embattlement

While conservative Christians have always felt some degree of embattlement.

Set in and around a lakeside town school where a mother’s righteous clash with a new teacher parallels the growing bond between two outsider kids, this exquisitely rendered work from Kore-eda is a delicate web of compassion and embattlement: three separate views of one stretch of momentous time, spun and re-spun with care and craft.

More recent events have contributed to a sense of embattlement in the Black community.

White evangelicals — the group most beholden to Christian nationalist ideology — have long been characterized by what sociologist Christian Smith called an idea of "embattlement."

For disparate Germans to come together required a common sense of embattlement.