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Cowardice in sentence

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The manic character of his presidency – initiative spilling into initiative, each being the transformative solution to the problem at hand, all opposition denounced as lies, bad faith, and cowardice – has worn thin.
Blunter observers would call it cowardice.
What was the good of having a possible act of cowardice on one's conscience?
His head became exalted, a red gaiety arose out of his crisis of black sadness, chasing away doubt, and making him ashamed of this passing cowardice of an hour.
Since he was ruined in any case, he thought platitudes a useless cowardice.
But this love of his property struggled against his fear, and he groaned in the battle with cowardice.
Desertion on his part would have seemed to him the worst cowardice.
Yes, it is well that she is dead; heroes will be born from her blood, and I no longer have any cowardice at my heart.
A pretext was made of his attitude in danger, the cowardice of a captain abandoning his men.
No doubt they knew him and no longer had any spite against him; they seemed, on the contrary, to fear him, blushing at the thought that he would reproach them with cowardice.
As for excesses, he had always abstained from them, as much from cowardice as from refinement.
Then, through cowardice, through stupidity, through that indefinable feeling that drags us into the most distasteful acts, he allowed himself to be led off to Bridoux', whom they found in his small yard, superintending three workmen, who panted as they turned the large wheel of a machine for making seltzer-water.
And you—you fled from me!"For, all the three years, he had carefully avoided her in consequence of that natural cowardice that characterises the stronger sex.
Julien, ashamed of his cowardice, told himself: 'At the precise moment when ten o'clock strikes, I shall carry out the intention which, all day long, I have been promising myself that I would fulfil this evening, or I shall go up to my room and blow my brains out.'
If it appears in our ideas, there are not epigrams enough to cope with it; if it appears in events, no act of cowardice is too great for our fear.
Indeed, there is a strain of cowardice in not going.
The piercing grief, envenomed by cowardice, to which he had been a prey since the departure of Madame de Renal, had turned to melancholy.
"Are we likely to have a warm day, Captain Lawton?""'Tis more than probable," replied the trooper; "these militia seldom fail of making a bloody field, either by their cowardice or their ignorance, and the real soldier is made to suffer for their bad conduct."
I beat myself, taxed myself with cowardice.
But I gave way to my cowardice, I shivered with cold, waiting until you chose to take me in your arms."
He ardently desired to find the body of his victim, and he was seized with cowardice when he imagined it before him.
He closed the window in the roof thinking someone might perhaps get in that way, and feeling more calm after taking these measures, he undressed, astonished at his cowardice.
They lived in a state of constant irritation, and it required all their natural cowardice to compel them to show a smiling and peaceful exterior.
Had passion alone urged him to the deed, he would not have shown such cowardice and prudence.
Frequently, she gave way to feelings of cowardice when she came face to face with the dejected and broken-down Therese, amidst the icy silence of the shop.
Maybe Laurent perceived these acts of cowardice on the part of Therese, for when they were agitated by the common terror, he laid the blame on her, and treated her with brutality.
But his repeated bad dreams had aroused in him a feeling of sullen irritation, which triumphed over his cowardice, and restored his memory.
Like certain devotees, who fancy they will deceive the Almighty, and secure pardon by praying with their lips, and assuming the humble attitude of penitence, Therese displayed humility, striking her chest, finding words of repentance, without having anything at the bottom of her heart save fear and cowardice.
So they remained where they were through cowardice, wretchedly dragging out their lives amidst the horror of their surroundings.
Here, Senor Don Quixote, will be reading worthy of your sound understanding; from which you will rise learned in history, in love with virtue, strengthened in goodness, improved in manners, brave without rashness, prudent without cowardice; and all to the honour of God, your own advantage and the glory of La Mancha, whence, I am informed, your worship derives your birth."
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