a bit of defensiveness," Ms. Sherman said.
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MDMA is known to promote openness and lack of defensiveness, both of which might be conducive to attaining insights.
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Kelly's defense -- and defensiveness -- simply doesn't jibe with what we know of the timeline of events surrounding Porter's firing.
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After the tense moment, many picked up on Sanders' defensiveness and called her out on social media for her snark.
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However, explicit discussions around politics can come with a lot of baggage: preconceptions, assumptions, and a general air of defensiveness.
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It reveals growing frustration and defensiveness over the issue from Beijing, says Sophie Richardson, China director for Human Rights Watch.
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But he was just as clear in saying that Spicer and Trump's aggressive defensiveness with the press isn't encouraging overall.
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Much of this defensiveness stems from a straightforward imbalance in political power, given how few states are in Democratic hands.
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That, too, was touched off by Trump's defensiveness over the solemn presidential task of consoling the families of fallen soldiers.
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Republican strategists see Mr. Trump's offensive mainly as an exercise in thin-skinned defensiveness, rather than a shrewd political strategy.
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Terry's defensiveness about a large red birthmark on the side of his face only fuels his boorish behavior with Marnie.
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"Revolving Cycles" does this quite well with our hopelessness and confusion but also, less usefully, with our defensiveness and weariness.
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But as he presented his findings to the editors, he didn't encounter the kind of defensiveness he feared, he said.
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We do understand and advocate holding DG through any downcycle, but we think a better choice for defensiveness is DLTR.
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I think that kind of defensiveness, and her lack of desire to connect with her children, might push people off.
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Many survivors are struggling with medical bills and seek closure after years of being met with defensiveness from the church.
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Still, as he bends over backward to remind us, who can blame some educators for a certain defensiveness these days?
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It's also borne out by the defensiveness of Republicans when it comes to health care -- starting with President Donald Trump.
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All braggadocio and defensiveness, he told me his charisma has proven so potent he habitually had to fend off women.
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He did a bunch of chicken shit crimes by creeping up behind defensiveness women only to smack them on the head.
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But we also don't know how much of her defensiveness and anger stem from scars and wounds we're not privy to.
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Talk of poetic forms and conventions elicits as much anxiety, defensiveness and accusations of elitism as mentioning overtures, arias and recitatives.
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Dr Baker and Dr Morency, however, found it common in patients who had the psychotic traits of apathy, avolition and defensiveness.
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"It appears we're operating from a position of weakness and defensiveness, and the narrative is an ugly one," Ms. Economy said.
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The defensiveness is just one of my ... I can't believe the richest and most powerful people in the world are victims.
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He spent most of this awkward but compelling exchange listening, without defensiveness, and then posted the entire 24-minute segment online.
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We've got the self-enclosed narcissism of Donald Trump and, to a lesser degree, the mistrustful defensiveness of Hillary Clinton's campaign.
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Like Barr, his defensiveness and reluctance to apologize made the entire situation look worse for him than it otherwise would have.
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The couple's longtime defensiveness paid off, as they are able to live off their part-time incomes (Valentine's husband was downsized, too).
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"We're in a time where so much change is needed, and there's so much race-baiting, and ugliness, and defensiveness," she said.
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Zuckerberg tried to show a human side to the influential, elite audience — with a lack of defensiveness and a dash of humor.
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Unfortunately, too many police continue to show themselves to be far more interested in reactionary defensiveness and preserving the abusive status quo.
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Their frustration is understandable, but their defensiveness masks a darker assumption: that the public has no say in how they are policed.
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Growing sentiment within the United States of China's unfair trade practices has only elevated defensiveness within China, resulting in backlash against UBS.
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Likewise, when disagreements are met with defensiveness and emotional tension, they can result in a serious fight that's difficult to rebound from.
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These seemingly angry people have good reasons for defensiveness, but a generous overlay of wistful humor ends up making them pleasant company.
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" Even Ms. Salazar said she understood the unions' defensiveness: "There's a little bit of, 'We've been doing this for a long time.
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Other senior officials in Mr. Bolsonaro's government have responded to the sharp rise in deforestation with a mix of denial and defensiveness.
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Other senior officials in Mr. Bolsonaro's government have responded to the sharp rise in deforestation with a mix of denial and defensiveness.
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He answered questions directly and without defensiveness as he tried to reiterate the mission of the social network to better connect the world.
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But that doesn't mean that the tensions animating the heart of the show, and the anger, defensiveness, and ardor they induce, aren't real.
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Mr Turnbull, himself a former banker who once headed Goldman Sachs in Australia, showed a touch of defensiveness over the apparent climb-down.
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Bogle now tells the story with a mixture of flair, humor and, still, even after all these years, a tiny bit of defensiveness.
