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"pusillanimity" Definitions
  1. the quality or state of being pusillanimous : COWARDLINESS

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But now the world will never know them because of your pusillanimity.
By deciding that four offending videos by Mr Jones merited just a single strike, YouTube did little to dispel accusations of pusillanimity.
He criticises the Obama administration's pusillanimity, condemns the 2015 Iranian nuclear agreement as "the worst diplomatic deal since Munich" and warns that Mr Obama "is decimating America's unparalleled armed forces".
Cruz's position is cowardly and self-centered: he refused to have stronger words for Trump's outrages because he didn't want to offend Trump's supporters, and that pusillanimity was in the service of an extremely selfish worldview.
When it comes to diagnosing liberalism, both left and right focus on this same set of debilitating traits: arrogance, hypocrisy, pusillanimity, the insulated superiority of what, in 1969, a New York mayoral candidate called the ''limousine liberal.
The concern is aggravated by the pusillanimity of the Republican majority in both Houses, who seem content to "let Trump be Trump," ignoring his many assaults on constitutional norms as the best means to perpetuate their power base.
It seems that by some strange caprice, fate wished to give the husband pusillanimity, absurdity, the foolishness of one destined to serve, and to give his wife the spirit, courage and steadiness of purpose of a man born to rule.
In this case, those obstacles were the pusillanimity of Western diplomats; the presentiment of the Soviets that the nascent international laws might one day be turned against them; and the inconceivability in every legal tradition of the very idea that an individual, a subject, might have rights capable of being ­asserted against a state.
Moreover, the pasion, if not regulated by the virtue of fortitude, gives way either to temerariousness or to pusillanimity.
He did not know that a man's character dwindles into pusillanimity and cowardice, when, he is evirated by an operation totally different.
Alexander towards the captive Porus. Magnanimity (from Latin magnanimitās, from magna "big" + animus "soul, spirit") is the virtue of being great of mind and heart. It encompasses, usually, a refusal to be petty, a willingness to face danger, and actions for noble purposes. Its antithesis is pusillanimity (Latin: pusillanimitās).
The anonymous author of A breefe and true Relation of the Broyle &c.;, first printed as an appendix to Rothes' Relation (Bannatyne Club, 1830), is the sole authority for crediting Lindsay with displaying "the most shameful pusillanimity on this occasion". Deposed and excommunicated by the Glasgow general assembly in 1638, "he retired", says Mr. Lippe, "to England, and died there in 1641".
2: The inside struggle, 1936–1939 (1954) p. 115 The New Deal's record came under attack by New Left historians in the 1960s for its pusillanimity in not attacking capitalism more vigorously, nor helping blacks achieve equality. The critics emphasize the absence of a philosophy of reform to explain the failure of New Dealers to attack fundamental social problems. They demonstrate the New Deal's commitment to save capitalism and its refusal to strip away private property.
During the supremacy of Kafur in Egypt, Abu Ja'far was considered as the chief of the ashraf. Knowledgeable and cultured, he was an expert in Alid genealogical matters and is said to have transmitted hadiths. According to Thierry Bianquis, he was renowned for his "proverbial piety". Abu Ja'far's travails with Kafur's court fool, Sibawaih, who played pranks on him and called him a "Meccan paedophile" reveal, according to Bianquis, a humility of character bordering on pusillanimity.
I doubt of the forbearing hand by former experience, for vile natures will ascribe that patience to pusillanimity that the noble would to contempt. For my part I am ready to undergo what he doth, and none that have been most tied to him by benefits are or shall be more tied in affection. Let this suffice, and lose I pray you no time to perform those offices that you have undertaken and I have promised. – From my house at Holt Castle, 29 July.
In Athens, the pusillanimity of the King and government was shocking, particularly to the militia. On 15 August 1909, a group of officers gathered in the "Military League" (, Stratioticos Syndesmos) and organized the so-called Goudi coup. While declaring to be monarchists, members of the League, led by Nikolaos Zorbas, asked, among other things, for the sovereign to expel his son from the army. Officially, this was to protect the Crown Prince from the jealousies that could arise from his friendship with some soldiers.
He was later made a peer after the return of the French monarchy and remained in the French Navy for many years. In British histories his actions have been roundly condemned – William James accuses him of lying in his official despatches and wrote in 1827: "What, then, but a misrepresentation of the facts could have saved this French commodore from being cashiered?",James, p. 254 while Richard Woodman wrote in 1998 that "such apparent pusillanimity fed stories of British superiority against all odds and tended to breed a dangerous conceit".
Karaza devised a stratagem by which to trick Skanderbeg: he sent several envoys to Skanderbeg condemning his "pusillanimity" and calling on him to fight on the open field instead of hiding in the woods. Skanderbeg knew that Karaza would not respect this promise if he accepted it and sent the envoys back. Karaza then began to conciliate with the native people but Skanderbeg—always being well- informed—immediately ordered an attack on the Ottoman camp. The attack was so fierce that few knew what was happening and chaos ensued.
In December 1942, in his Christmas discourse to members of the Roman curia, Pius XII remarks on how both the Church and Her ministers experience the "sign of contradiction" as they try to defend truth and virtue for the well-being of souls. The Pope questions whether such efforts of love and sacrifice could nevertheless furnish reasons for lamentation, for pusillanimity, or for the weakening of apostolic courage and zeal. He responds in the negative: Historian Guido Knopp describes these comments of Pius as being "incomprehensible" at a time when "Jerusalem was being murdered by the million".
