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"pusillanimous" Definitions
  1. frightened to take risks

61 Sentences With "pusillanimous"

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But even these pusillanimous Senate Republicans can be counted on for something.
Less pampered athletes have poured scorn on the pusillanimous pitch-and-putters.
Her predicament parallels Attila's growing sense that much of his own work is pusillanimous and dangerously indulgent.
"The most pusillanimous, sissified, utterly useless mark of punctuation ever invented," the grammarian James J. Kilpatrick declared.
"The most pusillanimous, sissified, utterly useless mark of punctuation ever invented," the grammarian James J. Kilpatrick declared.
The pusillanimous, corporate-speak testimony of several corporate executives is quoted at length — perhaps at too great a length.
Perhaps we have a particularly pusillanimous and cynical set of leaders now because politics became too participatory and too transparent.
Predictably, the page touts the Trump campaign -- but also includes this vocabulary lesson: "pusillanimous" ... showing a lack of courage or determination.
He's reduced to being a pusillanimous figure, unable to stop the flow of backhands, rabbit punches, headbutts and Don King head stomps.
All this seems likely to deliver what is thought to be the army's desired outcome: a hung parliament and a pusillanimous coalition government.
The collapse of any viable business model to support the work of journalism has made many of its self-appointed defenders distinctly pusillanimous.
While other Latin American presidents have been pusillanimous, he has publicly condemned the "interruption in the democratic and constitutional order" in Venezuela, for example.
To hold office in a country torn apart by race war because they were too pusillanimous to stand up against the causes precipitating it?
In 2013 he likened those who eschewed his kamikaze tactics to appeasers of Nazism; now, on the stump, he lambasts mainstream Republicans as corrupt and pusillanimous.
That in "Northanger Abbey" Austen describes Catherine Morland masturbating ("Let's not mince words here") requires an elasticity of imagination beyond the breaking point for the pusillanimous.
This thrilling ticktock brings the emotional core of geopolitical maneuvering into dramatic focus, with portraits of leaders variously honorable, pigheaded, irresolute, pusillanimous, and susceptible to mood swings.
The pendulum swings the other way with "Rambo," about a one-man army who overcame resistance from pusillanimous politicians at home to return to Vietnam to rescue American P.O.W.s.
The messages' contents eventually came out, but although some made Netscape look bad — calling the company a "faceless corporation" and its new employees "pusillanimous latecomers" — Microsoft still lost its case.
Not that he's a particularly moving stylist; Boot's clean, starched prose marches forward with all the spontaneity of a military parade (he's uncommonly fond of words like "pusillanimous" and "japery").
The supermen are doing good, and they know what's good for us, and they have never needed pusillanimous institutions — the cops, the press, the government — to tell them what to do.
Facebook&aposs move is best interpreted as a pusillanimous effort to stay in good graces with the Trump administration while the company is under fire over antitrust, privacy, and other issues.
Scriptures typically evolved flexibly to promote compassion, empathy and magnanimity — so it is particularly sad when today they are cherry-picked by ideologues, wrenched from context, to justify rigid and pusillanimous dogma.
Even more important, we desperately needed a seismic change in the pusillanimous foreign policy pursued during the Obama years, which emboldened our adversaries, including China, Russia, North Korea and Middle East militants.
Yet far from taking any satisfaction from that, it seemed the more angry, cutting, and destructive the comments he imagined making, so the more helpless and pusillanimous he felt in the present.
They have nearly opposite theses: The fatal wound for Burnham stems from liberalism's pusillanimous and self-undermining nature; for Goldberg, it resides in our collective failure to stick by the founding premises of the liberal tradition.
Her bet, however, is that by celebrating Brexit and hobnobbing with the Russian autocrat, she can present herself as part of a glorious worldwide march of nationalists, who are destined to defeat pusillanimous globalisers such as Mr Macron.
They disdain the campaign by U.S. President Barack Obama to bring Iran in from the cold, believing him pusillanimous in the face of what they see as Iranian aggression and guileless in accommodating Iran's moderates when Khamenei pulls the strings.