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Yet, it's been impossible to ignore the passion of Sanders supporters, which seems to prompt exasperation and defensiveness from those on Clinton's side.
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Her bristling replies suggest that when pressed she will resort to the defensiveness and denial her father has displayed all of her life.
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Even now, to provoke dark scowls or preemptive defensiveness from lovers of the saga, you need only utter three words: The. Phantom. Menace.
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"The Choice" argues that this upbringing — along with the scrutiny of the White House years — contributed to a self-defeating secrecy and defensiveness.
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But how will Trump's reflexive defensiveness about the allegations of collusion and notion that Russia may have helped his candidacy play long term?
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But couples can also disagree about these topics and come out stronger if they come from a place of understanding rather than defensiveness.
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There can be defensiveness around this, and then the conversation looks like it's happening between stay-at-home moms and moms who work.
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Compassionate pro-choice writers eased my defensiveness, showed me why I was wrong and convinced me that pro-life laws would be impractical.
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While bears often attack out of surprise or defensiveness, they can also target humans out of predation, according to the National Parks Service.
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As a man, I've had the curious experience of tracking my own occasional defensiveness at female rage and wrestling with uncomfortable self-reflection.
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Clarissa's and Lovelace's letters to their respective confidants are as probing as any therapy session, and as riddled with defensiveness and self-deception.
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Part of Amazon's defensiveness stems from executives' conviction that regulators' concerns are based not on logic but on a misguided understanding of retail.
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They've gone through all the normal episodes of confession, apology, defensiveness, forgiveness and loving the other most when there's nothing lovely about them.
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That uncomfortable feeling, that defensiveness that you feel when your most deeply held assumptions are challenged — what about subjecting yourself to it deliberately?
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Despite the hypocrisy of partisanship and self-defeating defensiveness of whataboutism, there is, if we look closely, a consensus amid the finger-pointing.
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I started seeing how trauma responses are linked to this constant state of fear and defensiveness you live in as a Muslim American.
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The emissions and the jobs, he argues, will merely be displaced out of the EU. But the defensiveness also goes beyond the bottom line.
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Morgan said RBS had displayed a "pattern of defensiveness" and "failure to acknowledge mistakes" throughout its handling of the problems at the restructuring group.
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She said, "It's my taste, and I love it," but there's also a really huge degree of defensiveness that you read in these interviews.
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The uncomfortable truth is that my defensiveness comes not from disagreeing with her assessment of my parenting, but from the painful shame of agreeing.
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A movement characterized by anxiety and anger, by harsh language and hard edges, by defensiveness and undue pessimism isn't going to win many converts.
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And it has provoked an immediate backlash — driven less by economic analysis than by defensiveness about the sense that suburban lifestyles are under attack.
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She also made reference to feeling attacked and how that can lead to defensiveness at times, though she didn't apologize directly for her earlier comments.
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For US Muslims, that defensiveness is compounded by many other factors that contribute to a culture of silence when it comes to addressing misconduct claims.
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" Jones acknowledged a common thread linking the force's failings over the years: "There are clear thematic similarities around leadership, culture, and institutional defensiveness when challenged.
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Like the various Star Trek series before it, The Expanse replaces real-world racial divides with metaphorical alien ones to help erase knee-jerk defensiveness.
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She undermined those very intentions with the way she went about implementing them, and in the defensiveness she showed toward Black women when called out.
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The innate resistance and defensiveness to conversations about bigotry don't mean that you should never talk about racism, sexism, homophobia, or other kinds of hate.
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Second, the research would predict that the op-ed would trigger ego defensiveness because the letter is an unquestionable threat to the president's self-image.
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Alternating between defensiveness and anger, he dotted his testimony with carefully-crafted sympathetic moments — which Damon skewered as he held up a handwritten 1982 calendar.
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That's essentially 'The Fool's' perspective throughout the album; That fear creates an illusion, and that illusion, when we believe it, leads to defensiveness and destruction.
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In a mix of candor and defensiveness, Mr. Obama said he had second-guessed himself more on Syria than any other issue during his presidency.
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But sometimes that mix of pride, defensiveness and terror of American-style health care makes it hard for us to admit where Canada falls short.
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In order not to fall into dangerous determinism or counterproductive defensiveness, we have to remember that the greatest successes of liberal democracies emerged from hope.
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Rather, their view is that he is on their side and that the protestations of his opponents merely reflect the self-interested defensiveness of the establishment.
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Senator McCain says Trump administration not being up front about Niger attack It's a reminder that Trump's impulsiveness, defensiveness, and habitual dishonesty are a big deal.
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But the more potent dynamic has been migration — a cultural defensiveness rooted in the feeling that one's accustomed way of life is under attack by newcomers.