Alexander was forced to face his German enemies in the early months of 235. By the time he and his mother arrived, the situation had settled, and so his mother convinced him that to avoid violence, trying to bribe the German army to surrender was the more sensible course of action. According to historians, it was this tactic combined with insubordination from his own men that destroyed his reputation and popularity. Pusillanimity was responsible for the revolt of Alexander's army, resulting in Severus falling victim to the swords of his own men, following the nomination of Maximinus as emperor.
Sultan took a lifetime anti-communist and anti- Soviet view, based on his dislike of Soviet state atheism as well as Soviet interest in Gulf oil and access to ports that he felt risked Saudi independence. He rebuked U.S. President Jimmy Carter for what he saw as "pusillanimity" in the face of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In a 23 October 2001 interview in Kuwaiti newspaper As Seyassa, concerning 9/11 attacks, Sultan stated “Who stands behind this terrorism and who carried out this complicated and carefully planned terrorist operation? Osama bin Laden and those with him have said what indicates that they stand behind this carefully planned act.
Together they constitute a unique ideal: the ideal of the dignity and greatness of man. Magnanimity makes us conscience of our personal dignity and greatness; humility makes us conscience of the dignity and greatness of others. Magnanimity and humility are the fruits of a proper appreciation of the value of man; pusillanimity, which prevents man from understanding himself, and pride, which prevents him from understanding others, are the derive from a false appreciation of the value of man. Leadership is a life ideal that recognizes, assimilates and promotes the truth about man. # The virtues of prudence (practical wisdom), courage, self-control and justice, which are virtues principally of the mind and the will, are leadership’s bedrock virtues.
"So we feel some concern for the poor citizens of Rome when they meet together to compare their wants and grievances, till Coriolanus comes in and with blows and big words drives this set of 'poor rats,' this rascal scum, to their homes and beggary before him. There is nothing heroical in a multitude of miserable rogues not wishing to be starved [...] but when a single man comes forward to brave their cries and to make them submit to the last indignities, from mere pride and self-will, our admiration of his prowess is immediately converted into contempt for their pusillanimity."Hazlitt 1818, p. 71. The key for Hazlitt is the innate human "love of power".
Hefele, p. 12. The princes on the other hand were divided, but most of them no longer relied on the good will of the rival popes and were determined to act without them, despite them, and, if needs were, against them. The cardinals of the reigning pontiffs being greatly dissatisfied, both with the pusillanimity and nepotism of Gregory XII and the obstinacy and bad will of Benedict XIII, resolved to make use of a more efficacious means, namely a general council. The French king, Charles V, had recommended this, at the beginning of the schism, to the cardinals assembled at Anagni, who had anathematized Urban VI as an Intruder on the papal throne, and elected Pope Clement VII (Robert of Geneva) instead, without dissent.
The Dutch commander Lodewijk van Bylandt depicted in a caricature during the 1782 Brest Affair Dutch public opinion was understandably outraged, both by the British action and by what they considered Bylandt's pusillanimity, that in the view of many amounted to cowardice, if not treason. To defend his honour Bylandt then demanded a court martial to clear his name. This blue- ribbon panel, consisting of no less than seven admirals, soon acquitted him of all charges brought against him though his secret surrender orders required some suppleness of mind in explaining them away. However, the prosecutor delivered a statement for the prosecution that might easily have been taken for a statement for the defence, thereby giving a strong impression of a whitewash to contemporaries (though not to sympathetic historians like De Jonge).
Barbara Kay, a columnist for the National Post, has sharply criticized whiteness studies, writing that it "points to a new low in moral vacuity and civilizational self- loathing" and is an example of "academic pusillanimity." According to Kay, whiteness studies "cuts to the chase: It is all, and only, about white self- hate." Kay noted the leanings of the field by quoting Jeff Hitchcock, co- founder and executive director of the Center for the Study of White American Culture (CSWAC) who stated in a 1998 speech: Regarding whiteness studies (WS) more broadly, Kay wrote: > WS teaches that if you are white, you are branded, literally in the flesh, > with evidence of a kind of original sin. You can try to mitigate your > evilness, but you can't eradicate it.
When Senator Josiah Bailey, Democrat of North Carolina, accused him in 1937 of trying to break down segregation laws, Ickes wrote him to deny it: > I think it is up to the states to work out their social problems if > possible, and while I have always been interested in seeing that the Negro > has a square deal, I have never dissipated my strength against the > particular stone wall of segregation. I believe that wall will crumble when > the Negro has brought himself to a high educational and economic status. > [...] Moreover, while there are no segregation laws in the North, there is > segregation in fact and we might as well recognize this.Harold Ickes, The > secret diary of Harold L. Ickes Vol. 2: The inside struggle, 1936-1939 > (1954) p 115 The New Deal's record came under attack by New Left historians in the 1960s for its pusillanimity in not attacking capitalism more vigorously, nor helping blacks achieve equality.
He also criticises him for his lack of any realistic appraisal of the state of II Corps after Le Cateau,Senior (p. 336) argues that after Mons von Kluck seems to have thought the BEF a spent force; at Le Cateau II Corps fought bravely, but were saved largely by German lack of urgency, and thereafter by von Kluck's inability to catch the BEF up, not least as he believed wrongly that the British were retreating towards the Channel Ports. He appears to have discounted them until 8 September. and "lack of urgency" in advance at the Marne, and writes that French would not have cooperated without the "brutal" intervention of Lord Kitchener.Senior 2012, pp. 335–36 Max Hastings is even less kind, arguing that French used his instructions from Kitchener (to husband the strength of the BEF and to avoid major engagements without French participation unless given Cabinet authority) as an excuse for "pusillanimity".Hastings 2013, p. 133 He criticises him for lack of "grip" and for "moral collapse" during the retreat after Le Cateau, and describes him as "a poltroon", although also pointing out that his failings were no worse than those of many French and German generals in that campaign.

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