Word: timidation
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President Clinton's initial promise to avoid using ground troops suggested that the U.S. was timid about fighting. Clinton's decision to bomb and only bomb reads like a compulsion to do something but a reluctance to do anything final. Bombing seems to be activity for the sake of activity--it lacks the assertiveness and conviction of ground warfare...
Prepare to squirm. Junior Parents' Weekend is upon us, and no matter how angelic parents may seem on their own turf, on-campus kin are unruly and unpredictable. They harrass timid waiters. They provoke professors. They discover alter egos...
Prepare to squirm. Junior Parents' Weekend is upon us, and no matter how angelic parents may seem on their own turf, on-campus kin are unruly and unpredictable. They harass timid waiters. They provoke professors. They discover alter egos...
...simply suggesting that when solemn wise men like Admiral Lewis Strauss, Staff Warren and General Leslie Grove made decisions in those years their last concern was the interests of downwinders. In my view that set the tone. There was a deep reluctance to do anything that might look timid or weak...
...actor from Shine, delivers masterful performances with two very different characters. As the quietly menacing personal servant of Elizabeth, he convincingly radiates a calm, omniscient presence which anchors his queen when all hell breaks loose. As Fiennes' bumbling, clueless theater manager pal with mossy teeth, Rush transforms into a timid man who relies on the whims of Shakespeare--a role for which he has just been rewarded with an Oscar nomination...