wimpiness , also: wimpishness

We all have some areas of wimpiness, is what I am trying to say.

Some may find the homecoming touching, but you can also see it as a spectacle of appalling wimpiness.

And while New Yorkers often like to think of themselves as tough, weather brings out a wimpiness that does not quite make sense.

Although generally hostile about Ryōshi's wimpiness, she soon accepts him as someone who can watch her back in fights.

But wimpiness was not Audee's natural state.

Europe will collapse from within: from wimpiness.

Mere melody can seem too sweet, not tough enough; fierce guitars and booming drums eliminate any wimpiness.

As for the wimpiness factor, it is true that Seattleites revel in stories of people elsewhere being afraid of rain.

One reason for this increase, safety experts say, has been the lack of deterence, an industry-wide wimpiness in handling and then (not) prosecuting offenders.

Embracing its own wimpiness wouldn't necessarily have improved the songs Maroon 5 played, but it might have made the concert ring less hollow.

We catch our breath as Mr. LaLanne laments the general wimpiness of the culture.

Pride in my exquisitely refined taste buds did little to assuage a creeping sense of my wimpiness.

But then, I was a kid in Omaha, Nebraska, where weather wimpiness was literally unthinkable.

It's an acknowledgment that wimpiness, however contemptible, can also be secretly enjoyed, no matter how furtive one must be in finding excuses to do so.

As usual in Mr. Grant's screen performances, beneath the surface wimpiness and ineptitude lies a core of unflappability.

Deploring "weasel-words," those imprecise indications of wimpiness, he opts for words that say nothing - and say it emphatically.

Asa Baber, who writes the "Men" column for Playboy picked up on Sam's wimpiness.

In his desperation to escape the "whitefella" way, Mr. Arden pushes New Age wimpiness to extremes.

I played sports at school - there are limits to my wimpiness - but the baseball cards went in the closet with the stamps, coins and bottle cap collection.

If only the singer Neil Tennant hadn't substituted standard unrequited-love songs for his earlier deadpan irony - but then, wimpiness never hurt the Carpenters.

Mr. Bradley's attempt to run a high-brow, high-minded campaign sometimes conveyed wimpiness, and one lesson may be that positive campaigners get torn apart by those wolverines.

Envelopes are often compared to Belle and Sebastian, partly because both groups use extreme wimpiness to disguise songs that aren't nearly as cute as you might first think.

Both candidates are seeking to overcome what are perceived as "negatives" against them: Mr. Dole's "meanness" and Mr. Bush's "wimpiness."

Such wimpiness in our young men is partly an appalling byproduct of the age of video games and iPods, although I realize those things hadn't actually been invented in 1942.

Although he cares about both Bucky and Satchel, they often irritate him (Satchel with his wimpiness and Bucky with his aggression).