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  1. fear or lack of courage

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This is not just cowardice, but choosing cowardice in spite of the most important evidence.
But the defense of Trump, the cowardice of so many Republican elected officials who won't confront this — what it exposes is political cowardice on a massive level.
Bryan: Pathetic dudes that can't stop demonstrating their utter cowardice was a micro-theme in last night's episode, giving us David, the cowardice of Eugene — and then Hilltop leader Gregory.
Because after 27, it is all cowardice, all the time.
There's that theme of cowardice and courage in the book.
Sometimes it's been deliberate, and other times it's been cowardice.
The Republican Party will pay a price for this cowardice.
There's cowardice on one end and recklessness on one end.
But the real reason is political cowardice, on both sides.
Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.
Cowardice, he said, was punishable by 20 years in prison.
We don't need a repeat of that kind of cowardice.
History will be brutal in its telling of their cowardice.
All of us are somewhere on the spectrum of cowardice.
Later, he denies and downplays his cowardice, while Billie seethes.
Though in some cases, corporate cowardice is a good thing.
His cowardice veiled as bravery is too little, too late.
It is greed on our part, and cowardice on theirs.
Being a colleague is no justification for silence and cowardice.
That's not only a profile in cowardice, it's occupational indecency.
These nonstop efforts to duck their role is pure cowardice.
If it's not cowardice, then surely it's dereliction of duty.
The yellow, I assume, refers to their cowardice or treachery.
Mr Cameron's referendum decision was the product of cowardice and slickness.
Now cast out, he attacks their "cowardice" in a rare interview.
The real enemies were arrogance, cowardice, distraction and above all waste.
We are certain we will not be defeated by such cowardice.
She writes about power, moral choice, self-deception, bravery and cowardice.
It exposes d cowardice of people who made u write it.
"This attack stands out for its appalling, sickening cowardice," she said.
That sounds like a strategy that's motivated by fear and cowardice.
I think there's been an epidemic of cowardice in the GOP.
What could be justified as caution is now indistinguishable from cowardice.
Jeff Daniels: You look at the silent cowardice of Senate Republicans.
He almost certainly underestimated the political cowardice of his political opponents.
But securing this exception meant an act of incredible moral cowardice.
Try recruiting young people for a group known for its cowardice.
Vulnerable, honest, heartfelt, and not one bit of cowardice in it.
But they are immobilized by a combination of venality and cowardice.
I think that's what's generated so much cowardice in our politics.
The main things mitigating the danger are his incompetence and cowardice.
Fans who accused James of cowardice also charged him with hypocrisy.
Perhaps what made most people different from Jude was their cowardice.
That was a result of doubt and cowardice on my part.
"It would be a clear sign of his cowardice," he said.
The Facebook co-founder's speech at Georgetown was a profile in cowardice.
Cowardice because he did it to solve a short-term political problem.
John Kasich — have shown cowardice in the face of this unacceptable rhetoric.
Multiple innocent people have died this season through Dwight's weakness and cowardice.
Cowardice, fearfulness, cynicism, negativity, discouragement, and pessimism are all opposites of boldness.
Injuries might be symptoms of poorly designed training regimens, but not cowardice.
" Bialik, Zipperstein writes, puts Jewish cowardice "at the heart of his poem.
A brutal sergeant calls it cowardice, and Tommo is sentenced to die.
Johnson has accused Corbyn of cowardice for not facilitating a snap election.
His nose was always twitching for a sniff of cowardice or collusion.
The whole thing is a sordid stew of elite coddling and cowardice.
At the time, their absence felt a bit like cowardice to me.
President Donald Trump called the El Paso shooting "an act of cowardice".
"It's a terrible tragedy and frankly an act of cowardice," Lightfoot said.
It's a sign not of respect but of contempt, or perhaps cowardice.
Frankly, willingness to blow yourself up isn't my idea of cowardice, either.
DirecTV's radio silence on the matter signals stunning incompetency or, more likely, cowardice.
We aren't proud of the feckless cowardice of Australia's prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull.
He mentioned Emanuel's cowardice on health care in prime time, during the convention.
I mean, judged by their own standards, that must be abject cowardice, right?
" Historian Enrique Krauze called the decision a "supreme act of humiliation and cowardice.
All our increasing taxpayer money is really subsidizing is Republican and Democrat cowardice.
In the game, people die because of these choices, his presumptions and cowardice.
They're also as pure an example of cowardice as you're likely to see.
It's an act of cowardice and … we should all be ashamed of ourselves.
Now, a year later, Solo was essentially accusing her old coach of cowardice.
He showed folly and he showed wisdom, cowardice and courage, aloofness and kindness.
Is this is a correction, an omission or an act of artistic cowardice?
Boastfulness and cowardice are Trump trademarks, one the other face of the other.
Targeting his home and terrorizing his family is an act of monstrous cowardice.
But there still comes a point when casual becomes little more than cowardice.
The rest of the time political cowardice in the form of silence prevails.
Our prayers are w/ the victims & all affected by this act of cowardice.
Drawing the color yellow, Buxton and Omnipollo decided that it best corresponded with cowardice.
Whose lack of denunciation will reveal some new level of cowardice or crypto-prejudice?
Because I find the dishonesty and hypocrisy and moral cowardice of Murray's critics shocking.
He doesn't fight back, and spends the summer torturing himself over his imagined cowardice.
His diagnostic reveals that he shows signs of paranoid schizophrenia, constructing illusions, and cowardice.
"Trumbo" is less an indictment of Hollywood's cowardice than a jobbing screenwriter's wildest fantasy.
This form of cowardice is not rare, a survey from dating app PlentyofFish finds.
And not all of it from a conscious place of evil or even cowardice.
Cowardice in the face of the enemy is an unforgivable offense for a soldier.
"I don't want to get into whether Putin lied," said Trump, exhibiting astounding cowardice.
Villa labeled the game "a disaster," and Vieira effectively accused his team of cowardice.
Protesters took live chickens there to symbolize cowardice, but were confronted by government supporters.
Too often, those challenges are met not with acts of conscience but with cowardice.
But that leads us to the second problem with this tax reform process: cowardice.
Choosing to embrace these diversions should not be viewed as an act of cowardice.
"What I did was an act of cowardice," he told Arkansas Matters in 2015.
Wrath, sloth, cowardice and pride all have seats at "Dead Souls"'s picaresque buffet.
That expectation — and the cowardice it permits — is the real danger to American democracy.
Any loss of life is tragic and causes anger and grief, but not cowardice.
The bravery of two members of Congress underscores the cowardice of so many others.
But every other supposed moderate in the Senate has offered a profile in cowardice.
Vindman&aposs attorney, David Pressman, called her attacks an act of "cowardice" while Sen.
Later, Tomas tries to gaslight his wife by denying his cowardice and running away.
Because cowardice inhabits Washington, Jerusalem and Ramallah: This little diplomatic flurry has been obscene.
Bari: Perhaps the word for the very real problem Farhad is describing is cowardice.
Whoever this author is should be embarrassed at both their dishonesty and their cowardice.
" Giving him the Aztec Eagle is a supreme attitude of humiliation and cowardice." https://t.
As a father I cannot express my sorrow and my rage at this cowardice act.
Any hesitation, fear or even cowardice Jones might have shown is absent from this account.
Given the silence -- the cowardice -- of so many Republicans, what else am I to think?
"To deliberately target innocent children is cowardice in its most heinous form," Ryan told reporters.
The courage it takes to come to this country should not be met by cowardice.
I hear you, but that's an incredibly weak defense of the moral cowardice on display.
They are acts of cowardice and personal weakness, often thinly disguised as strength and power.
More statements from officials: "This attack stands out for its appalling, sickening cowardice," said May.
He gains almost nothing from this political cowardice—but hundreds of thousands stand to lose.
This is the first time I've been so close to Thanos, and I choose cowardice.
Failing to act now is an abdication of leadership and the highest form of cowardice.
Am I prone to envy or revenge, rage or lust, overblown confidence or secretive cowardice?
" He had previously said on Twitter that the El Paso massacre was "an act of cowardice.
Brendan Cox, the victim's husband, told the court that Mair was "cowardice personified," The Telegraph reports.
What I said to them wasn't a lie, I thought, nor was it cowardice or denial.
I play out entire conversations, lives and deaths, stories of courage and cowardice to escape myself.
Only this time, I'll approach the barista with pride rather than shame; conviction instead of cowardice.
He did so because he allowed himself to get real about the cost of our cowardice.
McCain have also said they want to overcome what they call congressional 'cowardice' on this issue.
I have come to pay your cowardice, and look what I am returning here with: music!
"To my colleagues: your cowardice to act cannot be whitewashed by thoughts and prayers," Democratic Sen.
The White House on Tuesday blasted the Senate's "cowardice" for rejecting four separate gun control measures.
"To my colleagues: your cowardice to act cannot be whitewashed by thoughts and prayers," he tweeted.
George S. Patton slapped a private at an Army hospital in Sicily, accusing him of cowardice.
It nurses grievances and indulges resentments; it doesn't call for courage; it finds that cowardice suffices.
For me, this crisis exposed the cowardice and recklessness of the bureaucracy of the Chinese government.
And Tommo, convicted of cowardice in the face of the enemy, will be shot at dawn.
President Trump must confront the U.N. with the obligation it has to transcend its moral cowardice.
No word for "cowardice" in the Pawong language would mean that I had found my lede.
And the bulk of our party's elected leaders are showing moral indifference and cowardice about Trump.
Maybe it was cowardice, but at the time it truly felt like I had no options.
"To my colleagues: your cowardice to act cannot be whitewashed by thoughts and prayers," Murphy tweeted.
But it's a great reflection of the fundamental cowardice with which Trump has faced this issue.
Corporations shld (sic) rethink sponsoring moral cowardice before we start asking: whose side is Nationwide really on?
It's a sign of their political cowardice, and a sign that their brains have turned to mush.
Judge Patrick Thomas told her Wednesday she had "cruelly deceived" her daughter and shown "cowardice and deceit."