I've been an activist since, but I didn't ascend into radicalism as a student, and I can only think that if I had been 20 when that first march took place, I'd have been peering at it anxiously from a distance, a pusillanimous stance I now regret.
Mugdi never asks himself, and it feels a pusillanimous and indulgent exercise, as if the best this exiled man can now do is write about foreign people in a foreign country because his own no longer exists; it has been wiped from the map and from his bereft and sybaritic soul.
"The pusillanimous Scot Peterson remained safe in his position away from Nikolas Cruz, never once attempting to go inside Building 12, where the school resource officer knew the shooting was taking place, never once attempting to save a life, never once attempting to fire a single bullet at Nikolas Cruz," the complaint says.
Nearly impossible as it is to imagine a similar scene involving the current president and his pusillanimous party, Mr. Trump has given us reason to wonder whether he would defer to legal findings against him or even to a re-election loss in 2020 — if, that is, he's still in office then.
The tale his devotees will raise their children to swear by will describe the nefarious way that coastal elites, partisan Democrats, the liberal media, and a whole slew of other pseudo-Americans—from Muslims relishing our surprise introduction to sharia law to transgender weirdos, man-hating feminists, and America-hating Obama zombies, not to mention pusillanimous establishment Republicans—all conspired to deprive them of the greatest president ever: the only one they felt ever spoke for them.
The nominee began with a phrase about "generosity and warmth" (barked, it's true, as if some kind of threat), but—untethered to statistics or facts, and with his inner volume dialled past eleven—Trump went on to portray a country facing a Clinton legacy of "death, destruction, and weakness," a nation of lawless immigrants roaming cities and towns, "chaos" in the streets, radical Islamic terrorists opposed by nothing but a pusillanimous government and its popgun military.
He describes the soldiers as being branded with the royal symbol. They go shirtless and shoeless. He describes them as pusillanimous in habitus, weak, but zealous in faith and spirit.Chapter 35, page 87 He speaks of ostriches and Giraffes.
In college, Ramachari hangs out with Varada (Shivaram) and other friends. Varada has a very beautiful sister named Almelu. Almelu's beauty has maddened a neighbourhood hooligan, Jaleela (Ambareesh) who keeps stalking her. Varada wants to put an end to this eve-teasing but he is a timid, pusillanimous person.
After Alamelu complains to Varada about this, Varada seeks to end the eve teasing but he is a timid, pusillanimous person. He asks Krishnamurthi for help. Krishnamurthi agrees based on the condition that he should marry Alamelu. Krishnamurthi fights the hooligan and drives him away from Alamelu's life.
At night, legionnaire Borzik heads out with Adjudant Mahuzard (Michel Constantin) to recover arms and ammunition. But Borzik is killed. The remaining légionnaires include Sergent Augagneur (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and Boissier (Michel Creton). They find the corpulent and pusillanimous artilleryman Béral (Jacques Villeret) sitting in the toilets, suffering from dysentery.
At the time of the capitulation, Murat had about 16,000 troops near Erfurt. Historian Francis Loraine Petre remarked that Erfurt was the first of a series of "pusillanimous capitulations" by Prussian fortress commanders, writing that Napoleon's plans might have been delayed had the city held out for just a few days. Instead, the French emperor was able to immediately launch the entire army after his fleeing enemies.
The Battle of Halle occurred on 17 October between Bernadotte's corps and Duke Eugene of Württemberg's Reserve. In the action, the French inflicted 5,000 casualties on the Reserve.Smith, 226-227 Historian Francis Loraine Petre remarked that Erfurt was the first of a series of "pusillanimous capitulations" by Prussian fortress commanders. He wrote that Napoleon's plans might have been delayed if the city had held out for just a few days.
Nixon in his 1978 memoirs wrote this recommendation was "the most pusillanimous little nitpicker I ever saw". Nixon had decided to go for "the big play" for "all the marbles" since he anticipated "a hell of an uproar at home" regardless of what he did. Lon Nol was not informed in advance that American and South Vietnamese forces were about to enter his nation. On 30 April 1970, President Nixon announced the attack into Cambodia.
