1) He felt a certain defensiveness about his position.

2) I had expected defensiveness and brittle idealism, but I was wrong.

3) It also shows in their embarrassed defensiveness when foreigners wonder aloud whether their public life is in need of change.

4) Second,[http:///defensiveness.html] in the defensiveness about modernity a gender correlation is not uncommon.

5) Poor care in turn begat defensiveness and so on, in a vicious circle.

6) There is certainly no defensiveness nor any sour grapes from me or any of the Editing for Industry committee.

7) His defensiveness was manifested in hurt silence.

8) Bragging in a relationship often is really defensiveness.

9) The intellectual property claim is a kind of defensiveness right based on the intellectual property for protecting intellectual properly from infringement.

10) In his defensiveness he negatively judged her recurring need for reassurance. As a result they argued.

11) This outbreak of defensiveness embodies one paradox and several myths.

12) Even now, the force is hampered by DoH dogma and defensiveness.

13) All this is only possible where multi-skilling and flexible skilling are the norm, rather than restrictive skill defensiveness.

14) We desperately need to develop new situational value systems, otherwise we are tied to lumbering dogma or immediate gain or defensiveness.

15) The limited amount of discussion that members of the Working Party were able to hold with colleagues suggested a certain defensiveness.

16) This mime of his never failed to invoke my deep defensiveness with regard to all things Kip.

17) If you're currently a well-conditioned, well-behaved employee, your most likely reaction to the above will be defensiveness.

18) When we think God is not involved in our circumstances, we respond with problems with defensiveness, blame, shame, anger, hatred, pride, fear and self-centeredness.