HB142 represents such a compromise and exposes the cowardice of our so-called allies in North Carolina.
There is cowardice in the face of empowered citizens demanding equality for all who call America home.
Cowardice and fear swept through everyone else who quietly shook their heads but kept their mouths shut.
This senseless violence shows the cowardice and inhumanity of the enemies of democracy and peace in #Afghanistan.
Eisinger reveals this story of backpedaling and cowardice through the eyes of the few who resisted it.
And when placed alongside Amash's honorable stand against his own party's leader, they smack of political cowardice.
In Atreus, Kratos' cowardice is reflected in a living mirror, one he's unable to look away from.
We've all made calculations, and saying we're sorry about those calculations is not an act of cowardice.
It must be noted forever that Republicans had a chance to choose courage, but they chose cowardice.
The idea of making a set without walls to show the cowardice of a community was genius.
This capital of white marble is now encircled by yellow tape, rife with mendacity, cowardice and corruption.
The cowardice of the attacker met the bravery of the emergency services and the people of Manchester.
"Congress must vote against this disastrous Pentagon authorization – a bill of astonishing moral cowardice," Khanna and Sen.
The establishment is corrupt and full of political cuckolds, or "cucks," who have failed America through their cowardice.
In fact, they are signs of cowardice, of a fragile man who fears being seen to be wrong.
"French" became synonymous with cowardice and retreat, providing an antiwar boogeyman in the form of an entire country.
These history books need valor and cowardice and heartbreak and redemption and money and piles of dead bodies.
They're empty threats and just people that are cowardice and have nothing better to do with their life.
The politicians and talking heads on both sides of the aisle who offer little resistance and total cowardice.
"I am sickened by the cowardice of these people who are supposed to lead us," Schumer told Politico.
Yet Xi's refusal to let Liu travel overseas was both cruel and a show of weakness and cowardice.
As profiles in cowardice go, however, nothing Trump has done is as bad as his treatment of Putin.
Then again, by this point no one should be surprised by Power's cowardice in the face of slaughter.
The poem condemned the city's Jews for their cowardice, in defiance of evidence that Bialik himself had collected.
This is sometimes described as cowardice on Ryan's part, but I think it was actually all rather daring.
After repeated showings of cowardice, it seemed as though Chapel Hill had buried the issue at long last.
There comes a time — and this is one of those times — when to keep silent amounts to cowardice.
He seems to ask whether at some level, cowardice might not be the same as love of life.
"A cowardice attack should not intimidate us or force us to change our way of life," he said.
And the theme of the conference is "Optimism and Courage", so I'm titling my talk, "Pessimism and Cowardice".
Weenie lawyers and empty-suit business-side guys who confuse cowardice for prudence while the newsroom stands on principle!
To the right, Obama has—through irredeemable cowardice or other, more sinister motives—bungled "victory" in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Considering these conditions, the famous mutinies in 1917 can be recognized as an act of desperation rather than cowardice.
In often profane language, Lula cries persecution and accuses the supreme court of cowardice—prompting the emollient open letter.
If these things doesn't happen, and we accept it out of cowardice or careerism, the fault is our own.
"Shutting down Parliament would be an act of cowardice from Boris Johnson," the Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson said.
The Republican leadership, which has already proved shocking in its cowardice, will be even less inclined to challenge him.
Establishment media outlets around the world still refuse to call this a coup, either out of cowardice or denial.
Heyer's death and the injuries of the 19 were the result of a heinous act of cowardice and hate.
Decide that you have a superhuman power locked away in you, and you have only your cowardice to blame.
Cruz has hit back at the front-runner, accusing Trump of cowardice for skipping Thursday evening's Fox News debate.
You don't have to be called Sigmund to sense that Trump's bullying and pouting braggadocio reflect some deep cowardice.
There's also a word for people who, out of cowardice or self-interest, go along with such abuses: collaborators.
MORE. But in the age of Trump, there are no more GOP profiles in courage — only profiles in cowardice.
" I also liked Selin's determination to be "someone trying to live a life unmarred by laziness, cowardice, and conformity.
If the most powerful and wealthy among us show such cowardice, they deserve neither their wealth nor their positions.
Yes, folks, we have traded "the buck stops here" leadership for Trump's "I'm not going to own it" cowardice.
" On March 15, the day of his abdication, the czar wrote, "All around there is treason, cowardice and deceit.
"The cowardice of the attacker met the bravery of the emergency services and the people of Manchester," she said.
And the cowardice of terrorizing a small, defenseless animal contrasts starkly with the unstinting courage Christians revere in Jesus.
Remarkable Trump sided with Schumer/Pelosi on debt ceiling & CR given Pelosi and Schumer accused Trump of "cowardice" earlier today.
And so when Facebook shrugs off any responsibility for evaluating the content of political advertising, it can look like cowardice.
When people are really putting their lives on the line, to be afraid of writing a book felt like cowardice.
Given everything you've just said, given the stakes, can you explain or defend the cowardice of congressional Republicans before Trump?
"Now their kind of melting into the Gentile world might be considered a form of denial, even cowardice," he observes.
There are a lot of profiles in cowardice, I think you would agree, in the Republican Party at the moment.
But like many others in her party, she tarnished herself with poor judgment and cowardice, and it derailed her plans.
If anybody writes one called "Profiles in Cowardice," the first two chapters will be about Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell.
And, to their shame, in response to McConnell's alarming show of cowardice, Republican senators raised not a peep of protest.
Agnostics have it rough in American culture; their refusal to take a stand has the whiff of cowardice or laziness.
This streak of sadism, the other face of Trump's insecurity and cowardice, was evident in the way Tillerson was terminated.
What galls is Mr. Trump's cowardice paired with his condemnations of a heroic John McCain for being captured in Vietnam.
I suspect they were not willing to risk their careers, and that cowardice did great harm to those who followed.
But there are also times when it masks cowardice, self-justification and policies that are hypocritical and/or morally indefensible.
Cillizza: Over the weekend, you condemned the "larger moral cowardice that has overtaken the party" in the era of Trump.
" David Titley, NOAA's former Chief Operating Officer from 2012 to 2013 called the agency's statement an act of "moral cowardice.
His cowardice put his brothers in danger a few times, but as a result his body count is lower than most.
In his written statement, Stone accused the committee of cowardice because he was not allowed to testify in an open forum.
Meghan McCain slams the "cowardice" of the GOP for not speaking out against Trump's tweets on the Democratic congresswomen, including Sen.
There's been, I think, the most profound display of collective cowardice that I've ever seen in terms of a legislative body.
To adopt a position of cowardice in the voting booth is to surrender to a predatory political system on all fronts.
Silicon Valley must choose where it stands on the questions of lies and truth, cowardice and courage that defined his work.
This Hobson's choice, between surrender or ouster, has been foisted upon Mr. Rosenstein by the cowardice or complicity of congressional Republicans.
With his skinny frame and his worried eyes, Mr. Twersky is an expert at conveying neurosis, ambivalence, self-doubt and cowardice.
Accusing McConnell of "cowardice" and labeling him "an obstructionist," Sanders cast the Senate majority leader as a tool of big money.
"What I did was an act of cowardice," Mr. Davis said in an interview with an Arkansas television station in 2015.
No matter how ingenious his escape, it would still be an evasion of justice, something which carries the stain of cowardice.
It's a supreme act of cowardice when senators choose to unnecessarily hide behind closed doors to debate issues of national importance.
In the car, Juan Martín told us everything he thought about our cowardice and how sick and ashamed we made him.
"Johnson said that the only reason charges hadn&apost been introduced by the Conservative government at the time was political "cowardice.
His lack of specific guidance, along with a mix of crony capitalism and cowardice by several GOP senators, doomed those efforts.
Or have lawmakers become so filled with cowardice that the mere thought of doing their job is too great a burden?
"Sounds like cowardice." so, biggest baddest most $$ military on earth cries about a few trans people but funds the F-85033?
But Cooper's script goes out of its way to show Jackson in the worst possible light—piss, vomit, cowardice, and all.
To call it political cowardice may be too strong of a phrase, but it's not too far off from the reality.
Worse still, it will likely raise the false hope among the Parkland victims that Peterson will be punished for his alleged cowardice.
But given the cowardice Republicans have shown when it comes to standing up to Trump, it's unlikely they will embrace that bill.
Blame it on cowardice, ineptitude, or a salary cap, but today's NHL features very few impact players getting traded at the deadline.
And "L'Étranger," by Albert Camus, introduced me to the idea that there are no inherent moral traits such as cowardice or bravery.
That's true courage; and the President's attempts to target any veteran or service member based on identity is nothing short of cowardice.
If there is a better visual representation for white cowardice than whiteness engulfed in yellow, I don't know what it could be.
While the show's exploration of his violence arising from cowardice was thoughtful, it remained more of a skim than a deep dive.
I felt vindicated for about 5 minutes, but then angry about the dishonesty, cowardice, and lack of principle that led to this.
"We've seen an horrific act, an evil act, an act of cowardice perpetrated against innocent bystanders," said the state premier, Daniel Andrews.
With his decision-making marginalized by the cronyism of basketball lifers and the cowardice of team ownership, Hinkie chucked up the deuce.
He should also point out that only former House Speaker John Boehner's (R-Ohio) political cowardice kept that reform from becoming law.
Between the corrupt stranglehold the Republican Party has on political power and the incompetence and cowardice of the Democrats, voting feels futile.
Feuds flourish; offering the benefit of the doubt to another person is a sign of cowardice, or of not being sufficiently moral.
"Their record is an uninterrupted litany of cowardice, incompetence and blame shifting," Robert Shrimsley wrote in a column for the Financial Times.
Jealousy, infidelity, lies, greed, illness, murder, kidnapping and cowardice are some of the elements that Kieslowski and Piesiewicz investigated in their screenplays.
Corker is met by cowardice and complicity from many who admire his words but lack the conscience and courage to say them.
If you ever want to know what true cowardice looks like, just accompany me to the cinema to watch any horror movie.
In what has become a predictable pattern, the Department of Veterans Affairs responds to attacks on religion with capitulation borne of cowardice.
