weak-mindedness

In one episode, he goes off message at a press conference, telling a television correspondent how a pure-hearted Ukrainian can readily turn into a khokhol, an epithet that Russian speakers sometimes use for Ukrainians to denote weak-mindedness.

During a meeting with a clerical assembly, Khamenei said such comments “do not come from power, but from anger, desperation and weak-mindedness.”

In a meeting with a clerical assembly on Thursday, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said such comments “do not come from power, but from anger, desperation and weak-mindedness.”

Liebling thought such indifference to intrinsic flavor was a sign of weak-mindedness, and he thought that it also explained the popularity of such things as Golden Delicious apples, American cheese and vodka cocktails.

On "Woke Up New," the Mountain Goats channeled the claustrophobic uncertainty that stems from abandonment, the protagonist's weak-mindedness evoking the neurotic George Costanza of "Seinfeld" fame.