Word: gutless
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...into the Battle of the Bulge. Loathed by his men, the captain gets by with his ambition-ridden colonel because he is the son of an influential political boss in the colonel's home state. To the rumble of tanks and the rat-tat-tat of gunfire, the gutless captain wobbles, crosses up his men, plots to run out on the job, and is finally shot by his most levelheaded subordinate...
...prizefighter would ever be subjected to that. But they subjected Peters -those stupidly cruel, dense, gutless amateurs crouched on the sidelines, egging him to get up, to finish . . . you can make it . . . you can win. Win what...
Playwright Tennessee Williams' first novel shows no trace of the warmth and grotesque humor that made The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire into first-class stage hits. It is written in the gutless, languid, pseudo-Jamesian manner which has become the trademark of such young novelists as Truman Capote and Frederick Buechner. In fact, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone would seem to make Tennessee Williams a member in good, if junior, standing of the new school of decadence...
...picture itself may strike some as a disturbing symptom of a jungle mentality that flourishes in the U.S. far beyond the boundaries of Hollywood. By making a gutless heel into a sympathetic, attractive, and pseudo-sophisticated "hero," Sunset Boulevard seems to say that the smudged line between right & wrong is about the same as the line of least resistance. Yet a good deal of the sympathy the "hero" arouses is the shamefaced, there-but-for-the-grace-of-God kind of sympathy aroused by any conscience-stricken, miserable human being...
...fortitude today. Thus it is inevitable that we shall all be choking in the fumes of your hypocrisy sooner or later-for Adolf Hitler is the man of the year, if there be any such, and I wish to go on record now as predicting that you gutless hypocrites will pass him over again in favor of some such ass as Churchill-or Rusefelt even, if he is successful by the year-end in pushing us into this...