"Despite that, some corporations have decided to punish NRA membership in a shameful display of political and civic cowardice," the statement said.
All of that is true, but I'm beginning to think there's an extremely unhealthy dose of plain cowardice to proceedings at WWE.
But "a relatively small number of Republicans" share Trump's racial views, Edwards added, and simple "cowardice" explains the party's refusal to denounce them.
NHL referees are a mix of incompetence, inconsistency, and cowardice usually reserved for a low-level henchman in a poorly written action movie.
"We all agree that President Trump's decision to end DACA is a despicable act of political cowardice," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said.
But Trump's cowardice doesn't fully explain why he was an outright bigot on the campaign trail and has mollified foreign leaders as president.
"What we saw last night in the United States Senate is a shameful display of cowardice," press secretary Josh Earnest said on CNN.
I suspected that it was their way of avoiding any feeling of responsibility or guilt, but the cowardice of the thing disgusted me.
Leadership that is steeped in cowardice seeks to divide us to maintain power; it takes bravery to bring us and keep us together.
You cannot know how we secretly curse the cowardice of whites who know what I write is true, but dare not say it.
Yet he's the only man who shows not a shiver of cowardice, and nobody else has the nerve to stand up to Beria.
I can't help but be saddened by a seemingly endless cycle of denial, finger-pointing, cowardice, and lack of commitment to solve anything.
Actually, the legal case for DACA is pretty strong, and putting Sessions in front was probably about Trump's cowardice more than anything else.
Every language she learned seemed to offer a new place to conceal herself, to hide in plain sight — but never out of cowardice.
But the judge gave a scathing assessment of the performance of the Tunisian security forces, whose equivocation and cowardice cost lives, he said.
"  Charles Chamberlain, the executive director of Democracy for America, accused Senate Democrats more broadly of "a stunning display of moral and political cowardice.
"This display of hate and cowardice does not represent the dedicated hardworking men and women of the Department of Homeland Security," Meehan said.
Earlier Friday, Trump called Peterson a "coward" and during his CPAC speech he attributed that cowardice to a lack of love for the students.
It was an astonishing display of political cowardice that seemed to confirm the worst parts of Rahm's reputation as a principle-less political opportunist.
Peterson said that he had received bad information, and that he "didn't get it right," but that he was not acting out of cowardice.
"It was an act of tremendous cowardice, shooting people as they have their eyes closed in prayer, shooting them on the ground," Williams said.
That is why I am calling for vigilance, solidarity and unity of the whole nation to face up to the cowardice of our enemies.
He has directed his sharpest invective toward his fellow Republican leaders, repeatedly calling them out for moral cowardice in not standing up to Trump.
Much of the play's second act involves an extended argument between Hugo and Carlotta regarding moral cowardice, hypocritical existence and the betrayal of love.
Regardless of the cowardice of many elected members of the President's own party, will the American people stand up and reject hate and sexism?
And judge him by those who enabled his rise, out of cowardice or opportunism, two words that will follow Chris Christie to his grave.
It's difficult to see this parochialism, the endless moaning that argument has become impossible, as anything more than generational solipsism, or perhaps ordinary cowardice.
But more importantly, if this is what corporate America's leaders believe, it is a damning indictment of the President and of their own cowardice.
In her hands, Borges's question of bravery — and its obverse, cowardice — isn't a neon theme, but rather a dynamic system made up of choices.
Hamas clerics and politicians at the rear dispatching women and teenagers to the Israeli border to precipitate an armed conflict personifies cowardice and selfishness.
His name was Stephen Paddock and his ultimate cowardice was displayed when he committed suicide rather than face justice or be held to account.
The victims and survivors of Parkland, and of the 339 other mass shootings in 2018 alone, deserve more than pious sentiment and political cowardice.
When candidates who (understandably) do not want to promise to commit war crimes attack him, these same voters view it as cowardice or hypocrisy.
Or is the main problem that Democrats themselves, as Sanders says, are too compromised by ties to corporate interests and too hobbled by political cowardice?
In this environment, where women are often reduced to objects, the viciousness of the predator is abetted by the cowardice of those who remain silent.
"With this motion, the Diocese of Rockville and officials within the Catholic Church are demonstrating their cowardice, hypocrisy, and refusal to do what is right."
One is for a leader to come along who can inspire other elected officials to put aside partisanship, overcome cowardice and do the right thing.
Still, it is hard not to cheer as, in his quiet way, he forges his own course, navigating the fine line between fear and cowardice.
Still, he emerged from torture, mortification and his own cowardice as a confident and resolute leader of the Ironborn, pledged to defend Bran Stark a.k.a.
Congressional noninterference, often expressed as outright political cowardice in confronting home-state malfeasance, remained the norm when Republicans took over the state in the 1990s.
Not to proceed with impeachment would be an "act of unparalleled moral cowardice" for Democrats, David Faris, a political science professor, wrote in The Week.
" President Donald Trump called the mass shooting an "act of cowardice," and said there "are no reasons or excuses that will ever justify killing people.
"The noose has long represented a deplorable act of cowardice and depravity — a symbol of extreme violence for African-Americans," he wrote in an email.
The military has no doubt come a long way since General George S. Patton slapped soldiers claiming "combat exhaustion" and publicly accused them of cowardice.
My suspicion lingered that these choices reflected more cowardice ("why die, go supply") than a principled wish to avoid combat in a war I opposed.
His stories, fiction and nonfiction alike, exalt the innate dignity inherent in cowardice and failure, in loserdom, in life at the bottom of the barrel.
But hours before that decision became public, he tweeted to accuse the media of cowardice and journalists of contorting themselves to avoid using the word.
Twitter's unwillingness to take down content that could incite violence when its authors are powerful suggests both cowardice and a lack of concern for public safety.
I ask him how his views have evolved since Trump took office a few weeks ago, and whether he thinks congressional Republicans are guilty of cowardice.
Here we have "The Surrender Index," which is mocked up on an old cassette recorder and generates via mathematical formula the relative "cowardice" of each punt.
Flash forward to 2017 and we have another example of cowardice from the White House and the Republicans in Congress when it comes to spending cuts.
The Americans I know are not willing to abandon our police and our great Democratic experiment to the pathetic cowardice—or worse—of the progressive left.
"My son was murdered by this officer and that was cowardice," Bradford's father, Emantic Bradford Sr., also said at the news conference, according to the outlet.
It is because of their cowardice—their refusal to uphold norms they were elected and appointed to guard—that these transcripts leaked in the first place.
After being decked by the older boys when I tried to fight back, I had quit fighting out of fear and been ashamed of my cowardice.
As President Trump has been defying the rule of law and attempting to undermine democracy, his fellow Republicans in Congress have often been profiles in cowardice.
His attempt to rally Republican opposition to Donald Trump in 2016 was an exemplary act that threw the cowardice of his party's establishment into sharp relief.
Lifton argued that these former soldiers were burdened not by cowardice but by the guilt and rage they felt about their involvement in a misbegotten war.
When the assault catastrophically fails, the generals look for scapegoats and decide to execute three enlisted men, more or less chosen at random, for alleged cowardice.
Every leader should also read case studies, to understand how frequently other leaders, at Horace Mann, NPR and elsewhere, have bungled these situations, usually through cowardice.
" Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez argued that it served as "a reminder of how white supremacy is aided by -- and often relies upon -- the cowardice of mainstream institutions.
Rather, there is a stew of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, coupled with political cowardice and outright victim blaming, that is putting visibly Jewish people at risk.
Douglass saw that the end of a republic begins on the day when the heroism of the struggle for equality yields to the cowardice of resentment.
"Firing Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe at 10pm on a Friday night is an attack on law enforcement staggering in both its cowardice and vindictiveness," Rep.
EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon accused the British government on Monday of "pathetic cowardice" by postponing a key vote on Brexit in the UK parliament.
It's been stoked over the years by misinformation and rumor, fertilized by inertia and cowardice, co-opted for malevolent agendas that have nothing to do with justice.
It comes off as an easy way to motivate Graham, her second husband (and Ryan's step-grandfather), whose main character trait up until then was vague cowardice.
As long as much of Congress is filled with cowardice, it falls to citizens who do understand science to speak up, or to run for office themselves.
" It added, "We confront the Catholic Church, other Christian bodies and the synagogues of America with their silence and cowardice in the face of our country's crimes.
Part of you fantasizes about slipping into that gap—between the false, righteous public self and the inner chaos of shame, cowardice, bad faith—and vanishing altogether.
I'd like to apologize, America, because we call ourselves brave Christians, but my region of the South possesses political hypocrisy and moral cowardice that knows no bounds.
"The reason that the needle hasn't moved in America's response to these tragedies is the NRA's money and the cowardice of politicians who take it," Hiltzik wrote.
"Insubordination in the face of international interests is an act of treason and cowardice with the fatherland inherited from our liberator Simon Bolivar," the defense ministry tweeted.
"The noose has long represented a deplorable act of cowardice and depravity -- a symbol of extreme violence for African-Americans," said Lonnie Bunch, the museum's founding director.
I tried to rationalize my cowardice by telling myself it was the holidays and I was choosing to give them a donation in the spirit of Christmas.
Quite aside from the crime at the heart of the plot, the demands of human decency are pitted time and again against acts of cruelty and cowardice.
Greed and desperation drive the family members to acts of opportunism, cowardice, moral compromise and cruelty, as the Nazis work swiftly to consolidate their power and control.
Cowardice only entered into it lately, when, having led his caucus most of the way off the plank, Ryan chose to quit rather than jump with them.
" After the shooting on Saturday, Trump called the tragedy an "act of cowardice" and said there "are no reasons or excuses that will ever justify killing people.
Perhaps an even more significant divergence is that the fictional businessman is soon undone by his own cowardice, with no action by the bohemians or aristocrats required.
Of course, the people's representatives in the House and Senate will likely remain silent; congressional cowardice, executive overreach — they're the tangled, unheralded stories of the 21st century.