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Perhaps, instead of being driven by a strong economy, cheap relative valuation, or relief regarding trade wars, investor affinity for Dow stocks is propelled by defensiveness.
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My executive coach, Cameron Yarbrough, points out that this is usually the moment the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse show up: defensiveness, criticism, contempt and stonewalling.
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And if it isn't bad enough for the Puerto Ricans, an additional casualty of Trump's defensiveness and vitriol are the first responders working the hurricane response.
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Is it purely borne of his reflexive defensiveness and insistence on always seeking to discredit anyone and anything that says something less than nice about him?
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His administration, which has also waged a trade war with China, says that it is motivated by concern for national security, not just by competitive defensiveness.
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In Kabul, the "defensive model" plays out as a feeling of defensiveness, a compelling urge to guard against a dreadful past when the Taliban ruled Afghanistan.
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I read articles that say criticism and defensiveness will eat away at a relationship, and I worry because I am a rather critical and defensive person.
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Critics of Trump have suggested that because of his defensiveness over the Mueller investigation, Trump has not taken seriously Russia's past behavior or its ongoing threat.
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Ansari's willingness to talk about how he grappled with the allegation, without defensiveness or anger, has value, especially since the comic is influential among young men today.
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Why it matters: This has thrown Trump into a constant state of defensiveness — and turned a growing number of Republicans into skeptics and unwilling full-throated defenders.
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When they present their feelings in this way, instead of placing blame, it's easier for their partners to see their concerns because they're not blinded by defensiveness.
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The real obstacles to the romance are personal and psychological: Fallon's defensiveness against people's judgment of his profession, and Robyn's sense of drift in her own life.
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He has some of the half-rough, half-pretty charisma of a young Michael York, and he plays Edward with a perfect blend of diffidence and defensiveness.
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Foster open conversations and stave off defensiveness by first acknowledging the important role that their phones play in their lives and then ask about the hard stuff.
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And the aides closest to her often reinforce her worst instincts, friends say: a lack of transparency, circle-the-wagons defensiveness and paranoia about the news media.
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Blind defensiveness on this point poses a risk not only to the Clinton campaign but also to the Democrats' future as the party championing campaign-finance reform.
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Learning to communicate from the basement, from a place of primary emotion and vulnerability rather than defensiveness and escalation, is at the heart of a healthy relationship.
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Mr. Xi's warnings were more wide-ranging than his previous repeated calls about risk, experts said, and his defensiveness is likely to constrain policy changes this year.
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Armor not made of defensiveness and hostility towards others, but rather self-compassion, self-worth, and pride in who you are and what you bring to each interaction.
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"This leads to a much greater understanding of one another — without defensiveness — and an increased willingness to work together and be supportive of one another's needs," Coleman said.
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But it's important to consider the psychoanalytic definition of ego too, because the ego is the part of your personality that deals with things like defensiveness and perception.
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Fixing this problem will mean overcoming a streak of perfectionism and a certain intellectual defensiveness, but it must be done if progressives are to make government popular again.
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At a club one night, a girl asked me where I was from and after months of practiced defensiveness, I was surprised when I hesitated for several seconds.
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Her children are still cautious and angry, but that's O.K. — at least this time, their mother is able to hear them without shielding herself with defensiveness or tears.
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"We see J&J's defensiveness returning, resulting in multiple expansion and outperformance in 2020," said Morgan Stanley equity analyst David Lewis in a note to clients on Tuesday.
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Neeson's efforts to explain himself reveal both great vulnerability and defensiveness that echo a wider, systemic pattern of cultural racism that his candid admission casts a spotlight on.
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The dissonance between the pink-and-white sterility of her website and the roiling defensiveness of her tone can be a little jarring, but ultimately, she grabs your attention.
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With the referendum on British membership in the European Union scheduled for June 23, Boris Schlossberg of BK Asset Management agrees that defensiveness is key in the current environment.
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VCDL President Philip Van Cleave told The Washington Post that he emailed one of the film's producers about his concerns over the interview's portrayal but was met with defensiveness.
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While some of the defensiveness may be stemming from a wish to protect recent gains, political headlines may be causing some investors to reach for insurance, market watchers said.
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Shelagh Delaney was still a teenager when she sent her first script off to a London theater in 1958, enclosing a note that fairly bristled with a bold defensiveness.
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Yet in today's context of staff cuts for music criticism at newspapers across the country, there is a refreshing lack of defensiveness about Thomson's conception of a critic's role.
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Richard Seymour, a UK-based socialist writer, argues that this problem has long been downplayed by the left out of a kind of defensiveness about their position on Israel.
