Sentences with word «pusillanimity»

We would like to think that bishops had the good sense to junk the worthless questionnaire in favor of proclaiming the Church's message «in season and out of season» — no matter whether it ruffled the feathers of the IRS or gave an ulcer to USCC experts on the legal niceties of ecclesiastical pusillanimity.

That, surely, would be more accurately described as pusillanimity and appeasement, rather than balance or equilibrium.

But the remainer side has a feeble history of crumbling, claiming «loyalty» to cover its pathetic pusillanimity.

Those frightened by the seeming power of the wicked in the world today can take heart from what John Paul II said to young people in Cracow in June 1979: «Be afraid only of thoughtlessness and pusillanimity.»

But those entrusted with her teaching and earthly care will answer for all the suffering that comes to the faithful and the innocent when they provoke the world, by their own weakness and pusillanimity, into the illusion that it can triumph.

Of course, there is a a lot of hypocrisy in criticising nuclear weapons when you maintain some yourself and some pusillanimity in focusing on North Korea while mostly ignoring established nuclear powers but that does not invalidate the underlying concern.

Worse than that, though, we have the pusillanimity of politicians from both left and right who want to surrender a vital legislative part of what makes Britain unique: they want to sacrifice the green belt to allow a kind of anywhere - nowhere exurban sprawl.