Hitler, whom we suspect of being an embittered, envious, traumatized loser, presents himself as... an embittered, envious, traumatized loser.
All these unhappy decisions have been signaled from Downing Street in the first week of Cameron's government, a time of the customary excitement about changing personnel and public satisfaction at the hubris of the losers (Brown himself is holed up in Scotland and has been seen just once in public since he quit).
But the biggest loser was Westwood himself as he stood to land a £2 million bonus from his clothing sponsors Dunlop had he won at Muirfield.
("I might be from New Zealand, but I have had a milkshake!") But he's a loser who deludes himself into thinking he's a winner – so he's always smiling.
Harry Nilsson, the famous songwriter, crooner, party guy and family man, was a Loser's Lounge all by himself himself.
Rather than a confirmed election loser, Abdullah now presents himself to the international community and the Karzai government as a problem to be solved — a responsible, reasonable problem, open to constructive negotiations that will address his interests and concerns.
On paper he is one of the millions of up-and-coming winners of the Chinese economy: a university graduate, the only child of factory workers in Shanghai, working for Lenovo, one of China's leading computer-makers.But Mr Zhu considers himself a loser, not a winner.
It looks like that at second glance, too -- with its story of a spectacularly dysfunctional marriage between Don Bob Millss), a grizzled loser who marginally supports himself by dealing in collectible action figures at flea markets, and Donatella (Petra Westen), an Italian immigrant who operates a fork lift at a recycling center for old fabric.
If that happens, the sad fact is that the only real loser is the player himself.
It was heartbreaking when he calls himself a loser.
