Such activity may or may not have irritated the Kremlin, but it has frequently condemned America to an unnatural defensiveness that has undermined our effort to give leadership to the free world.

This defensiveness has earned them the nickname " killer bees ," the aptness of which is debated.

It has been suggested that Curzon's defensiveness reflected institutional insecurity by the Foreign Office as a whole.

I ’ m not sure why, but I think it has something to do with the defensiveness of elitists confronted with their own elitism.

One chapter, entitled The Jews as a Nation and as a Race, tackles what is often referred to as ' the Jewish Question ', postulating that the Jews are a special case of a race that has evolved to live as the ' out-group ' amongst other races, developing a special culture that enables it to survive by means of strong cultural traditions that bind the ' in-group ' with unusual loyalty and defensiveness.

African bees are characterized by greater defensiveness in established hives than European honey bees.

Thus, it seems that the best way to operationalize humility is by equating it inversely with the trait of narcissism, self-enhancement, and / or defensiveness, which are essentially the opposite of humility.

In the frugal Italian league, where goals were difficult to come by owing to the defensiveness of the Italian style, particularly for a midfielder, this was considered an impressive achievement.

These accounts are described by Pilarzyk as being quite negative and full of distortions from the DLM's adherents point of view, which drew responses from them that varied from bewilderment and amusement to extreme defensiveness.

Common symptoms of sensory defensiveness include intolerance of high-pitched noises, intolerance of chewing sounds, intolerance of overhead lights ( especially fluorescent lighting ); experiencing a feeling of being attacked upon being touched ( especially from light touch or sudden touch ); intolerance of certain types of fabrics in contact with the skin ; becoming nauseated upon smelling something that does not smell bad to neurotypical individuals ; difficulty maintaining eye-contact ; severe intolerance of foods due to taste, texture, or temperature ; and generally becoming overwhelmed when exposed to a lot of sensory stimuli at once.

The PAI contains four kinds of scales: 1 ) validity scales, which measure the respondent's approach to the test, including faking good or bad, exaggeration, or defensiveness ; 2 ) clinical scales, which correspond to psychiatric diagnostic categories ; 3 ) treatment consideration scales, which assess factors that may relate to treatment of clinical disorders or other risk factors but which are not captured in psychiatric diagnoses ( e. g., suicidal ideation ); and 4 ) interpersonal scales, which provide indicators of interpersonal dimensions of personality functioning.

Sensory defensiveness is a condition defined as having " a tendency to react negatively or with alarm to sensory input which is generally considered harmless or non-irritating " to neurotypical persons.

* Sensory defensiveness – a condition defined as having " a tendency to react negatively or with alarm to sensory input which is generally considered harmless or non-irritating " to neurotypical persons.

* Has greater defensiveness when in a resting swarm, compared to other honey bee types.

Finally, the Four Horsemen create a cascading sequence of responses in which one partner expresses criticism and the other partner responds with defensiveness, causing the first partner to react to the defensiveness with contempt, sarcasm, and / or hostility with their partner, eventually withdrawing from, or stonewalling, the conversation.

Sensory integration dysfunction is considered a symptom of the autism spectrum, but a person does not have to display other autistic traits to have sensory defensiveness or sensory integration dysfunction.

Branden argues that self-esteem is a human psychological need and that to the extent this need remains unmet, pathology ( defensiveness, anxiety, depression, difficulty in relationships, etc.

" Coyne wrote an article summarising the unfolding of the controversy which had followed his original review, and said " Despite the defensiveness of British evolutionists, I think my criticisms carried some weight, because Cambridge biologist Michael Majerus decided to repeat Kettlewell ’ s experiments, but doing them correctly this time.

One series of behaviors, which he termed the four horsemen, includes a cascading of responses such as expressing criticism, defensiveness, contempt, sarcasm, hostility, and withdrawal, the combination of which indicate a critical state of marriage dissolution.

Though TMT theorists acknowledge that many responses to mortality salience involve greater approaches ( zealousness ) towards important worldviews, they also note examples of MS which resulted in the opposite, which offensive defensiveness cannot account for: when negative features of a group to which participants belong were made salient, people actively distanced themselves from that group under MS.

# A growing openness to experience – they move away from defensiveness and have no need for subception ( a perceptual defense that involves unconsciously applying strategies to prevent a troubling stimulus from entering consciousness ).

