Because when push comes to shove, they're as scared of liberal sentiment as the supposed wusses they ridicule.
Some interest in Forster's life and revolutionary actions was revived in the context of the liberal sentiments leading up to the 1848 revolution.
Sometimes the Democrats play to liberal sentiments, at other times to conservative ones.
He was influenced by the revolutionary and liberal sentiments of his age.
The party's three leaders represent different strands of white liberal sentiment.
It was the tension between liberal sentiments and conservative analysis that gave the neoconservative movement its distinctive flavor.
Maximilian, despite his liberal sentiments, made repressive moves, alienating everyone.
Although the uprisings ultimately brought about no lasting changes, liberal sentiments remained an influential force in German politics throughout Frederick's life.
The new Croatian government approved by Tito still has to deal with liberal sentiment.
His new opera Robert le diable chimed well with the liberal sentiments of 1830s France.