Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy, and... a pusillanimous pussyfooting on the critical issue of law and order.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How dare I read Washington's campaigns, when I have not answered the letters of my own correspondents? Is not that a just objectio...n to much of our reading? It is a pusillanimous desertion of our work to gaze after our neighbours. It is peeping.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A candidate once called his opponent "a willful, obstinate, unsavory, obnoxious, pusillanimous, pestilential, pernicious, and perv...ersable liar" without pausing for breath, and even his enemies removed their hats.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nobody is so heartily despised as a pusillanimous, lazy, good-for-nothing, land-lubber; a sailor has no bowels of compassion for h...im.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Irish? In truth I would not want to be anything else. It is a state of mind as well as an actual country. It is being at odds with... other nationalities, having quite different philosophy about pleasure, about punishment, about life, and about death. At least it does not leave one pusillanimous.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is not a more disgusting spectacle under the sun than our subserviency to British criticism. It is disgusting, first, becaus...e it is truckling, servile, pusillanimous--secondly, because of its gross irrationality. We know the British to bear us little but ill will--we know that, in no case do they utter unbiased opinions of American books ... we know all this, and yet, day after day, submit our necks to the degrading yoke of the crudest opinion that emanates from the fatherland.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »