pusillanimity

One can just imagine what Thatcher would have said about such pusillanimity.

"A huge success is being dropped here, one which could have been played for years, merely out of pusillanimity."

You shall not wish for death out of pusillanimity.

Pusillanimity is fear following on the heels of fright like an attendant.

But I am also distressed at the pusillanimity of many of our elected officials.

After that piece of post-primary pusillanimity it is up to him to prove otherwise.

In the face of these abuses the government was cautious to the point of pusillanimity.

It seemed as if at every turn of fortune she was confronted with pusillanimity and indecision.

Some pusillanimity that she records would be funny if it were not so deeply disturbing."

He would listen to no such pusillanimity.

The pusillanimity of his answer surprised me.

To this at last he assented and went off leaving me more than astonished at his pusillanimity.

In the eyes of many Americans, such words represent characteristic European pusillanimity, indeed appeasement.

Arlott knew plenty of pusillanimity and meanness in high places.

All of us will be court-martialed for pusillanimity when we are ransomed back to Jupiter.

Given Clinton's pusillanimity, how should Congress respond?

They justify their pusillanimity on the grounds that it's a relatively cheap way of not offending a useful voting block.

I was ashamed of their pusillanimity and want of faith in the Divine Providence.

(Bottom line: The reason was bad luck, not bad planning or presidential pusillanimity.)

He criticized the band's "pusillanimity", and said "they were cuter with slime on their pudenda".

But I wonder if it was wise to make the pusillanimity of most Copperheads the main point of the novel.

Appalling pusillanimity and betrayal of principle.

The proposed revocation of her citizenship would appear to be the last straw in a long story of injustice and Dutch pusillanimity.

Legrand claims the federation is paralysed by "immobility" and "pusillanimity".

"Vulgar curiosity is stronger than pusillanimity.