Example sentences for: cowardice

How can you use “cowardice” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In a review of Glazer's latest book, We Are All Multiculturalists Now , in the Weekly Standard , Dinesh D'Souza accuses the author of "cowardice," of mollycoddling the multicultural left in order to make life in Cambridge tolerable.

  • Scholarly opinion is mixed on Shakespeare in Love . In a New York Times op-ed piece earlier this month, Harvard Professor Stephen Greenblatt inveighed against the film's historical infelicities, errors that he attributed to Hollywood's moral cowardice.

  • His decision to testify is portrayed as an act of courageous whistle-blowing, not betrayal or cowardice.

  • Albright's U.N. tenure is best remembered for two things: her sandbagging of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali and her proclamation that Cuba's shooting down of planes flown by anti-Castro exiles took "not cojones " but "cowardice."

  • But from an idealist's perspective, the decision to let Kosovars die rather than risk American lives is indeed political--and the purpose of Clinton's allusions to "judgment," "strategy," and "circumstances" is, as with all such realist language, to obscure our indifference and cowardice.


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