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Also realize that the defensiveness and fibbing you're hearing may not be just a child reacting to being caught — the sort of behavior that earns consequences and stern lectures.
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Bob-Waksberg's thoughtful explanation of how he came to that conclusion has none of the defensiveness of, say, Matt Groening talking about the debate over The Simpsons character Apu.
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And so, in an act of defensiveness, the university dismissed the students' clarity and courage in confronting white nationalists, and instead transformed the students into part of the problem.
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Why it matters: The leaks and revelations have thrown President Trump into a constant state of defensiveness, and turned a growing number of Republicans into frustrated, sometimes bewildered, defenders.
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This is a man who has spent decades wounding others -- and himself -- at an astonishing rate and has responded to the various wreckages with a combination of denial and defensiveness.
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I think it's not necessarily a hostility with all of them, and some of them it's a hostility, for sure, or a defensiveness, like, "Not my fault," kind of thing.
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In the White House, the Clintons responded to further inquiries with defensiveness and stubborn resistance, which reinforced suspicion in the press, and the cycle led to conspiracy thinking all around.
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At the same time, Mr. Trump alienated many voters with his mixed comments about Saddam Hussein and his defensiveness over a Twitter post that many people regarded as anti-Semitic.
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PG: Tucked into the middle of the book is a very gentle primer on being a woman in politics: No anger, no defensiveness, just laying out the story with data.
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But based on this renewed defensiveness from Watchmen fans about the alleged lack of politics in the original text as compared to the HBO show, perhaps Moore has proved his point.
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"Their very defensiveness makes them very attractive right now in a volatile tape," Boris Schlossberg, managing director of FX strategy at BK Asset Management, said on CNBC's "Trading Nation " on Wednesday.
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But if there is any unifying character to RT, it is a deep skepticism of Western and American narratives of the world and a fundamental defensiveness about Russia and Mr. Putin.
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"When I finished making this record, I was like, Oh yeah, there's so much defensiveness and control and fearfulness and shit in those records," he said of his last three releases.
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If such a cat is encroached upon by that person and cannot escape, it may attack—which could be interpreted at hate, or loathing, but is more likely just proactive, fearful defensiveness.
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His self-involvement, defensiveness, demeaning treatment of others, need to dominate the conversation, and sense of entitlement — basically, his being an asshole — all fall under the diagnostic criteria for narcissistic personality disorder.
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"At the height of trade escalation and uncertainty over the summer, the bias of the market seemed to be towards concern and defensiveness," Morgan Stanley's Hans Redeker wrote in a client note.
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While some CEOs maintain a Jobsian cult of personality and where celebrity fan attacks mostly consist of endless walls of snake emoji, Musk's followers differ in their moral righteousness and emotional defensiveness.
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Trump's campaign has, time and time again, used this defensiveness to its advantage—the mainstream press has to hear both sides, even if one of the sides is wrong and/or lying.
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And while some bad habits (like lying or being mean) are just plain unacceptable, there also exists less-than-ideal conduct (like defensiveness or over-sharing) that seems to walk the line.
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" Many people often react to the term privilege with defensiveness: "It's not my fault that white people in the past enslaved black people, or created a criminal justice system that oppressed them.
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On the other hand, the Gerhard Richter painting "Skull" (1983) penetrates any such lightweight social masks and turns the world upside down, into a slapstick spectacle of pompous posturing and neurotic defensiveness.
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Williams's defensiveness about her legacy, especially in the face of so many who have wanted to tear it down or call it into question, might not be something we can all agree on.
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Trump's abrupt defensiveness, especially on the issue of his temperament, allowed Clinton to come across as the champion of those who have been taken taken advantage of by big business and systemic racism.
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I get the impression that he is a person with razor-sharp—an ability that can occasionally spill over into defensiveness or irritation once he detects an ulterior motive lingering behind someone's words.
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"Journalists who are the targets of this criticism have responded with reflexive defensiveness of the work they've done … but have largely ignored the central critique," The New Republic's Brian Beutler wrote on Tuesday.
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What follows is a mixture of contingency and fate; people's pride, defensiveness, and fear are the same everywhere, and yet events play out differently from the way they would in any other place.
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Unlike, say, the way Deadheads followed their band from city to city, this modern style of adoration takes place chiefly online, where it is driven not only by jubilation but by fierce defensiveness.
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" Instead of walking through the world with this huge amount of defensiveness, [thinking], "I will not be racist," to say, "Merrill, you are racist, simply by being brought up white in this society.
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Gradually, Philadelphians embraced Gritty, whose bellicose, sometimes inept character resonated in a city whose identity is wrapped up in a mix of blue-collar pride, defensiveness and a long history of athletic failure.