He was once one of the best-known Nigerians in Britain. He was the "fugitive offender" who triggered days of debate in the House of Commons in 1963 as he battled against extradition. "The Enahoro affair" became an issue of human rights versus the government's pusillanimous wish not to offend Nigeria, and put the Tory prime minister, Harold Macmillan, and his home secretary, Henry Brooke, in a difficult position. He was extradited from the UK and imprisoned for treason.
In late May, there would be a Grand Review of the Armies, where the Union Army would parade through the streets of Washington. Halleck offered the hospitality of his home to Sherman; the general bluntly refused. He informed Grant of his rejection, stating as well that he would only listen to orders from Stanton if they were explicitly sanctioned by the President as well. Sherman further stated that "retraction or pusillanimous excusing" would no longer cut it.
In 2002 the show received an Anti Animalia award for their MadCook section from Animalia, Finland's largest animal rights organization. Riku and Tunna strongly opposed Animalia's decision in public, calling it hypocritical and pusillanimous, as one of the story's points was to criticize western industrial farming. According to Madventures production team, they want to provoke and to create discussion about intolerance, neoconservatism and moralism. In 2005, the second series was awarded with an Entertainment Special-Venla and two Media & Message awards in different categories.
Galasso, p. 11 Moreno wrote in the Gazeta that the Audiencia attacked the good faith of the government and that the Junta left their usual moderation for the safety of the people."The firmness of the government where your trust rests has been strongly attacked and it was needed that the Junta violated its moderation so that the people was not victim of a pusillanimous condescension." (Mariano Moreno, Gazeta de Buenos Ayres, June 23, 1810) – Galasso, p. 12 The Junta was rejected in Montevideo, as was the exile of Cisneros and the former Audiencia.
Chauvinism be damned – I'm putting Gone with the Wind into historic perspective and second place, for certainly War and Peace is not only […] the finest epic of our time, but also a great and noble translation of a literary masterpiece, surpassing our expectation and imagination". The Time Magazine reviewer wrote that the film "escapes greatness, except in cost and length […] the movie is awesome in war and pusillanimous in peace." In the novel, unlike in the picture "the war is only the background […]. Pierre and Andrei are only shallow, literal representations of Tolstoy's characters […].
Kimball, p. 112 He sought to forestall these criticisms in 1707 when he sent the colonial militia on a fruitless expedition against Port Royal.Rawlyk, p. 100 In 1708, a bitter attack on his administration was published in London entitled The Deplorable State of New England by reason of a Covetous and Treacherous Governor and Pusillanimous Counsellors, as part of a campaign to have him recalled.Kimball, p. 183 Dudley again rallied the provincial militias for a planned expedition against Quebec in 1709, but the supporting expedition from England was called off.
Like many other churchmen, he thought that the Indians were pusillanimous and weak and that they were easily led astray. He also thought them to be particularly inclined to drunkenness and fornication. If there were no priests living in the village, he believed that the Indians would easily become victims of the native religious experts (hechiceros), who would lure them back to their old beliefs and ceremonies. On their part the friars also argued that they were entitled to build and remove churches and friaries without license from the Archbishop, as they were beyond his jurisdiction.
68, 71–72 Another problem Goldstone faced was the reluctance of NATO peacekeeping forces in Bosnia to apprehend war crimes suspects. He was bitterly critical of what he called the "highly inappropriate and pusillanimous policy" of Western countries in declining to pursue suspected war criminals, singling out France and the United Kingdom as particular culprits. By the end of his time as prosecutor he had issued 74 indictments but only seven of the accused had been apprehended. Goldstone was instrumental in preventing the Dayton Agreement of December 1995 including amnesty provisions for those accused of war crimes in the former Yugoslavia.
The British had taken Edmund Blunden and Arthur Waterhouse who took part, had written on the success of the battle and that the British had matched the Germans who had defeated them at Beaumont Hamel on 1 July. Philpott contradicted Prior and Wilson and their claim that the War Committee had ignored Haig's "flights of fancy" and wrote that in October the battle "still had potential". Philpott described a conference at Boulogne where Lloyd George failed to challenge the strategic consensus, was "maybe too pusillanimous" and should have resigned if he really opposed the battle. Philpott made the fate of Rumania the main concern of French and British politicians.