They aren't supposed to call out the hypocrisy, inaction, and cowardice of the most powerful people in the world to their faces, again and again and again.
The cowardice offense has turned into something more: I start to creep out from cover more, run with my head up, and occasionally fire shots in anger.
To call these deaths and burials accidents implicitly perpetuated the idea that the randomness of nature was the killer, not the shortsightedness, cowardice or hubris of people.
"Shutting [people] out after the extensive and careful vetting that has already occurred would be an act of pure cowardice on the part of our nation," he says.
We ask at this time that we all continue to support the city of Manchester and all those families affected by this cowardice and senseless act of violence.
The note is a transparent attempt to make it look like the doctor let Daryl go at Sherry's behest, and even by Dwight's standards of cowardice, it's low.
Goalkeeper Hope Solo accused the Swedes of cowardice, but if their strategy had been cynical, the Americans had allowed it to happen by playing to their opponents' strengths.
MORE, who chairs the Committee, accused his colleagues of "cowardice" in refusing to even talk about convening a process to decide which facilities should be closed and repurposed.
"To my colleagues: your cowardice to act cannot be whitewashed by thoughts and prayers," tweeted Murphy, who has pressed for stricter gun laws since the Sandy Hook massacre.
"Commissioner Pai's statement is a profile in cowardice," Andrew Schwartzman, a lawyer and staff member of Georgetown Law Center's Institute for Public Representation, said in an emailed statement.
But that kind of love often doesn't survive life, and in the end, our silence was less about respect or affection or love than it was about cowardice.
And now here they were again, with all the same slobbiness and cowardice and obsequiousness and self-obsession, with all the same secret nobility, with nothing I needed.
Laurenz Laufenberg and Renato Schuch give blistering performances as victim and perpetrator, and Mr. Ostermeier provokes them to dig deep into their characters' anguish, fury, cowardice and shame.
Wartime cowardice made them feel guilty about the Jews, and guilt led them in later years to overcompensate by offering too much sympathy to Israel, which was appalling.
And it is out of our collective and respective cowardice — our refusal to risk, to love and to combat our mutual cynicism — that this letter of love arises.
Let this moment be a call to counter cowardice with courage, and let's make sure that every young person in America has the opportunity to learn the difference.
" Pelosi also slammed the GOP for seeking to repeal and delay parts of ObamaCare while they come up with a replacement, calling the effort an "act of cowardice.
But it's still important not to conflate widespread cowardice with support — the sort of support that almost every previous president has enjoyed from members of his own party.
"[E]fforts within the White House to anonymously sabotage a duly elected president is an act of cowardice and does not serve American taxpayers well," he told Politico.
But you brought him up, so I'll say this: The Death of Stalin has a lot to say about the moral cowardice of people in positions of power.
In some cases, now as in the ancient world, ordinary people will respond to these trials with almost inhuman courage, while in other cases they will show contemptible cowardice.
"Her murder is an act of cowardice that will only amplify Bertita's message to bring about change in Honduras and make this a better, more humane world," he said.
Flake has long been critical of President Trump, but he has never made his case so starkly, nor condemned his fellow Republicans for their silence and cowardice so clearly.
I'm always sharp with my tools" And then there's vim pagar sua covardia pelo bom trabalho, which translates to "I came to pay your cowardice for a good job.
Potentially sacrificing some of their constituents' lives on the altar of "repeal and replace" isn't an outlier of cowardice shown by Bacon, it is the modern Republican calling card.
Meanwhile, Kim's school principal reveals that she wrote an essay on Iphigenia, and the streak of moral cowardice that ran through the Greek general lingers in the cardiac surgeon.
While politicians, diplomats and research analysts in Germany are publicly restrained, commentators enjoy more license to express the general astonishment at what the Berlin tabloid BZ labeled sheer cowardice.
There is another reason, besides cowardice, that explains the Republicans' continued support of Trump: he is doing their dirty work, deconstructing a government they deem too costly and egalitarian.
"The Poison Squad" chronicles years of bureaucratic battles, the cowardice of elected officials, the triumph of food safety bills in 1906 and the legislative compromises that greatly disappointed Wiley.
It also refuses to go soft on any of its characters, many of whom are interviewed by Goffard and readily describe their own blindness, cowardice and seemingly inexplicable actions.
Having witnessed the military's cowardice, exploitation of civilian misery and inability to resist the initial attacks, rural constituents lost faith in the state's ability or desire to protect them.
Embarrassing as the obvious display of cowardice must be, they are willing to set fire to churches, and to start firing in them while the members are at prayer.
"This display of hate and cowardice does not represent the dedicated hardworking men and women of the Department of Homeland Security," agency spokesperson Andrew Meehan said in a statement.
This political cowardice on the part of Congress is why the United States has not formally declared war against another country since the Second World War, 75 years ago.
But they have the power so often inherent in youth: to see the world anew; to reject the old constraints, outdated conventions and cowardice too often dressed up as wisdom.
Tasha: Yup, it was kind of a cheap shot, played for shock, and so was Littlefinger's abrupt and keening cowardice, throwing himself on his knees and weeping for his life.
Such actions are borne of ignorance and cowardice and seek to promote division and false narratives rather than empathy and thoughtful discussion — the very ideals for which our university stands.
" Sentiment like that has frustrated lawmakers like Murphy, who tweeted angrily after the Las Vegas shooting: "To my colleagues: your cowardice to act cannot be whitewashed by thoughts and prayers.
"Rocked by scandals and cowardice, undermined by crooks and buried under mounds of money, football is being dragged into disgrace," warned France-Soir about the state of the domestic game.
House Speaker Paul Ryan's refusal to criticize Trump's hiring of white nationalist Stephen Bannon as chief strategist is just the latest example of a long pattern of cowardice and subservience.
Not even the horror of the Trump years can make me forget all the lies told by Lyndon Baines Johnson to justify the deaths his political cowardice caused in Vietnam.
Despite the President's shameless efforts to turn racial animus into votes, and the cowardice demonstrated by Republican leaders, it would be wrong for Democrats to label the GOP as racist.
And his unwillingness to break from that machine (something Murphy is giving him a chance to do) is either comfort with the way the machine operates, or simple political cowardice.
"The noose has long represented a deplorable act of cowardice and depravity— a symbol of extreme violence for African Americans," the museum's founding director, Lonnie Bunch, said in a statement.
"The Democrat agenda of open borders is morally reprehensible," Mr. Trump said, accusing Democrats of the "ultimate act of moral cowardice" for failing to defend Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
Politics abhors a vacuum, and judicial activism increasingly fills the empty space created by legislative sclerosis and political cowardice, by the unwillingness of elected representatives to act on controversial issues.
It's hard to say if the muddle "Joker" makes of itself arises from confusion or cowardice, but the result is less a depiction of nihilism than a story about nothing.
But that doesn't absolve us of the responsibility to speak out against it, which is one of the reasons I've been calling out the cowardice in these anonymous tweets selectively.
The NRA responded by saying its members were being punished, but would not be intimidated, by what it called "a shameful display of political and civic cowardice" from some corporations.
Now a lot can happen between now and then, and counterbalancing their hatred of Bernie or anyone else who threatens the established way of things is their tendency to cowardice.
He said the blockade was "an act of cowardice by those seeking to carry out an illegal impeachment of the leadership of the Senate in flagrant disregard of the law".
Those who sympathize with the protesters face Chinese fury and financial backlash; those who try to placate China draw accusations of cowardice from protest supporters in the United States and elsewhere.
In a fiery speech inside the Senate chamber earlier this week, Salvini had accused other Italian politicians of cowardice by seeking to avoid the Italian electorate as soon as late October.
But in losing her, it became a reminder to himself — and to me — that one can lose everything when they allow fear, cowardice, and anger to overcome love, courage, and forgiveness.
"The noose has long represented a deplorable act of cowardice and depravity — a symbol of extreme violence for African Americans," Lonnie Bunch, the museum director, wrote in an email to staff.
" The statement continued: "We ask at this time that we all continue to support the city of Manchester and all those families affected by this cowardice and senseless act of violence.
"The vice president strongly condemned the ISIL attack as an act of cowardice and desperation targeting innocent civilians," the White House said in a statement, using an acronym for Islamic State.
"Her response on social media followed a tweet posted by Trump, in which he wrote: "Today's shooting in El Paso, Texas, was not only tragic, it was an act of cowardice.
"This display of hate and cowardice does not represent the dedicated hardworking men and women of the [DHS]," Andrew Meehan, the acting assistant secretary for public affairs, said in a statement.
He mentioned a monument in central England called "Shot at Dawn," dedicated to British and Commonwealth soldiers who were executed by a firing squad after being convicted of cowardice or desertion.
Now 65, I am past the internal debate of whether it was cowardice or careerism or, most likely, some combination of the two that led to my decision not to serve.
"The noose has long represented a deplorable act of cowardice and depravity — a symbol of extreme violence for African Americans," Lonnie Bunch III, the museum's founding director, said in a statement.
And yet, enablement and cowardice are precisely what we have seen over and over again, as our leaders have watched Trump seize control of the Republican Party and now our republic.
FYI, Pop WRECKED Trump for leaving D.C. before March for Our Lives this past weekend -- calling it "cowardice" to avoid the protests and hang at his resort in Mar-a-Lago.
During May's speech, she said that all acts of terrorism are cowardly attacks on innocent people, but this attack stands out for its "appalling, sickening cowardice," and its targeting of children.
At this point, pretending that both sides are equally to blame, or attributing political violence to spreading hatred without identifying who's responsible for that spread, is a form of deep cowardice.
Senior officials in key national security and economic policy roles charged the article's writer with cowardice, disloyalty and acting against America's interests in harsh terms that mimicked the president's own words.
One recent alumna who participated in the 2015 protests told the Yale Daily News that she was shocked by what she called the "cowardice" of announcing the decision during the summer.
Hideki's family lives under the shadow of an ancestor's cowardice, so he's determined to prove himself a hero, until his dying father charges him with finding his sister and staying alive.