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Instead, the story has been an unrelenting barrage of chaos, arrogance, panic, overreaction, defensiveness, and even the occasional act of vengeance against critics—an act that seemed to carry the echoes of antisemitism.
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As part of that code, you'll often see basic Anglican names universalized to represent the defensiveness that many white people deploy when faced with performative expressions of queer identity or other marginalized identities.
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It's just this kind of defensiveness and cluelessness that's made the Republicans a party that can't win the White House unless a maverick candidate grabs the nomination much like Trump did earlier this year.
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The firm recommends Target, Costco, Home Depot and Walmart among others because of their strong market share growth, defensiveness against uncertainty over the trade war with China and years of investments finally paying off.
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It's difficult to identify with Hallencourt and be queer at the same time: So much of the hatred he experiences is wrapped up in the community's machismo defensiveness against the indignity of being poor.
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Somewhere along the way, the security industry also recruited ethics to help justify hacking behavior, giving us "the ethical hacker" and adding an artificial defensiveness to a profession that has existed since the 1950s.
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The people at blog New Hive have set up a chatroom primed for a congregation of "lonely cyber-souls" to talk to one another and generally not succumb to the stereotypical anti-Valentine's defensiveness.
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In Mr. Acosta's case, the charges against Mr. Epstein are so ghastly, and the stories continuing to emerge from his accusers so numerous and wrenching, that aggressive defensiveness and counterattack were not likely options.
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Reared on decades of fighting for individual liberty and capitalism against dictatorships and collectivism since the 1930s, their politics moulded by the spectre of Auschwitz and the gulags, such ideological defensiveness is perhaps understandable.
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Clinton's emails have acquired a talismanic power in this election, a digital dung heap that embodies the negatives she has struggled to shake off: defensiveness, reflexive secrecy, the whiff of shortcuts and sharp practice.
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As much as that's kind of a "rah rah" thing, I just wanted there to be that document, and I didn't want to have to be in a position of retreat or reaction or defensiveness.
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There were grand displays of defensiveness, demands that they be acknowledged for all the things they had done for black people in the past, and a terrifying lashing out that included racial slurs and doxing.
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Gillespie said Trump's invoking lynching to characterize his situation also represented "an escalation of the language of defensiveness" and suggested he could continue ratcheting up the fiery rhetoric much as he had throughout his presidency.
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For Sisi, who rose as a creature of the system, the response to the Metrojet crisis was essentially to step back and allow the government to follow its instinctive course of defensiveness, denial, and inflexibility.
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Far from being stand-alone organisations that proclaim the values of China with bravado and verve, they are largely parasitical on long-established universities, symbolic more of diffidence and defensiveness, and under almost constant critical attack.
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But as shock and defensiveness subside into sorrow, some have begun to demand a deeper soul-searching into how such demoralizing and abusive actions could become so normalized that boys would share them on social media.
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Worse still, their response to critics since the show has ranged from defensiveness to mockery, with Owens retweeting a joke that said that reading the comments on the show was "almost better" than the clothes themselves.
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"You guys ever buy a bottle of your ex-girlfriend's shampoo — not like from her, but her brand — wash your hair with it and then sit around and smell yourself?" he asks, pausing, before telegraphing defensiveness.
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It may be this defensiveness, too, that has characterized some of Francis's less popular recent actions, such as his dismissal of claims against a Chilean priest who potentially enabled child molestation by a colleague as mere "calumny."
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The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein told the New York Times that Suu Kyi had appeared "genuinely moved" by the harrowing 43-page report, released on Friday, expressing no defensiveness or denial.
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It was a mix of defensiveness (trying to atone for her previous position on the Iraq War) and pandering (We're going to defeat ISIS!), with a hint of her real strength: her passionate and comprehensive policy knowledge.
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As much as I enjoyed the feeling of warmth that emanated from the havdala services that closed that miserable Shabbat last month, there was something sad about identity flaring just in these moments of defensiveness and grief.
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It's totally reasonable to have a strong emotional reaction when you discover that your kid has hurt another child in some way; you might be overcome with feelings such as shame, anger, defensiveness, and guilt in that moment.
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Until this past weekend, it was easy to construe FBI Director James Comey's extraordinary intrusions into the presidential campaign this year as consistent with a career defined by bureaucratic turf protection, and defensiveness of the institutions he's served.
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Over her years of conducting trainings on race, DiAngelo has observed that white people reliably (and usually immediately) erupt into defensiveness and discomfort when asked to consider the persistence of racism—a response that she calls white fragility.
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Kavanaugh's opening statement -- in which he portrayed the allegations brought against him by Christine Blasey Ford and others as the byproduct of Democratic resentment over losing the 2016 election to Donald Trump -- was full of invective and defensiveness.
