Whitson, recall, was the venal HRW expert said to be pusillanimously soft on Saudi Arabia. From Wordnik.com. [That Anti-Semitic Human Rights Watch Is So Soft On The Saudis | ATTACKERMAN] Reference
Do you desire to act so pusillanimously that your children one day will have to blush for their fathers?. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia] Reference
And Jimmy Cagney – the most pusillanimously, quintessentially Irish-American actor of them all – was one-quarter Norwegian. From Wordnik.com. [Irish America and the siege of Hollywood] Reference
Stravinsky's "gift to Israel" of Abraham and Isaac cannot be pusillanimously demeaned as matter-of-factly "bought and paid for.". From Wordnik.com. ['Jews and Geniuses': An Exchange] Reference
But he did not wait pusillanimously for the popular mind to make itself up; he had too high a conception of the duty of leadership for that. From Wordnik.com. [Theodore Roosevelt and His Times] Reference
There was no hostile approach but there were several invitations to dinner and one proposal of marriage (these I, pusillanimously, failed to pass on). From Wordnik.com. [David Attenborough: 'I have been in a vehicle that was charged by a rhinoceros, and that was tiresome'] Reference
I was bothered by the implication the article gives that even very good biology courses in very good Georgia high schools pussyfoot pusillanimously! around evolution. From Wordnik.com. [Forrest and Branch: Wedging Creationism into the Academy - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
In some ways it doesn1t matter if the rules are arbitary but rules there must be and I would rather be honest about it that endure this pusillanimously timid attempt at virtual rebbellion. From Wordnik.com. [The 'N' Word Won't Go Away] Reference
In sum, California's political leaders, who are pioneering the way to global re-cooling, are inexplicably and pusillanimously leading the way toward health care reform that will cover some more people and provide moderate cost reductions. From Wordnik.com. [Jenny Price: The Health Care Crisis in California] Reference
"Oh! I beg your pardon!" said Rupert pusillanimously. From Wordnik.com. [All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches] Reference
A Southern man would starve rather than act so pusillanimously. From Wordnik.com. [Without a Home] Reference
I was tormented by the delusion that I had behaved pusillanimously. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete] Reference
Somewhat pusillanimously, perhaps, I pursued my inquiries no further. From Wordnik.com. [John Gabriel Borkman] Reference
The question was a terrible one, and Isabel pusillanimously took refuge in a generalisation. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter XLV] Reference
He has acted pusillanimously and blunderingly on all occasions since he has been an archbishop. From Wordnik.com. [The Memoirs of Victor Hugo] Reference
On reading the attacks in the newspapers they pusillanimously asked him to withdraw, and he withdrew. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Froude] Reference
Having by this language pusillanimously acknowledged a fault which he had not committed, the writer, by the advice of. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.)] Reference
The man pusillanimously couldn't finish his own theatrical run but that's no reason to try and finish off other people's. From Wordnik.com. [West End Whingers] Reference
In my reply to his article, which he himself challenged and then pusillanimously suppressed, he has had abundant means of information. From Wordnik.com. [A Public Appeal for Redress to the Corporation and Overseers of Harvard University Professor Royce's Libel] Reference
They are also the victims of the York University Faculty Association, which has mindlessly and pusillanimously supported the strikers. From Wordnik.com. [Jack's Newswatch] Reference
The Gironde, from about this time, pusillanimously conceded point by point to the anarchic demands made by their enemies and the king's. From Wordnik.com. [Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs] Reference
But whether in adopting this measure we are madly active or weakly passive or pusillanimously panic-struck, the effects will be the same. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12)] Reference
There was no hostile approach but there were several invitations to dinner and one proposal of marriage these I, pusillanimously, failed to pass on. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Lettres à une Inconnue, which reveal that reserved, sensitive, self - centred nature, a little pusillanimously in the power, at the disposition of another. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays] Reference
His life he exposed with careless gaiety; but it was said that he was nervously anxious and pusillanimously cautious when his professional reputation was in danger. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3] Reference
But, considering the vastness of the interests at stake, its difficulty is no reason for pusillanimously passing it by; but rather for devoting every energy to its mastery. From Wordnik.com. [Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library] Reference
She had been caught unawares and overwhelmed, and had 'pusillanimously hauled down the colours of perfidious Albion under which she had committed so many dastardly crimes.'. From Wordnik.com. [Flying Colours]
Will you persuade me, that these inhabitants of the South, who so pusillanimously shrink from pain, and pursue the phantom of pleasure with so much avidity, can be susceptible of love?. From Wordnik.com. [Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy] Reference
Those eyes during the wonderful dinner itself he hadn't once met; having confessedly -- perhaps a little pusillanimously -- arranged with Chad that he should be on the same side of the table. From Wordnik.com. [The Ambassadors] Reference
They shall not say of the man who took compassion upon the deserted and threatened orphan and raised her for his own egotistical wishes, and pusillanimously failed to finish the work he began!. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughter of an Empress] Reference
Meanwhile his exasperated feelings found an object on which to vent themselves in the unfortunate garrison of Gaeta, who so pusillanimously abandoned their post to return to their own country. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3] Reference
Never wrote to the papers in my life, "he added pusillanimously. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers] Reference
Those eyes during the wonderful dinner itself he hadn’t once met; having confessedly — perhaps a little pusillanimously — arranged with Chad that he should be on the same side of the table. From Wordnik.com. [The Ambassadors] Reference
France feels herself less great and powerful than Spain; that France pusillanimously yields when Spain makes an unjust demand! ". From Wordnik.com. [The Daughter of an Empress] Reference
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