beleaguerment

He needs to drop out before he reaches medically dangerous levels of beleaguerment.

What struck me in reading Bruenig’s chronicle is that the undoubtedly serious faith of those she encountered was less central to their embrace of Trump than a tribal feeling of beleaguerment — remember: Defending a culture is not the same as standing up for beliefs about God.

They thrill precisely to the falsehood of a statement, because it shows that the speaker has the power to reshape reality in line with their own fantasies of self-righteous beleaguerment.

For this reader, one recurring sensation was that of a deeply American beleaguerment, with some Eastern European overtones.

The 10 members are bound together by wealth, education, and a twin sense of entitlement and beleaguerment, a notion that they absolutely deserve to run the country, and will have to watch it ruined if anyone else has a look-in.