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The worst thing you can do, according to Lehmiller, is to go into the conversation like it's some sort of forensic investigation to discern the origin story of the STI, or to approach your partner with defensiveness or blame.
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Mr. Merrick delineates the authentic anguish Billy feels at his own behavior, but also the feisty defensiveness that emerges, inspired by the new feeling of self-worth that he claims he's found in the arms of his young lover.
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Most people who feel that their weight is unhealthy have already tried to diet, said Abramson, so any conversation about their weight will probably come across as nagging, and this will just increase their shame, defensiveness and even secretiveness.
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He said when defensiveness has been in the upper quintile, as it is now, the future six-month average annualized percent gain in the S&P 500 has averaged 18.63%, compared with only 7.55% the rest of the time.
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Mourinho has a tightly defined strategy for these occasions, when he knows he might stand accused of defensiveness: His team's possession was only 35 percent, the lowest United has recorded since such records began to be kept in 2003.
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Whether talking about new order acts like the above or old guard ones outed by accusers (Fabolous, Nas, Russell Simmons, R Kelly, etc.), this problematic defensiveness by fans is only exacerbated by the opportunists and enablers within the industry.
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Greenberg's excellent chapters on Polk's alliances during and after the Civil War reveal the fault lines in the first lady's character without defensiveness or hyperbole: Sarah Polk, a lady first, unquestionably wielded her unequal status with a velvet vengeance.
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"The ideal breakup text will act as a statement: Say what you are doing, why you have reached this conclusion, and remember to only speak on behalf of yourself, leaving no room for a dialogue or defensiveness," Leigh Trescott says.
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In the context of JCP, Luger was a latter day carpetbagger, and if the screams of the women—and not a few men—over his singular physique grated, the irritation was powered not by jealousy but good old-fashioned defensiveness.
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The rest of her statement, though, is less straightforward, mixing defensiveness and self-validation with an attack on the Times for supposedly being hypocritical: I did this because I didn't think firing him was the best solution to the problem.
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Trump's temperament, a subject of deep anxiety among Republican Party leaders, came under scrutiny: He was challenged over his statement on Wednesday that "Islam hates us," but he kept his quick temper in check and responded with a minimum of defensiveness.
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Mr. Spielberg has tackled contentious topics before — terrorism, slavery, the Pentagon Papers, sharks — but nothing as likely to stir up a hornet's nest of defensiveness, disdain and indignant "actually"-ing as the subject of this movie, which is video games.
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What it revealed, for the most part, are the candidates' flaws — Clinton's defensiveness and inability to articulate a broad vision; Sanders's monomania about money in politics and propensity to back whatever the left wants, even when it is mutually contradictory.
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But the cast members — who also include Howard W. Overshown and David Ryan Smith — speak their lines with a care and conviction that gives mooring specificity to instincts — of curiosity, defensiveness, hostility — that many people traditionally experience in strange lands.
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The sad truth is that Amtrak appears to genuinely not know why the current rules are in place, but the company is stuck in a mentality of defensiveness about it rather than opening up to the possibility that things should change.
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That fundamental imbalance — heavily armed soldiers firing on mostly unarmed demonstrators, many of them bent on breaching the fence — elicited responses of defiance or defensiveness in some, shame in others, and a healthy dose of served-them-right in some corners.
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When investigators later approached prison leadership with harder questions about what had happened to Smith under their watch, and asked whether officers had abused Smith, leaders responded with apparent defensiveness, deception, and a lack of cooperation, the investigators' report shows.
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The president's defensiveness was understandable — he was being blamed for making hundreds of thousands of US-raised immigrants vulnerable to deportation, and the accusations (even if they were being leveled by the "fake news") appeared to get under his skin.
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You have some guys that were carried by stuff that was in pre-patch but now that they got rid of the dumb stuff that made the game dumb ... now it pushes more toward defensiveness and the zoning is very good now, too.
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Showing kindness, showing support for one another.... All of a sudden it appears that there are attitudes and feelings that are bursting through the veneer of civilization…There is a level of vitriol, defensiveness, hatred that I don't think we should tolerate.
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"Investor feedback to the call was shock that a CEO would be dismissive and the general sentiment was that the defensiveness spoke volumes," said RBC Capital Markets analyst Joseph Spak, who lowered his price target on Tesla shares 8 percent to $280.
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In those cases, defensiveness, what relationship expert Dr. John Gottman describes as "self-protection in the form of righteous indignation or innocent victimhood in an attempt to ward off perceived attack," feels like it's protecting you but really it's keeping you jailed.
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The response to the clip has been a standard but volatile mixture of condemnation, anger, defensiveness, and exhaustion that, in 2017, there are people who need to be convinced this is a word the vast majority of the population should think twice before casually uttering.