Cummins addressed the controversy at an event in Baltimore this week, again describing how she'd wrestled with whether to write "American Dirt" and ultimately decided it would be "cowardice" not to.
Conversations like these tear open my preconceived ideals of justice and crime, bravery and cowardice, love and hate, and make me think more than twice about what's right and what's wrong.
Johnson, addressing the 1922 Committee of Conservative lawmakers, spoke of the "cowardice" of opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn who he said knows he will fail to win a general election.
As much as the era of #MeToo has been an explosive display in courage, one in which women are speaking out en masse, it's also a story of silence — and cowardice.
Those who sympathize with the protesters face Chinese fury and financial backlash while those who try to placate China draw accusations of cowardice from protest supporters in the United States and elsewhere.
Jesse Eisinger, author of a book on the subject, places much of the blame on prosecutorial cowardice, in the wake of having convictions overturned in cases related to Enron and Arthur Andersen.
Their cowardice is of course based on the fear that they might lose jobs at bases in their districts — jobs supported by the military money rolling in every year without much scrutiny.
Ryan sticks to support for 2016 nominee "This is precisely the kind of moral cowardice that gave rise to Donald Trump," Reid said, calling on McConnell and Ryan to unequivocally repudiate Trump.
" She added: "This attacks stands out for its appalling, sickening cowardice — deliberately targeting innocent and defenseless young people who should have been enjoying one of the most memorable nights of their lives.
First, Republican cowardice produced a new measure that basically kept the cost-exploding aspects of Obamacare in place, but pulled a good deal of what was already inadequate funding for it too.
Democracy for America's executive director called the move "a stunning display of moral and political cowardice," while the pressure group CREDO's political director said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer had "failed" DREAMers.
At the end of The Leftovers' penultimate episode, "The Most Powerful Man in the World (And His Identical Twin Brother)," Kevin Garvey Jr. (Justin Theroux) comes to terms with his romantic cowardice.
The same political cowardice that motivates Republicans who want a rigged election process motivates these antiquated rules in New York -- fear that in a fair fight the voters will choose someone else.
All three are also more politically relevant than Bruno's good-times pop-funk, so the choice to award 24K Magic seems like cowardice at best and malevolence at worst to these viewers.
This might explain why an act of courage—a lone woman speaking out against powerful figures in a small town—appears to others in the community as a deceitful act of cowardice.
In his convention address, in front of an audience well primed for a story that connected our economic stagnation to both national-security cowardice and political correctness, he made the point explicitly.
The first 16 years of this century have been a display of political cowardice, crony capitalism, the worst sort of big government and neglect of citizens when it comes to student loans.
Unfortunately, there is plenty of American precedent for the kind of immorality and cowardice Trump is banking on to protect himself during the midterms—because that's what we did during the Holocaust.
Her TV appearances and social media campaign is drawing scathing criticism from Vindman's lawyer as a "testament to cowardice," receiving little back-up from fellow Republicans and being savaged by Democratic senators.
When this impossible mission inevitably fails, his superiors try to save face by ordering three men to be executed for cowardice, and it's up to Dax to defend them in court-martial.
Murphy told The Washington Post this weekend that his party and its leaders were displaying "moral cowardice" in their refusal to face down Trump over his weaponizing of race, gender and ethnicity.
But people — especially the younger ones — should be aware that generally when we make mistakes, it's a sign that we prefer to experiment, rather than be cautious to the point of cowardice.
She accused Republicans of pursuing a strategy of "repeal and delay" -- noting that it lacks even the GOP's "repeal and replace" alliteration and saying it "does nothing" and is "an act of cowardice."
"Our members, including my brother Jonathan, are in greater danger today because of the cowardice of U.S. Senators," activist Cristina Jimenez, executive director of group United We Dream said in an emailed statement.
Accusing firms dropping perks of "a shameful display of political and civic cowardice", the organisation insisted that these companies would, in time, be replaced by others who saw value in serving its members.
It seems at first like a brilliant success, with Rosita calling out Eugene's cowardice in venomous fashion, and describing how the Hilltop plans to keep him locked underground until the war is over.
"For the first time in history our country was the victim of a series of barbarous terrorist attacks, ignoble and on a scale without precedence and an unheard-of cowardice," Mr. Kaboré said.
And we've already seen what a modern, remixed Star Wars movie looks like, too; there's simply no reason to go down the exact same path once again, apart from nostalgia or creative cowardice.
"President Trump's decision to end DACA is a deeply shameful act of political cowardice and a despicable assault on innocent young people in communities across America," said House Democratic Minority leader Nancy Pelosi.
Viewed from the outside, this tepid response strikes Trump's opponents, and anti-Trump conservatives in particular, as a remarkable demonstration of moral cowardice—the kind of thing people watching imagine they'd never do.
"The noose has long represented a deplorable act of cowardice and depravity — a symbol of extreme violence for African Americans," Museum Director Lonnie Bunch wrote in an email to staff after the incident.
That Britain took until 2006 to pardon those World War I soldiers executed for cowardice, desertion and insubordination — and that our own military court martialed Bowe Bergdahl last year — makes that reminder timely.
He will rely on his supporters to continue sticking by him, and he will hope for the continued cowardice of the Republicans in the Senate to protect him if an impeachment someday occurs.
Perhaps the most maddening part of Thursday's hearing was the cowardice of the committee's 11 Republicans, all of them men, and none of them, apparently, capable of asking Dr. Blasey a single question.
Democrats have their own share of political cowardice on race matters, with national leaders too often willing to acknowledge racism only when it rears its head in the most obvious and obnoxious manner.
Well, what did you make of his reaction to the despicable Iraq video by Brett O'Keefe that the alt-right bully is now planning to spin as a sign of Andrew Keane's cowardice?
While some critics see Clinton's willingness to back away from her comments as a sign of cowardice or expediency, the norm against attacking the other party's constituents has a real logic to it.
"This is a watershed moment and an act of pathetic cowardice by a Tory (Conservative) government which has run out of road and is now collapsing into utter chaos," she said in a statement.
You see this on the right among hard-line conservatives, who insist that only the cowardice of Republican leaders has prevented the rollback of every progressive program instituted in the past couple of generations.
This policy, and its senseless defense, isn't just supreme moral cowardice; it utterly fails to represent the basic principles this nation was founded on and what it means to be a conscious, ethical human.
That player is Jesse Lingard, who through his refusal to do the Blueface dance has exposed not only what is clearly his own cowardice, but that of Manchester United Football Club as a whole.
If, Mr. Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, you and your fellow lawmakers don't act, your cowardice will instill fear, not only in 800,000 Dreamers but also in their families, friends and supporters.
Perhaps Sulzberger agreed because he recognized that it was a no-win situation—either attend, and become part of the president's anti-press PR push, or not attend, and be called out for cowardice.
Two mirrored and ever mirroring vats of cowardice thus bubbling up against and alongside one another while man explored the cosmos and lonely cosmonauts were set off to drift amid the sky and starline.
"The employer has timed Friday to make announcement, which shows some cowardice tendencies of not dealing with the consequences of their actions," it said, adding that it will seek an urgent engagement with MultiChoice.
The fear of a mob at their glamorous gates is a factor in their silence but Bollywood stars and producers also have a long history of acquiescence and cowardice in their dealings with power.
He expressed regret over hurting Katz and Commenter's television prospects, denounced ESPN's cowardice and called out the hypocrisy of any female journalist at ESPN who had ever tweeted an edgy joke in the past.
Given the profiles in cowardice they've presented so far, it's hard to imagine anything — up to and including evidence of collusion with a foreign power — that would make them risk losing those voters' support.
They have begun to do things they clearly don't really want to be doing , and, to do so, they are (1) abandoning their sense of human dignity and (2) risking the appearance of cowardice.
The show he created was "Branded," a western starring Chuck Connors as a man trying to rebuild his reputation after having been drummed out of the Army because of a false accusation of cowardice.
But even if we want to be market-oriented about this, we can think of the climate as an asset, which has degraded over time thanks to the inaction and cowardice of the boomer generation.
Harris returns repeatedly to the idea that the controversy over Murray's race and IQ work is driven by "dishonesty and hypocrisy and moral cowardice" — not a genuine disagreement over the underlying science or its interpretation.
Many systems of combat sports banned the turning of the back altogether due to the thought—in that culture or system—that it was a sign of cowardice or tactical suicide in a real fight.
They all displayed shocking cowardice and let down millions of vulnerable people, when they had reams of documentary evidence revealing the crime, enough to extract much more justice and far better outcomes for the victimized.
But there have also been many who balked at doing the right thing; when Henry Kissinger and George Shultz piously declared that they were not going to endorse anyone, it was a profile in cowardice.
"We hope that the hate and resentment welling up inside of you will subside, and you'll be able to engage in everyday conversations with women without being cowardice to their power," the Bumble Hive wrote.
The absurdity of the national party's cowardice with respect to the climate crisis becomes even more shocking when one considers just how committed both voters and candidates are to the idea of a climate debate.
Last week, I made a bet with three different Sandernistas, each for $25, that Bernie Sanders would take the usual Washington route of cowardice, hypocrisy, and co-option by handing an endorsement to Hillary Clinton.
It is thus confusion and, at bottom, cowardice: The leader cannot contemplate the fact that he will die and be replaced, and citizens abet the illusion by forgetting that they share responsibility for the future.
The Elizabethans referred to their monarch not as the head of state but as its liver, and woe to any people saddled with a lily-livered leader, whose bloodless cowardice would surely prove their undoing.
Earlier this year, SASC Chairman John McCain, a Republican representing Arizona, called member hesitation to revisit base closings "cowardice" because he believes it provides money being wasted that could go to more pressing defense needs.
In a sprawling opening statement released to the press on Monday night, he accused the committee of "cowardice" for denying him the opportunity to either appear in public or release a transcript of his interview.
Gianni Pittella, the leader of the Socialist Democrats in the European Parliament, suggested that Mr. Juncker had shied away from choosing a single pathway to restore faith in the European project because of political cowardice.
