weak-willed
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Other notable singers included bass-baritone Robert Frazier as the Rev. John Hale, who realizes the truth too late, and soprano Kresley Figueroa as the treacherously weak-willed Mary Warren.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
Meanwhile, his cult is such that defenders are dismissing his alleged victims as weak-willed crybabies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026
“Succession” is the story of an overbearing right-wing media mogul and his weak-willed children.
From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2020
The problem, Kristof and WuDunn emphasize, is not that Kevin — or the Knapp children, or any of the others whose large and small tragedies are recounted in “Tightrope” — is abnormally weak-willed or irresponsible.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 30, 2020
For only an instant he glimpsed, at the center of the man’s weak-willed soul, a great kindness.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