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Instead of judging the book on its own merits—literarily, it's a surface-level memoir brimming with defensiveness and platitudes, and politically, it's about what you'd expect, for the record—critics on both sides have been arguing whether Clinton should have written it at all.
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Whether the proposal is a maneuver by the meat lobby or simply an attempt by the French to assert food traditions, the proposal reflected a certain defensiveness by the meat industry as more and more people reduce their meat consumption, Ms. Scott Cato said.
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In some posed portraits, like those by Mark Neville in Odessa and Mamadi Doumbouya in Guinea, the subjects seem to present themselves as they would like to be seen by the world; traces of pride, even defensiveness, can be read into many of their faces.
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Clinton was right (a subset of Trump supporters were in fact motivated by racism, and he retains strong support from his base even after equivocating on neo-Nazi violence in Charlottesville), any anger or defensiveness on her part was cast as yelling, shouting and shrill.
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Experts advise watching for these warning signs: passwords to bank or credit card accounts that were changed without your knowledge; a credit card statement for an account you knew nothing about; and defensiveness or anger from your partner when you bring up money matters.
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Rather, it is these moderate conservatives' defensiveness that keeps them from acknowledging that the Trump administration is basing its policies on lies, misinformation, xenophobia, anti-Muslim sentiment and racism, and seems to accept ethical and legal lapses and ignorance by cabinet nominees and advisers.
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Amy Klobuchar and Mayor Pete Buttigieg, the centrist case on specific issues like health care and gun control, and broader ones like how to drive change in an era of relentless partisanship, were made more robustly and with less defensiveness than in the past.
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There's not necessarily opposition to sharing or having others embrace the country's vibrant culture but considering the rich history behind how these genres were birthed, there's rightfully some defensiveness towards the prospect of reducing the culture to being the muse for the sake of a musical trend.
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" While Bonacorso's alien projects serenity, the humans' perplexity at his aloofness plays out in two narratives, one of empathy in the lead character, and another of defensiveness with a retired military official who states, "Peace and quiet can generally be judged as ongoing, covert enemy action.
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Billed as an exploration of the impact of mandatory sentencing and long incarceration, The Return just listens to its subjects as they talk, humbly and with a remarkable lack of defensiveness or anger, about how they wound up in their situation, and what they see as the next steps.
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The vegans I interviewed shared a wide variety of reasons they believed people felt resentful toward vegans, including a lack of diversity within the vegan community, perceived preachiness, comparisons to the Holocaust or slavery, as well as defensiveness about being a meat eater and not wanting to change.
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For him to respond to a pair of far-right terrorist attacks with defensiveness and partisanship is simply who he is — a self-justifying polarizer who finds the other aspects of the job tedious and prefers, even amid trauma, to just hurl rhetorical grenades from his Twitter feed.
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Avoiding the "four horsemen of the apocalypse" in relationships — which Schewitz notes are criticism, defensiveness, stonewalling, and contempt — can make a huge difference in how you relate to your partner in both good times and bad, and it will affect how your partner views you as a whole.
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The researchers used "hypersensitivity" to determine a person&aposs level of defensiveness, which William Chopik, a social-personality psychologist at Michigan State and a co-author of the study, said they defined as being unreceptive to others&apos feedback and lashing out at any criticism toward one&aposs self.
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In other words: Discussions are more likely to devolve into criticism and defensiveness, which is how researchers would describe that exchange about the breakfast mess, said Don Cole, a licensed marriage and family therapist with a doctorate in ministry who is the clinical director of The Gottman Institute.
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The circumstances are different — Maria came after two other hurricanes had battered parts of the US, putting great pressure on FEMA, and Florence is headed toward some Trump-voting states — but his defensiveness and refusal to admit any failings whatsoever has many concerned how Trump will respond to the disaster.
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Talking with Margot about it and trying to figure out how we'd do the violence—I didn't want to shy away from it because I thought it really informed Tonya's actual journey, the reason that she is the way she is, the defensiveness she has, and her attitude toward violence.
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The guaranteed time limit means the drama becomes less about the ending and more about the undertaking; an hour is a long time to wrestle, and few things will set off a pro-wrestling fan's defensiveness about whether pro wrestlers are "real" athletes like an iron man match being disparaged.
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She couldn't dismantle her wall of secrecy and defensiveness and level with the public and the press; instead, she built the wall higher and clung to attack dogs like David Brock and Sidney Blumenthal, needing to surround herself with people, no matter how dubious, who would walk the plank for her.
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LONDON — His voice sometimes close to cracking, his expression strained and grim, former Prime Minister Tony Blair spent much of the past two days responding to the damning judgment of an inquiry into how he led Britain into the Iraq war, engaging in an extraordinary public mix of soul searching, regret and defensiveness.