We also learn that the sole family income is derived from a sweet stall in the local market—an enterprise that is surely well beneath Jimmy's education, let alone Alison's "station in life". As Act 1 progresses, Jimmy becomes more and more vituperative, transferring his contempt for Alison's family onto her personally, calling her "pusillanimous" and generally belittling her to Cliff. (Some actors play this scene as though Jimmy thinks everything is just a joke, while others play it as though he really is excoriating her.) The tirade ends with physical horseplay, resulting in the ironing board overturning and Alison's arm getting burned. Jimmy exits to play his trumpet off stage.
On the shores at Aulis, the Greeks prepare their departure for an attack on Troy. The gods quell the winds for their journey and demand the sacrifice of Iphigénie, daughter of Agamemnon, King of the Greeks. As in the original version of the play by Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, the morally strongest character in the play is not Agamemnon, a pusillanimous leader, but Iphigénie, driven by duty to father and country to accept the will of the gods. In the final sacrificial scene of Euripides' play, the goddess Artemis substitutes a deer for Iphigenia, who is swept through the heavens by the gods to Tauris.
In one of the magazine's final issues, Anderson wrote, "It was a Woman who was [The Observer's] editor, this was all that was necessary to render its enemies BRAVE, and this was enough to embolden the most pusillanimous Wight to assume the garb of the Lion."The Observer, December 19, 1807. While there were certainly other reasons for the hostility Anderson encountered—her merciless satire, and the fact that her translation of Claire d'Albe offended contemporary standards of decency—it appears that the feeling against her was intensified by the fact that she was a woman. In 1808, Anderson married the French architect Maximilian Godefroy, who designed several notable buildings in Baltimore.
In particular, Mussolini praised Crispi as the inventor of an "Italian imperialism" as opposed to "western imperialism", presenting his foreign policy as the inspiration for Fascist foreign policy, and the period after 1896 was excoriated as a period of decline caused by the alleged pusillanimous policy of Giolitti. Mussolini presented his foreign policies such as conquering Ethiopia to "avenge Adawa" and making an alliance with Third Reich as a continuation of Crispi's foreign policy who likewise tried to conquer Ethiopia and made an alliance with the Second Reich. His reputation was a victim of Italian Fascism, which awarded him an abundance of street names, most erased after 1945. With the collapse of Fascism, Crispi's reputation was left fatally tarnished.
Bryan Appleyard, writing in The Sunday Times, described it as "a marvellous, angry polemic" that accounts for and charts how the British Police force became so "institutionally bureaucratic, sullen, chippy and ineffectual". In The Sunday Telegraph, Theodore Dalrymple agreed with the main arguments in the book, writing "Mr Hitchens places the blame firmly where it belongs: on a supine and pusillanimous political establishment that, for four decades at least, has constantly retreated before the verbal onslaught of liberal intellectuals whose weapons have been mockery allied to sentimental guilt about their prosperous and comfortable lives, and whose aim has been to liberate themselves from personally irksome moral constraints, without regard to the consequences for those less favourably placed in society".
Taylor has been criticised for promoting the La décadence view of the French Third Republic. This historical concept portrays the Third Republic as a decadent state, forever on the verge of collapse. In particular, advocates of the La décadence concept have asserted that inter-war France was riven by political instability; possessed a leadership that was deeply divided, corrupt, incompetent and pusillanimous, which ruled over a nation rent by mass unemployment, strikes, a sense of despair over the future, riots and a state of near-civil war between the Left and the Right. Of all the French governments of the interwar era, only the Popular Front government of Léon Blum was presented sympathetically by Taylor, which he praised for carrying out what he regarded as long overdue social reforms.
" However, Suh also noted that 'pussy' is "a word that's used to shame people who are feminine ... whether they are men, women [or] genderqueer. And I think what it comes down to is that femininity is really disrespected in our society." Suh believes the Pussyhat Project knitters were frustrated that the word for the most intimate part of their bodies is the same as the shortened version of pusillanimous, and is often used as a catchword for weakness, and that they "want[ed] to reclaim that word." Professor Cáel Keegan, who teaches Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, said the hat's reference to pink [vulvas] is suspect: "We know that any time feminism starts centering people based on anatomy, that gets kind of dangerous for trans people.