[...] Speech codes have a chilling effect on academic freedom and they reinforce defensiveness among students who ought to be more open to learning.

These spiders typically deliver a full envenomation when they bite, often striking repeatedly, due to their defensiveness and large chitinous cheliceral fangs.

* Floating hostility and general defensiveness and irritability without any proximate cause.

Interpersonal interactions associated with negative relationships include criticism, contempt, defensiveness, and stonewalling.

He claimed that the primary function of those gusuku was defensiveness, not religiousness as Nakamatsu claimed.

In Malcolm Gladwell's book " Blink ", Gottman states that there are four major emotional reactions that are destructive to a marriage: defensiveness, stonewalling, criticism, and contempt.

There was evidence of defensiveness at the press launch, possibly because a car that looked like a Peugeot, but was assembled at a Citroën plant and fitted with a Citroën engine, sharply refuted assurances that the two marques would retain their individuality.

Gottman's theory states that there are four major emotional reactions that are destructive to a marriage: defensiveness, stonewalling, criticism, and contempt.

Wood demonstrates that he understands her defensiveness over getting emotionally involved with men and asks her to give him a chance after the battle.

Siege mentality is a shared feeling of victimization and defensiveness.

They may also have a very low pain-threshold or have an automatic reaction of fear – tactile defensiveness – when touched.

Besides I heard her old uncle that stays there has been doin' it ''.

Southern resentment has been over the method of its ending, the invasion, and Reconstruction ; ;

The situation of the South since 1865 has been unique in the western world.

The North should thank its stars that such has been the case ; ;

As it is, they consider that the North is now reaping the fruits of excess egalitarianism, that in spite of its high standard of living the `` American way '' has been proved inferior to the English and Scandinavian ways, although they disapprove of the socialistic features of the latter.

In what has aptly been called a `` constitutional revolution '', the basic nature of government was transformed from one essentially negative in nature ( the `` night-watchman state '' ) to one with affirmative duties to perform.

For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

Labor relations have been transformed, income security has become a standardized feature of political platforms, and all the many facets of the American version of the welfare state have become part of the conventional wisdom.

Historically, however, the concept is one that has been of marked benefit to the people of the Western civilizational group.

In recent weeks, as a result of a sweeping defense policy reappraisal by the Kennedy Administration, basic United States strategy has been modified -- and large new sums allocated -- to meet the accidental-war danger and to reduce it as quickly as possible.

The malignancy of such a landscape has been beautifully described by the Australian Charles Bean.

There has probably always been a bridge of some sort at the southeastern corner of the city.

Even though in most cases the completion of the definitive editions of their writings is still years off, enough documentation has already been assembled to warrant drawing a new composite profile of the leadership which performed the heroic dual feats of winning American independence and founding a new nation.

Madison once remarked: `` My life has been so much a public one '', a comment which fits the careers of the other six.

Thus we are compelled to face the urbanization of the South -- an urbanization which, despite its dramatic and overwhelming effects upon the Southern culture, has been utterly ignored by the bulk of Southern writers.

But the South is, and has been for the past century, engaged in a wide-sweeping urbanization which, oddly enough, is not reflected in its literature.

An example of the changes which have crept over the Southern region may be seen in the Southern Negro's quest for a position in the white-dominated society, a problem that has been reflected in regional fiction especially since 1865.

In the meantime, while the South has been undergoing this phenomenal modernization that is so disappointing to the curious Yankee, Southern writers have certainly done little to reflect and promote their region's progress.

Faulkner culminates the Southern legend perhaps more masterfully than it has ever been, or could ever be, done.

The `` approximate '' is important, because even after the order of the work has been established by the chance method, the result is not inviolable.

But it has been during the last two centuries, during the scientific revolution, that our independence from the physical environment has made the most rapid strides.

In the life sciences, there has been an enormous increase in our understanding of disease, in the mechanisms of heredity, and in bio- and physiological chemistry.

Even in domains where detailed and predictive understanding is still lacking, but where some explanations are possible, as with lightning and weather and earthquakes, the appropriate kind of human action has been more adequately indicated.

The persistent horror of having a malformed child has, I believe, been reduced, not because we have gained any control over this misfortune, but precisely because we have learned that we have so little control over it.