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There are many who simply hate vegans when they feel that veganism challenges their worldviews and habits on the basis of ethics and morality, and they try to shut down veganism out of defensiveness, instead of opening their hearts and minds to the possibility of living compassionately and nonviolently with other animals.
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The relentless investigations against him, the Trump-bashing text messages by F.B.I. officials, the excesses of the surveillance warrant on a former campaign adviser, the longtime lawyer-fixer who turned against him, the whistle-blower who took his concerns to House Democrats, all of it, they said, has contributed to an understandable defensiveness.
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For the current study, researchers looked at people between the ages of 13 and 77 who had completed interviews about their work, personality, and family lives, which psychologists and psychiatrists then analyzed and ranked on a scale from 1 to 5, with 5 having the most narcissistic traits like defensiveness, authoritativeness, and stubbornness.
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Let's hope that despite the weird defensiveness (17 percent of nominees being women is absolutely nothing to be proud of), the Recording Academy mean what they say, and will make a concerted effort to make sure that women—who contribute so much richness to the life of popular music—get what they deserve in future.
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The beats of this story, like those of the bad-mother story, are familiar, and the writer-producer brothers Harry and Jack Williams ("The Missing") hit many of them: Laura's alcohol intake on the night in question, her jangled emotions and defensiveness in its aftermath and a previous incident that casts doubt on her.
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In the book, author Robin DiAngelo—a sought-after speaker and former professor who's worked for decades as an anti-bias consultant—describes the phenomenon of "white fragility," a condition that renders white Americans unable to discuss race and racism without succumbing to defensiveness and emotional distress, and that thereby perpetuates our racial hierarchy.
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You could be experiencing hyperarousal and panic the days leading up to your period, caused in conjunction by the dip in estrogen and marked increase in progesterone — but combined with a trauma from your childhood, you have not fully healed, so you can experience symptoms like impulsivity, hypervigilance, defensiveness; feeling unsafe, reactive, angry; and having racing thoughts.
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But apart from his word-of-the-day efforts (which still haven't taught her things like verb tenses and basic syntax), there isn't much sign that he's tried to home-school her, talk to her enough to improve her animal defensiveness and social awkwardness, or essentially to turn her into a kid instead of an angry failed experiment.
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Zuckerberg's official statement was a mix of arrogance ("The good news is that the most important actions to prevent this from happening again today we have already taken years ago") and defensiveness ("I'm serious about doing what it takes to protect our community"); on CNN, in contrast, he was clearly rattled, stumbling and sweating over straightforward, predictable questions.
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Gottlieb exhibits a modest defensiveness of his own in recounting how, after "several years of back-and-forth" editorial work, he rejected "A Confederacy of Dunces," whose wildly eccentric author, John Kennedy Toole, later committed suicide and whose "horrifying mother, Thelma" (the heroine of other accounts), conducted a nasty and anti-Semitic "campaign of vilification" against the editor.
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But most of its comedy stems from the effect Miri has on everyone around her, and its primary pleasure comes from its gallery of supporting performances: James as Miri's waspish, selfish, covertly sexting mom and Richard Durden as her gruff, eco-warrior dad; Bottomley, echoing the prickly defensiveness of her role in "The End of the ____ing World"; and the wonderfully warm Akhtar.
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Journalists who are the targets of this criticism have responded with reflexive defensiveness of the work they've done, citing their real and solemn duty to scrutinize all major party presidential candidates, without fear or favor, but have largely ignored the central critique: Is it possible that political journalists will pave the way to a Trump presidency by underplaying the risks he poses to American democracy?
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NB: I think if I'm being most honest, I went into art spaces with this defensiveness, like 'It's cool if you want to screen the film, but I'm a filmmaker' … I come from a different tradition, or let's say discipline, but also, maybe I fear that, if I'm being honest, my work can read as very "Hollywood" next to video art and art film.
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Though Molly's desire to do some catch-up partying is a more theoretical and less urgent driver than the libidinous motivations of Superbad, it comes from the very contemporary realization that there are other ways of being smart, successful, and even nerdy than just fighting for straight As. The anger and defensiveness this knowledge initially brings out of Molly isn't explicitly tied to longtime gamers or Star Wars fans bristling at the mainstreaming of "their" culture.
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By the end of the day, Mr. Lochte had confirmed the account — and added more dramatic detail — and his version of the events had been corroborated by his three teammates in interviews with the U.S.O.C. When Mr. Lochte said in an NBC interview that they had been held up, and that a cocked gun had been held to his forehead, the story preyed on every Olympic visitor's fear that Brazil was not safe and tapped into every Brazilian's defensiveness about the country's lawless reputation.
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