cravenness

The real issue for many artists is how to minimize personal cravenness in accepting state help.

He and all his people were being punished for his cravenness.

Instead he capitulated, with a cravenness that surprised even his critics.

Then anger poured through him at his own cravenness.

George Tenet comes across in the book as another profile in cravenness.

I reserve little sympathy for managements; their cravenness about the bottom line is not a pretty sight.

Wouldn't such an exercise only increase the cravenness of Congress when faced with proposals that promise future benefits at immediate costs?

The board's cravenness smacks of appeasement and permits Iran to keep one step ahead of the game.

It is a measure of cravenness that members of both parties would vote for this bill for political expediency.

Isn't this just the kind of media cravenness "The Daily Show" should make fun of?

Let me show you what I mean so that, at least, you won't attribute to me the final infamy of cravenness."

But nothing, not even his money, helped Ross Perot as much as the Democratic and Republican cravenness about him.

Then Bakvi twittered with cravenness.

I turned the job down, doomed my future, sought out remote outposts where I could be useful without succumbing to the culture of cravenness."

Hannah is a modern-day Sister Carrie whose wicked insight about the cravenness of her profession is given to us entirely in the first person.

Was this show of force in the South Pacific territory, at the cost of 17 lives, meant to offset the appearance of cravenness in dealing with Iran?

Lifeboat: A History of Courage, Cravenness, and Survival at Sea (University of Virginia Press, 2003)

The House Republican leaders managed a new feat of cravenness during the recent recess, hollowing out their long promised "lobbying reform" bill to meet the dictates of - who else?

It could have been that the absolute equality of the sexes in cravenness was due to end, and for his own vanity Burl would undertake the defense of Saya.

That the leaker appears willing to permit journalists to be incarcerated rather than taking public responsibility for his actions simply shows the leaker's "cravenness and cowardice," Mr. Wilson said.

"25 Columnist Charles Krauthammer wrote of the resulting deal: "The State Department, mixing cravenness with cynicism, calls this capitulation 'very good news.'

The blend of cravenness and manipulation that fuels office politics - part of the story mechanics of Mr. Shandling's "Larry Sanders Show" - becomes a motif here.

This beautifully bitter ode to cravenness depicts an evil, arms-laden entrepreneur sidling up to a blustering army general whose red, blue and gold uniform (and face) is the picture's focal point.

The main character in the story is a nameless 'whisky priest', who combines a great power for self-destruction with pitiful cravenness, an almost painful penitence and a desperate quest for dignity.

The casting is unbalanced: in the dominant role of the military braggart, Matamore, Matthew Penn overplays cravenness and underplays braggadocio, diluting the linguistic pleasures of his exaggerated, self-apotheosizing monologues.