Sentences with phrase «social failure of nerve»

I venture to say that the social failure of nerve set in just after the Civil War.

I submit that the feminine mystique is paralleled by a ministerial mystique, a cultural image of the minister and the church which serves to blur our perception of reality and to rationalize individual and social failure of nerve.

The women copped out, and to justify their cop - out they availed themselves of the «feminine mystique,» which is nothing more than a cultural rationalization for a social failure of nerve.