Demoralization

Tea party demoralization is right around the corner. ❋ Unknown (2010)

So on this line of thought, the anti-social behavior of young people in this category derives from their "demoralization" -- their failure, or society's failure, to absorb a compelling set of normative standards about personal and social conduct. ❋ Daniel Little (2009)

I think she ` s probably experiencing what they call -- and I ` m a recovering alcoholic myself, with, God willing, in April, 13 years of sobriety -- incomprehensible demoralization, which is what people experience. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Two trucks, four families, demoralization, that is what the abstraction called an economy is all about. ❋ Unknown (1982)

When, to the next word, "staircase," again, he said "scar," his demoralization was almost complete. ❋ Unknown (1910)

As for the so-called demoralization of the present day, this latter class are inclined to laugh at the croakers who look at things that way. ❋ Victor Mapes (1906)

The very terms "grisette" and "lorette" by which young women unblest with wealth or social rank are commonly designated, involve the idea of demoralization -- no man would apply them to one whom he respected and of whose good opinion he was solicitous. ❋ Horace Greeley (1841)

But when you put the escalation next to Obama's wavering on the public option; next to his broken promises of transparency; next to his stances on the Patriot Act and Gitmo; next to his full-on abandonment of his NAFTA pledges -- well, you get the kind of demoralization that Kos's new poll shows. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But if the workers were what they are represented to be -- namely, the idler whom the employer is supposed continually to threaten with dismissal from the workshop -- what would the word "demoralization" signify? ❋ Peter Kropotkin (N/A)

As the present "demoralization" was well under way before the World War began, that may be referred to, at most, as an accelerating influence, but not as the underlying cause. ❋ Victor Mapes (1906)

Is it possible that right here may be the main and underlying cause of the so-called "demoralization" of the present generation? ❋ Victor Mapes (1906)

Not ten minutes later occurred the collision between the hack and the heels that resulted in the demolition of one and "demoralization" of the rider of the victor. ❋ Charles King (1888)

If we are to save our nation we must recognize the "demoralization" that the former KGB spy, Yuri Besmenov, warned us. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Carl Schurz, a leading Republican senator and an early supporter of Reconstruction, stated in 1872 that “the inevitable consequence of the admission of so large an uneducated and inexperienced class to political power” was “the probable mismanagement of the material interests of the social body” as well as “political corruption and demoralization” and “financial ruin.” ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

Clinical psychologist Bruce Levine points out that people have been taught through advertising to understand demoralization or despair as a medical condition that requires a pharmacological cure. ❋ John Stanley (2011)

“We trained hard … but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized … I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.” on October 11, 2009 at 8: 51 pm wozzerrozzer ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)

There were moments when even I, an objective bystander, felt the cumbersome weight of the impending demoralization of what is arguably our countries greatest achievement bearing down upon me. ❋ Mia R. Benenate (2011)