Wrestling defeat aside, he portrays the baseball team at the peak of their sporting prowess (their naked ambition reminds me of Miles Teller's Andrew in Whiplash).
The unlikely tie (on a two-point conversion pass, with no time left on the clock) preserved undefeated records for both teams, and now somehow we had put defeat aside as well.
A warm-up defeat aside, England will also be boosted by their success so far on the New Zealand tour with 2-1 series victories in the T20s and the ODIs, and they have not lost a Test series against New Zealand since a surprise 2-1 home defeat in 1999.
I felt defeated, aside from the perusal of this month's magazines.
And his supporters responded angrily on Monday, saying the court's ruling was evidence of intense pressure from an autocratic leader unwilling to accept defeat and step aside.
The Yankees recovered from an exhausting defeat to push aside the Detroit Tigers, 7-2, beight eight strong innings from Chien-Ming Wang.
Inevitably the squad brushed this aside, defeating Romania 2-1 afteRudiRudi Völler brace, and with both Spain and Portugal drawing their two matches, the adage of never writing off the Germans seemed to be coming true yet again.
Days before the 2006 election, Robert Draper reports in his fascinating new book, as things were looking bleaker and bleaker for House Republicans, and even the party's chairman was predicting a G.O.P. defeat, George W. Bush brushed aside such forecasts, telling one of his worried aides that they were all being pessimists.
With more and more people feeling dissatisfied, defeated, or cast aside by an economic system that helps too few at the expense of too many, Sanders and Corbyn are having their moment.