"Giving him the Aztec Eagle reflects a supreme attitude of humiliation and cowardice," Mexican historian Enrique Krauze wrote in one post, noting that Trump called Mexican migrants murderers and rapists during his 2016 presidential campaign.
"Their cowardice had reduced them to sniping at their perceived enemies in the form of satirical songs and sketches, among only those people who had been handpicked to share their view of the world," Roose wrote.
The stakes are somewhat muted for the purposes of creating family fare, but this production includes a whole new monologue for Link Larkin (Disney Channel's Garrett Clayton) that aggressively underscores the cowardice of sitting things out.
Before the deaths, Christian had been planning to break up with Dani but, more out of cowardice than compassion, he decides in the circumstances to let her tag along on his boys' holiday to northern Sweden.
A majority of progressive voters and activists I spoke to during my campaign reporting were disgusted with Warren's cowardice during the Democratic Primary, where she dodged on endorsing the most progressive candidate to run since FDR.
Hitler's rise, he argued, owed less to the Austrian corporal's personality, his thuggish supporters and brutish ideas, than to his opponents' cowardice and the weakness of Germany's "gatekeepers"—the guardians of its cultural and moral standards.
"Ocasio-Cortez retweeted an image of the front page with the comment: "Let this front page serve as a reminder of how white supremacy is aided by - and often relies upon - the cowardice of mainstream institutions.
The first is that President Donald Trump is a singular threat to democracy, conservatism, and America, and that the Republican Party, after decades of drift, abetted his rise out of a mix of cynicism and cowardice.
Louis's cowardice (disguised as Nietzschean self-assertion) is mirrored by that of Joe Pitt (Lee Pace), a closeted Mormon lawyer with little patience for his Valium-popping, fantasist wife, Harper (Denise Gough, of "People, Places & Things").
As Ph.D. students in the history department, we condemn administrators' hypocrisy and cowardice in failing to uphold those values and call on Harvard to take active steps to recruit and support formerly incarcerated students and faculty.
"We all agree that President Trump's decision to end DACA is a despicable act of political cowardice," Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the House minority leader, said at a news conference with others from her party.
"The noose has long represented a deplorable act of cowardice and depravity—a symbol of extreme violence for African Americans," National Museum of African American History director Lonnie Bunch wrote in a statement to her staff.
Apocalypse Now The cowardice and the greed of most of the subjects in Evan Osnos's article on the hyper-wealthy's preparations for disaster and apocalypse scream out from the page ("Survival of the Richest," January 30th).
Americans grieving alongside the families of the slain Dallas police officers had to endure one of the basest displays of cowardice and blame-shifting any American president has presented at such a solemn and poignant setting.
Mr. Neil reacted to the prime minister's apparent rejection by installing an empty chair in his studio to dramatize his absence, and then lecturing Mr. Johnson about what he all but called an act of cowardice.
Earlier this year, Senate Armed Services Chairman John McCain, Republican of Arizona, called member hesitation to revisit base closings "cowardice" because he believes it provides money being wasted that could go to more pressing defense needs.
"[When] most families will be celebrating the holidays, SAPD will be burying one of its own because of an ultimate act of cowardice by a suspect who will be caught and brought to justice," the chief said.
"President Trump's decision to end DACA is a deeply shameful act of political cowardice and a despicable assault on innocent young people in communities across America," said Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in the House of Representatives.
The film has a 5.5/10 rating on IMDB from three critic reviews, each of which are no longer online, probably deleted out of cowardice for what I can only assume were incorrect takes and middling reviews.
In many of our colleges and universities, and even on some high school campuses, the "safe space" crowd is afraid of its shadow — but more than willing to step on yours with institutional victimhood and intellectual cowardice.
This is an origin allegedly revealed unwittingly in The Room's recurring "cheep cheep!" motif, in which members of the cast borrow a common Polish practice and stand around chirping at one another as a taunt of cowardice.
"Every one who normalizes Mr. Trump now, or has in the past, will have to answer to future generations for their acquiescence, silence or sophistry – if, indeed, not outright cowardice," the former "CBS Evening News" anchor added.
One of the ghosts from his past turns out to be real — an eye-patched, trench-coated fellow soldier seeking revenge for Bastrop's cowardice — and Bastrop must escape harm and then confront his own trauma and fraudulence.
And unfortunately in America, particularly when it comes to Chicago, there is always a tragically narrow and predictable reaction: blaming the scourge on a lack of support for the police and the political cowardice of urban Democrats.
The charge is so broadly written it could seemingly cover most war-zone misconduct, including cowardice, failing to do the utmost to destroy the enemy, and failing to do everything possible to assist and relieve allied troops.
The miserable, suffering man who took 11 lives at Tree of Life synagogue in a despicable act of cowardice was driven by the same intention as his peers who have engaged in equally horrifying acts of violence.
" With 400 police officers working overnight and eight hospitals taking in the injured, she added during her address in Downing Street, "The cowardice of the attacker met the bravery of the emergency services and the people of Manchester.
"The cowardice decision to err on the wrong side of the fence to avoid negative publicity in a catch 22 position has definitely revealed the selfishness of the organization not to stand with their employees," wrote one reviewer.
Meanwhile, Corker will be remembered as one of the rare Republicans who spoke out against a president whom history will hold in abysmally low regard, and his example will make his colleagues' cowardice look all the more craven.
Timothy Egan Here's a thought: The next politician to express sorrow over the slaughter of students at a school without offering any specific remedy should be run out of office, for cowardice and failure to protect American children.
Rich had been punished for her bravery ("by coming out publicly, [she] bought herself a ticket to Siberia—or at least away from the patriarchal world of New York culture"), while Sontag had been rewarded for her cowardice.
"And the answer is: They want real change in this country, they want it now and they are prepared to take on the political cowardice and powerful special interests which have prevented that change from happening," he continued.
Ms. Pelosi said that such a delay would be "an act of cowardice on the part of Republicans," and that "they don't even have the votes to do it" because they have not agreed on a replacement plan.
It&aposs equally true that many GOP members of Congress, as well as voters, have either been persuaded to back Trump policies that contradict what they have supported in the past or are doing so out of political cowardice.
You could call the running a show of cowardice, but everyone who has done it in the UFC has turned around and gone right back to fighting after they have repositioned successfully so that argument doesn't hold much water.
Episode 714 was mostly about setting the table for the chaos to come in the final two installments, but "The Other Side" did give us some pivotal character moments between the Saviors' showboating and Gregory's latest act of cowardice.
" Lonnie Bunch, a founding director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, issued this statement: "The noose has long represented a deplorable act of cowardice and depravity -- a symbol of extreme violence for African Americans.
Michael Bromwich, who sat beside Ford and her other attorney at last Thursday's hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, called the president a "profile in cowardice" Tuesday night after Trump took aim at Ford during a rally in Mississippi.
That cowardice does not exist in Medicaid, as states like Kentucky are the laboratories of our democracy and are willing to lead the way in trying new ways to ensure the program does what it was intended to do.
The less than full-throated response from Senate Republicans—which comes as they try to push through a massive (and massively unpopular) corporate tax cut as fast as possible—is representative of the cowardice of the Republican Party's establishment.
The profile in courage demonstrated by Perry's honest and accurate description of Trump has become a profile in cowardice and convenience, as Perry and Ryan, along with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellAre Democrats turning Trump-like?
Terry Bellamak, the president of Abortion Law Reform Association of New Zealand (ALRANZ), said the main reason for the delay in changing the law had been "political cowardice" on the part of the country's legislators on this divisive issue.
"The gloves are off," said Paul Whiteley, professor of government at the University of Essex, who noted that Mr. Hunt's taunt of cowardice had forced Mr. Johnson to come out into the open and submit himself to more interviews.
" Just as I was deciding to do so, I realized that I'd forgotten to ask Professor Croze to confirm my suspicion that the Pawong people, owing to the disdain they felt toward bravery, didn't have a word for "cowardice.
Increasingly, it seems, profit, expansion and perhaps a wee bit of cowardice are trumping the very principles that made the United States entertainment and news industries what they are — and that made a Netflix possible in the first place.
Hasan said that's probably correct, "because Republicans are all profiles in cowardice," but wondered why that's such a bad thing to have on the record when one-third of the Senators voting are about to be running for reelection in 2020.
In times marked by cowardice and ugliness, a luminous movie about a brave girl who taps into the past to lead in the future — accented with catchy tunes and a demigod — may indeed be a sunny balm for weary souls.
"We strongly condemn this inhumane act of cowardice, the severe violation of human rights and gross negligence during the interrogation process," said Abu Hafez Al-Hakim of the MARA Patani umbrella body of insurgent groups, which has been in peace talks.
"This attack stands out for its appalling, sickening cowardice, deliberately targeting innocent, defenseless children and young people who should have been enjoying one of the most memorable nights of their lives," British Prime Minister Theresa May said at a press conference.
While some fans have extended Kasparov's analysis of one particular game into an accusation of cowardice among pro players of "classic chess," others have argued that it is the current culture (and ruleset) of chess that leads to these results.
"This institution should be driven by courage, not by cowardice, and the goal should not be to suppress members from pursuing their legislative goals, it should be to empower each member, and that's what we're trying to do," Curbelo said.
"The targeting of the young and innocent as they enjoyed a care free night out in the Manchester Arena on May 22, 2017, was an act of sickening cowardice," May wrote in an article for the Manchester Evening News newspaper.
The cognitive dissonance, the denial and cowardice that spare us painful truths and prevent us from acting in defense of innocent victims while allowing "beloved" individuals to continue their heinous behavior must be jettisoned from the bottom of our souls.
The Republican Party's collective cowardice signaled weakness in its leadership and created the opening for Trump, Steve Bannon and their ilk to exploit their silence to seize control of the party and imprint their will and radical agenda on it.
The old, familiar moralizing, mainly delivered in one-minute rants about loyalty or cowardice or traditions by a red-in-the-face ex-jock on ESPN or Fox Sports, was met with a swift and forceful response by the rationalists.
Finn—in the middle of the second Star Wars movie he appears in, possessing almost no defining traits besides cowardice—tries to run away from the good guys' ship and is arrested for desertion by an annoying character named Rose.
