It was his whining gutlessness and lack of vision.

It's a symptom of the gutlessness of the whole society."

He liked neither the sound of the gift nor the suggestion of his gutlessness.

I'm embarrassed to speak up for gutlessness, but it is a practical approach, and as a nation we often wisely chicken out of dangerous ventures.

His big crime was stupidity compounded by gutlessness.

Because what really bothered her was not the Isataku foreclosure, but her own gutlessness.

Denies any X-rays were positive for gutlessness.

It was a craven, spineless gesture that smacked of gutlessness rather than good sportsmanship.

Brown contrasted Norway's courage with the "sheer ignorance and gutlessness of most of Australia's politicians on the plight of campaigning democrats in China".

Now the Democrats will have the disincentive of accountability while the Republicans, he continued, "want to perpetuate the problems and blame the governor's office for gridlock and gutlessness."

And the PSPD would find something to nail him with: making false or incomplete statements, mutilating a corpse for profit (no more alimony), contemptible gutlessness.

As usual, I found ways to blame Tony for all my problems, now including Yellowbaby's death, McMillan's gutlessness, Bonivard's quirks.

There is so much chaos, static, incoherence, mean-spiritedness, gutlessness and deliberate deception in the political discourse that voters are finding it increasingly difficult to know what is really going on.

Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly affirmed that the scene reestablished The Walking Dead to full form, as well as redeemed the season's "general gutlessness thus far."

They're certainly not going to be hatching any plans to overthrow me . . . but I hadn't quite counted on how useless their gutlessness would make them when it hit the fan.

The upsetting thing about this is I still realise, for all its increasing gutlessness and faults, the BBC is a better option than the alternatives and, at the moment, that's depressing.

Compare that with the fence-sitting gutlessness of Honest John Major, our very own world leader and 'EC President' who refused to take part in the French TV debate for fear of upsetting Tory rebels.

Rohrabacher said they "should bomb Serbia's military infrastructure, in Serbia - get that, in Serbia - rather than dropping a couple of duds on tents, which only proves the West's gutlessness, and emboldens Serbian cutthroats."

Not because he disagreed with Imperial Intelligence's estimates of the fundamental gutlessness of the High Ridge Government, but because of the dangerous potential for provocations to get out of hand and spill over into acts of war.

After lots of surreal conversations with aspiring shahid, I believe they're living in a delusional universe shaped in part by the gutlessness of Palestinian leaders and in part by their own rage as Israeli tanks in the West Bank crunch through Palestinian cars, homes and hopes.