Sentence examples for defeatist mindset from inspiring English sources
It is something Rochdale fans have become intimately acquainted with in recent decades but the club's latest manager seems poised to finally purge Spotland of a notoriously defeatist mindset.
League Two Winner Keith Hill (Rochdale) Purged a defeatist mindset and led the Dale into the sunlit uplands of League One after spending 36 often struggle-laden years in English football's fourth tier.
Part of the defeatist mindset of the modern west, the way Rosling saw it, was the deeply ingrained assumption that we are living through times that are as good as they're ever going to be – and that the future we are bequeathing, to future generations and especially to the world beyond Europe and north America, can only be a disheartening one.
The mistake people often make is to walk into the negotiation with a defeatist mindset, and they feed into the other side's narrative and expectations about who is in charge and who gets to dictate terms.
Internalized discrimination, which is a self-defeatist mindset developed from the internalization of negative messages of a particular group membership, may result from interpersonal discriminatory experiences.
That might sound defeatist.