On Sunday, Ada Colau, the influential leftist mayor of Barcelona who has been ambivalent about independence, called on Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to resign, describing his decision to bring in police officers from around the country as an act of cowardice.
"That a member of the Senate – at a moment when the Senate is undertaking its most solemn responsibility – would choose to take to Twitter to spread slander about a member of the military is a testament to cowardice," his lawyer Amb.
"That a member of the Senate — at a moment when the Senate is undertaking its most solemn responsibility — would choose to take to Twitter to spread slander about a member of the military is a testament to cowardice," Pressman emailed.
"That a member of the Senate -- at a moment when the Senate is undertaking its most solemn responsibility -- would choose to take to Twitter to spread slander about a member of the military is a testament to cowardice," he continued.
What I do remember is that they relayed the intimate thoughts of a man, one suffering from an unkind or shameful emotion, such as fear or jealousy or cowardice, feelings that are complicated to admit to, particularly for a man.
Incorrigible doom provocateurs and earnest grunge obsessives Thou played three (!) shows in Brooklyn this past weekend, including two sold-out nights at Saint Vitus Bar and a snowy matinee at the Silent Barn alongside Noisey faves Vile Creature and Cowardice.
Skier 7, also an avalanche survivor, had lost his father, a Libertarian, to bone cancer in January, and his father's final admonition was, "never cave to the mediocrity of groupthink," which Skier 13 took to mean that caution equals cowardice.
In either case, Rojo castigates a deadlock of masculine egos, a culture in which psychological malaise cavorts as raw force and façades of decision are buttressed by little else than cowardice; hot tempers and misplaced aggression are the order of the day.
"The abuse that people have been subjected to should not continue to be tolerated because then that would be, by interpretation, cowardice," said Chamisa, who has drawn large crowds with his fiery speeches that draw on his work as a pastor and lawyer.
But the action of the collaborators is seen as part of an inevitable human comedy in which honor and dishonor, cowardice and courage—even erotic against empathetic love—are terms to be interrogated every day rather than to be blindly treated as totems.
Thanks to his careful work, we have the opportunity to hear the people in Augusta and Franklin counties in their own words, as they demonstrate both courage and cowardice in the face of a war more horrible than they could ever have imagined.
In "The Devil Finds Work," Baldwin recalls his friend's challenge: To stay in the church merely because I was afraid of leaving it was unutterably far beneath me, and too despicable a cowardice for him to support in any friend of his.
"That a member of the Senate -- at a moment when the Senate is undertaking its most solemn responsibility -- would choose to take to Twitter to spread slander about a member of the military is a testament to cowardice," said Vindman's lawyer, Amb.
" It is a history of coded race-baiting combined with myopia and cowardice that puts the Republican establishment in lock step now with the alt-right, the Ku Klux Klan, the racists and misogynists and nut jobs, the guy who shouts "Jew-S.
" (He includes a tweet from The New York Times's reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg as an example of this tendency.) According to Mr. Haider, in this situation, moral equivocating is "a stance that history has never revealed to be anything but moral cowardice.
All acts of terrorism are cowardly attacks on innocent people, but this attack stands out for its appalling, sickening cowardice — deliberately targeting innocent, defenseless children and young people who should have been enjoying one of the most memorable nights of their lives.
"If you are a show about cultural commentary and you are too afraid to comment on the culture, especially when it's a component of the culture you had a hand in creating, then you are a show about cowardice," Shankar told IndieWire.
"The cognitive dissonance, the denial and cowardice that spare us painful truths and prevent us from acting in defense of innocent victims while allowing 'beloved' individuals to continue their heinous behavior must be jettisoned from the bottom of our souls," Sorvino wrote.
Stalin for example couched Order 227 in the language of patriotism as opposed to oppression; the passage about shooting soldiers for cowardice is one of a series of possible measures that the order allows for, along with more pedestrian measures like cashiering underperforming officers.
Meadows told Politico that the apparent bipartisan outreach came about because "what many of us do agree on is that efforts within the White House to anonymously sabotage a duly elected president is an act of cowardice and does not serve American taxpayers well."
Our father would be profoundly saddened and disappointed by the cowardice and heartless displays of inhumanity shown by the so-called Muslim gunman who took the lives of so many innocent people in the name of a religion which has as its very meaning: peace.
Worse still, their failure to anticipate the behavior of America's mercurial President reveals both cowardice and stupidity -- not among the tiny number of special forces from the United Kingdom, France, Denmark and elsewhere, who were sent to help with the defeat of ISIS, of course.
Some lies are wrong because they have bad consequences; some lies are wrong because they betray trust; some are wrong because they are the outcome of vicious traits such as cowardice or selfishness; some are wrong because they deny the autonomy of rational agents.
" Wallace cited a book, Lawrence Wright's "The Looming Tower," which, as he said, "talks about the fact that when you pulled troops out of Somalia in 1993, bin Laden said 'I have seen the frailty and the weakness and the cowardice of the U.S. troops.
A lawyer for Scot Peterson, the armed officer criticized for not intervening during the active shooting at a Florida high school earlier this month, released a statement defending his client against allegations of cowardice and failure to fulfill his duties, according to NBC News.
John Bolton's cowardice John Bolton, President Trump's national security adviser, told reporters Tuesday he had a perfectly good reason not to listen to an audio recording of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi's torture and murder in the Saudi Embassy in Turkey: He doesn't speak Arabic.
Equally as shocking is the reasonable theory that just as he slouched before Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un on the global stage, our president now completes a trifecta of cowering to murderous nondemocracies, his cowardice likely in service of his personal financial ties.
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"I would ask him one thing: opt for the courage of dialogue and not the cowardice of repression," Puigdemont said in an interview with Reuters, when asked what he would ask of Sanchez if he gets enough support to stay in as prime minister.
Doing so would call down the wrath of Trump-loyalist media outlets, but the consequences of the alternatives—defaulting on the national debt, enduring an indefinite government shutdown—would be horrific, and to inflict them on the public out of cowardice would be immoral.
By the time the show's first stasis ended and the episodes made their way across the Atlantic, sometime in the late 1990s, I had gone off to college, bringing with me a certain grudging patience for my own slobbiness, cowardice, obsequiousness, and self-obsession.
" In response, a lawyer for Colonel Vindman issued a statement denouncing Ms. Blackburn's "slander" and "cowardice," writing that while the senator "fires off defamatory tweets, Lieutenant Colonel Vindman will continue to do what he has always done: serve our country dutifully and with honor.
I reported on the Texas legislature for over 20 years, and to the rest of the world I say: please forgive us our enumerated sins against democracy -- specifically, this latest round of bad legislation, and rank, political cowardice, which are certain to lead to legal challenges.
Then we're promised a future where Storm is part of the X-Men, and where Psylocke gets to do or say something cool instead of just posing and jumping around, and where Magneto finally learns who Quicksilver is (and smacks him upside the head for his cowardice).
Fox News host Sean Hannity ripped it as a "garbage compromise" while conservative author Ann Coulter mocked it as the "Yellow New Deal," conflating the color known for symbolizing cowardice with the House liberals' "Green New Deal" plan to address climate change, which Republicans have widely panned.
Ann Coulter, the conservative author seen as goading Trump into killing a potential deal in December, mocked the Monday night agreement as the "Yellow New Deal," playing on a color sometimes symbolic of cowardice and the Green New Deal touted by House liberals to protect the environment.
Clinton's career up to timing, the same way it's tempting to use timing to both rationalize our cowardice (I want a female president, it just isn't the right time) and discharge ourselves from any duty to take action (someday one of those little girls who hugged Mrs.
His great simplicity, however, together with his cowardice, made him the slave of his companions, and it was through them that he at first, out of ignorance, missed the better life and then was led on into lustful and cruel habits, which soon became second nature.
That cowardice was on full display today as the Senate Intelligence Committee, despite objections, held a closed session vote on a bill to reauthorize warrantless surveillance under Section 2202 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which is set to expire at the end of this year.
Time to examine what black history has always shown us: how hundreds of years of codified oppression, groupthink, hypocrisy, lies and political cowardice have made possible, and palatable, the political oppression and moral corruption of the current moment that threatens to wipe out democracy for everybody.
"On many occasions in front of a crowd that doesn't have family relations to me, I have noticed how the foreheads of men sour by what they see as my cowardice in mentioning the name of my mother or my wife," Mr. Darya wrote on Facebook.
Representative Ro Khanna of California, who led a series of amendments seeking to curtail the president's war powers on Iran and Saudi Arabia, called the omission of those measures from the final version "astonishing moral cowardice" in a joint statement with Senator Bernie Sanders, independent of Vermont.
Lichtman, a remarkable thinker and social satirist, fills his first 50 pages with a misleadingly pedestrian cycle of basic cowardice, random aggression, flagrant self-congratulation and garden-variety self-loathing, until a Suboxone strip chops up the rhythm of his prose and the book begins in earnest.
This weakness leads to the gravest charge his former boss, Mr Hastings, levels against him—"cowardice, reflected in his willingness to tell any audience whatever he thinks most likely to please, heedless of the inevitability of its contradiction an hour later"—and which has already tripped him up.
McConnell's failure to arrange the destruction of Obamacare, his unwillingness to back Trumpian candidates he considers unelectable, and his virtual shutdown of the legislative process coming up to the midterms can either be read as canny strategy or recalcitrance and cowardice, depending on how you look at it.
So I got in touch with him for his thoughts on what's happened since, and he unloaded on Trump ("manifestly unfit in every conceivable way"), Republican Party leadership ("political cowardice on a massive level"), and evangelical leaders standing by the nominee despite everything ("literally the modern-day Pharisees").
"These barbaric acts of terrorism against innocent civilians, many of them pilgrims, confirm yet again the terrorists' total disregard for life and their despair and cowardice in the face of the victories of the Iraqi security forces which seized most of their strongholds across the country," Kubiš said.
All of it—the rank reactive cowardice posturing as toughness, the sophistries and cynicism that excuse a constellation of self-serving cruelties great and small, the weakness for any comforting lie over every troubling truth—will still be here when Trump is, once again, a face in the crowd.
