| Against such a background of pusillanimity, Toscanini comes off as all the more courageous. |
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| Moreover, the pasion, if not regulated by the virtue of fortitude, gives way either to temerariousness or to pusillanimity. |
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| He did not know that a man's character dwindles into pusillanimity and cowardice, when, he is evirated by an operation totally different. |
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| His fault, if anything, is pusillanimity of a kind that is alarmingly becoming the hallmark of Congress chief ministers. |
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| Of course, poor Neville does conjure nasty associations with cowardice and pusillanimity. |
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| Once again, Republican pusillanimity in the face of gun fanaticism threatens to gut sane gun legislation in Congress. |
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| But at the moment, under Putin, Russia is launched on a different, worse trajectory, and western leaders have been united in their pusillanimity towards it. |
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| Some are beginning to smell a climb-down. Such pusillanimity pleases opponents of ID cards, many of whom see disadvantages beyond data leaks. |
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| Instead there is pusillanimity with respect to governments whose violations of socioeconomic rights, and failures to meet duties to protect and promote health, have cost millions of people their health, dignity, and lives. |
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| It was a difficult matter of judgment and I can understand why Parliament has its own view, but I hope Parliament will understand that the Council did not take the view it did because of pusillanimity. |
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| This is evidently not an exact science, and the line that separates counterproductive pusillanimity and bellicose adventurism can be difficult to see. |
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| What I did through indolence and in some degree, I confess, through pusillanimity, I had a fancy to make it appear that I did through a sort of generous condescension. |
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