pusillanimous in a sentence
pronunciation: [ [ pju:si'læniməs ] ]
Examples
- Doesn't Madeleine Albright understand that State's pusillanimous response broadcasts the weakness of American will?
- But at least in the old days, pols insulted journalists with flair : We were pusillanimous pussyfooters.
- Among his early favorites : " pusillanimous pussyfooters " and " vicars of vacillation ."
- They find the corpulent and pusillanimous artilleryman B�ral ( Jacques Villeret ) sitting in the toilets, suffering from dysentery.
- With puddings for the purist, and puddings for the pusillanimous, this collection of original recipes should make everyone happy.
- Like many other churchmen, he thought that the Indians were pusillanimous and weak and that they were easily led astray.
- Historian Francis Loraine Petre remarked that Erfurt was the first of a series of " pusillanimous capitulations " by Prussian fortress commanders.
- I specially thank editors contributing for the article on Intent Leadership like Dennis the Tiger, Swister Twister, Alan Liefting and of course Pusillanimous.
- Meanwhile, on the death penalty / habeus corpus front, I am for anything that takes some of the pusillanimous pussyfooting out of the process.
- Spielberg isn't the first fictionalizer of war to establish his macho bona fides by humiliating a spun-off, pusillanimous version of himself.