A Japanese woodblock illustration of La Fontaine's fable, 1894 In mediaeval times the fable was applied to political situations and that British commentaries on it were sharply critical of the limited democratic processes of the day and their ability to resolve social conflict when class interests were at stake. This applies equally to the plot against the king's favourite in 15th century Scotland and the direct means that Archibald Douglas chose to resolve the issue. While none of the authors who used the fable actually incited revolution, the 1376 Parliament that Langland satirised was followed by Wat Tyler's revolt five years later, while Archibald Douglas went on to lead a rebellion against King James. During the Renaissance the fangs of the fable were being drawn by European authors, who restricted their criticism to pusillanimous conduct in the face of rashly proposed solutions.
Menendez also criticized Balza for not owning up to his role in the Dirty war and for portraying Argentine officers in his book Malvinas: Gesta e Incompetencia (Editorial Atlántida, 2003) as "idiots or pusillanimous.""Galtieri didn’t realize we were losing the war" reveals former Malvinas governor. MercoPress March 30th 2009 On 18 October 2012 he was again arrested, along with another 16 persons, indicted for his role in human rights violations during Operativo Independencia in 1975.Dieciséis detenidos, entre ellos Mario Benjamín Menéndez, por delitos contra los DD.HH. Télam Menendez served as second-in-command of the 5th Infantry Brigade, first under Brigadier-General Acdel Vilas and latter under Brigadier-General Antonio Domingo Bussi, who commanded the various units sent to fight the ERP guerrillas in Tucumán province with orders to also to detain their active collaborators hidden among the civilian population.
Once Laird learned that the president was determined to go ahead, he reconciled himself to invading Cambodia, through he tried to minimize the operation by having it limited to the South Vietnamese forces with their American advisers invade the Parrot's Beak area of Cambodia. Nixon rejected Laird's recommendation as he later put it as "the most pusillanimous little nitpicker I ever saw". Nixon decided instead on the evening of 26 April 1970 to "go for broke" with the "entire package" by having U.S. troops invade both the Parrot's Beak and the Fish Hook areas of Cambodia that bordered South Vietnam. On 28 April 1970, South Vietnamese forces entered Cambodia starting the Cambodian Campaign and on the evening of 30 April 1970, Nixon went on national television to announce that the "incursion" into Cambodia had started with 20, 000 American and South Vietnamese troops entering Cambodia.
The pusillanimous despair of Valens at these tidings was overridden by the activity of his generals, including the prefect Sallustius, and the brave Arinthaeus and Arbetio, and the usurper was soon put on the defensive. The legions of Syria were promptly directed against the revolted provinces, and the contending forces met at Thyatira. Both in this action, and in the succeeding battle of Nacolia, the primary characteristic of the engagement was its termination by the utter desertion of Procopius by his troops, who were won over to Valens' allegiance by the exhortations of their own former generals, who had espoused the cause of the brother of Valentinian I. The usurper was presently made destitute of his army, his faction, and his head. One further action, after that of Thyatira, sufficed to quash the rebellion, and Procopius was delivered to Valens' camp by his own followers, where he was summarily put to death.
The Cuban president Fulgencio Batista wanted to upgrade relations with Britain from the legation level to the embassy level, but owing to the discrimination in Cuba against people from the British West Indian islands, who were overwhelmingly black, London refused. In a dispatch from London, Ogilvie-Forbes was told that it was not possible to upgrade relations until the "scandalous" mistreatment of British West Indians in Cuba ended first. The issue took up much of his time as he wrote in 1943 that it was "rather pusillanimous" to assume "that British West Indians will renounce their British citizenship and it also ignores the growing movement to deny certain rights either to nautralised Cubans or to Cubans of foreign parentage". In another dispatch, he warned that pro-democratic "sentiment is not carried to the extent of doing justice to British West Indians, still less, of giving a fair chance to earn a living".

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