weak-spirited

This poetry doesn't really seek to explicate misery; it's too weak-spirited for that.

Anis Shivani: Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities: What it Takes to Ascend to the Poet Laureateship Anis Shivani 2011

This poetry doesn't really seek to explicate misery; it's too weak-spirited for that.

Anis Shivani: Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities: What it Takes to Ascend to the Poet Laureateship Anis Shivani 2011

The Abbess, timid, narrowminded, and discontented, clung to ancient usages and pretensions which were ended by the Reformation; and was in adversity, as she had been in prosperity, scrupulous, weak-spirited, and bigoted.

The Abbot 2008

Like Knocked Up's Alison, Jane is a self-sufficient woman with supposed talent; like Ben, Tom is a boorish, weak-spirited charlatan.

Sarah Seltzer: Papa Don't Preach: Paternalism in Hollywood (and Society) 2008

The theory that a result is more likely genetic than environmental is obvious when you consider the cushy up-bringing, educational opportunities and other advantages that so many Liberals experience in Canada, yet so many of them are still retarded, illogical, weak-spirited, dependent, unappreciative, small-minded, petty, arrogant fools who make the lives of millions a daily frustration.

Archive 2008-02-01 Lindsay Stewart 2008

The King said to Sabila, “You see Isaaco appears to be a courageous man; if he had been of a weak-spirited mind, he would have run away, and left his things in my hands.”

The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 2008

Epani, her thin-faced, weak-spirited replacement, stood in a pose of welcome belied by the discomfort on his face.

A Shadow in Summer 2006

Lady Betty, the next hour that she sees you, will write her opinion of you, and of the likelihood of our future happiness, to Lady Sarah her sister, a weak-spirited woman, who now hopes to supply to herself, in my bride, the lost daughter she still mourns for!

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

London is convinced that those who get defeated are either weak-spirited, or they stepped away from the laws of honest struggle, did not pay attention to the experience of their predecessors, and did not take into account the pitiless laws of nature.

MORE ON WHAT'S IMPORTANT 2003

For so much power to create, it's used by the weak-spirited to crush people that they can't with their hands.

nisayon Diary Entry nisayon 2004