“The pair in the malthouse might have eluded all search but for the steward's pusillanimity.”

“He did not know that a man's character dwindles into pusillanimity and cowardice, when, he is evirated by an operation totally different.”

“His fault, if anything, is pusillanimity of a kind that is alarmingly becoming the hallmark of Congress chief ministers.”

“And Sontag, like certain other sisters, among them Joan Didion and Avital Ronell, threw away security and pusillanimousness for the sake of daredevil phrases.”