cowardice

They chose cowardice — and their behavior since Friday shows that they know it.

For years, I turned over the details of my assault again and again in my mind, recollecting the faces of bystanders, explaining the crowd’s inaction in a layman’s version of the bystander effect — as collective impotence, collective cowardice.

The success is examining that which can only be embraced in an acknowledgment of a culture of cowardice and a kind of toxic racism, a self-celebration and entitlement.

It is just one story of many of those whose lives were endangered at the Capitol by the lies, threats, and violence fanned by the cowardice of people who chose personal gain above democracy.

The cowardice of Rob Portman has done more damage to the Republican Party — and the republic — than the craziness of Marjorie Taylor Greene.

But when I look out over the crowd now, I also see that they are trapped—trapped by their cowardice.

In the end he told the general he should shoot himself for his cowardice.

But Boehner and the Republicans refused, completely out of cowardice and to spite Obama.

In the back of their patrol car, with her hands cuffed behind her, she mocks their cowardice.

“I think it comes from idiocy and cowardice,” said Whedon of the female superhero problem.

Admiral Byng was afterwards shot in England, on an unjust charge of cowardice in this affair.

Death, to do him justice, he had met with none of the cowardice he had vaunted, and consistently with his arid cynical soul.

All that a man could offer, who did not wish to be suspected of rank cowardice, he offered without reservation.

Cowardice prompted him to remain silent, and something which defied silence prompted him at last to talk.

It is not for weak beings, who enter into a composition with guilt, and cover selfishness and cowardice with the name of prudence.