Think about that for a second: Their solution isn't to stand firm against Trump's bigotry and the cowardice of so many Republicans; it's to tell a group of vulnerable people walking across countries, desperately trying to flee violence, to go back into the hell they are trying to escape.
"When so many women came forward to describe what Harvey had done to them, I had to confront my cowardice and humbly accept that my story, as important as it was to me, was nothing but a drop in an ocean of sorrow and confusion," Hayek wrote Wednesday.
The work had its premiere at the Royal Court Theater in London in 2005, but had a troubled, delayed path to New York that involved a canceled production at New York Theater Workshop and cries of censorship and cowardice from artists including Mr. Kushner, Harold Pinter and Vanessa Redgrave.
Perhaps the quintessential Breslin book was "The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutierrez," published in 2002, in which he focused on the death of an unauthorized Mexican worker at a flawed Brooklyn construction site to rail against the shoddy building practices, political cowardice and racism of his beloved city.
On the program in which I appeared with Mr. Nunes, I told him on the air that his was an act of cowardice, because he'd never call for a similar investigation for the millions of heterosexual couples with children who both work, including his own bosses and colleagues.
In boxing it isn't quite seen as the act of cowardice that it used to be, but there is an appreciable difference between taking a beating (at which point the corner should consider stopping it) and just getting fed up with being made to feel like a fool.
The blank cowardice and system-spanning cynicism involved at Baylor is staggering and dispiritingly familiar, and if assessing or addressing this is beyond the reach of scolding local columnists and regional Loafman And The Cramp sports-radio types, it's also true that they have never cared about this sort of thing.
There's nothing new about it, although the edge on it—both the vinegary peevishness of the response to the shuffling of the rank-and-file and the scalding talk of cowardice or betrayal or some other mock-heroic judgment in the response to Durant's move—is uncomfortably of this moment.
But the words we truly want to say about the obscenity of gun violence, and the cowardice and cynicism of politicians, and the misplaced pity of the American public, their self-absorbed refusal to put their clickers down, get off their couches and — it all turns into a rant so quickly.
" Next week boasts a rare screening of "Black Legion" (1937), a Bogart film that, the New York Times review noted, was a fictional account "of the hooded organization that terrorized the Midwest in 1935-36 cloaking its cowardice, bigotry, selfishness, stupidity and brutality under the mantle of '100 percent Americanism.
Mr. Johnson's avoidance of news media scrutiny amounted to "cowardice," Mr. Hunt said of his rival, adding later that he had "got some important facts wrong" and that only a head-to-head televised debate would give party members the chance to decide if Mr. Johnson understood the issues around Brexit.
If you happen to hang out at Broadway watering holes like Joe Allen's, you've probably overheard conversations much like those that babble through "Evening at the Talk House," Wallace Shawn's anxious excavation of moral cowardice in a fascist age, which opened on Thursday night at the Pershing Square Signature Center.
Whether due to fatigue, political cowardice, or the proximity of 2020, Republicans in Congress apparently do not care that the president is perversely employing Article Two to obstruct legislative oversight, subvert the rule of law, and justify his efforts to employ a foreign government to interfere in the next election.
"I'm quite curious I guess as to what it was exactly that he saw in us that resonated with him as I feel like we spend a lot of time expressing values highly incongruent with the way he treated women and the act of absolute cowardice that occured sunday night," the account said.
A few nights ago, Mr. Cruz, the Princeton grad and Texan, walked into the lobby of a hotel here — still swaddled in his winter coat and scarf — whipped out his iPhone and previewed a future Twitter post: a Monty Python video that he used to mock the cowardice of his chief rival.
READ: Harry Reid blames GOP 'moral cowardice' for rise of Donald Trump "Our job is to wait until the voters decide who that nominee will be," Spicer told Wolf Blitzer on CNN's "The Situation Room," calling on Republicans to unite to fight for the "bigger prize" -- depriving the Democrats of the White House.
But afraid of his wrath, confused by their base, and hopeful that some good can still be wrung out of this crisis, they talk themselves, daily, into small acts of cowardice and silence, and then they find themselves committing big ones, as they are too invested, too culpable, to change their tune now.
Depending on which stat geek you ask, this was mathematically the right thing to do anyway, yet the typical culture of cowardice by NFL head coaches—shout out Ben McAdoo for punting on fourth-and-one in enemy territory late in the game against Dallas—means Del Rio is practically William Wallace for this move.
This is not to absolve the amazing cowardice displayed by the salty wimps that want the NFL to prevent players from making a silent, subtle protest on behalf of the dignity of black lives; the polls splits show that these fans tend to be older and whiter than the rest, which will surely surprise someone.
" Sarah, a law student that has previously been threatened with revenge porn, tells Broadly she's "glad Blac Chyna is using legal recourse to hold Rob accountable," adding that "revenge porn is the ultimate form of cowardice because the offender is relying on the violent sexism of strangers to shame and harass someone that trusted them.
This is the part of it that's specific to our time: the strategic cowardice of the anonymous source, the reversion to rhetoric of whinging woundedness and crocodile-tear disappointment instead of more straightforward and punitive swinging-dick bombast, the numbing corporate language that calls Kaepernick a distraction instead of something closer to what they mean.
Naftali: In the turbulent Civil Rights and Vietnam era, some of our presidents showed moral cowardice in trying somehow to condemn hate without alienating haters in their political base -- John F. Kennedy after the Freedom Riders were attacked in May 1961 (he would redeem himself in June 1963), Richard Nixon after Kent State in 1970.
Backpacks full of money, stadiums full of gawkers, attacks on TV executives, brutal mockery, pro-wrestling melodrama, violence against microphones, racially tinged taunts, custom-made scatological suits, flag theft, character assassination, hip-hop performances, rabble, rabble-rousing, accusations of illiteracy, accusations of cowardice, endless bragging, hyperventilating promoters, Drake, and the con to end all cons.
To which Ben Domenech, author of the popular conservative newsletter The Transom, retorted that Facebook is obviously not just an open platform, that its curation of the news automatically makes it an important gatekeeper as well, and that it's therefore "an act of foolishness or cowardice" to fail to hold displays of bias to account.
As Prince Hal matures, revealing that his youthful follies in low company were, in part, a mere pose designed to make his transformation into a responsible prince dazzle the more brightly, Mr. Sher draws out Falstaff's piteous poignancy, even as he makes fine sport of his more repellent qualities: his bottomless cowardice and greed.
Goldberg, midway through the novella-length piece, offers a crucial answer to this question that, I think, explains much of how Obama sees the world and why he's approached it the way he has: He has a tragic realist's understanding of sin, cowardice, and corruption, and a Hobbesian appreciation of how fear shapes human behavior.
It is not me, sitting here on Chinese State Television declaring COWARDICE in the heart of everyone who signs with the Warriors after my team got absolutely wrecked by the fucking New Orleans Pelicans, like, three months ago, who is mad, it is actually everyone else who is saying I am mad, honestly making that up.
I do not know the answer to that question, but I do know this: When Haley told the nation that political opponents are not enemies in America, she was speaking truth to power and to voters, without the cowardice and fear shown by so many Republicans in Washington who lack the courage to say what she said.
Danny Flaherty is Shane, crazy eyes sadistically aflame each time he catches up with Jack, taunting, punching or landing kick after sickening kick, perpetuating a feud that predates the arrival of the younger boy and making us wonder about the nature of blame and cowardice and the responsibility of family members to look out for one another.
As for Levine, in particular, how can anyone revisit her supposedly subversive appropriation, in 1981, of Walker Evans' iconic photographs of poor, Depression-era tenant farm families (which had illustrated James Agee's classic 1941 book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men) without calling attention to the paucity of talent and intellectual cowardice such a gesture represented?
The narrative imposed on the Second World War was one of straightforward heroism, but Archie's generation, like Auster's, faced a more ambiguous challenge: their refusal to fight on moral grounds could also be construed as cowardice, and often was by the very men whom, as boys, they'd so admired for risking their lives to defeat Fascism.
But if Putin, in his cowardice, continues to evade Wittes' challenge, there may be someone else to take him up on it—someone of an equally right-wing masculine carriage as the Russian president, someone with a similar devotion to martial arts and his image as a master of them, someone conveniently much closer to home as well.
I spent considerable energy in the weeks and months after defending the absolute right of satirists to keep doing what I saw as their sacred work, and criticizing many of my former friends, who found it more important at that moment to speak out against offending the sensitivities of religious communities, for their moral cowardice in the face of nihilistic violence.
In an article for Slate, writer Amanda Hess even defended the practice, citing a number of situations in which she argues it's appropriate: not wanting to be alone with the other person, feeling the other person is too stubborn to accept the breakup in a live conversation, wanting to use writing to establish a clear thought process, and of course, plain old cowardice.
So with taxes as our issue of the moment, let's help the Republicans come out of their confusion and cowardice and remind them of what the winning GOP message is supposed to be: For decades, Democrats have talked about tax revenues as if they belong to the government, and it's up to the government to decide how much of the money people earn they can keep.
The poem's astonishing final stanza introduces a deliberately troubled syntax to show how Rich, as a unique individual and as a representative of all women, is both singular and plural: We are, I am, you are by cowardice or courage the one who find our way back to this scene carrying a knife, a camera a book of myths in which our names do not appear.
Macomber's wife—"still a great beauty in Africa, but she was not a great enough beauty any more at home to be able to leave him and better herself, and she knew it and he knew it"—cuckolds him after a lion hunt reveals his cowardice, then perhaps accidentally puts a bullet in him just when he has at last, by taking down some buffalo, joyfully come into his manhood.
But the advice is a bit rich coming from a person who has insisted that anything less than immediately believing accusers is moral cowardice: It is a bit confusing coming from someone who has advocated mercilessness toward alleged sexual harassers: Given that Mr. Bennett seems to have been financially strapped when he made the accusation against Ms. Argento, there are reasons to wonder whether he had an ulterior motive.

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