The loser making the film about the loser making the film about the loser forms a chain of sympathy for the eternal outsider.
In some cases, as in China, these preferences are even formalized as the government picks winners and losers in a form of state-sponsored capitalism.
"I know there are a lot of Texans interested in some form of loser-pay legislation," Mr. Hartnett said.
Skelton took flight to New York, where she worked in a bookshop and as a dental assistant, had affairs with (among others) the dramatic critic Kenneth Tynan and the cartoonist Charles Addams and sent back a series of autobiographical short stories for Alan Ross – another of her ex-lovers – to publish in the London Magazine and eventually in book form as Born Losers (1965).
However, experience in the form of winner and loser effects (Otronen 1990), as well as nutritional history (Hopwood et al. 2013), have also been shown to influence contest outcomes when males are matched for size.
And just as in the fight over healthcare, the potential losers instantly formed lobbying groups to argue that they are being unfairly targeted.
Facing up against his former teammates, Eubanks was in exceptional form, knocking Optic into the Losers Bracket with a tense 3-1 win.
Ben is a La-Z-Boy in human form, who lives with four emotionally stunted losers, better known as friends: Jonah (Jonah Hill), Jason Jasonn Segel, Jay Jay Baruchelel), and Martin Martin Starrr).
When she's offered escape in the form of a besotted billionaire, she doesn't think twice about staying with her loser husband.
He is not always in the best form after a day of losers, for example - wife Chanelle once described it to me as "all picture and no sound".
